Posted on 11/28/2017 3:53:40 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
There are sexual harassers, and then there is John Conyers, the Democrat from Detroit who made his congressional office an adjunct of his libido.
The evidence suggests that Conyers believed that as a 27-term congressman, he was entitled to the Washington, D.C., equivalent of the Ottoman imperial harem.
He routinely hit on his female staffers, and his office was a den of sexual intrigue — allegedly featuring a jealous wife and a vindictive mistress — that properly belongs in a Bravo reality show if the network ever extends its franchise to Capitol Hill.
A political party is rarely provided an easier test case for its bona fides. Conyers is an 88-year-old man who finds it increasingly difficult to carry out his duties. He holds an exceedingly safe seat that, should he resign, will be taken over by another reliably progressive Democrat. In this case, the political cost to the party of showing that it's serious about "zero tolerance" for sexual harassment is almost nil.
Yet House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, when asked about Conyers on "Meet the Press," mumbled and looked at her shoes. She wasn't able to summon any dudgeon, let alone high dudgeon, about Conyers. The harshest thing she said is that "as John reviews his case — which he knows, which I don't — I believe he will do the right thing."
Oh, really? Conyers did step down as the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee. Otherwise, his careful review of his own case has produced categorical denials that even Pelosi must find incredible.
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Why do that not howl like they did for Moore?
At some point the race card will be played.
Because it is far more icky for a 32 year old man to kiss an 18 year old woman than for an 85 year old man to harass a 25 year old woman.
Nancy says he’s an icon, but he’s really a con.
There should be a law that you can’t serve in Congress longer than Manson was in prison.
Bannon has turned the Asses on their ear.
Democrats Make Exception for John Conyers
and Bill and Franken and Biden
To many young chippies on that end of the island gonna make it tip over
Each side does the same thing..excuse excuse excuse...
This is unacceptable. Why do we use a different scale, or a balance for someone just because they are of a different race, or because they have a long tenure in office. NOT going to let this move on...without stating a piece of my mind. THROW him into court.
Because they perceive themselves as the ruling class and they get to make the rules.
Because Conyers actually did what they are accusing him of.
The howls are for the blood of the innocent, not the guilty.
Two thousand years and nothing has changed.
"Sure it was GROPE, but was it GROPE-GROPE?"
The author has a point, though - a safe district, they could flush him at minimum risk/expense.
Maybe he knows something about his fellow congresspeople?
Or maybe they think they can be total hypocrites and get away with it - they are Democrats, after all.
Clinton, Conyers, Franken . . .
So many exceptions that the exceptions are the rule
Bannon has turned the Asses on their ear.
Conyers knows where the bones are buried.
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