From ABC News:From Cash to Yachts, Convicted Congressman Set Bribery Rates. I think they threw this guy under the bus to deflect from the rest of them. I think anyone who is in Washington more than a few years learns to game the system and make themselves rich in the process. As noted elsewhere, "the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what is legal." (I would attribute the quote but I don't know where it's from)
That state of the DE blogosphere
I've been holding off on commenting on the imbroiglio over a posting at DelawareLiberal for Veteran's Day for several reasons. First and foremost is the situation at home (more on that later) but also because I wanted to get some distance from it to be sure I was seeing things clearly. I've been reading DV's stuff since before he joined Jason on his site and I've noticed a change in tone which seems to have accelerated of late. I enjoyed going to the old site because it was one the few places I could engage someone with different ideas than mine without things crashing headlong into Godwin's law within 3 posts. In short, DV acted in good faith and was rather deferential to his visitors which I greatly appreciated. Since pulling the old blog and posting on DelwareLiberal, I've noticed that ground has eroded rather quickly. I've never agreed with anything Jason posted but found him a book end to DelaThought's knee jerk partisan right wingery. Fi...
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