Taxpayer-paid Mistresses

Sen. Max Baucus, the Montana Democrat who chairs the
tax-writing Senate Finance panel, authorized a pay raise
of close to $14,000 to staffer Melodee Hanes last year,
as he was becoming sexually involved with her. Baucus
was separated from his now ex-wife at the time.

As the Politico reports, a few months later Baucus took
Hanes "on a taxpayer-funded trip to Vietnam and the Middle
East, though foreign policy was not her specialty." In
Washington, they call that on-the-job training — except
that Baucus then nominated her for U.S. attorney in Montana,
where Asian and Arab expertise is rarely useful in court.

A Baucus spokesman's excuse: "Ms. Hanes' salary increased
by the exact same amount as our legislative director and
less than our chief of staff."

Looking at D.C., I can see why Obama would declare that
America is not a Christian nation!