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| What the Democratic Scandals Don't Matter |
| 2009-01-08 |
| More and more these days, my [writer for the liberal New Republic] morning newspaper reads like an ensemble comedy of errors cast entirely with Democrats: Bill Richardson probed! Blago busted! Charlie Rangel investigated! Eliot Spitzer ruined! Kwame Kilpatrick jailed! Bill "Freezer" Jefferson indicted! ... and so on. Ugh. It's excruciating to watch all these Democrats clomp around in clown shoes. But, at least for now, it won't matter! Briefly, here's why not: -Most of the Democratic scandals have been on the state or local level. -The Democratic scandals are not linked -The Democratic scandals do not involve top party leadership -People do not yet think the Democratic president sucks. |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #5 -Most of the Democratic scandals have been on the state or local level. Except for the Dodd/Frank/GSE fiasco. -The Democratic scandals are not linked Except for the guy involved in the Richardson pay-for-play scandal is also a big Obama donor. -The Democratic scandals do not involve top party leadership State governors? The president-elect's chief of staff? Long-seated congressmen? None of those count as "top party leadership"? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2009-01-08 18:35 |
| #4 Journalism rule #172: Scandals involving Democrats don't count. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2009-01-08 18:34 |
| #3 "People do not yet think the Democratic president sucks. But his followers are beginning to." There - fixed. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-01-08 13:32 |
| #2 Everything they write is true! |
| Posted by: Scott Beauchamp 2009-01-08 12:53 |
| #1 "[C]omedy of errors" & "Democratic clowns" - i.e. it's kind of funny, maybe even cute. Boys will be boys after all. "Don't Matter" - i.e. we're in charge, and the media has our back, so it doesn't matter what we do and you had better damn well get used to that. "People do not yet think the Democratic president sucks." - I'm not people? 49% of the country who voted against him aren't people? And what about that pregnant "yet"... |
| Posted by: Iblis 2009-01-08 12:46 |