I didn't know the name of the Secretary of the Interior, either. But I do now! It is Dirk Kempthorne. Initials DK. The initials that went on the towels he had made for his new $235,000 bathroom at work! Yes, that's correct... our lovely Secretary of the Interior is a bandit. He has appropriated $235,000, almost twice what my entire home cost, to renovate his private bathroom!
How do you even physically spend that much on a bathroom? Gold-plated fixtures, OK, but I don't think that would even get you there. Maybe he has a gold-plated magazine rack for his Sports Illustrateds, too. I hear he has a refrigerator and freezer in there. In the bathroom??? What the...???!! I'm trying to figure out how I can afford to put new tile on the floors of my two tiny bathrooms and he's spending $235,000 taxpayer dollars -- on what? Who authorized this? Isn't somebody in the government (like the GAO) supposed to be tracking expenditures on behalf of the taxpayer? I just don't get how ridiculous things like this can happen, but then I guess we are talking about the government. Common sense does not seem to apply.
I guess incoming Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will have to ditch the DK-initialed towels. I just hope he'll have somebody go to Target for the replacements.
