An $8.24 cup of joe? Thank you, Mr. President

Just in case you're tempted to think that the Obama Administration followed through on its promises on Day One to clamp down on stupidly excessive government spending, you need to wake up and smell the coffee.

This report from the Washington Post's Ed O'Keefe will wake you up. It includes this beautiful passage:

"In what will one day rank as one of the greatest of federal watchdog reports, Acting Inspector General Cynthia A. Schnedar and her team faulted the Justice Department for hefty service tabs accrued during conferences hosted at some of the nation’s glitziest hotels. To wit: A $76-per-person lunch at a conference at a Hilton in San Francisco featured slow-cooked Berkshire pork carnitas (yum), hearts-of-romaine salad (always good) -- and coffee at $8.24 a cup (seriously?).

"The Obama White House -- always eager to demonstrate it’s cutting government waste -- is now cracking down."

Well, let's see. According to my watch, it's half past too late for this kind deal. I just assumed that out of all the easy promises to keep, the one that would clamp down on $8.24 cups of coffee would have been done in Q1 of Obama's term. Apparently not.