Racketeering
Apr 22nd, 2007 at 5:22 pm by Susie
Digby on wingnut Congressman Pete Sessions, another asshat who pushed so hard for bankruptcy “reform.” Turns out Sessions was well aware of a wealthy friend and contributors who moved his assets around to evade a judgment. The man’s wife decided to keep the nice “presents,” and Sessions had to testify that he knew his friend was trying to evade his responsibilities.
Unlike those people who, say, file for bankruptcy.
Go read the whole thing, but I especially liked this part:
This is just one guy. But those who fail to rein them in, who refuse to distance themselves from this — particularly the so-called religious right, who also worship big bucks — are aiding and abetting. The fact is that there are so damned many of them that I don’t know why we should avoid making the sweeping generalization that the GOP is basically a racket. It makes sense when you think about it: their swaggering rhetoric that says you’re a dupe if you pay taxes and calls government the enemy would naturally draw the kind of political leader who literally believes that the rules don’t apply to him.
