Time on our Hands - Obey's really bad at math

Since Dave Obey isn't working in the district this week, because lord knows if he were he'd be getting press on it from his lackeys in the press corp, we have time on our hands. After checking Tyberg out on the FEC website, we looked to see if by any chance Obey had filed his June quarterly report early. He didn't. However, we found something else interesting.

Dave Obey can't seem to get his reports right. Since the 2004 elections, Dave Obey has been required to file 6 Federal Election Commission reports. Of those, he hasn't gotten a single one right the first time. In fact, he's had to file 16 reports (the 6 originals and 10 amendments) to apparently get his math right. So, for every original report he files, he files 1.5 amendments to it to get it right.

If you had that kind of error rate in your job, what would your boss say?

Here's our guess, "Well Joe, you've been required to file 6 quarterly reports since you've been here and it's taken you 16 tries to get them right. In fact Joe, you haven't gotten a single one right the first time. We're going to have to let you go."

Here's the really scarry part, this guy wants to be in charge of our $2.5 trillion dollar federal budget as the would be chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. If he can't get a simple $250,000 quarterly expenditure right until 2-3 tries, what in the world is he going to do with something 10 million times bigger?

Of course, he really doesn't care about spending our money, let alone getting it right. As some former politician once said about federal spending, "$1 billion here, $1 billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money."

Let's stop him from getting his hands on our money. "Dave, we're going to have to let you go."