Go Home Already: Over/Under

Is the boy in that picture nekkid??

Both Gray and Fenty are the most expensive, and therefor best, politicians money can buy. It is a false economy to invest in cheap politicians. Just look at the Ward 8 Councilman. They bought him off with a couple of diseased hookers, a bag of crack, and a pillowcase full of screaming babies. No, I'm afraid DC's tastes run in the expensive vein: they want their burgers upscale, their tranny hookers post-op, and their politicians covered in only the most expensive imported Middle Eastern salves and unguents. And that costs money. Lots of it. Some of it in nice piles, others in lovely clanky bits of loose change, some of it neatly counted into fat little hundreds, delicate fivers stuffed into bulging wallets, nice crisp clean cheques, pert pieces of copper coinage thrust deep into trouser pockets, romantic foreign money rolling against the thigh with rough familiarity, beautiful wayward curlicued banknotes, filigree copperplating cheek by jowl with tumbling hexagonal milled edges, rubbing gently against the terse leather of beautifully balanced bank books! I'm sorry. But I love money. All money. I've always wanted money. To handle. To touch. The smell of the rain-washed florin. The lure of the lira. The glitter and the glory of the guinea. The romance of the rouble. The feel of the franc, the heel of the Deutschmark. The cold antiseptic sting of the Swiss franc, and the sunburnt splendor of the Australian dollar!

I've got ninety thousand pounds in my pajamas.
I've got forty thousand French francs in my fridge.
I've got lots and lots of lira,
Now the deutschmark's getting dearer,
And my dollar bill could buy the Brooklyn Bridge.
There is nothing quite as wonderful as money,
There is nothing quite as beautiful as cash,
Some people say it's folly
But I'd rather have the lolly
With money you can make a smash.
There is nothing quite as wonderful as money
There is nothing like a newly minted pound
Everyone must hanker
For the butchness of a banker
It's accountancy that makes the world go round.
You can keep your Marxist ways
For it's only just a phase.
For its money, money, money,
Makes the world go round.
Money, money, money, money, money, money!

So you have to spend money to make money, Lou. Or lose money. Or your mind. Or something.

It should be pointed out that while Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger technically is paid more, he hasn't actually ever been paid that amount. He has refused his salary every year he has been in office.

Somehow I dont See Fenty or Gray even doing a token gesture of temporarily reducing their pay.