True to Form

The democrats are proving, yet again, that no matter how pathetic their opponents may be, they will never cease failing as an opposition party.



You have probably heard the democratic battle-cry by now: “Culture of Corruption.” They have been shouting it from the mountaintops, apparently in the hopes that by incessantly (and often totally randomly, without the pretense of context) hammering this into citizen-ears they might think poorly of the GOP come November. This has been backfiring to a certain extent; as a recent CNN poll showed (which I believe I reproduced in a former email), the democrats have actually lost percentage points in the last couple months against a would-be crippled GOP. Would-be, that is, if the democrats had a clue how to stand for anything but “Not GOP!”



To add insult to (self)injury, this slogan is backfiring in other ways. The FBI has been following Congressman William Jefferson (D-LA) for some time, on suspicion for bribery. They just released a 95-page affidavit with their charges against the Congressman a few days ago. In it, they detailed a taped exchange wherein the Congressman took $100,000 from an informant, put it in his Lincoln Town Car and drove off. They also state that they found $90,000 stashed in the moron’s freezer, next to the Tater Tots. (Last phrase for emphasis.) Overall Jefferson is suspected of taking bribes and defrauding sums somewhere around $3.5 million.



The Congressman’s response: “I wish to say emphatically that in all of my actions under scrutiny, that I never intended to dishonor my office, or you, the public, and I certainly did not sell my office.” Intriguingly ambiguous statement; interesting that there is no explicit denial therein.



The Congressman’s lawyer, in response to the release of the above info: “it was an obvious attempt to embarrass the Congressman.”



I don’t even know how to respond to that last one, except to say that “attempt” implies the possibility of failure, and the transitive verb “embarrass” implies an action taken by someone against the Congressman (more appropriate would be a reflexive verb, highlighting the Congressman’s impressively executed achievement of said action).



Most of the time I dislike or even despise Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. In times like these I pity them. They must cry themselves to sleep at night.



-W



http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/6737.html (Thanks to Henry for the link.)