Saturday, July 31, 2010

Internal Conflicts

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson treated readers to another knee-slapper yesterday. This time the subject was the immigration issue. Here are excerpts.

The Justice Department did not ask her (Judge Susan Bolton) to address the other big problem with the law, which is that it amounts to a prescription for racial profiling on a scale not seen in this country since the days of Jim Crow laws in the South.

Wow…that sounds a bit over-the-top, but then the master of subtlety and nuance goes on – just a few lines later – to say the following:

We'll hear no such subtlety or nuance from Republicans this fall, though.

And then finally:

…the estimated 11 million people here without documents, the vast majority of whom are law-abiding and productive.

Help us understand how entering the country illegally and not paying taxes qualifies as law-abiding!

Kid Gloves
The full trial against Mr. Rangel will get underway in September, unless the lawmaker and the ethics committee strike a deal to avoid it. The only acceptable arrangement would be one in which Mr. Rangel admits wrongdoing. (Washington Post, 7/30/10)

In a hard-hitting editorial, the Washington Post demands that Charlie Rangel……admit wrongdoing. How about this? He resigns.

It Gets Even Better
Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, will face charges of misusing her office and is expected to contest the claims in a House trial, the second powerful House Democrat to opt for such a public airing in recent days, Congressional officials said Friday.

The expected trial, coming just after the start of a similar proceeding on Thursday for Representative Charles B. Rangel of New York, would be a modern-day precedent for the House, Congressional officials said. At no time in at least the last two decades have two sitting House members faced a public hearing detailing allegations against them. (NYT, 7/31/10)

It may have been slow to get started, but this "Nancy Pelosi Drain the Swamp Project” is really picking up speed.

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