Could you be more wrong, again?

Doug goes on and on about William "Dollar Bill" Jefferson.

And in the end, the word "conspiracy" will begin to appear. The Left will paint this as a conspiracy.

If it is even imagined a Republican has done something wrong, he's guilty before proven innocent. If a Democrat is caught red handed, he's the victim of a conspiracy.

Which is a huge load of lying bullshit again. Nobody but his family and attorney is coming to his defense. We all know he's a lying and cheating piece of shit, and if convicted he should go to jail. I have not seen one single hint of "conspiracy" mentioned anywhere. Doug lies pretty much like Jefferson actually - now that I think about it.

Now, Pelosi has said that each citizen of this country is innocent until proven guilty. That's the way Americans do things. It would be nice if he resigned to deal with the legal problems, and I'm sure the leadership has asked him to, but ultimately that is up to him. He resigned his committe assignment as I'm sure Pelosi would have stripped him of that had he not, but you simply cannot force out a democratically elected representative when he has not been convicted of any crimes.

Now (and this is called sourcing again Doug), lets look at how the Republicans do things.

Rep Bob Ney;

A Republican, Ney represented Ohio's 18th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 until November 3, 2006, when he resigned. Ney's resignation followed his October 13, 2006 guilty plea to charges of conspiracy and making false statements in relation to the Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal.

Notice the dates? He didn't even resign when he was convicted, and hung on for over 2 weeks after.

Doug also mentions Tom DeLay. That one was particularly delicious for me since he's a bat-shit crazy christian freak. He was also a very high ranking Republican (unlike Jefferson), from my home state of Texas. It was great seeing humiliated. It's too bad he's not sharing a cell with The Dukestir.

In terms of the poilitical implications, it's not going to mean much. The party will move on, much the same way the Republicans did after Ney and Cunningham went to the federal pen. Hey, at least Jefferson wasn't stalking male teenage pages, right? Wonder what Marky-Mark is up to now?