Bell Scandal: it's All-Democratic!

[Urbane Guerrilla]

It's worthy of remark that Republican scandals trend heavily to sexual misbehavior this generation -- and Democratic scandals all seem to revolve around financial misbehavior.

The Orange County Register published an editorial which says that in the wake of the Bell salary scandal, readers noticed one part of the story has been left out by virtually all media sources: the political party affiliations of the five city council members who not only failed to protect city coffers, but participated in what amounts to shameless, if apparently legal, self-dealing.

According to the editorial, all five city council members are Democrats and Bell also is an overwhelmingly Democratic city. [Hardly seems unfair. --UG] Of the 9,918 registered voters, 6,193 are registered Democrats and there are more decline-to-state voters (1,760) than there are Republicans (1,289), according to the Registrar of Voters.

Bolding mine. From Xinhua, dateline Los Angeles.

Now, I wearily suppose, Redux will come bustling out with some sterile, fruitless anti-Republican tu-quoque, and thus "defend" the Donkey Party's "honor," perhaps in relation to a town of Bell's size for balance. To paraphrase James D. Nicoll, the trouble with defending the Dem Party's purity or honor is that it's about as pure as a cribhouse whore, and no more than twice that honorable.

I know of no single, solitary rational reason (just a lot of lies and speciousness, bread and circuses; nothing to appeal to the thoughtful) to vote for anyone in the Democratic Party. But Redux, who has no conscience other than what the Party gives him, will vote for them anyway, and drive America to hell as far as he can manage it. So when your 401(k)s collapse through inflation driven by trillions in deficit, blame him too; I will not be voting against the dollar by voting for any Dems. They rely, you know, on the economically unlettered, the unwise, and the dull-normal vote. Don't be those guys.

Instead, vote that all the Obama initiatives remain unfunded, repealed, removed, destroyed. Then you are still likely to have a retirement plan. You can bet the Bell guys do -- nice ones.