We’ll Go Back to Mincing Words After This Important Insult
November 19th, 2009 - 6:19 pm
Trillion dollar payoffs, trillions more in debt, trillion-dollar deficits as far as the eye can see… and yet Mary Landrieu gets bought off for a lousy hundred mill?
That thing I said last week about political whores? They’re bad enough. But Landrieu’s a cheap one.
GFE?
That’s the way with politicians. I don’t which is worse: that they sell us out, or that they sell us out so cheaply.
I just read the article. There’s another old favorite there–not just in politics but in many areas regulated by government. You want to do something specific but can’t get away with it. No problem–you appear to do something general but define it in such a way that only the one you want qualifies.
I used to do immigration work, employment visas, specifically. Companies were required to conduct an extensive job search before they could import the worker they wanted and they had to provide an explanation why no domestic worker was qualified.
Despite the hoops, it really wasn’t so hard. They’d just write the job description so that only the person they want qualifies, and then they’d perform the governmentally required task of wasting the time of several dozen job seekers.
If Mary Landrieu thinks she will get some cover by this deal she is sadly mistaken. New Orleans is the ONLY area of the state that will buy this BS. Where I live in Thibodaux, which is only about 60 miles from the Big Easy, we think a little differently. The Northern area of the state is fed up with all the Money going to New Orleans anyway. She will sign her own pink slip if she votes for this mess.
Corruption in Louisiana?
Monica Conyers, city councilwoman in Detroit, sold her vote for a lousy 3 thousand dollars. But, of course, Detroit is an impoverished city. Even graft is feeling the pinch.
I remember the AzScam incident at the Arizona Legislature. The longest-lasting consequence wasn’t the corrupt politicians going to prison or the existence of payoffs getting highlighted, but the fact that the FBI was too free with their money and raised the bar for what it took to buy off politicians in Arizona. The usual crooks who gave away a weekend in Vegas for a land deal suddenly had to comp those jokers some good tickets to see Tom Jones or Wayne Newton to keep up with the G-Men bribes. And pay for the five-dollar tables, too.