Air Force Brodie

President Harper's most trusted abuser of the public purse caused a shitstorm at the White House North bunker today when he announced the Lucky 11 who get to join him on a taxpayer-funded junket to Haiti in February to escape the Winter blues.

Ian Brodie, the chief of a staff who rarely show up for work and the man responsible for making sure all washrooms at the bunker are flush with toilet paper and bacterial hand gel, was booed and shouted down after picking a select group who will join him on the $11,000 an hour, 12-person Challenger jet for a week of frolicking and thong testing on the pristine beaches of Port-au-Prince.

Brodie, according to media reports, runs his own frequent flyer program out of the Department of National Defence. According to reports, he uses goverment Challenger jets as his own Republican-Conservative air taxi service.

Most people when they need a ride hail a cab, said a DND official. When Brodie needs a lift he hails a jet, the official said.

Brodie and others in the President's entourage have racked up serious tabs on the same fleet of luxury jets the President frequently uses to attend out-of-town hockey games and cat-grooming classes.

Pain in the Grits will report later on the identity of the lucky winners and why they were chosen over the likes of the five-o'clock shadow MP Jason Kenney, whose recent training regime to join This Man's Army (see blog item below) does not make the Fred Flintstone clone a suitable candidate to waddle along a beach in a thong. Maybe a bedsheet.