Politico breathlessly explains:

“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) spent $2,993 in taxpayer money on flowers between June and October. House Majority Whip James Clyburn has a thing for Chantilly Donuts, spending about $265 at the Virginia shop in the past quarter. And Rep. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), a fiscal conservative, decided to give about $2,000 in unused office funds back to the government to help reduce the deficit.”

And guess what? She’s spent “$30,610 in food and beverage and about $2,740 on bottled water.” Oh, puleez. The woman has been leading the charge to spend trillions of our dollars on a liberal wish list, and the in-house paper for the Beltway is fixated on flowers, food, and bottled water for a grand total of less than $50,000? I haven’t done the math, but I suspect it’s equivalent to a teaspoon in the ocean of red ink she’s been spilling.

One has to read much of the way through this torrid account of beverages, magazine subscriptions, and donuts to learn that “most of the expenditures seem standard – everything from individual staff salaries to office supplies is listed.” Oh well, in that case. But you’ll be relieved to learn that there was a correction in the story: “An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported the amounts Nancy Pelosi’s office spent on flowers and James Clyburn’s office spent on donuts.” That’s a relief. You wouldn’t want to get the glazed-donut hole or daisy figures wrong.