I see that Randy "Duke" Cunningham is back in the news and under renewed investigation, even though he's cooped up in a jail cell, while Mary McCarthy is in neither.
Mary remains resting comfortably at home, recovering from the difficulties she encountered during the course of her sudden and spontaneous retirement resulting from her shoveling of top secret material to the Washington Post in a time of War--a Pulitzer Prize winning effort for them, which also garnered her a note of thanks from Osama bin-Laden, late of Saudi Arabia, now presumed to be residing somewhere where we can't quite get at him to verify the return address on his envelope.
The cancellation on the stamps, too, sadly, is a bit smudged.
And while we're at it, even Cynthia McKinney, a noted truant, hissy fit tossing bon vivant, and cop bashing race peddling Congresswoman, is still undergoing some sort of a lengthy half-hearted federal probe with the recent calling of a number of Congressional staff members to testify, under pain of chuckling, before the glacially paced federal grand jury convened to investigate her one time heavy handed entry into the people's hall of government, how ever many months ago it occurred.
But at least Ms. McKinney, accused of striking a Capitol cop with a closed fist, is feeling some heat, while Ms. McCarthy sits in the cool breeze by the windows, enjoying a tangy julep, reading the Washington Post, searching for more information about her little known, and so far non-prosecuted, case, since she's no longer in the loop.
And while reading this eminently fair and completely unbiased newspaper of note, she'll notice that Mr. Cunningham is under a new microscope for a ream of additional nefarious activities, which the feds are dredging up in the harbor of his discontent.
It would appear, in the fine print, that Mr. Cunningham was allegedly attended to by a rogue limousine service, operated by a relatively shady character, which received funding from a local community investment fund to get them out of hock after the 9/11 business slow down, and that he received arranged "dates," apparently with women of easy virtue, at two upscale hotel suites maintained for his turbid private romps in the Washington area.
Mary McCarthy, sipping her tall cold one, would be amazed that such behavior would be allowed to go on for so long under the noses of a government supposedly on the hunt for these sordid implausible activities.
And after finishing her drink and placing her empty glass in the dishwasher, Mary would go on about her planned activities, oblivious to the damage she had caused the United States in our war on terror--she is a high-level Clinton appointee, after all--never realizing for a whit that the people she had given aid and comfort to possess a far more dreadful nature than the limousine operator, the insatiable go-go girls and Randy Cunningham, a Republican.
Ms. McCarthy was also shocked at the shabby public behavior exhibited by Ms. McKinney, a fellow Democrat, especially the assault on the police officer in the Capitol. She should've just gone about her business and not created all this negative PR, which is hurting the Party, she said to herself.
It sure appears like the full panoply of governmental investigatory powers have been turned loose on Randy Cunningham, though I'm not saying he doesn't deserve a solid look see. But he didn't betray secrets, he's just an idiot who ran amok.
But as we delve into livery services, women of the night, shady characters, bowling alleys and their poorly sanitized shoes, I wonder what the point is when we take a look at the activities of Ms. McCarthy.
Ms. McKinney is on the hot seat for punching a cop, which is great. As a retired cop I would've loved to see everybody that punched me dragged in front of a grand jury, put on the hot seat and made to sweat. But, as they say in the NYPD, it's bupkes. It's going long on the short stuff, especially when you scrutinize the alleged crimes of Mary McCarthy.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy seeing the crooks go to jail, but I also squirm a little bit when folks like Sandy Berger and Mary McCarthy get off with a kiss, a handshake and a walk for serious crimes, while we send the SWAT teams after the cranks, the misfits and the chauffeurs.
We are fighting a war.
One of the fronts of this war is called the home front.
This battleground needs to be protected with as much intensity as those in Iraq, Afghanistan and on the borders.
If McCarthy is not fully investigated, with the same intensity as Randy Cunningham and Cynthia McKinney for their far smaller crimes, then we are conducting this war in a laughably inept fashion.
What's good for Cunningham's gander is good for McCarthy's goose.
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