i am shocked SHOCKED to learn of corruption in the government.

Have no freaking clue what your talking about, subby, so the outrage couldnt have burned THAT bright.

Suns aren't on fire, smitty.

Well let me think about this for a moment. Nope, I don't like this practice any more when a Democrat does it as opposed to a Republican. So now that that's off the table, let me just move on to the myriad of ways I'll still vote for this President over the alternatives in the coming election.

/This headline is the epitome of BSABSVR

Rewarding donors? The hell you say.

This sort of thing has gone on for a long time, all the way back to the first time it happened.

DarnoKonrad: "When George W. Bush rewarded his "bundler" donors with jobs and parties, the liberal outrage was like the fire of a thousand suns. "

huh?

You see, liberals,

It must be tiring to come up with things to be "outraged" over every day...

skelter: I don't remember when Bush did it, tbh.

Was Brownie a bundler? I don't even remember.

Alphax: Sorry, I was too pissed over Bush's war crimes to bother with donor perks.

Well, thank God Obama's not committed any of those, right?

steveGswine: You really could have worked "messiah" into the headline somewhere.

I personally would've gone with the "liberal media refuses to cover this story" angle considering this is an investigative report by MSNBC. That would've been aces.

Iraq.

s2s2s2: Titor's Time Machine: /This headline is the epitome of BSABSV-RP!

Yes, indeed.

You know, I'd love to have a valid third option on the ballot. Hell I'd love it even more if there were no political parties and simply individuals with articulately stated policy ideas.

Ron Paul does indeed have articulately stated policy ideas. Unfortunately, those ideas are, for the most part, farking retarded.

canyoneer: That's because this is a team sport, and the labels "conservative" and "liberal" are just labels. They mean nothing in any practical sense. They're meaningless distinctions that are self-applied by insiders in two private clubs playing a game from which everyone else is excluded. Like spectators at an NFL game, ordinary citizens must pay to watch but have no voice in player selection, game plan, or play calling. And like the NFL, the outcome is often predetermined. No matter which team wins the Superbowl, the league and teams make lots of money.

And the weirdest part is the odd, paradoxical self-loathing that lies at the bottom of it. When people make much of the fact that the "other" has the same flaws, biases, and foibles that they do, it reveals to me that on some level they suspect that the "other" is somehow their moral superior, and that they feel compelled to prove otherwise.

Cataholic: Titor's Time Machine: Well let me think about this for a moment. Nope, I don't like this practice any more when a Democrat does it as opposed to a Republican. So now that that's off the table, let me just move on to the myriad of ways I'll still vote for this President over the alternatives in the coming election.

/This headline is the epitome of BSABSVR

I look forward to your silence on the issue the next time a Republican President does this.

Okay, I guess?

Look, this is actually kind of my point. The actions described in the article are the type of thing where I can neither condone nor condemn with any type of legitimacy.

It's a by product of a system that is, while not necessarily broken, certainly cracked. I could sit here and stomp my little internet feet in rage or I can be practical and state that at this particular point in time there isn't anything I can do about it.

So for me, it's more of a *shrug* and move on to the next thing on the list of things that influence who I will cast my vote for. That next thing may very well be a *shrug* issue as well.