Please Hold Your Applause
I am as anxious to pat Dave Burris on the back for a job well-done as anyone on either side of the aisle. I was proud to be a blogger when he penned the letter that stuck a fork in Atkins. I was impressed by the facts that he uncovered in the Pink Postcards case. I was even impressed with the way he stuck it to Daniello in Dover a few months ago.
I had another one of those moments a few days past when the Senator Craig story broke and Dave was quick to call for Craig’s resignation. Craig was quite active in the Romney campaign and here was another high-profile Republican being exposed as a fraud and a criminal.
What I wonder is if Dave would have been so quick to call for Craig’s resignation if the Governor of Idaho were a Democrat? What would Dave do there? I would like to think that he (and Smitty, too) would still call for Craig to resign, but I have my doubts. It is easy to call for him to be replaced by another Republican, but capitulating a seat in the Senate? That’s hard.
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That the LA governor is a DEM goes a long way towards explaining why David Vitter’s breaking the law and behaving in a manner unfit for a Senator when purchasing down time with hookers was not called to resign. Yes?
I think you are right to be a bit of a cynic. Bush has turned the country into two armed camps and for all his “above the fray” posturing he is still a Republican.
The bottom line in our system is that being in the majority matters.
You would have witnessed the same result whether there was a D or an R running the Executive Branch, hell, you need only to look a few months back and a lot closer to home, follow ?
Sorry, no.
But it is 2 am.
All power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The Republicans have achieved new pinacles of corruption because they were handed absolute power. I may be a yellow-dog Democrat, but I shudder to think what we might have done in the same culture of corruption. I hope it wouldn’t have been as bad, but you do have to deal with human nature.
That’s what the checks and balances in the system are all about. The founders knew their human nature. That’s why the first thing we have to do in 2009 when we take back the power is to restore the Constitution.
Yee Gads, that’s awful heavy lifting before I’ve even had my coffee.
Spot on. If Idaho’s gov’s a Dem, then the R’s would be circling the wagons, for sure.
I see Vitter’s doing OK with his colleagues – you know – ’cause he was fvcking women (as he should dammit!) behind his wife’s back and a bible in hand. The loser even had to pay for it, which I believe is still a crime in DC and LA.
Would the GOP be so up in arms about Craig if there was a woman involved, instead of sweaty man-on-man action?
Rebecca says, “The Republicans have achieved new pinacles of corruption because they were handed absolute power. I may be a yellow-dog Democrat, but I shudder to think what we might have done in the same culture of corruption.”
Exactly. The Dems were all powerful three decades ago, and had the power to elect Mickey Mouse as President. They did. He was also known as Carter.
However, I think that the internet and blogs will put a huge check on the kind of crap power monopolies produce. Hell, we’re all Dems here (at least the smart, good-looking ones), and look how we’ve focused on the Minner misAdministration.
Is there that much sweat involved in stall sex?
Nancy: have you ever been to Deer Park in your younger days? Rest room recreation is not only sweaty, the sanitation standard of the Deer Park woman’s room gave such drunken liasons a rather methane-like ambiance, solved only by more liquor.
The McGlynn’s guy ruined the Deer Park!
Freakin hell – I lived at the Deer Park
I used to pen poems and trace them out onto the stall doors but never did I see sex or hear it, smell it or otherwise make note of it inside of the building…the parking lot was where the action was!
I lived with Tommy Daniels for 12 years or so, that dirty fucking hippie who reigned over the north end of the townie bar (his picture still hangs on the wall). We kept house in the Leathertree (behind Wonderland) and would skip over to DP for a liquid lunch after hitting the Newark diner for the bottomless cup o joe.
I will say that I had a few beers and shared a nachos grande at the Deer Park with Maria Evans (WGMD blog/radio) last week and the food was a huge disappointment. Terrible actually.
They used to be the best.
I don’t know about the ladies’ room at the old Deer Park, but I remember the mens’ had a trough urinal and usually an inch or two of water (or something) on the floor. Usually some vomit in the sink to boot! Can’t say I miss that part, but I do lament the loss of the townie/student segregation.