That crazy old internet

It’s amazing the things you find on the web, like the article (snippet below) Democrats demote Rep. William Jefferson. A perfect storm of opportunism and racism

Now if it had just appeared on Workers World I might have just passed it by as another meaningless commentary. But I found it on a site called Axis of Logic.

The trouble there is, the argument really has no logic. I’ve been following the story at GP Daily - Dollar Bill: The Jefferson Files which is why it caught me attention in the first place.

Crass political opportunism resulted in outright racism June 16 when Democratic Party leaders violated their own rules and precedent to oust Rep. William Jefferson from a key position on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. On Axis of Logic – original source: Workers World

I’d recommend you read the article, but try these bits for logic:

- “…sending the FBI to raid Jefferson’s congressional office, allegedly to stop corruption, ignores the pervasive corruption in Washington.

- The drive to oust Jefferson was led by Nancy Pelosi of California, the House minority leader. The presumption of innocence was thrown overboard along with the party rules in order to pursue Pelosi’s politically bankrupt electoral strategy of campaigning against the Republican “culture of corruption.”

- she [Pelosi] never responded to charges against Mollohan, who is accused of enriching himself to the tune of millions. That is because Pelosi and the Democrats had negotiated a deal to get Mollohan to step down voluntarily from the Ethics Committee while keeping his seat on the powerful House Appropriations Committee.

- Jefferson is not accused of using his position on the House Ways and Means Committee to violate the law. But Mollohan is directly accused of using his position on the Appropriations Committee for massive personal enrichment.

- But it is an unwritten rule that no one in the political establishment of the ruling class is allowed to attack the class itself, nor are they allowed to denounce ruling class racism.

Okay logic no, but a lot of supposition and allegation. I’m not familiar with the Mollohan case, and if the allegation is correct then he too should have been sent packing.

This is the ‘logic’ I don’t understand, it is the Republican logic which holds that two wrongs must make a right.

I’m not sure how, logically, the race issue comes into this. I would have thought the Jefferson issue was more about timing, with the mid terms looming. If Jefferson gave a rat’s arse for his party and constituents there would not have been an issue at all, black or white.

How, logically, anyone can draw from the FBI raid on Jefferson, that it “ignores pervasive corruption…” is beyond me. The man had his fingers in the piggy bank at the wrong time, in the wrong place.

There is no conspiracy; that is logical. That so many crooked lawmakers are still at work in Washington defies logic, but that is an altogether different story.