A tale of two parties

A couple of Pols got into trouble recently. One resigned his office. The other has decided that in his party being a lying weasel might just work to his advantage.


Yesterday, here in fabulous Ft. Wayne, IN 3rd Congressional District representative, Mark Souder, announced his resignation effective this Fri. Souder was an EIGHT term congressman who ran initially on the pledge that he’d term limit himself after four terms. He broke that promise and then somewhere along the way he broke his promise to his wife.

I haven’t voted for the guy in the last two elections. There was the broken term limit promise but when I heard his ads, he just seemed to me to be a little too desperate to keep his Washington job. He did all or most of his ads himself and they were full talk about “fighting for northeast Indiana.” Most of that fighting involved bringing cash back to the district for this or that project.

In that regard, he seemed more part of the problem to me. Why was the cash being sent to Washington D.C. for Mark Souder and 534 other hyenas to fight over in the first place? If we need a levy for flood control here in IN, why don’t we pay for it? And for God’s sake if we need a levy, we shouldn’t be allowing people to build houses on flood zone until the levy is finished.

In his most recent primary battle, one of his ads tried to explain away stimulus and TARP votes by saying he had to do it to protect Hoosier jobs at the Ft. Wayne, GM plant. So now the government owns GM and the GM chairman is playing loose with the facts about just who paid back GM’s government loans. In TV and radio ads GM chairman, some P-BO butt licker named Edward Whitacre, claims GM paid the money back – in full.

But Whitacre doesn’t mention the 50 billion in additional government loans GM hasn’t paid back or where the money came from to pay back the original loans. The original loans were paid back by GM with money GM took from the TARP program. To explain this better, Uncle Sam took money from his left pocket and put it into his right pocket.

All of this escapes career doofs like Souder. “I saved the GM plant!” he shouts. Well in the process he created a much bigger mess of government ownership of private companies and only delayed our final come upins.

But at least Souder had the good sense and grace to resign his office. That’s what Republicans do when mired in scandal. For Demo-Dopes scandal is resume enhancement. Some creep in CT forgot he didn’t serve in Vietnam. That’s right. He forgot that he didn’t get on an airplane for the better part of a day and serve 11 months in foreign country.

Richard Blumenthal, a Demo-Dope candidate vying to take the seat of perpetual liar and (g)assbag Chris Dodd, has been touting his Vietnam war record. Only problem is that he was never there. Blumenthal said the experience was seared, seared into his memory…no wait that was Cambodian war hero John Kerry who was ordered into Cambodia by Richard Nixon a month or so before Nixon took office. Now I know why they called him Tricky Dick.

Anyway, it proves the point. How can lying about your service in Vietnam be a draw back for Demo-Dopes? They have Kerry, Harkin and Gore all of whom stretched their war records. Hell, you’d think just showing up would be enough. For Blumenthal it would have been, but he didn’t. George Bush was skewered for not showing up but at least he didn’t claim that he had or that he was on some secret mission in Cambodia or making bombing runs over Hanoi or that he was an up front infantryman.

Hell he told the truth about his honorable military service and was lambasted for it. These creepy Demo-Dopes lie about their service and are excused and made excuses for. Oh yeah, and these weren’t lies told in some bar after 10 beers, when we all tend to remember things that never happened - being the star running back, homecoming queen, class president, college pong champion. These guys were all stone cold sober and lied to get votes. And for Demo-Dopes, it works.