Excessive bonuses to the very people whose failure led to catastrophe has ignited national outcry. 

The blame game tied to the bonus fiasco took a stunning turn today when the House of Representatives voted to tax bonuses at 100% for all players, coaches, and administrators associated with the New York Red Bulls.

"We want our money and we want it now. This is an outrage" said Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) .

"Hard working people across the country are appalled to see these cigar-smoking, cravat-wearing New York greedmongerers get mauled 3-0 by an expansion team.  We simply can't go on rewarding failure."

While Democrats and Republicans swapped blame in Washington, working people around the country, and their wealthy representatives in Congress, wondered how somebody, anybody, authorized bonuses in the first place, given the history of the team.

"I mean, Juan Pietravallo at $205,000? Seriously? Jorge Rojas? Really?  Really?" asked Dennis Rehberg (R-MT).

The U.S. Senate was prepared to offer a more conservative 75% tax on bonuses, but that was before the Red Bulls were beaten, soundly, by the expansion Seattle Sounders.  

"All bets are off now" said Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) 

Representatives at parent-company Red Bull GMBH in Austria tried to distance themselves from the outcry. A representative was quoted, "I honestly didn't even know we had a soccer team in New Jersey. The marketing and branding department in North America went rogue.  Let me make some calls."