Scumbaggery Unleashed at Capitol
The troopergate scandal just gets better and better. The entertainment value is high, with politicians and their minions hurling high-minded accusations at each other. An entire website has popped up devoted to this ruckus.
Especially amusing are the antics of House Majority Leader Gary Odom. He's demanding an independent investigation and grandstanding for the cameras as a paragon of virtue. Of course, everyone knows he's just messing with his nemesis, Speaker Jimmy Naifeh, whose job Odom wants. Naifeh and Lt. Ronnie Shirley are friends.
As much fun as we're having watching the show, though, we have to admit it's a little light in the news department. What we've learned so far is that there are a lot of scumbags hanging around at the Capitol. And the sun rises in the east.
The latest revelation? A political op would actually go to a courthouse, obtain public records of a rival candidate's arrest for drunken driving, and then surreptitiously place those records in the office of the leader of the opposition party and mail them to the candidate's wife. Rather than scandalous, that's commendable behavior on the Hill, and commonplace too. Hardly a morning goes by that reporters don't find an envelope of dirt on their chairs when they come to work. It's democracy in action.
As for the allegations at the heart of troopergate, is it really shocking that one of our fine highway patrolmen, not exactly the brightest bulbs in the law enforcement community, would snoop around in people's criminal records and get caught doing it? He probably just got tired of looking at porn.
Update: Turns out, GOP House candidate A.J. McCall was arrested in 1990 after a woman told police he tried to make her get into his van. There was another arrest in 1996. Democrats are demanding that he explain his behavior. This troopergate scandal isn't working out too well for the Republicans so far.
Comments
Nice spin. Do you get a check from the DNC?
Posted 08/21/2008 at 11:33:07 AMNow reports are that A.J. McCall tried to abduct a woman in a WalMart parking lot in the middle of the night. He was drunk and tried to force her into his van. What kind of Hannibal Lechter shit is that?
Posted 08/21/2008 at 02:04:05 PM