Here we go again
It's instructive to look back over the last five years, especially if you have an interest in the sordid and aberrant, as I do.
Mark Foley, R-FL, is the fourth republican Congressman to resign in disgrace and under legal peril this year; after Cunningham, R-CA, DeLay, R-TX, and Ney, R-OH. Do I even need to mention Jack Abramoff? Bob Taft? Ralph Reed? Jeanine Pirro?
Unsurprisingly, every time the newest bit of depravity has come to light, the Hallelujah chorus has come out to shift blame somewhere, anywhere, but where it belongs. "Everybody does it", they proclaim, "we're being persecuted by the librul media", they wail.
At some point, you do have to wonder about the basic integrity of the members of this chorus. They say absolute power corrupts absolutely; I'd say that absolute partisanship does so as well, only more thoroughly.
Mark Foley, R-FL, is the fourth republican Congressman to resign in disgrace and under legal peril this year; after Cunningham, R-CA, DeLay, R-TX, and Ney, R-OH. Do I even need to mention Jack Abramoff? Bob Taft? Ralph Reed? Jeanine Pirro?
Unsurprisingly, every time the newest bit of depravity has come to light, the Hallelujah chorus has come out to shift blame somewhere, anywhere, but where it belongs. "Everybody does it", they proclaim, "we're being persecuted by the librul media", they wail.
At some point, you do have to wonder about the basic integrity of the members of this chorus. They say absolute power corrupts absolutely; I'd say that absolute partisanship does so as well, only more thoroughly.
posted by Michael at 9:36 AM
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