Dems usher in new era of dull scandals

[EraOfResponsibility]

For many years, Republicans represented the party of salacious homosexual bathroom sex-trysts while Democrats confined themselves to more workaday financial improprieties, such as storing massive collections of marked bills in their freezers. You'd have been hard pressed to pin a pay-for-play scheme on a Democrat because they were too unimportant: they just didn't have any political influence worth selling.

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Now Democrats have reclaimed the White House and both parties of Congress, so of course they're obliged to pull double duty in both sexual and political scandals. Let's see, they've got the sex scandals pretty well covered: who can forget such luminaries as Eliot Spitzer, Patron Saint of Hookers; Tim Mahoney, the proud Florida Democrat with multiple mistresses who replaced the Republican with the "drinking problem"; the lizard-tongued humanoid adulterer John Edwards; and last but not least, America's greatest mayor and sexiest texter, Kwame Kilpatrick.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/us_world/Democrats-Usher-In-New-Era-Of-Dull-Political-Scandals.html

[firedupdem]

1. With all we have going on in the world and this "journalist" decides

to keep score with scandals. I'm amazed at what they choose to cover sometimes. Maybe it's just me...but it seems as if there are more important stories.

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2. It's a comedy/satire piece. The author (Sarah K. Smith) is an editor at Wonkette.

Obviously she's making fun of our association of scandals with serious issues by showing how the rise of Democrats shifts the "scandal" landscape rather than the political landscape.

[firedupdem]

3. oh!

I read it as a serious piece! Thanks! I'm in a mean mood! :mad:

[camera obscura]

4. I don't blame you - most media pieces get me in a mean mood too

;)

[EraOfResponsibility]

5. I'm sorry about that I should've made it clear. My bad! :) n/t