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Wonder how much that cost?

I asked a few people about what they thought happened in the dropping of drunk driving charges against Jack Whittaker.

All of them responded the same way. See the title of this blog for the response.

My own opinion is that it cost Whittaker about $10,000. Hell, you can buy a legislator for less than $10,000.

I predict that this unacceptable situation will be solved in another way. Whittaker hasnot got the message that alcohol kills. I suspect that he believes he is immune to the laws of nature and nature's God as well as the laws of man.

Well, he can't buy God, no matter what the right wing evangelical neo-cons believe.

Nice knowin' ya, Jack.

posted by Dave Peyton @ 11:07 AM 1 comments

All West Virginia Democrats are liberals....

...and all West Virginia Republicans are moral conservatives. Right?

Well how do you explain this?

I am extremely happy to report that I got out of the political party madness in 1969 and never went back. I am a proud independent and that doesn't mean I associate myself with an Independent Party, if there is one.

Joe Manchin is the titular head of the West Virignia Democrat Party but anyoe who beleives he is a liberal or espouses the principles of the party is living a dream - or perhaps a nightmare.

Manchin reminds me a little of Arch Moroe in his younger days. Arch believed he was bigger than any party and above the law.

Manchin has yet to show that latter attribute. But it's still early. He has threemore years in this term and perhaps a second term.

Meanwhile, it might behoove Republicans to stop branding West Virginia Democrats as liberals. A few of them might be, but most aren't. Most of them are whatever they think will get them re-elected.

I won't suggest Republicans stop labeling themselves as the good guys, though. That would be asking entirely too much, don't you think?

posted by Dave Peyton @ 11:05 AM 1 comments

The Wisdom of Tom Delay

1) "I AM the federal government." –Tom DeLay, to the owner of Ruth's Chris Steak House, after being told to put out his cigar because of federal government regulations banning smoking in the building, May 14, 2003 (Source)

2) "So many minority youths had volunteered…that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like myself." --Tom DeLay, explaining at the 1988 GOP convention why he and vice presidential nominee Dan Quayle did not fight in the Vietnam War(Source)

3) "Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?" –Tom Delay, to three young hurricane evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 9, 2005 (Source)

4) "We're no longer a superpower. We're a super-duper power." –Tom DeLay, explaining why America must topple Saddam Hussein in 2002 interview with Fox News (Source)

5) "Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes." –Tom DeLay, March 12, 2003 (Source)

6) "Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills." –Tom DeLay, on causes of the Columbine High School massacre, 1999 (Source)

7) "A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure. To provide stability. Not that a woman can't provide stability, I'm not saying that... It does take a father, though." -Tom DeLay, in a radio interview, Feb. 10, 2004 (Source)

8) "I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church." –Tom DeLay (Source)

9) "Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour [the minimum wage in 1996] are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist." –Tom DeLay, during a debate in Congress on increasing the minimum wage, April 23, 1996 (Source)

10) "I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution." –Tom DeLay, in a CNN interview, Dec. 19, 1995 (Source)

posted by Dave Peyton @ 4:38 PM 5 comments