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Friday
Nov042011

"Schadenfreude" Doesn't Quite Capture It

DateFriday, November 4, 2011 at 09:41AM

One can't take any pleasure in the amount of wealth that's being destroyed, gambled away, wasted, blown.

On the latest installment of Democrats And Your Money Demolition Derby, Walter Russell Meade is succinct and correct.

Chris Christie on Corzine's consistency (read the whole thing, please): 

Twelve noon on the dot, I took the oath....The Treasury Department told us that at 10:30 that morning, an hour and a half before the oath, Gov. Corzine had wire-transferred hundreds of millions of dollars to cities in New Jersey, depleting the funds of the state even more, as his last present to me on the way out. Two days later, I found out that that $500 million surplus was actually a $2.2 billion deficit. For the five months remaining in fiscal year 2010, 65 percent of the money was already spent. That was my "Welcome to Trenton" party....

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Is it just me or is political corruption getting more and more brazen?

I'm not talking about the ordinary, under-the-table 'sweeteners' and such but the utter moral and intellectual bankruptcy on display in D.C. and entirely too many statehouses across the land.

The contempt our public 'servants' hold for those they purport to represent is breathtaking in its scope.
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