Capitol Crimes
I happened across Bill Moyers' documentary on the Jack Abramoff scandal on PBS, "Capitol Crimes". I caught it in the middle, but was hooked. The details were all much more repulsive than I had expected. And lest you think this was a hippy, left-wing PBS hatchet job, it takes everyone to task for the "cash and carry" atmosphere in Washington. The boys in charge seems to have just gotten a little carried away. On a related note, a colleague told me over lunch this week how to get a $1M 'earmark' inserted into a budget. Seems it takes as little as a $10k in the right places. Are we sure we really want to export this 'democracy' to the Middle East?
posted by Dr. Steven Morphy-Godchaux III at
9:36 AM
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Maybe you're right. I'm sure the good people of Iraq would prefer the death squads, rape rooms and mass executions of the past. Oh, but wait, where does our constitution have this part about bribery in it?
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Murphy "Mac" Morphy, at Thu Oct 05, 11:41:00 AM CDT
I wasn't thinking of a return to Saddam. Maybe something more modest, like an Italian-style democracy (how's that for modest? :^) Other democracies seem to do well (as ours did for a long time) without the vast sums of money being sloshed about as 'campaign contributions'.
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Dr. Steven Morphy-Godchaux III, at Fri Oct 06, 09:04:00 AM CDT
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