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For all those who piled on Jon Ensign and Mark Sanford.....

Submitted by Ironman on Sat, 12/05/2009 - 13:09
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well, the sound you hear is that of breaking glass in the Democratic glass house.

 Montana Sen. Max Baucus nominated own mistress, Melodee Hanes, as U.S. attorney

It's a shame Max's mistress took a powder from going for the U.S. Attorney post. I was really looking forward to hearing Tiger Woods testify on her behalf. I'd really like to know what this woman has got going that Mad Max can't keep his "Hanes" off her "Hanes"?

Mad Max

Now the bigger question. Evidently Ms. Hanes got a consolation prize in the form of a position in DC at Main Justice. And presumably, Attorney General Holder and/or White House staffers blessed this hire.

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Is Attorney General Holder going to answer questions about the propriety of this?  Or is this useless partisan hack going to be as tongue tied on this as trying to explain why we are trying Al-Queda masterminds in civilian court in Manhattan?.

Eric Holder has accomplished the unbelievable. He is making the Alberto Gonzalez era at DOJ look relatively competent and apolitical.

 And perhaps we ought to questions whether Max Baucus has the sort of hmmm..."leadership".. we are looking for in a rather sensitive matter like health care reform.? What other secret deals does Mad Max have going we haven't caught wind of yet?

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No cracking glass this time

Submitted by classicliberal2 on Sat, 12/05/2009 - 14:24.

Max Baucus is, like Ensign and Sanford, a conservative, who spent the entire summer trying to sabotage health care reform. A much bigger scandal, which most of the corporate press couldn't be paid to report, is that Baucus, the top recipient of health care industry dollars in the Senate,  brought in the former vice president of Wellpoint to write "his" health care reform bill.

So-called "sex scandals," on the other hand, are rarely things about which the public should be concerned (or even have any business knowing). The Sanford and Ensign affairs were fair game because both despicable politicians were right-wing "moralists" who had no problem trying to put the government in everyone else's bedrooms. Do that and you sacrifice any expectation of privacy when it comes to your own.

RE: No cracking glass this time

Submitted by mlindroo on Sat, 12/05/2009 - 16:51.

I agree with Classicliberal2. Baucus is perhaps perhaps the Senate's most notable Democratic "apostate" right now so gloating about his girlfriend makes about as much sense as imagining a scandal related to Lincoln Chafee or Jim Jeffords would undermine conservative "family values".

In contrast, Ensign and Sanford used to be highly respected conservatives.

 

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