Like Father Like Son...?

Unbelieveable...but don't let me influence you...

By Elisabeth Bumiller (New York Times)
Published: September 24, 2007

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — On June 23, 1967, Senator Thomas J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, was censured by the United States Senate for diverting $116,000 in campaign funds for his personal use. The vote was 92 to 5.

“I think a grave mistake has been made, and I am the one who must bear the scar of that mistake for the rest of my life,” Thomas Dodd told a hushed chamber. His voice broke, and he was led off the floor in tears. Four years later, he died a broken man.

Can you believe it? Now comes the news that his son, Chris Dodd, the Senator from Connecticut, is retiring.

Could it be that he can't shed the taint of alleged corruption because of his relationship to Angelo Mozilo of Countrywide...? Could that be why he "retired?"

Or did he think he'd lose a reelection bid... as an incumbent mind you... in the current atmosphere of financial shenanigans and public disgust?

No...couldn't be that now could it?

Puh...leeeeeze!!

I am continually astounded but really not at all surprised that our elected officials consistently fail to disappoint in the scumbag scandal department.

Some guy steals a loaf of bread or knocks off a 7 Eleven and goes to prison for ever.

A gray haired pseudo-intellectual politician steals our trust and our dollars and goes to The Bahamas on vacation drawing a pension, health care and dividends from numbered Swiss accounts.

It ain't fair! Our system is so out of alignment that Barry or Sarah or Rush or Mitt will never be able to fix it. We're done...over...kaput...finito...

I just hope our kids get through the next 90 years before the whole thing evaporates into the ether.

We are devoid of character and integrity. Not Everyman. He's got character and integrity coming out of his ears...or almost Everyman that is (...remember Joe the Plumber?)

It's the so-called ruling class...the "inside the Beltway" elites who we keep sending to Washington continuing to believe that the Constitution means something and that this experiment in democracy will actually win out over the long haul.

What seems to be happening however is that the haul is getting longer and mostly going into the velvet pockets of people who couldn't give a good God damn about what happens to the rest of us.

It makes one sick.

Hey Chris...thanks...for nothing... Hope the fish are bitin'...but I don't want to carp.