I don’t mean to suggest that I like the Republicans’ habit of making every little molehill into a mountain in their effort to score political points, but it is telling that John Ensign remains a senator even after the Justice Department has issued subpoenas to businesses in Nevada where Ensign corruptly tried to gain employment for a staffer whose wife he had been schtupping. I know the Democrats have more important, pressing matters on their hands at the moment, but I recall resignations from Eliot Spitzer and Eric Massa, and I noticed that Charlie Rangel gave up his chairmanship of the House Ways & Means Committee. I haven’t noticed an endless drumbeat of political speeches and columns in the liberal press calling on John Ensign to resign. We probably ought to find the time to get on that.
In other news, it’s refreshing to consider that we are currently debating the passage of a major piece of progressive legislation while seven years ago today, we were demonstrating ‘shock and awe’ to the country of Iraq. Times have changed, and substantially for the better.
What are you up to today? Watching basketball?
