BigSkyBob
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« on: June 25, 2017, 07:32:20 AM » |
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Tuesday was almost a sad day for American politics. Not since George Herbert Walker Bush ran on a platform of "Read my Lips! No new taxes!" and proceeded to raise them, and, since when confronted with his serial infidelity Bill Clinton postured on Sixty Minutes as a humbled, chastised man who had found a new commitment to fidelity has there been a larger fraud perpetrated on the electorate.
There is a reason Jon Ossoff was a staffer for Hank Johnson: they are fellow liberals. This was sanitized into non-existence. The Jon Ossoff on the campaign trial had nothing to do with the Jon Ossoff who would vote in Congress.
Then, there is the business of his residency. The Constitution states a member must be a resident of the state in which he is elected. Ossoff had every right to stand for any of Georgia's districts. But, he had no right to lie about it. He had every right to run as a Georgian, but, instead promoted several mendacities. First, he tried to claim he was merely a block outside the district. It was two miles. Then, when he realized the political error he made in not moving into the district he concocted some nonsense story about how he was "supporting" his fiancee. Was he too stupid to realize that in less than a week he was intending to move DC? If "supporting" her was that important he could have not stood for Congress. If her living two miles closer to campus was that important to him, he could have set up a second home. And, what about her "supporting" his run for office? She could have moved into the district with him adding as little as two miles each way to her commute to campus. Presumably, she was willing to relocated to DC, but, not across the county??? Give me a break.
What is doubly pathetic is how the press acted as Pravda to sell the phony moderate story. The definition of "moderate" is suppose to be something like, "as reasonable balance of positions from the Right, the Left, or neither." It isn't suppose to be, "A liberal running South of the Mason Dixon line."
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