Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Political Capital Punishment

Political Capital Punishment

Every time a kid gets killed, opportunistic wingers try to use it for political gain:

McKibben plans a yearlong campaign for the death penalty, which he thinks will help his party reclaim control of the Senate after a year with a 25-25 tie.

“I intend to campaign very hard on the issue. I’m not up for re-election and I can assure you I know which seats are key to giving us enough votes,” he said.


Meanwhile, David Yepsen shows some really nasty colors this morning with a lock `em up and throw away the key rant about the sex offender radius. It almost reads like a parody, or maybe Ed Anger in the Weekly World News. At least he admits what the law's really about:

Get them out of here. Their crimes are so heinous and so twisted that Iowans are deciding these people are unfit to live among the rest of us.


Anyway, no link for you, Yepsen. I'll make that a problem for you, the reader - just like Yepsen advocates making Iowa's crime someone else's problem.




Early New Year's resolution: to start proofreading for trivial typos pefore bosting.

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