Illegal Acts

I read an interesting article http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucac/20070307/cm_ucac/shootingelephantsinabarrel by Ann Coulter this morning and a lot of what she says hit home. What she is getting at is disparate treatment of Republicans in the legal arena. Apply that logic to Duluth. Look at Mayor Herb Bergson's conduct while in the Mayor's office. He wrecked a car while under the influence of alcohol and was charged and plead guilty. He violated the Minnesota Data Privacy Act when he illegally disclosed the contents of a draft report from the State Auditor's office to the Publisher of the Duluth News Tribune, yet has faced zero consequences. This violation carries with it the penalty, if convicted, removal from office.

Why then is it that he has faced no charges? Yep, he's a Democrat. If he had been a Republican, he would have been summarily hanged, drawn and quartered by the local media, he would almost certainly be doing time and would no longer be our Mayor. Yes, it seems the Teflon applies to Democrats here in Duluth as well. What does that do for their credibility and integrity? What does it matter to them? The Democratic Party as a whole has never concerned itself with such trivial matters as honor, integrity or their own duplicitous approach to every meaningful issue. To be a Democrat means to be duplicitous as their position on nearly every issue requires it. Irreconcilable differences of philosophy and ideology need not be considered as long as the constituency believes they are being taken care of, even if that care consists of mere positioning and lip service.

Mayor Bergson has brought dishonor to the Office of Mayor but it matters not as long as he continues to pander to the Unions, say what most DFL Duluthians want to hear, even if he is lying, and even if his words are utterly contradictory to his actions. The DFL has never been concerned with those details. The lipservice paid to the military "support the military by bringing them home" or translated, let's support the military by undermining their current mission. Let's support them by telling their enemies, we don't think they are capable of winning. Yes, the DFL and the DNC are illustrations of hypocrisy, duplicitous hyperbole and dishonor on so many levels, it is hard to comprehend how anyone with an ounce of soul or integrity could subscribe to their dogma. They are now in the majority in the U.S. Congress, the Minnesota Legislature and of course, as always, every conceivable body politic in the the Arrowhead region.

Republicans meanwhile are laying low to avoid all the feel-good DFLer's. Why? So they can avoid having their dogs shot, their homes and businesses vandalized, their reputations besmirched and their livelihoods ruined. Yes, it's all about Minnesota Nice, isn't it?