Usually, we sympathize with those who note that publicly employed wrongdoers of no determinable (from the press) political party are Dems.  Taranto goes too far, though:
- We thought about filing this Associated Press headline under “Bottom Stories of the Day”: “Detroit Mayor Sends Steamy Text Messages.” But it turns out this is a public scandal:
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick bristled in the witness chair last year when asked whether he had an affair with a top aide. No, the mayor confidently told jurors, the two were never romantically involved.But a trove of 14,000 text messages that emerged this week tell a different story: The mayor and his chief of staff carried on a flirty, sometimes sexually explicit dialogue about where to meet and how to conceal their numerous trysts.Now the mayor’s indiscretion has landed him in a Clinton-style scandal that could cost him his job and his law license and even bring perjury charges.
Just one question: What is his political party? In 32 paragraphs, the AP never gets around to telling us. That can mean only one thing: not Republican.
Detroit Mayor?  Party in question?  Talk about underestimating the readership.
Thanks Bill Clinton…
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick bristled in the witness chair last year when asked whether he had an affair with a top aide. No, the mayor confidently told jurors, the two were never romantically involved…The mayor and his chief of staff carried on a flirty, sometimes sexually explicit dialogue about where to meet and how to conceal their numerous trysts.
AKA Clintonian…he didn’t lie, he just fucked her.
shoot…never romantically involved was supposed to be bolded
Uh. Yeah this is true cause I was totally thinking Detroit would be a good investment and then I heard about this Kwame thing…
Is it just me or do you think Bill Cosby would like to go beat this guy with a hammer right about now?
There’s been one Republican councilman in Detroit since World War II. (Keith Butler, in the 1980s.) Detroit’s a one-party operation.
There’s been one Republican councilman in Detroit since World War II. (Keith Butler, in the 1980s.) Detroit’s a one-party operation.
It’s a shithole, so keep voting Hillary – status quo and all.
You’d think that after all this time, that that shithole (An apt term) would have dropped enough in property values (Overall let’s say) to where it would be worth investing in said shithole. But not even now. Not after 65 years. Michigan…a place for complete and total numbnuts.
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Even if it were free, you wouldn’t want to live there.
Michigan…a place for complete and total numbnuts.
Hey now. It’s Detroit, not Michigan.
Given the current artic blast in the Midwest (I blame global warming) numbnuts are a given.
I dunno MayBee, I’ll wait for Carin to weigh in, but I get the impression that Detroit is just the deepest, darkest pit of the the hellhole that is Michigan.
Detroit is the dark pit that has for 50 years drawn the rest of the State down with it. It sucks up tax money and gives the rest of us socialist politicians.
Detroit means the Democrats have to be spotted half a million votes every election in Michigan. Hey, it’s why we spread the misery by giving everyone Ol’ Carl Levin, Debbie Stab-you-now, and the ever so humorous John Conyers.
I dunno MayBee, I’ll wait for Carin to weigh in, but I get the impression that Detroit is just the deepest, darkest pit of the the hellhole that is Michigan.
I’m from Michigan; I have family in Michigan. The other Michigan, with safer streets, national forests, and beautiful beaches. I can assure you that all of Michigan is not a hellhole, and I endorse wholeheartedly what geoffb says.
I suppose that works. I’m not so nuanced before my first cup of coffee. that and compared to Texas everywhere is a hellhole. ;D (did I really just type that? ugh, they’re eating my brain)
Again, MayBee shows her brilliance. Michigan was the birthplace of great Americans. like my mother, my brother, and ME. It was the home of great conservative thinkers like Russell Kirk. Detroit and Ann Arbor, and the Wolverines in general, should just be mocked, except for Carin.
Like MayBee I’m from the “other Michigan” and wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. If we could just give Detroit to Canada…, no not really, a lot of nice things come out of the Detroit area but the politics it saddles the rest of the State with, bleagh.
“Given the current artic blast in the Midwest (I blame global warming) numbnuts are a given.”
Back sometime around ’94 we had a January where the highs were in the single digits and the lows got down to -30. This was in the country in SW Michigan. In a different ’90s year in January the lakes were clear of ice and I used my boat to go fishing.
Michigan, if you don’t like the weather, wait a day, it’ll change.
Sorry, Ya’ll it might be pretty where you live, but you still live in a state that has elected a marxist governer. You live in a state that is raising it’s already confiscatory tax rates to levels where, we get more ex-michiganers coming down to Georgia sniffing at how all the republithugrats just don’t know what they’re doing.