Number of the Day

19. The paltry number of representatives in the entire House who had the brains to vote against "the creation of a panel to plan a celebration of the centennial of Ronald Reagan's birth in February of 2011."

Yea votes totaled 371 for the creation of the panel, which itself will cost taxpayers an estimated $1 million in travel expenses and administrative costs, just to figure how much more money to spend celebrating Reagan's birthday next year.

Somebody send Congress a memo that there's a recession on.

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