The Year of Living Scandalously-From "Kristen" To F#@%ING Blago, Dems Hit New Lows In 2008
NY Post ^ | 20 Dec 2008 | Robert A. George
It was an historic moment in the nation's history -a year when old barriers fell.
It was a year when one word filled the air-change.
It was a year Democrats came to believe in the audacity of hope.
Or maybe just plain audacity.
One governor was caught with his pants (but not his socks) off, hooking up with an aspiring singer who preferred cash payments and called customers by their numbers. Another was discovered trying to sell a Senate seat in language not allowed on HBO mob shows (and anyway, viewers would have dismissed the plot as too preposterous).
In a year when Republicans were out-spent and out-voted in the election, they were also out-corrupted at every turn. Sure, some valiantly tried to keep the GOP end up - Ted Stevens, former senator from Alaska, insisted the chair given to him as a gift wasn't really his, even if it was sitting in his living room. And Vito Fossella went for that old chestnut, the second family on the side.
But these trifles pale in comparison to Kwame Kilpatrick, mayor of Detroit, who used the city's credit cards for his own pimpin' lifestyle, which included inviting strippers over to his official residence. When his wife unexpectedly arrived home, she proceeded to beat up one of the exotic dancers. Since his term had officially become an episode of "Flavor of Love," Kilpatrick upped the ante - exchanging 14,000 text messages with his chief of staff Christine Beatty. Some were about business,exposing a "Friends and Family plan" of preferential granting of city contracts.Most, however,were about whether they wanted the double suite at the Days Inn.Or the fact that Kilpatrick text messages like a 16-year-old girl:"I need you soooo bad." Can I get a woot woot?
NY Post ^ | 20 Dec 2008 | Robert A. George
It was an historic moment in the nation's history -a year when old barriers fell.
It was a year when one word filled the air-change.
It was a year Democrats came to believe in the audacity of hope.
Or maybe just plain audacity.
One governor was caught with his pants (but not his socks) off, hooking up with an aspiring singer who preferred cash payments and called customers by their numbers. Another was discovered trying to sell a Senate seat in language not allowed on HBO mob shows (and anyway, viewers would have dismissed the plot as too preposterous).
In a year when Republicans were out-spent and out-voted in the election, they were also out-corrupted at every turn. Sure, some valiantly tried to keep the GOP end up - Ted Stevens, former senator from Alaska, insisted the chair given to him as a gift wasn't really his, even if it was sitting in his living room. And Vito Fossella went for that old chestnut, the second family on the side.
But these trifles pale in comparison to Kwame Kilpatrick, mayor of Detroit, who used the city's credit cards for his own pimpin' lifestyle, which included inviting strippers over to his official residence. When his wife unexpectedly arrived home, she proceeded to beat up one of the exotic dancers. Since his term had officially become an episode of "Flavor of Love," Kilpatrick upped the ante - exchanging 14,000 text messages with his chief of staff Christine Beatty. Some were about business,exposing a "Friends and Family plan" of preferential granting of city contracts.Most, however,were about whether they wanted the double suite at the Days Inn.Or the fact that Kilpatrick text messages like a 16-year-old girl:"I need you soooo bad." Can I get a woot woot?