The lights go out

As part of my ongoing "republicans are so incompetent it would be funny if it weren't so god-damn outrageous" series, here's what MSNBC presents today:

A diversion of dollars to help fight the war in Iraq has helped create a $530 million shortfall for Army posts at home and abroad, leaving some unable to pay utility bills or even cut the grass.

In San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston hasn’t been able to pay its $1.4 million monthly utility bill since March, prompting workers in many of the post’s administrative buildings to get automated disconnection notices.

Fort Bragg in North Carolina can’t afford to buy pens, paper or other office supplies until the new fiscal year starts in October.

At this point, let me make another one of my crazy left-wing suggestions: how about, when you have a shooting war going on, you don't cut taxes every year for the top 0.5%, so you can actually pay for that war and the electricity bills?

I know, I know, that's treasonous, Bolshevik thinking.