Cold, Hard Cash

Congressman William Jefferson (D-LA) was convicted of eleven of sixteen felony counts. He’s the guy who was caught with a stash of 90,000 dollars in his freezer. To say that he liked cold, hard cash would be entirely too obvious. I’m sure there’s a reasonable explanation for the whole thing. (sarcasm...)

As Mark Twain said, “America has no distinctly criminal class except for Congress.”

Or, as Lord Acton put it, “Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

While I hope Mr. Jefferson does a LENGTHY prison sentence and not some eighteen-month stint at a country club, he might have a bright future ahead of him playing Yoda in the next Star Wars film.