What’s wrong with this picture?
Proggs are distressed to find that Lieberman holds on to his committee chairmanship, but seem to have no problem with Ways and Means Chairman Rangel’s ever-ramifying tax troubles.
Helen Jones-Kelley gets a two-month vacation with only one paid for abusing her authority to dig into JTP’s government records–will receive high-fives when she returns–whereas employees of a private company are rightly cashiered when they view The One’s phone records.
Ex-New York Governor and crusading Attorney General receives no charges for soliciting prostitution, whereas madam who sent prostitutes across state lines at his request forced to plead. But if you think Spitzer overpaid for a good screwing, check this out.
Connecticut wins conviction on misdemeanor charges of teacher victimized by spyware porn after four-year ordeal, forced to surrender teaching license. For the children!
It’s all about accountability, you see.
Can I use the homestead act on the two homes I own? Cause that would be superkewel!
Someone would have to be a total ignoramus to not know that was against the law. Which leaves us with two options regarding Rangell.
A) Ignoramus
B) Intentional Tax Cheat.
Honest – if he were a Republican … sigh.
Carin, I don’t see how those two options are mutually exclusive.
And all we can do is whimper “please STOP accelerating so quickly” to history as it laughs at our impotence.
When you’re the leadership of the committee that writes the tax code, I think it must be one or the other.
On second thought, I think it has to be option B.
Pablo makes my point. It’s either/or. I’m leaning toward “B” as well.
Some other Progg contradictions: can we both free Mumia and detain pirates in the Persian Gulf? And, if Islam is a “race,” is Hindu India’s policies in Kashmir “racist?” I could go on.
I mean, having dressed their “soft” urban politics of bike paths, “rapist” lacrosse players, and restrictive speech codes in the passionate, exaggerative hyperbole of war-rhetoric, can the Proggs ever credibly reconcile their politics with the gritty reality of today’s war-time order?
In time to take the reins in January?
I guess that, if the Proggs weren’t gearing up to pretend to govern right now, their schizophrenic agendas would not matter so much. As is, this incontinence of thought will be their government’s greatest weakness.
The cake is a lie.
Had to go ahead and get that one out there.
Carin: As Frank J. noted in one of his ‘In My World’ pieces, Rep. Rangel defended himself by saying to the press that ‘the well-nigh retarded need representation, too’. It seems he got that right.
I hope and pray that prosecutor gets the spy-ware cascading pop-ups on his work computer someday.
Damn, scooter beat me to it.
And I guess that teacher wasn’t a Democrat – after all, everyone else on the list are “skating D’s.” She got nailed in court for something she didn’t do, that’s the opposite of a Democrat.