“A review of travel and financial records showed that Gov. Mark Sanford did not spend public money improperly when he visited his mistress”, the chief of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, Reginald Lloyd, said this afternoon.

Thank goodness Governor Sanford’s fornicating was fiscally lawful!

But it shows you that there are hardly any limits to the perks, fringe benefits, and global sex romps that can be had on the taxpayer’s dime by our elected officials…

From the Wall Street Journal:

Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galápagos Islands.

The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost