Political Jackass

Here is a great op/ed piece I found while browsing Google News today.

By Margaret Carlson

Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) — There was a time when politics wasn’t a blood sport.

At the end of the day, Tip O’Neill shared a whiskey with Ronald Reagan, and Senators George Aiken and Mike Mansfield had breakfast daily. Now it’s routine to call your opponent a liar, a coward, or an al-Qaeda operative.

Last week, the public debate hit a new low when radio talk- show host Rush Limbaugh accused actor Michael J. Fox of being a fraud.

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The House Republican campaign chairman, at odds with Speaker Dennis Hastert over when Hastert first learned about ex-Rep. Mark Foley’s come-ons to male pages, said Tuesday investigators must learn how this happened for the sake of “the continued integrity of this institution.”

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PJ is back! I managed to wrangle some very old posts just to give us some archives. Expect new posts to be published on a fairly regular basis.