skippy the bush kangaroo: doolittle of anything good

Monday, May 07, 2007

doolittle of anything good

doomuch of things that are bad. but the question remains, will doolittle doolotsof time?

a must read from the tomato town sn&r:

when he was fined by the fair political practices commission for laundering money to swing his 1984 election, his defeated opponent, former senate republican colleague ray johnson, foresaw that it would not be an adequate penalty to stop future misbehavior. “oh god,” johnson lamented in 1987 in the california journal, “can’t we just drown him and get it over with?” a year after that comment, on the verge of doolittle winning re-election based on another vicious campaign, sacramento bee columnist pete dexter couldn’t constrain his contempt. in print he pronounced doolittle “a lying, unprincipled, crooked piece of human garbage.” even for dexter, this was strong stuff.

what evoked these and other expressions of outrage was the combination of characteristics that arises with regularity in american political life: the religious hypocrite, the sanctimonious scumbag. in doolittle’s case, it is the devout mormon with a highly selective ethical compass, which since the very beginning of his career consistently has drawn out such a continuous avalanche of animus toward him.

maybe someone should ask mitt about his fellow morman gone bad.

(tip o' the kangaroo tail to crooks & liars and dump doolittle)

Labels: california, corruption, republicans