"Smear the blame around" continues
As usual, watching Meet the Press this morning made me grind my teeth. Host Tim Russert parroted the GOP's "smear the blame around" strategy. And Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi didn't answer the charges with the clarity and conviction Democrats deserve.
Yes, there are corrupt politicians on both sides of the aisle. But the Democrats are the more ethical party for two reasons.
1. Democratic failings tend to be personal. While Republicans tend to fail in ways that hurt all Americans. They lie their way into wars, violate election laws, and rip off the taxpayers.
2. When Democrats do cross the line, other Democrats step up to call them to account. (See: Gordon, Ken.)
The fact is that corruption is business-as-usual for the GOP. And they can't hide it just by wagging their fingers at a few wayward Democrats.
Yes, there are corrupt politicians on both sides of the aisle. But the Democrats are the more ethical party for two reasons.
1. Democratic failings tend to be personal. While Republicans tend to fail in ways that hurt all Americans. They lie their way into wars, violate election laws, and rip off the taxpayers.
2. When Democrats do cross the line, other Democrats step up to call them to account. (See: Gordon, Ken.)
The fact is that corruption is business-as-usual for the GOP. And they can't hide it just by wagging their fingers at a few wayward Democrats.
posted by 300 Spartans Gym at 11:01:00 AM
2 Comments:
Yep, I wasn't impressed with Pelosi's comments either. I'm a hard-core liberal but I can't STAND Pelosi. Ugh.
You make a very interesting point that Dems failings tend to be personal but the corruption of the Republicans effect all Americans. This does seems to be relatively consistent.
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