Things Yacht Not Do In Congress
What sort of relationship should exist between a Congressman on the House Appropriations Committee and a defense contractor who has been awarded millions of dollars by that committee?
Do you suppose it's ok if that defense contractor buys the Congressman's house at an inflated price (i.e. the contractor turns around and sells it for a $700,000 loss)? Isn't that kind of like giving the Congressman $700,000?
Do you suppose it's ok for that Congressman to live on a yacht owned by the contractor? How about if the yacht is actually named after the Congressman?
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R), who, by cheating our democratic system, has trashed the U.S.
posted by Abe at 6/17/2005 09:01:00 AM
4 Comments:
Lefty, one word: Whitewater!
--Klug
Ha! Hey Rudy & 3GL, check out our new pet troll! He's fun, if not very bright.
We met earlier.
Troll, I am not. Man, I am.
As John Stuart Mill once said, "We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still." On Liberty (1859).
--Klug
Not quite sure I got ya there, Klug. But let's examine your one word (Whitewater) versus the three words (Downing Street Memo). If Congress were to commit one small percentage of the several millions and untold hours to investigating the latter as they did the former. Bush would meet Tricky Dick in less than sexy circumstances. Whitewater was a stupid, trumped-up witch hunt that, chasing less substance than surfeit silliness, ended up focusing on White Stain.
As John Stuart Mill once said, "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." Johnny Piano
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