Pay Raise for Judges Tucked into Bailout Plan - HA! There They Go Again

Like, the American public won't be screwed too badly by any bailout plan Congress puts into play

"Today's Democrats...bringing back all the fun of Tammany Hall"

WASHINGTON – December 11, 2008: Andrew Taylor, writing for the Associated Press, has revealed that the proposed $14 billion bailout plan for U.S. automakers will not only help han just GM and Chrysler (and Ford, should they decide to partake), Federal judges would get a pay raise, as well.

The raise — an annual cost of living adjustment, or COLA — would bring U.S. District court judges up to par with members of Congress, who will receive an almost $5,000 boost on Jan. 1. District judges and lawmakers now earn $169,300 a year but are expected to be awarded a 2.8 percent raise next year, said Dick Carelli, a spokesman for the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., insisted that the judicial pay raise go into the automaker loan measure, which is the only item of business on Congress' lame-duck agenda.