Sex [R] or Money [D]?

[marmar]

from HuffPost:


Patt Morrison


05.07.2007
Sex or Money ? (16 comments )


Now that the FCC has ruled that every blog has to have the "Paris Percentage" -- some quotient alluding to Paris Hilton -- let's get that part over with, shall we?

Ms Hilton's great-grandfather, hotelier Conrad Hilton, famously ended his public appearances by asking, "And please remember to put the shower curtain inside the tub."

Evidently his descendant believes fervently in delegating. She may even have people who put the shower curtain inside the tub for her, because in court this week, defending her illegal license-less driving, she told the judge that "I just sign what people tell me to sign" - including, presumably, the lawmen who stopped her. When was asked whether she had even read the license-suspension notice mailed to her, she declared, "I have people who do that for me." Maybe she truly believes her "people" can serve her time for her. And maybe if she'd stayed the brown-eyed, brown-haired girl nature made her, she wouldn't be in this fix. The phrase
"dumb brunette" doesn't often cross anyone's lips.

We now return to our regularly scheduled blog, already in progress.

I'm thinking that there are many ways to sort Democrats from Republicans, but when it comes to scandals, I like this helpful little rule of thumb:

All scandals are about power. But I think Democrats especially covet Republicans' money, and Republicans have the hots for Democrats' sex lives. And there's the tripwire. ....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pat-morrison/sex-r-or-money-d_b_47867.html

[ShortnFiery]

1. Patt Morrison a.k.a. Maureen Dowd?

It seems that these writers belabor hopeless sexual undertones and sometimes obsessions that borders on the inane. :eyes:

Damn, I'm sorry that you had a difficult time adapting in adolescence, but consider therapy rather than writing such meaningless *Junior High Gossip* type tripe. :shrug:

As George Carlin would quip, "I don't give a shit!" :blush:

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. It doesn't hold up to inspection

She mentions Cunningham - but that was primarily a money scandal, not sex. She mentions Lynne Cheney's novel - which didn't really involve anything at all in the way of 'scandal'. We just thought it was funny. She mentions Wolfowitz - which isn't about the fact he's having sex with someone (that was known about long ago, and he is divorced from his wife), it was about getting her salary increased.

And she doesn't talk about DeLay, which was about money. And she doesn't talk about Bill Clinton, which was about sex. There's nothing to this "Democratic scandals are about money, Republican ones about sex" idea.