Taxpayers foot State Department's stiff liquor bill

The Washington Times ^ | April 15, 2010 | Jim McElhatton

[McGruff]

Happy Tax Day *hick*

[McGruff]

Hat tip to Drudge who includes this photo.

[edcoil]

Government has doubled their spending in every area since the Bush administration.

They look at it as a stimulus spending for good old number 7.

[I cannot think of a name]

While I disagree with almost everything Zero does, I find it hard to call any money spent on Jack Daniel’s a waste!

[al baby]

Even to toast the passing of the health care bill

[ltc8k6]

Stimulus funds...

[McGruff]

While I disagree with almost everything Zero does, I find it hard to call any money spent on Jack Daniel’s a waste!

While I agree on their taste for liquors, problem is Zero's not buying any of these rounds. You are my FRiend.

[Prole]

The Booze Department

[Lurker]

I find it hard to call any money spent on Jack Daniel’s a waste!

Jack Daniels is low rent swill.

This administration can't even piss our money away on decent booze.

[Frantzie]

Yeah the idiots keep watching ball games and are sheep controlled by TV.

[csvset]

AT first glance I thought that was a harmonica in front of Hillary.

Hillary gets boozed up and blows on the blues harp?

Anyways, here's Magic Dick doing Whammer Jammer

[seoul62]

Macallans.

[Truth is a Weapon]

Our State Dept must be entertaining more mooslims behind embassy walls where their populace can’t watch them. The laws of Islam only apply when people you know can see, dontcha know.

[ansel12]

A bottle of Jack Daniels helped me get free of a French border delay, they seemed impressed with the gift and an hours delay became a pleasant event of drinks and parting gifts for me.

[Redleg Duke]

“Other Peoples’ Money!”

[Lurker]

A bottle of Jack Daniels helped me get free of a French border delay

That's the best thing one can do with a bottle of Jack Daniels. Give it to the French.

[mainsail that]

some of the liquor expenditures reflect larger concerns about stewardship of federal tax dollars at a time when many recession-weary Americans find themselves struggling to hold onto jobs and pay mortgages."

Give me a freaking break! We have a $3.8 Trillion budget that keeps growing each year and they worry about a few thousand dollars in liquor. I wish they all were drunk, maybe they'd spend less in more expensive stuff.

[Uncle Miltie]

In Saudi. Right?

[ansel12]

As a Texan I can tell you your view is in the minority.

[Uncle Miltie]

Of all the ways diplomats can screw things up, giving out a few bottles of liquor isn’t one of them.

Literally, people need to get a little drunk for frank diplomacy to occur. Otherwise, the stick is so far up their a**, nothing could possibly occur.