Did the Democrats have a smashing spring break on our dime? You bet they did!

Congress is keeping Andrews Air Force base plenty busy this year ferrying lawmakers all over the globe at taxpayers’ expense. Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi took his wife, nine Democrats and two Republicans – Reps. Dan Lungren of California and Mike Rogers of Alabama – on a whirlwind tour of the Caribbean last week. After stops in Honduras and Mexico, they stopped in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the delegation stayed at the five-star Caneel Bay resort.

In a separate trip to the Caribbean last week, Rep. Eliot Engel of New York squired his wife and four Democratic members to Grenada and Trinidad.

All told, the military flew at least 13 congressional delegations to various destinations during the Easter recess — at an estimated rate of $10,000 or more per flying hour.

Now that you had your two week binge do you think you could now fund the troops in harm’s way in Iraq? Is it too much to ask to pay up? I mean what in the world did you folks have to celebrate? You haven’t produced anything yet. So now that you got your jollies at OUR expense (I truly could have used some of my taxes back to help with my kids college education) maybe you could do something serious for once?