I am seriously worried that division within the party is being caused by Not Democrats fucking . . .

[Baitball Blogger]

116. Your reading is way off.

First of all, the mayor is a chamber politician. I know his crowd very well. I don't think it's an accident that he used the word "bribe" because those are the kind of inducement prompting deals that they are known for. Their mistake was that they crossed private business with legal process. That eventually catches up with you. Remember, it was his words so I saw it as him, projecting is own style of operation.

When you look at it closely, however, he really stretched it. We have a serious problem here, where even lawyers who skirt the laws are explained away as being a "political lawyer." As if that explains why it's okay for them to skirt their ethical requirements. So it always puzzled me why the mayor would be offended by political horse bartering. Keep in mind that I don't even know if Steny Hoyer or Nancy Pelosi was involved with the things that he claimed. I just know it made the Democratic mayor very popular with his GOP Chamber buddies. And the topic of the original thread had to deal with pretenders. I definitely saw him as a pretender.

The way that I looked at it, is that if there is any time for acceptable political strategizing, his alleged situation would fall neatly as an example. I don't see anything wrong with it, within the context that he described.

However, what his local group was doing outside of the political arena was clearly over the line. And I would surely accept the help of National Dems who are as sick of twisted local politics as much as I am.