Suck Goats (Foto, Piers)

My beloved Piers,
° Ειμι μαντειος, and no one’s more surprised than I.
° For no sooner do I complain of our Overton rulers’ notorious bribiousness, than the SS announces the conclusion of a twoyear sting. A fake corporation registered, checks given to legislators, taperecorded promises of voting the pseudobriber’s wishes.
° 6 miscreants.
° 2 nondarkskinned miscreants.
° 4 darkskinned miscreants.

° As my Yellow Dog buddy said in the steam room yesterday morning, “If they’d tried to bribe the entire legislature, they’d’ve succeeded. How come just these six?” Asked and answered.
° But I poured oil upon troubled racial waters.
° Queried I Lincoln, all sweaty and chocolatey as he was:

1. If the corporation was fake, then the bribe was fake, wasn’t it?
2. Since the legislators couldn’t and didn’t change their votes in response to the money, then who was suckered, we their subjects, or the (fake SS) corporation?
3. Was it these 6 legislators’ crooked votes that over the past 10-15 years singlehandedly destroyed the State’s finances and wrecked its Medicaid program?
4. Or was it the inefficiency and greed of the entire unstung Legislature that over the past 10-15 years singlehandedly destroyed the State’s finances and wrecked its Medicaid program?

And last but not least:

5. How many times, Linc, sweaty and chocolatey as you are, have you heard Federal Judges, Senators and Congressmen, and White House staff say, without immediately being tarred and feathered, “It’s true I received $xxxxxx from XYZCo, but it never affected my vote.”

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° Template revision: no honest politician ever permitted a lobbyist to buy him/her so much as a stick of gum.

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° Final query:

Why can’t our rulers in Overton pass ethics legislation?

° Final answer:

Because nobody can figure out wording that scapegoats one without entrapping all.

° Honestly, Giac.