If only I'd known he was that cheap
For a man who has been endowed with a vast fortune, it strikes me as strange that he can be bought this cheaply:
If I'd known in advance that the telcos could bribe this guy for only $42,000, I'd have taken it on myself to raise $50,000 to bribe him the other way, with my own money if I couldn't get it from others.
Just goes to show, it doesn't take much to bribe these professional bribe takers in Washington.
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Of course, to be fair, there's another take on this. Rockefeller is so rich that there's no way $42,000 would influence him to change his mind about something on which he had strongly held opinions. Hence, he must have no strongly held opinions.
In fact, I think this is the real explanation. From everything I've seen him do on this committee, before and after the 2006 elections, I think he has proven himself to be an airhead.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 — Executives at the two biggest phone companies contributed more than $42,000 in political donations to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV this year while seeking his support for legal immunity for businesses participating in National Security Agency eavesdropping.
If I'd known in advance that the telcos could bribe this guy for only $42,000, I'd have taken it on myself to raise $50,000 to bribe him the other way, with my own money if I couldn't get it from others.
Just goes to show, it doesn't take much to bribe these professional bribe takers in Washington.
...
Of course, to be fair, there's another take on this. Rockefeller is so rich that there's no way $42,000 would influence him to change his mind about something on which he had strongly held opinions. Hence, he must have no strongly held opinions.
In fact, I think this is the real explanation. From everything I've seen him do on this committee, before and after the 2006 elections, I think he has proven himself to be an airhead.
posted by walldon | 9:39 AM
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