From Sex to Church, Washington Rebuffs Rules: Margaret Carlson

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From Sex to Church, Washington Rebuffs Rules: Margaret Carlson

By Margaret Carlson

May 3 (Bloomberg) -- At Jack Valenti's funeral in Washington on Tuesday, I was reminded of the old observation that the powerful always expect to be the center of attention, including ``the bride at the wedding, the corpse at the funeral.''

Senator Pete Domenici arrived 20 minutes late, well after the side doors to St. Matthew's Cathedral had closed, and at the exact moment the cortege reached the top of the steps and paused before proceeding down the center aisle.

Like most senators, Domenici isn't used to waiting even for the deceased. He turned sideways to gauge whether he could squeeze past the remains of Valenti, a former Hollywood lobbyist. If it weren't for pallbearers twice his size, he might have. In a church packed with the likes of Steven Spielberg and Michael Douglas, Domenici marched toward the altar, presuming someone would make room for him. Someone did.

The incident is a reminder of how people in Washington comport themselves as if the rules don't apply to them. That mindset has Domenici in hot water trying to explain away a call to David Iglesias, the U.S. attorney in his home state of New Mexico.

When Iglesias told Domenici he wouldn't be indicting a Democrat in time to help Republicans in the 2006 elections, he said Domenici angrily hung up. Iglesias was fired shortly thereafter in a purge of eight that's become the subject of a congressional inquiry. Domenici has hired a lawyer.

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[Demit]

1. Margaret Carlson, feh. I like how she calls clients of the madam 'victims'.

This is a great example of the prevailing double standard climate in Washington. Carlson is a part of it & doesn't even have the sense of irony to know it. She says it's not a smear if the allegation is true, and uses Clinton/Lewinsky as the illustration of that—then a few sentences later says that if a guy is named in the madam scandal and his marriage breaks up he is 'hapless' and a victim. I wonder if she's worried her boyfriend Fred Thompson might be on the madam's list.

[rodeodance]

2. She does a good job of laying out the scene of the privileged

[TwilightGardener]

3. Hey Margaret, go back to shilling for your ugly-ass ex-boyfriend--

you've lost ALL journalistic credibility.