Apparently corruption is a pre-requisite to membership!
And the GOP hits just keep on comin'.
posted by Pete @ 11/28/2005 02:15:00 PM
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Politics Schmolitics
We are a group of friends and acquaintances -- a merry band of pranksters indeed -- who have been arguing about politics on-and-off, then really on, then a little off... since 1998. On email. But that meant literally thousands of emails a year. That was too many. So here's the blog dedicated to carrying on that spirit of political and pop culture argument and dialogue. You might think of us as "schmoliticians", because while we take politics seriously, we try not to take ourselves quite so.
Monday, November 28, 2005
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2 Comments:
Not to continue to flog a dead horse, but why can you get 20 years for pushing 'caine when the most a politician who netted 2.4 million dollars (some of which has to be considered as actually stealing from the taxpayers) is 10 years?
Answer: Congressional decision-making on the terms of the Sentencing Guidelines.
For "some" reason, Congress decided that a Congressman accepting millions of dollars in bribes is less worthy of long jail stints than a guy selling $10 worth of crack. (Note: if you sell $10 worth of cocaine, you get even less time than crack. Anyone remember Whitney saying something about crack being for poor people and cocaine for rich people to Barbara Walters?)
Same type of thing as a guy getting 25 years (completely made up time frame, but you get my point) for mugging a pedestrian of the $100 in his wallet and a CEO who defrauds people of $1 billion dollars getting 5 years.
Who do Congressmen hang out with? Violent criminals or CEOs? Who might they likely become? Violent criminals or CEOs? Campaign donations? Perks? Jobs after retiring form Congress? Consultantships? Legal clients? You get my drift.
I think the answers are pretty self explanatory.
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