Recent history repeats itself in Pennsylvania

October 20, 2006 12:28 PM

Stop me if you've heard this one before - Republican congressman blames democrats for legal troubles. The house ethics committee didn't see anything wrong with Weldon's activities, but one can't help but wonder how Weldon is helping his constituency by traveling to Belgrade on behalf of one of Slobodan Milosevic's pals, who is, incidentally, a client of Weldon's daughter's consulting firm. At least no one is accusing Weldon of trying to choke his mistress.
posted by Mister_A (30 comments total)

I blame the liberal media and Clinton myself.
posted by nofundy at 12:32 PM on October 20, 2006

He's to blame:

posted by caddis at 12:47 PM on October 20, 2006

Too bad Weldon can't just fire all those pesky people investigating him, like Jerry Lewis (R-CA) did.
posted by mr.curmudgeon at 12:48 PM on October 20, 2006

I forgot George Soros. I blame him too.
posted by nofundy at 12:51 PM on October 20, 2006

That's "billionaire George Soros."
posted by I Am Not a Lobster at 1:00 PM on October 20, 2006

I love Pennsylvania politics. It just makes me so proud to live in this fine state.
posted by octothorpe at 1:04 PM on October 20, 2006

To hell with party affiliation. I'm just voting out the incumbents.

Only because it might give democracy a small window of time to heal while K Street courts their new dancing partners and the process begins again.
posted by hal9k at 1:11 PM on October 20, 2006

Hey! I thought there was a rule that posting spoilers in an FPP was bad form. I haven't seen this movie yet.
posted by OmieWise at 1:17 PM on October 20, 2006

The Weldon thing looks, on the surface, a bit like the Duke Cunningham debacle.
posted by Mister_A at 1:17 PM on October 20, 2006

Oh, wait a second, yes I have! I love this one.
posted by OmieWise at 1:17 PM on October 20, 2006

That's "atheist billionaire George Soros"
posted by PlusDistance at 1:36 PM on October 20, 2006

You know, the fact that there's an athiest billionaire out there makes me feel a bit better. I had sort of gotten the idea that Christians ran the whole kit and kaboodle.
posted by davejay at 1:46 PM on October 20, 2006

This is like one of those direct-to-video sequels that has a completely different cast playing the same exact characters.
The part of the corrupt congressman will now be played by...
posted by Biblio at 2:13 PM on October 20, 2006

I believe it's foreign-born billionaire king maker George Soros
posted by cell divide at 2:43 PM on October 20, 2006

"human rightser" emperor George Soros, the precursor of the antichrist
posted by sonofsamiam at 2:47 PM on October 20, 2006

Davejay, Soros is a jew. Jews get to run things too, atheist or not.
posted by Justinian at 2:58 PM on October 20, 2006

Don't forget about Poland! Bush didn't.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 3:00 PM on October 20, 2006

"You know, the fact that there's an athiest billionaire out there makes me feel a bit better. I had sort of gotten the idea that Christians ran the whole kit and kaboodle."

I believe bill gates and warren buffet are also atheists.
posted by sourbrew at 3:05 PM on October 20, 2006

Soros is a jew.

Worse still, a secular jew.
posted by gigawhat? at 3:05 PM on October 20, 2006

Man, if he were from San Francisco, he'd be the complete boogeyman.
posted by Justinian at 3:09 PM on October 20, 2006

Not unless he also married interracial gay abortionist couples that want to live next to decent God-fearing Christian families and go to their community swimming pools.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 3:47 PM on October 20, 2006

Worse than San Fran - he's from Europe.
posted by Happy Monkey at 4:03 PM on October 20, 2006

"human rightser" emperor George Soros, the precursor of the antichrist

He was the one who genetically engineered the creature we call Bill Clinton, you know.
posted by eriko at 4:06 PM on October 20, 2006

He was the one who genetically engineered the creature we call Bill Clinton, you know.

And I hear he has a thing for Nancy Pelosi.
posted by ryoshu at 4:29 PM on October 20, 2006

Did Weldon ever find those WMDs?
posted by homunculus at 4:50 PM on October 20, 2006

They called him a precursor of the Antichrist?

Lightweight.
posted by PlusDistance at 6:43 PM on October 20, 2006

CREW asks DOJ to investigate Weldon for e-mails outlining possible threats of retaliation against his opponent's contributors
posted by homunculus at 7:14 PM on October 20, 2006

I have a theory. My theory is that the Right is trying to lose this election. That way, in 2008, they can blame the last 6 years of disaster on the two years that the Dems run congress, and McCain will sweep the prez elections.
posted by dejah420 at 8:52 AM on October 21, 2006

Worse still, a secular jew.

And a drug legalizer, to boot. He wants our children to get hooked on crack.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 4:52 PM on October 21, 2006

Weldon's my Representative (self link to my personal WeldonFilter). The stink off him is strong, but the local machine is corrupt, and people are too lazy to do anything different. On the plus side, while walking the dog, I'm counting fewer and fewer Weldon signs on lawns.
posted by rzklkng at 6:27 AM on October 23, 2006