As both a media publisher and consumer, there’s nothing I love more than a good old-fashioned political shame piece that looks into a politician's state-funded travel and entertainment expenses.
Sure, the expenses may only account for a crumb or two in the whole grifty scheme of things, but they provide delicious low-hanging journalism fruit for the outrage machine that’s easy to pick, easy to digest, and – like a creamy cappuccino from the Harbor Mountain Coffee Shop in Muskogee – very easy to enjoy.
These journalism hit-pieces are even better when they’re flavored with a dash of hypocrisy and involve a “fiscally-conservative” Republican, so I was giddy with joy and excitement when I saw the Frontier published an expose on the out-of-state “workcation” expenses Ryan put on the taxpayer's dime.