It's legal to bribe a senator while in office; check 'em after they get thrown out

If you or I offer an unprincipled scoundrel like, oh say, Ben I’m for sale – cheap Nelson a $100 to vote for a piece of legislation, the FBI comes and arrests us for trying to bribe a senator. If a fellow scoundrel, like Harry land deal Reid offers Benny Boy 100 million dollars of tax payer money, it’s called smart politics. Both are bribes. But when convicted, I should get a shorter sentence, because at least I was using my own money.

Alas, that’s not how it works. Benny Boy gets a 100 million. Mary Landrieu gets 300 million for LA. That proves that Mary is at least three times smarter than Benny Boy. Others get various amounts of taxpayer money to vote cloture on a 2,000+ page liberty straggling monstrosity that nobody has the time energy or inclination to read. Baby Mary, who if she were turning tricks would be the highest paid whore in DC, told a questioner who asked about the constitutionality of Dear-Dope-a-care that the senate has lawyers to look into all of that pesky stuff.

Hmm, I guess all the senate campaigns will have to revolve around who the candidate’s team of constitutional lawyers will be. Then we have to go about vetting the candidate’s team of snake oil salesmen. Here all along I thought we voted for someone who most closely shared our own sense of things like individual liberty and responsibility. Turns out we don’t. We vote for the candidate with the best team of guys who can skate around the constitution to bring our state the most money supplied by the people from other states.

So Harry can bribe his team but you cannot and it’s all legal. But Dick Morris made an interesting point last night that may throw a wrench in the entire system. He noted that while the senators have not profited individually…yet, someone needs to check their net worth 5 years after being thrown out of office. So Benny Boy we see you’ve made a wind fall in the last few years increasing your net worth by 2,0000%. How’d that happen? A bribe that’s how. Then we need throw the whole bunch in jail. And not one of those gentlemen jails either. Benny Boy needs to do hard time being Otis’ girlfriend. That should dissuade a good many of the weasels.