O Fortuna, could it really be true? Serious, meaningful ethics reform passes the Louisiana legislature? Lord have mercy, I'm going to have to drink me a case of Dr. Nut just to comprehend it all.
Thank you, governor.
Bobby Jindal wins
Thursday February 28, 2008
Categories: Louisiana, the Great State
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Irenaeus - Confederacy is a romp and a hoot. Don't think of it as something on your list of "should reads." Think of it as dessert.
Irenaeus: FYIY?*
Rod, one word: chocolate.
Wake: we already have an ethical code for politicians. It's called serving the public. One wonders (ahem) why it has been so difficult for voters to figure that out... except, of course, for those who are getting "served" better than everyone else.
* When I first encountered YMMV (your mileage may vary), instead of just asking I tried to figure it out from the context of the discussion in progress. What I came up with: you make me vomit. ;-D
Franklin:
The kind of service the public gets from the political classes is the same kind of service that the cow gets from the bull. It's the nature of the political process itself that is the problem. As long as the State apparatus can forcibly take money from one group to give money and favors to another group, public "service" will always exist.
It's almost enough to make one regret the demise of the old monarchies. At least it was possible for a king to "live off his own". Today's noble classes (the political/bureaucratic classes) live off OUR own, and at rates that would make Pharaoh's tax men blush.
Your servant,
Lord Karth
Lord Karth, why have you been hiding your light under a basket? I had you pegged as a liberal.
Rod, ever hear the true story of the Louisiana politician who told the crowd, sometime in the seventies, I think, that "It is not true that I can be bought, but I can be rented"?
In my thirty some years in D.C., the most brazen, corrupt politicians came from New Jersey and Louisiana, so I don't believe there will be any more reform in Louisiana than McCain/Feingold provided the country. Ya gotta hope, however, that BJ can put a dent in the corruption. After all, he will be at least the VP one of these days, so he needs to build a record.
Lord Karth, your response is certainly valid to the status quo; my point is the abstract, the ideal.
I have the rare honor to personally know a true public servant, a woman who exemplifies the ethics of public service. Her name is Babette Josephs, and she is the elected member from the 182nd district to the PA House of Representatives. http://www.babette.org/ One cannot know her as I and her neighbors do, just from her website, so I'll give you a comparison point: she is a Democrat in a Democrat-machine town, and the party regularly tries to replace her.
Cleveland, you remind me of the time-honored truth: you can't buy beer, you can only rent it. ;-D
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