House Agrees to $3,100 Pay Raise for 2006

Where is the average American's COST OF LIVING INCREASE, DAMN IT?

The House on Tuesday agreed to a $3,100 pay raise for Congress next year — to $165,200 — after defeating an effort to roll it back.

To add insult to injury:

The annual debate on the members' COLA resembles kabuki theater: Both Democratic and Republican leaders guarantee sizable majorities of their members to block the effort, and they make sure there is not a clear-cut vote on the measure. None of the party campaign committees uses the pay-raise issue in campaigns.

And this from the Horse's Ass:

"It's not a pay raise," said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R- Texas. "It's an adjustment so that they're not losing their purchasing power."

Tell that to the millions of Americans who lost their purchasing power on YOUR FUCKING WATCH, DICK HEADS.