<p>From the Washington Post: <a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101201486.html[/url]”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101201486.html</a></p>
<p>Look as though the Democrats may need another Senate Minority Leader.</p>
<p>Doesn’t matter, since Pelosi will occupy the Speaker’s chair. </p>
<p>Can’t wait for the Susan Ralston hearing! What’s that about the 5th Amendment? I can’t hear you! Say again. Oh, you don’t want to incriminate yourself? Shall we call your boss next? ;)</p>
<p>This is b.s. The lede itself says it appeas like mere sloppiness. And some people wonder about the level of vitiriol.</p>
<p>Posting is fair game. The WP is hardly a right-wing rag. </p>
<p>Senator Reid pointed out many instances of ‘sloppiness’ across the aisle.</p>
<p>Notice the page that it was printed on? A28. If this were Frist, the page would have been A1.</p>
<p>Oh, with Jack singin’ in his cage, and Pelosi as Speaker, we’re gonna be treated to a lot more than “sloppiness”. Ney, DeLay, Cunningham, Foley - just the tip of the iceberg.</p>
<p>It’s great to be alive! (Sadly, 600,000 Iraqis can’t say the same thing.) I do need to note, though, that I still haven’t been able to confirm that Hastert is gay. ;)</p>
<p>^^^This is what I’d call ‘vitriol’. </p>
<p>It’s almost like a hunger to see lives and careers ruined. The more the better. Kind of schadenfreude or sardonic glee.</p>
<p>Mini, I don’t get it. I thought you were not ‘liberal’.</p>
<p>Well, sometimes little government is the best.</p>
<p>FF: Please stop whining. It’s become really unbecoming. </p>
<p>'noles: Mini despises all of 'em. Haven’t you noticed?</p>
<p>Added after Mini’s next post See?</p>
<p>Oh, I’m not! As far as I’m concerned, the Party of the Clueless and the Party of Appeasement and Family Values is the same party. Party of the Clueless hasn’t had the chance recently to do the Abramoff happy dance, but I’m sure it will come their way sooner or later. The PAFV does not have a monopoly on corruption - it’s just that recently they have more to sell. </p>
<p>Since I paid for those prison beds, I want to see them well used. ;)</p>
<p>It’s on page A28 because it’s an Opinion piece… editorials don’t get on the front page.</p>
<p>the original article was by an AP reporter, who has a history of not being totally factual, the piece posted here was a WP editorial</p>
<p>it needs to be checked out of course it does, just wish the ethics committee would also check out the numerous complaints against member of their own party</p>
<p>and, isn’t it interesting that this happened three weeks before an election, what FF doesn’t want to call the piece an October suprise…gasp</p>
<p>Ok, mini, I’m almost afraid to ask. What or whom do you want to see in government? It appears you’re disappointed in them all.</p>
<p>I am more than ready for election season to be over. I’m tired of the incessant attack commercials and the like.</p>
<p>Mini, how were you doing during the Clinton Pardon scandle?</p>
<p>Oh, no - I’m not disappointed in the least! They perform pretty much as expected (though I must admit, I’m a little disappointed in Mr. Sleaze’s inability to lie well. I paid for those lies, and I expect them to be at least a little bit convincing.)</p>
<p>Stop killing children is always a good start. But then, there are always reasons…</p>
<p>“Mini, how were you doing during the Clinton Pardon scandle?”</p>
<p>I was fine! (I think I may have weighed about 10 pounds less. ;))</p>
<p>Since he was, according to his Secretary of State, a mass murderer of half a million children give or take, the scandal was hardly a thing to get upset about one way or another.</p>
<p>Mini is a socialist, parent2noles. Agitatin’ away.</p>
<p>It took only 12 posts to remember most beloved president Clinton.</p>
<p>Isn’t public service wonderful. We have such great leaders who needs enemies. One of these days, someone is going to touch that red button in our behalf.</p>
<p>P2N: the entire web of the Abramoff bribery and corruption events–Cunningham and Ney already convicted, more to follow–and the DeLay K St. project are hardly examples of “sloppiness.” They are to corruption and bribery what large scale agribusiness is to family farming. (Coming to you on an Old SAT analogy section soon.)</p>
<p>Criminal behavior should always be rooted out. If they did the crime, they can do the time. My ultimate point is that neither party has a claim on righteousness.</p>
<p>That being said, we still need effective government. Especially at times of war.</p>
<p>Clinton will always be brought up as an egregious example of corrupt behavior. That’s why he was impeached. He can now join Nixon on the favorite crooks list.</p>
<p>“Mini is a socialist, parent2noles. Agitatin’ away.”</p>
<p>I’ve no idea where you got that idea. Hereshoping is a corporate socialist (though likely without the income to have it make any sense.)</p>