Platform Soul. Well, Almost. (Part One point Five)

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention this, lest my claim to loathe all politicians currently in the biz become suspect. Apparently Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, like Senator George Allen, is incapable of following a few simple rules. Reid apparently owned some land, which he then sold to a company in which he had an interest. In other words, the land was still his, sort of, but in an entirely different (read: more potentially profitable) way. Three years after he sold the land, it was again sold, this time more traditionally, to a developer and Harry Reid, that bastion of Democratic morality, made a good chunk o’ cash.

At issue here is the fact that Reid never disclosed the initial sale of the land to the company, even though the Senate rules specifically require that he do so. Reid’s defense is that it was only a “technical” change of ownership. (Which ranks right up there with Allen’s for the dumbest excuse ever concocted for not having the slightest idea of what the word “ethics” even means.)

I said it—or at least implied it—about Sen. George Allen, and I will say it about Harry Reid: You guys are the reason I plan to replace Congress with 535 Shih-Tzus. You are the people I have to put up with, out there on the roads, who are either too freaking stupid to use your turn signals, too arrogant, or too busy making illegal financial deals on your cell phone to bother.

It is intriguing to note the timing of the Reid story, so soon after the Allen story. If I were one of the many weak-minded Democrats I would be crying “dirty partisan pool!” which of course seems to have become something of a Republican battle cry lately. We have a bunch of whiny ill-mannered little brats, there in Congress, is all I’m saying.

This is the kind of behavior that makes a body wonder just how much the Public Interest is thought about, there in the hallowed halls of Congress, as opposed the mutual fund kind of interest. If Ms. Betty Cruikshank of East Bumtickle, MN writes to her Congressperson about a problem, is that Congressperson more likely to: (A) Look into and if possible address Ms Cruikshank’s concerns or (B) Have an aide send her campaign propaganda? (Hint: This is a rhetorical question. The real answer is (C) He will send thugs to shake her down for a donation and then claim he knew nothing about the thugs.)

So: Shih-Tzus. Plus I’m gonna have 'em neutered and spayed.