kind words

This isn't so much meant as a laugh track directly at Sen. Larry Craig as it is a questionable assertation by Hennepin County District Judge Charles Porter. In his 27-page order declining to overturn the senator's guilty plea he wrote:

"The defendant, a career politician with a college education, is of at least above-average intelligence. He knew what he was saying, reading and signing."

After watching too much C-SPAN, and fresh from the Blackwater testimony to the House committee, I am deeply troubled by the fact that a sitting judge could possibly write that statement - beyond two or three member of Congress there isn't another with any signs of a thought pattern or sense of realism. Both sides of the aisle get about a 6.7% approval rating from me.

Speaking of Blackwater - Erik Prince was a very good witness. That doesn't change the fact that I don't think these companies run by former military members are nothing but bad news. He was good - the congresspeople were fools.

T.