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I’m just kind of going to put this out there: I’m not sure how much of this Langford trial and sentencing is actual justice and how much is typical lynch-mob mentality Southern politics making an example out of someone.

Fact: all politicians are wooed by business people and accept gifts and meals. In Alabama, I think the per-day limit of how much can be spent on a politician is $250. That’s not a limit at all. That’s a shit-ton of money. It seems like, if we wanted to, we could we could create this media frenzy about every politician in the world. All we’d have to do is find a connection between something being given to the politician and some sort of contract or whatever going to the giver. Of course it’s wrong to accept gifts in return for political favors, but that’s how the world works. I pretend like I’m your friend ’cause I buy you clothes or take you to the strip club, and because you, the politician, think that we’re friends, you come to me when the city/county/whatever needs some work done.

The fact that in recent years the only people being called-out on this are a black mayor and a Democrat governor in Alabama kind-of seems a little suspicious to me. Remember how up-in-arms everyone was about Siegelman? Yeah… ooops.

Now, I’m glad Langford isn’t mayor because he just wasn’t a good leader and he wasn’t very smart. But I don’t necessarily believe that he deserves 15 years in the bing, unless, of course, we’re bringing every politician to justice (update: apparently AL Republican Gov. Guy Hunt was convicted for a corruption charge but only got 5 years probation). All I’m asking is that if you’re screaming “off with his head” about one crooked politician, make sure you’re doing it across the board. Otherwise you might be the pawn in someone’s political game with a hidden agenda.

What do you think?

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Karl Rove has finally stopped hiding in George W. Bush’s ear, and agreed to go in front of the House Judiciary Committee about his alleged role in the firing of federal prosecutors and the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman.

Here’s Rove saying democrats would love to have him barbequed. Hmm… if only I ate meat.

Update: Siegelman hopes they aggressively question Rove.

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State Legislator Sue Schmitz was just found guilty of getting paid for working a “fake” job to supplement her income as a legislator. But this interesting article suggests that, from the beginning, it might have been more antics aimed at democrats like those used against Gov. Siegelman by Republican prosecutors.

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