Schadenfreude at the expense of members of the Democrat party today. First we have former Senator and former Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards issuing a lame explanation for an attempt to obtain a Playstation 3 from...Wal-Mart, bane of the left's existence.
Next we have Speaker-in-waiting Nancy Pelosi failing in her first effort to place her loyalists in key positions that will be controlled by the Democrat party. "The Democratic caucus voted 149-86 for Hoyer."
Perhaps the other members of her party believed Rep. Pelosi when she promised the "most ethical Congress in history." They knew, apparently better than she, that placing an unindicted co-conspirator from the ABSCAM scandal in the 1980's in the Majority Leader's chair was not consistent with that promise.
Showing posts with label Scandals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scandals. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
National Review's Corner points to a bizarre story about the man who leaked the President's DUI days before the 2000 election.
Excerpt:
" South Portland police were notified around 9 a.m. that a man wearing a rubber Osama bin Laden mask was standing on top of a berm along the highway carrying a sign that said 'I Love Tabor,' and waving what appeared to be an assault rifle.
Four South Portland officers and two state troopers converged on the man. They drew their guns when he did not respond to their demand that he drop his weapon.
Police said instead he walked toward them dropping plastic hand grenades. His costume included fake dynamite and bandoliers, police said.
He eventually did drop the rifle, which turned out to be a toy and was arrested,..."
Excerpt:
" South Portland police were notified around 9 a.m. that a man wearing a rubber Osama bin Laden mask was standing on top of a berm along the highway carrying a sign that said 'I Love Tabor,' and waving what appeared to be an assault rifle.
Four South Portland officers and two state troopers converged on the man. They drew their guns when he did not respond to their demand that he drop his weapon.
Police said instead he walked toward them dropping plastic hand grenades. His costume included fake dynamite and bandoliers, police said.
He eventually did drop the rifle, which turned out to be a toy and was arrested,..."
Thursday, October 05, 2006
If Drudge is right, the Foleygate mess is a terrible prank gone awry, and a terrible indictment of the press and the Democrat party.
Again, if Drudge is right, one wonders how the electorate will react, and whether the Democrats will suffer in November.
Again, if Drudge is right, one wonders how the electorate will react, and whether the Democrats will suffer in November.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
On Foleygate, I agree with this emailer to the National Review Online.
Update: Hugh Hewitt links to a Drudge Report post that reports a leak from ABC that included the identity and age of the young recipient of the IMs in question.
Update: Hugh Hewitt links to a Drudge Report post that reports a leak from ABC that included the identity and age of the young recipient of the IMs in question.
One of my favorite sites, Betsy's Page, links to a post entitled "CBS 'FreeSpeech' a barn burner" over at The Anchoress.
The Left's schadenfreude over the Foley scandal is, in part, based on the impression that the Republicans claim the mantle of the party of values, and that scandals like the Foley scandal expose at least one elected Republican as a hypocrite. However, as Betsy points out, Republicans have been punished more and have done the honorable thing and resigned, while Democrats who have engaged in worse conduct--actual sex in a sex scandal, for example--have survived and been reelected.
Of course, this brings to mind that old saw that the public gets the government that it deserves. We deserve better--campaigns that deal with issues and a press that reports them honestly. If we allow the politics of personal destruction to succeed in moving the electorate from the issues and the lack of real plans from the Democrat party to do anything other that undo the progress made by the Republicans and to reinstitute the same failed policies that lead to economic and foreign policy malaise, then we will have failed the country as an electorate.
The Left's schadenfreude over the Foley scandal is, in part, based on the impression that the Republicans claim the mantle of the party of values, and that scandals like the Foley scandal expose at least one elected Republican as a hypocrite. However, as Betsy points out, Republicans have been punished more and have done the honorable thing and resigned, while Democrats who have engaged in worse conduct--actual sex in a sex scandal, for example--have survived and been reelected.
Of course, this brings to mind that old saw that the public gets the government that it deserves. We deserve better--campaigns that deal with issues and a press that reports them honestly. If we allow the politics of personal destruction to succeed in moving the electorate from the issues and the lack of real plans from the Democrat party to do anything other that undo the progress made by the Republicans and to reinstitute the same failed policies that lead to economic and foreign policy malaise, then we will have failed the country as an electorate.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
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