Jeez, what's it going to take for America to ditch Tom Delay? The man's an embarrassment to politics. (And that's saying something.)
Posted by Matt Davis at June 6, 2003 04:09 PMCan anyone say "The Westar Four"?
Posted by Chris Andersen at June 6, 2003 04:38 PM"There's an honest graft, and I'm an example of how it works. I might sum up the whole thing by sayin': "I seen my opportunities and I took'em."
"Just let me explain by examples. My party's in power in the city, and it's goin' to undertake a lot of public improvements. Well, I'm tipped off, say, that they're going to lay out a new park at a certain place. I see my opportunity and I take it. I go to that place and I buy up all the land I can in the neighborhood. Then the board of this or that makes its plan public, and there is a rush to get my land, which nobody cared particular for before.
"Ain't it perfectly honest to charge a good price and make a profit on my investment and foresight? Of course, it is. Well, that's honest graft."
Just another script ripped off by the GOP from the Gilded Age, when Men Were Men and everyone else toiled in abject poverty.
Posted by pessimist at June 6, 2003 05:26 PM