Wow - It's Been A While!

My friend Laurie just started a blog, which inspired me to post on mine. Not that I have anything really important to talk about, mind you. Just that I have to keep up with the Joneses. Sooooo....politics are pretty interesting right now, but not if you watch the MSM. They're all obsessed with Weiner and whether he'll resign. Democratic leadership is calling for his resignation, but you wouldn't know that if you listened to Republican leadership - they say the Dems are not being hard enough on Weiner (pun intended). Let's take a trip back to the David Vitter scandal, shall we? Republicans gave him a standing ovation when he returned to the Senate (after admitting to using prostitutes with the DC Madam, which, by the way, is ILLEGAL). And how about John Ensign? He cheated on his wife with a member of his staff (punny) and used campaign funds to bribe them to keep quiet (again - ILLEGAL). He only resigned after two years because the Ethics Committee was going to recommend he be removed from the Senate. Meanwhile, John Edwards, a Democrat who did essentially the same thing, is currently facing charges in his little dealio.

So yeah, there's a double standard - just not the way the Republicans THINK there's a double standard. And if they want the same standards, that's fine - they just better remember that they asked for them when it's THEIR people being forced to resign.