Boxing, Boards, Bullets, Blacks, & Bolsheviks

So it seems that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid accepted some tickets to an Oscar De La Hoya-Bernard Hopkins fight that he shouldn't have, and he got caught with his hand in that particular spit bucket. I didn't think too much of it, because on balance any Democrat is far more corrupt than merely taking freebie ducats to a sporting event, and we know that Dirty Harry was far enough up Jack Abramoff's ass to see first hand what he had for breakfast each morning. Besides, I was just as put off by Darth Queeg's self-righteous halo-polishing about it that will not, EVER, make anybody forget his co-starring role in the Keating Five scandal.

But the defense of Reid mounted by his fellow mules is just too gag-inducing to pass up:

The reaction to the original story was enlightening. Partisans attacked the AP for supposedly having a vendetta against Reid, parsed the ethics rules to find a reason why Reid didn't violate them, and then postulated that Reid had a legal responsibility to accept the freebie. [emphasis added]

He had to cheat because being honest would have been against the law? Is there anybody who still believes that Bill Clinton's ethical contamination of the Democrat Party has faded in the slightest?

And look who's warming up in the bullpen.

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Line of the day (yesterday): "Al Gore has become to climatology what Dan Brown is to theology."

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Oh, those Donk scamps and their irrepressible whimsy!

In an outrageous remark that has at least one Republican calling for his resignation, New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi said Thursday that a fellow New York Democrat would "put a bullet between the president's eyes if he could get away with it."

Introducing Senator Charles Schumer at commencement exercises at New York City's Queens College, Hevesi began:

"The man who, how do I phrase this diplomatically, who will put a bullet between the President's eyes if he could get away with it. The toughest senator, the best representative. A great, great member of the Congress of the United States." [emphasis added]

A "great, great member of the Congress of the United States" wants to assassinate the President? Wanting to assassinate the President makes this member "great"? Oh, yeah, that's right, Hevesi was just pulling our legs. Ha, ha, hee, hee, hyuk, hyuk. Please. Stop it. You're killing me. Just not with a bullet between the eyes. Because I'm not, you know, the President.

Reportedly Chucky didn't have any objections to that tribute at the time Hevesi delivered it. Probably had to cover a smirk. Which makes me want to see some state Republican official, should the country ever have to endure the nightmare of another Donk presidency, say the exact same thing and then watch that same smirking jackoff trample anybody between him and the nearest camera and microphone to stentorianly condemn him/her and call for his/her arrest for "threatening the president of the United States". Ditto the press uproar that would ensue, tarring the entire GOP, post-Oklahoma-City-like, for the idiocy of one person.

But Hevesi? He's a fart in a quantum singularity. And we all know how funny farts are.

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Guess we know who still runs the House Democrat caucus. Maybe, if the Dems retake the House this fall, Bill Jefferson will be the next Speaker.

At least it would be honest. And honesty is still the best policy. Just ask Norm Choamsky, who speaks for the Democrat Party whether the rest of them admit it or not.