Gather around the cozy fireplace while pop reads something special

P.J. O’Rourke highlights the special gifts to taxpayers in the $1.1 trillion “cromnibus” spending bill.

The Holiday Season is a time of family togetherness. The kids are out of school, Mom is out of get-up-and-go, Dad is out of work. We gather around the cozy fireplace. We sip hot chocolate. We sing “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Jingle Bells”. Then I read aloud from something that captures the Holiday Spirit.

Usually it might be “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens,” or “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” by Dr. Seuss or the poem by Clemet Clarke Moore, “A Visit from St. Nicholas.”

But this year it’s “HOUSE AMENDMENT TO THE SENATE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 83 Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015,” otherwise known as the $1.1 trillion budget bill.

We’re only on page 105 out of 1,603 pages, so the budget will keep the kids tickled with joy and on the edge of their seats through New Year’s, if not the 4th of July.

Read which provisions O'Rourke is particularly thankful for here.