The DC Madame / Wolfowitz

Using Bill's closing joke there as a sedway, let's talk about the hypocrisy of who was exposed in this latest DC madame scandal. Not that I think there SHOULD be a scandal about powerful people using the services of prostitutes, but when one of those people is Randall Tobias, the staggering level of hypocrisy is a scandal. In case you don't know a woman in Washington was arrested for running a high level prostitution ring that serviced the DC and capitol hill elite, which she claims was a legal escort business. She claims the girls don't actually touch in a sexual way, they do massages or dress up and do fantasy role playing or SM or whatever, but the guys have to get themselves off. Why its the case that its perfectly legal for a guy to jerk off to a prostitute but if she jerks you off its illegal is another debate. I just wanted to highlight that this Randall Tobias, who was outed as one of her clients, was in charge of the Bush administration's program to crack down on prostitution and favors abstinence only education.

I'd also like to point out how unbelievably "ironic," as John Stewarts says, the Bush administration is. Just in recent news alone, we've got another ridiculously ironic scandal, Paul Wolfowitz. This is the scandal in which Wolfowitz's girlfriend was moved from her job at the World Bank to a job at the State Department when Wolfy took over there, so as to avoid a "conflict of interest." So after a short time in her new job in the State Department, Wolfowitz saw to it that she got a promotion and 30% raise, making her one of the highest paid officials in the State Department, earning more per year AFTER taxes than Condoleeza Rice, head of the State Department, makes before taxes, again, so as not to create a "conflict of interest."

Wolfowitz has been asked to step down. As has Alberto Gonzales. As did Donald Rumsfeld. Both of whom Bush said have done "a terrific job." Oh he said that about "Browney" too, the FEMA guy, after Katrina. In Rumsfeld's case Bush lauded Rummy's performance only days before he fired him, which was the day after the Democrats took control in the November elections. When asked why he commented in favor of Rumsfeld's perfomance to the press when he must have already known he was going to ask him to step down, Bush responded, "because I couldn't have done that right before the elections." That's right, the President openly admitted to lying to the press to influence elections. Oh yeah, and Mark Foley was in charge of the program to curtail online sexual predators, And Ted Haggard, the evangelical preacher who gave weekly sermons at the White House and who was famously outspoken about the evils of homosexuality was exposed to be a homosexual meth user by his homosexual meth dealing prostitute of five years.

Haggard in "Jesus Camp"
Haggard Still Lying
Haggard Confesses