Fristwater
Gosh, I'm starting to wonder whether these guys are honest...
The administration and the current Republican leadership seem to be taking a page from the Reagan administration's playbook--they're doing so many illegal, unethical and incompetent things that there's no way for the public to keep up with them. The public can only keep about one scandal in mind at any given time, so if you're going to do one thing wrong you might as well do ten or twenty.
Imagine what would be happening if liberals exhibited 1/100th of the frothing-at-the mouth demonic fury that conservatives displayed in their pursuit of, e.g., the fabricated Troopergate scandal or laughable Whitewater "scandal."
Can you believe that these are the people who are running the world?
Gosh, I'm starting to wonder whether these guys are honest...
The administration and the current Republican leadership seem to be taking a page from the Reagan administration's playbook--they're doing so many illegal, unethical and incompetent things that there's no way for the public to keep up with them. The public can only keep about one scandal in mind at any given time, so if you're going to do one thing wrong you might as well do ten or twenty.
Imagine what would be happening if liberals exhibited 1/100th of the frothing-at-the mouth demonic fury that conservatives displayed in their pursuit of, e.g., the fabricated Troopergate scandal or laughable Whitewater "scandal."
Can you believe that these are the people who are running the world?
posted by Winston Smith at
10:30 AM
6 Comments:
Dan Foley? Dan Rostenkowski? How soon we forget.
Looks like Frist pulled a Martha Stewart. Unlike Hillary when she pulled her Tyson chicken commodities scam, he might not get away with it.
That's OK with me, but let's not feign surprise or assign a political tag to corruption. Pols are pols.
"Dan Foley? Dan Rostenkowski? How soon we forget."
"Dan Foley"? On the subject of forgetting (or not knowing in the first place), tvd, you obviously have no memory of that time of penny-ante corruption if you think it has anything to do with today's gangsters.
I gotta agree...if that's the best ya got, Tom, you should probably concede defeat on this one...
You know I don't like these things, WS, and you've pointed out numerous times that "you too" is not a decent argument.
If you believe that having a (D) after your name makes you more morally admirable than an (R), I'll never persuade you otherwise. You would be as unreachable as the Falwells you despise.
Or I could just call liberals gangsters, if you think that passes for civil discourse. Please advise.
Well, I don't think that Rs are necessarily worse than Ds, I just think that the current crop of Rs is way worse than the current crop of Ds. It wasn't always so, and won't always be so in the future.
Fair enough.
If Frist is dirty (and the early allegations smell like it), I certainly hope it costs him his career.
On the other hand, I think the junior senator from New York's commodities trading should disqualify her, too, but some fail upward. I do think it's a matter of media perception, and license, but that is admittedly my opinion.
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