Posted on 12/21/2009 11:52:51 PM PST by Nachum
Rarely has a cowboy castrated himself in public like Ben Nelson, the senator from Nebraska, who becomes an object lesson in how a United States senator easily trades his "convictions" and "principles" for perfectly legal bribes from cynical party leaders.
When the inevitable howling erupted in Nebraska, all the senator could come up with was a variation on the oldest excuse in Washington: "I didn't do it, and maybe I won't do it again."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Good grief. If you are going to use the Bart Simpson defense, at least get it right.
This is an excellent article…Some lines that stand out…
Rarely has a cowboy castrated himself in public like Ben Nelson
Earl Long, the late governor of Louisiana, once boasted that he could take a hundred-dollar bill and get anything through his legislature “and buy you a steak dinner with what I’ll have left over.”
President Obama goes that one better. He did it with a bribe of somebody else’s money.
And Nebraska didn’t even want the favor.
Maybe they will pay more attention in the future to where their votes go.
We all knew they were whores, now it’s just a question of how much money
Jury's still out on his mom.
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