Palpatine was a Senator, too
"Being called vindictive and partisan by Tom DeLay is like being called ugly by a frog." --Ronnie Earle
Earle is the prosecutor who brought charges against Tom DeLay, the GOP's prodigal son, that led to a grand jury indichtment. The charges against DeLay are that he divied up campaign contributions to the Republican Party illegally. So, what do people have to say about it?
The right is so convinced that the charges are bogus that they've attacked the prosecutor as being partisan and out to make a name for himself, or for attacking DeLay (the Republican majority leader) so that he has to step down as majority leader temporarilly because the prosecutor is a democrat. They're absoultely certain about one thing, though: that DeLay is innocent.
So, the fact that a grand jury found the evidence substantial and indichted DeLay means nothing. Grand jury's, man, they crazy.
I don't know if DeLay is guilty or not and I don't care. The indichtment is barely surprising. The man is pure evil. DeLay once offered a retiring congressman an endorsement for his son in exchange for a vote in congress. He fought tooth and talon to rezone extra districts in Texas in areas that were densely republican. And it was practically his will alone that maintained the fight for Clinton's impeachment hearings. He's petty, and he manages congress and the GOP like a student council president who wants only his friends in the student council and will jump students after school who disagree with him. Getting him out of Washington would be a blessing to both parties. So is he guilty of election tampering? Probably. But he's probably guilty of a lot more than that.
There was a disagreement in my Law and Society Class this morning about the role of government in response to Hurricane Katrina. Who's fault was it that the government seemingly poured salt into open wounds and stitched them up without sterile instruments? Was it the state government or federal government? More importantly, though, is the question that follows:
What should we expect from the government when there's a crisis like Katrina?
I'm of the opinion that we should expect immediate relief. That we should have had helicopters flying people out of the area from day one to a field hospital freshly erected nearby. There should've been an army of nurses and doctors waiting with blankets, sandwiches, and emergency medical supplies. That they should've been halo-jumping into the superdome with food and water and blankets, and choppering people out of there immediately. And most importantly, that they'd know all about it as it was happening, and not just see it on CNN three days later.
Am I crazy, or is this the sort of thing we should want the government to be able to do?
No, I'm not crazy. But I am late for class.
Earle is the prosecutor who brought charges against Tom DeLay, the GOP's prodigal son, that led to a grand jury indichtment. The charges against DeLay are that he divied up campaign contributions to the Republican Party illegally. So, what do people have to say about it?
The right is so convinced that the charges are bogus that they've attacked the prosecutor as being partisan and out to make a name for himself, or for attacking DeLay (the Republican majority leader) so that he has to step down as majority leader temporarilly because the prosecutor is a democrat. They're absoultely certain about one thing, though: that DeLay is innocent.
So, the fact that a grand jury found the evidence substantial and indichted DeLay means nothing. Grand jury's, man, they crazy.
I don't know if DeLay is guilty or not and I don't care. The indichtment is barely surprising. The man is pure evil. DeLay once offered a retiring congressman an endorsement for his son in exchange for a vote in congress. He fought tooth and talon to rezone extra districts in Texas in areas that were densely republican. And it was practically his will alone that maintained the fight for Clinton's impeachment hearings. He's petty, and he manages congress and the GOP like a student council president who wants only his friends in the student council and will jump students after school who disagree with him. Getting him out of Washington would be a blessing to both parties. So is he guilty of election tampering? Probably. But he's probably guilty of a lot more than that.
There was a disagreement in my Law and Society Class this morning about the role of government in response to Hurricane Katrina. Who's fault was it that the government seemingly poured salt into open wounds and stitched them up without sterile instruments? Was it the state government or federal government? More importantly, though, is the question that follows:
What should we expect from the government when there's a crisis like Katrina?
I'm of the opinion that we should expect immediate relief. That we should have had helicopters flying people out of the area from day one to a field hospital freshly erected nearby. There should've been an army of nurses and doctors waiting with blankets, sandwiches, and emergency medical supplies. That they should've been halo-jumping into the superdome with food and water and blankets, and choppering people out of there immediately. And most importantly, that they'd know all about it as it was happening, and not just see it on CNN three days later.
Am I crazy, or is this the sort of thing we should want the government to be able to do?
No, I'm not crazy. But I am late for class.