Rush Limbaugh made the comment the other day that Congress was complaining about the Iraqi Parliament not getting as much done towards the political benchmarks as Congress expected. Rush felt it was rather hypocritical of Congress to complain considering the lack of actual progress toward getting anything of consequence accomplished by the Democratically controlled Congress for the last 6 months despite them not having anyone shooting at them or trying to blow them up like the Iraqi Parliament has. My first thought was that maybe if we started shooting a few of the ones who are more interested in fleecing the public than serving it, the rest might improve their job performance. Either that or they’d resign and run home in fear. Either way the US taxpayer would come out ahead. Think of the tax savings. No more bridges to nowhere. No more million dollar earmarks to companies that may not even exist. No more paying people to hold idiotic hearings and endless investigations over pointless issues. No more $90,000 in marked FBI bribe money hidden in a freezer….

“You mean this is all just politically-motivated BS? Like the Plame “outing”case?”

Exactly, but that’s all are national politics are nowadays.

I understand that. However laws and rules can easily be changed so that this site could be looked upon as a site that promotes a particular party and their candidates.

This is the slippery slope that I am referring to. This is the “Fariness Doctrine” type tactics I am referring to.

dkos is well within his right to push whatever candidates he wishes to, and he can spend what he wants, but what he can’t do is try to circumvent the laws that are on the books. There is a flip side to having all that traffic at that “blog”