That’s a long-time perk for a lot of Chicago-area patronage workers (some great gravy jobs, too — something like 305 Boards created in the last 7 years, with some board members raking in 6-figure salaries for a “job” that requires attending a meeting once a month. Nice work if you can get it).

I know that the ICE boss’s job isn’t really a ‘no-show,’ but it might as well be if he picks and chooses what part of his job description he’s agreeable to doing. Same thing with the SEC bunch — spend their working hours watching porn, and no one loses the job? That’s when you clean house, from senior management down to the mail room.

There’s a “You Cut” (gov’t spending) program, headed by Eric Cantor & several Republicans — someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but I think the site is www.republicanwhip.youcut.house.gov – every week they’re posting five federal spending programs, and (we) vote on the one we’d most like to have cut out of the budget; Cantor & crew introduce it as a bill the following week.

There’s also an option to write in the spending cut you’d most favor — I think we should all go write in a vote to defund or cut by half all derelict agencies, such as ICE & SEC, and while they’re at it, all budget amounts for the approximately 40 “Czars” & their office quarters & staffs, that Obama circumvented the Constitutional “Advise & Consent” role of the Senate by appoiinting.

Last week, there were nearly 300,000 citizen votes for the five issues posted; I think if enough entries for defunding derelict agencies, etc., came in, it could be a pretty strong statement of our general disgust with these unelected, unaccountable renegade appointees. But that’s just me.