I have been a proud and passionate supporter of The Huffington Post since it was just a twinkle in Arianna and Kenny's eyes. But there is a trend that has grown and grown and grown, that frankly, is one part humor, one part tragedy.
I refer to the trend of elected officials, Democrats, showing up here and giving us detailed accounts of what is horribly wrong in Washington. I am all in favor of them blogging but they might not realize that their posts are parodies of themselves -- namely, what we have here is the foxes who are in charge of the hen house telling us how someone, namely the foxes, are stealing the hens. It is part of the Democrats not realizing they actually have a majority narrative and not realizing that if you have a complaint about oh, say corruption in Iraq, you should speak with the people in charge of the purse strings in Iraq.
That would be the Democrats.
Our first example, funny enough, is Sen Byron Dorgan who has uncovered what the vast majority of the world knows - there is corruption in Iraq. I quote:
The Senate Democratic Policy Committee, which I chair, heard new and disturbing testimony on Monday about corruption in Iraq and its consequences for U.S. troops, taxpayers and the U.S. mission in Iraq.
It might be well to point out that Senator Dorgan has been chairing this committe for well, almost a year and a half - we have seen hundreds if not thousands of stories about corruption in Iraq in that time, but it has finally reached his policy committee - this is not news, this is incompetence.
His title says it all "Shocking Corruption Is Given A Blind Eye by Our Government" Byron, you are our government.
A full read of his article also reveals this tiny little catch - he doesn't suggest that are actually prepared to do anything about the corruption, despite this new and disturbing testimony.
Senator Carl Levin posted earlier this week on Skyrocketing Energy Prices - a post in which he had this gem.
Because the administration has proved itself unable and unwilling to take the necessary steps to provide affordable energy supplies to the American people, it is up to the Congress to try to jumpstart a comprehensive solution to skyrocketing energy prices.
Yes it is up to Congress and it has been up to Congress since the crisis started years ago - but since this Congress has been so busy giving billion dollar tax breaks to oil companies and Senators like Carl Levin have been watering down mileage requirements on behalf of the auto industry, I'm betting Congress is pretty unable or unwilling to take the necessary steps.
But then again, I could be wrong.
Past performance might not be a good indicator of future returns.
But I doubt it.
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