Bush Sends Taxpayers Bill for Campaigning: $7 Million in '06

You know how Bush gives non-campaign speeches and makes the audience sign loyalty oaths?  That pisses me off.  Well guess what, because he gets away with that, he decided to take it one step further and charge the taxpayers for his flights to campaign for Republicans in Congress.  Dan Froomkin wonders why no news outlets are covering this. I sure don't.

Rep. Henry Waxman and the minority staff of the House government reform committee yesterday released a report showing that taxpayers pay over 95 percent of the cost of flights by the president and vice president for campaign-related events. "Using figures from 2002, the last time the President and Vice President traveled on behalf of others in a nonpresidential election cycle, the report projects that taxpayers will spend over $7 million in 2006 on presidential and vice presidential political travel."

As far as I can tell, not a single news outlet picked up this story this morning.