Can You Imagine...?
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, imagine if a Republican Majority Leader kept having things like this broken regarding his business dealings:
New Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid bought undeveloped land in Arizona far below its assessed value, then introduced legislation that could have aided the seller of the property.
Revelations about the land deal follow last year’s reports that Reid, a Nevada Democrat, had collected a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas land sale even though he hadn’t personally owned the property for three years.
I think the Republicans should start playing hardball, just like the Democrats would. After the repeated smarmy business dealings revealed about Harry Reid, they should be calling for his head, just as the Democrats would were he a Republican. And the press? You'll hear very little about this, of course, as opposed to if Reid were a Republican. You'd have to be BLIND not to see the media bias here.
UPDATE: Here is another story regarding Democrats and their ethical lapses...this time including Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emmanuel, and Evan Bayh.
JASmius adds: The real "culture of corruption" is back on top, and there to stay. And that's perfectly fine, because now the "right" pockets are being lined.
As to Republicans, they don't know how to play hardball, other perhaps than against each other. They don't dare take on the Dems, or they may lose even the crumbs and scraps that drop from the ruling table. And even if any of them mustered the courage to try, the Enemy Media would just slap them down as "extremists" and "malcontents" out to "destroy the spirit of bipartisanship," and our guys would just run away.
The GOP isn't allowed to be partisan, and Donk partisanship isn't defined as partisanism, but simply "the natural order of things". It's a dynamic that has already sent down deep, thick roots. And we're fresh out of shovels.
UPDATE: Well, I guess maybe we still have garden spades....
New Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid bought undeveloped land in Arizona far below its assessed value, then introduced legislation that could have aided the seller of the property.
Revelations about the land deal follow last year’s reports that Reid, a Nevada Democrat, had collected a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas land sale even though he hadn’t personally owned the property for three years.
I think the Republicans should start playing hardball, just like the Democrats would. After the repeated smarmy business dealings revealed about Harry Reid, they should be calling for his head, just as the Democrats would were he a Republican. And the press? You'll hear very little about this, of course, as opposed to if Reid were a Republican. You'd have to be BLIND not to see the media bias here.
UPDATE: Here is another story regarding Democrats and their ethical lapses...this time including Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emmanuel, and Evan Bayh.
JASmius adds: The real "culture of corruption" is back on top, and there to stay. And that's perfectly fine, because now the "right" pockets are being lined.
As to Republicans, they don't know how to play hardball, other perhaps than against each other. They don't dare take on the Dems, or they may lose even the crumbs and scraps that drop from the ruling table. And even if any of them mustered the courage to try, the Enemy Media would just slap them down as "extremists" and "malcontents" out to "destroy the spirit of bipartisanship," and our guys would just run away.
The GOP isn't allowed to be partisan, and Donk partisanship isn't defined as partisanism, but simply "the natural order of things". It's a dynamic that has already sent down deep, thick roots. And we're fresh out of shovels.
UPDATE: Well, I guess maybe we still have garden spades....
posted by Jennifer at 12:53 AM
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