Democratic Introspection July 22 2009
One of my long time annoyances with Democrats, besides wrong headed uninformed policies, is the utter lack of introspection in their commentary.
In an excellent post comparing the Alaskan goverment ethics laws to Pennsylvania’s, he touches on mirror-looking.
With little indication of a sense of irony, Rep. Mark Cohen has made a few comments on Twitter about Gov. Palin’s ethics accusations (and about Mark Sanford). Naturally, the guy who spent $30,000 of taxpayer money for books for personal use would want to chime in on whether Palin may or have not benefited from her office. The guy who let taxpayers foot the bill for his trips to New York (even while other lawmakers paid their own way) sees fit to comment on Mark Sanford’s travel habits. Of course, Cohen also sees no need to adopt good-government reforms in Pennsylvania.
Another Pennsylvania House Democrat staffer also saw fit to post on the Palin story, again with an amazing lack of self reflection. After all, it is his caucus (two members and several staff) who have been indicted in “Bonusgate” for using tax dollars for bonuses for campaign work, political polling, and no-work jobs for candidates and mistresses. And one of those indicted members – Mike Veon – has implicated his boss and others for doing the same sort of illegal activity. Of course, they aren’t merely using “fame” to raise money to defend these charges, they are using taxpayer dollars.
And I’d be remiss if I failed to point out that former Pennsylvania lawmaker Frank LaGrotta – also a convicted felon – is now blogging about Pennsylvania politics. In his latest, he longs for the good old days, when folks like Fumo, Veon, and he ran the show.
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