So, Paul Ryan is getting a $49,500.00 a year raise

[MADem]

2. He also gets a huge staff bump, AND the nicest office on the Hill.

That said, I don't begrudge him his rides home -- I didn't begrudge Pelosi, either. Those bastards on the Hill only work three days a week, anyway. I really think we should cut all their salaries by 2/5th, and give them, every week that they are working in DC and not enjoying "recess," non-refundable round trip coach tickets home as part of their pay packets.

He is, first and foremost, a representative of his constituency. His consitutents have a right to his presence in the district on a regular basis--just like any other rep.

What I found disgusting was assholes like Santorum, moving his kids to McLean in a McMansion, calling a shitbox, empty house his PA "domicile," and then charging the government of PA tens of thousands of dollars to home school via computer his noxious little children.