September 01, 2007

What's the Deal with Massachusetts?

Are Bay Staters more forgiving?

Are they shameless?

Do they define decency differently?

Let's look at what the residents of Massachusetts have elected to Congress:

(Former) U.S. Representative Gerry Studds (Democrat)
       Admitted having sex with teenaged male congressional pages and bragged about it at a press conference.*

       He was re-elected six times before retiring.

* On the same day in 1983 as Studds was admitting his affair, Dan Crane (R-IL) admitted an affair with a 17-year-old female page; Crane apologized tearfully to the House; his conservative district voted him out in 1984.

U.S. Representative Barney Frank (Democrat)

  His affair with Steve Gobie, an $80-a-pop call boy,and personal aide to Frank, was revealed in 1989. Gobie was a convicted felon with a prison record and ran a prostitution ring out of Frank's apartment. Gobie accompanied Frank to public functions, even to a White House ceremony.

Guess who's still serving?
    Barney Frank has been in Congress since 1981.
    He is the Chairman of the Financial Services Committee.



U.S. Senator John Kerry (Democrat)

    The 'Winter Soldier' and unpunished traitor who consorted with the enemy and slandered Americans serving their country honorably.

  The faux war hero who threw faux
medals away.
  The flip-flopping 'Swiftboated' candidate for president who was voted 'Unfit to Command'.

U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Democrat)

   The Bay State's senior senator and lecher, whose Palm Beach sexcapades are notorious.

  The driver whose cunning inaction caused a woman's death and whose family ties allowed him to get away with it.

  In Oregon and Illinois and Florida, depravity and dishonesty can cost a congressman his seat.

The standards must be lower in Massachusetts.

(Political cartoonist: Mike Shelton)

No comments: