Well today is 6-6-6, so I guess that means that we should talk about Democrats.
It's ironic and it would be funny if it was not so indicative of the state of our nation's leadership, but it was only a few months ago that the Dems were gleefully using the phrase "culture of corruption" to describe the Republican party, and predicting big wins this year by portraying themselves as something completely different. But that old wheel of fate just keeps on turning, and now the stage lights are focused on several prominent Democrats, all of whom have acted and continue to act as if they are entitled to special treatment well beyond that which you or I would get if we did what they did.
We've still got Cynthia McKinney (D)--GA awaiting indictment on charges of assaulting a Capitol Hill police officer. Any one of us would have been arrested on the spot for that but not McKinney, who has a history of other run-ins with law enforcement and white people in general. She's apparently special because she's a congressman. She of course refuses to resign or apologize.
Then we go to Patrick Kennedy (D)--Rhode Island. He drives into a barricade at the US Capitol at 3AM, shortly after he was seen at a local bar. He smelled of alcoholic beverages and gave every appearance of being drunk to the initial responding officers but police supervisors arrive, dismiss those officers, and drive Kennedy home without the breath test that any one of us would have gotten. Next thing we hear is that he's checking into an exclusive rehab center again, and in this politcally-correct world of ours, that means that the entire incident is now off-limits to our inquiries forever. Must be nice to have the money and connections to skate on a DUI. But even though Kennedy has just spent the last month sitting in a clinic waiting for the media attention to die off, we're still paying him just as if he was actually at work and he refuses to resign or apologize for accepting this special treatment.
William Jefferson (D)--Louisiana comes up next. This is the guy caught on tape accepting a $100,000 bribe from an FBI informant. These were marked bills of course, and $90,000 of them were subsequently found in his home freezer when the FBI raided his house. Two people, including one of his former congressional aides, are already in prison after pleading guilty to bribing him in relation to a plan requiring him to use his influence in congress to get a new business started in Nigeria--a business that was to have been run in part by his adult children as another incentive. Not only is he unrepentant, he's screaming mad because the FBI raided his office even though they had a warrant issued by a federal judge. He won't apologize or resign or even explain himself, and Nancy Pelosi, the fringe loony minority leader who might actually become Speaker of the House if Dems ever retake congress, attacks the FBI for treating Jefferson like an ordinary person and executing the warrant.
John Conyers (D)--Detroit. The guy whose only apparent congressional function is to put a bill in every year demanding a check for every black person in America as reparations for slavery is now on the hook in Michigan for forcing his congressional aides to babysit, chauffeur and tutor his children. He's also made them work on campaigns for candidates for local office, and both of these are illegal and now are under investigation by the House ethics committee. Of course he refuses to apologize or step down.
Harry Reid (D)--Nevada. The Senate minority leader who coined the phrase "culture of corruption" was caught accepting free ringside tickets from the Nevada Athletic Commission to three professional boxing matches while that state agency was trying to influence him on federal regulation of boxing. Reid took the free seats for Las Vegas fights between 2003 and 2005 as he was pressing legislation to increase government oversight of the sport. Rather than apologize to his constituents, he defended the gifts, saying they would never influence his position on the bill and was simply trying to learn how his legislation might affect an important home state industry. "Anyone from Nevada would say I'm glad he is there taking care of the state's No. 1 businesses," he said. "I love the fights anyways, so it wasn't like being punished," added the senator.
Alan Mollohan (D)--West Virginia. He's been caught directing federal grants to non-profit groups in WV while entering real estate deals with top officials of the groups. The congressman's personal wealth jumped and he became a millionaire in just a couple of years but he won't explain how he did that and rather than apologize,Mollohan has defended his actions as designed to bring economic development to his district. He won't resign, but at least he had to step down as the top Democrat on the House ethics committee.
Francine Busby (D)--candidate from California. This wanna-be Dem is running for Congress in a special election to be voted on today in San Diego. This past weekend she was speaking at a gathering of Hispanic day laborers trying to get them involved in the election. When one laborer stated that he wanted to help but then admitted that he had no papers, meaning that he was in our country illegally, Busby told him "That's ok. You don't need any papers to vote." WTF?! This Democrat just told a room full of illegal aliens that they could still go to the polls on election day and stand in line with US citizens to vote. She is also reportedly paying for campaign ads on behalf of an independent candidate in the race, trying to trick the conservative voters who will never vote for her into voting for someone other than her GOP opponent Brian Bilbray. Not only is it unheard of for one candidate to pay for ads for another in an attempt to beat a third, but it's also illegal if she spent more than $2,000 on those ads, which she clearly did. But she's obviously willing to pay a fine or face other sanctions later once she's in office and immune from punishment. To this Dem, winning is all that matters. Legality and ethical behavior don't factor in.
Most ironically Busby is seeking to replace ousted Congressman Randy Cunningham in a special election. Cunningham pled guilty to bribery, and unlike any of the above rats, he came clean when questioned, resigned from office, and cooperated fully with investigators. He also apologized profusely to his family, his constituents, and the voters of America. He was as wrong as any of the above, but at least he had the character to admit it and take his punishment like a man when he was caught. Democrats could take a lesson from this man.
Note: Imprisoned former Congressman Jim Trafficant (D)--Ohio, still says that he plans to run for his old seat as soon as he finishes his sentence. He was convicted of accepting bribes too, and like the other Democrats, he refused to apologize, explain or resign.
And he was convicted the same week that former senator Robert Torricelli (D)--NJ was convicted by the Senate Ethics Committee of improperly accepting gifts that were meant as bribes. But he was just allowed to walk away and withdraw from his re-election efforts. He didn't get punished and he's since been linked to the Iraqi Oil-for-Food scandal. And of course he won't explain or aplogize for either of these "ethical lapses" either.
I guess that in order to be a good Democrat you have to believe that you are above the rest of the country to the extent that you honestly feel that it would be beneath you to either explain your actions or accept responsibility for them when you get caught breaking the trust that your voters put in you. And resign and give up all that money and power? Never! But you'll sure demand that any Republican who is even accused of jaywalking resign, won't you?
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