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Aug 25, 2006
McGavick Regrets Past as Drunk Driver
By Duncan Ives Lewis
In Washington State, candidate Mike McGavick is running against
incumbent Senator Maria Cantwell.
Despite the fact that many Republicans are distancing themselves from
George Bush, McGavick managed to find one thing he has in common with
George Bush;
a history of putting innocent people at risk while driving drunk.
He confesses this himself on his website, and the information is
disclosed in today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Frankly, I don't care about the arrest itself.
Many good people have been stopped for DUI and learned their lesson.
We also waste alot of time on meaningless character issues when events
like unnecessary wars and the looting of the national treasury are
happening.
It is the hypocrisy that is most dismaying.
Republicans are often among the first to trumpet their outrage over
criminal behavior.
The promote the expansion of police powers and the building of more
and more prisons as the answer to social problems.
In reality, it is less expensive, and less intrusive, to address the
underlying social conditions that lead to these problem behaviors in
the first place.
One would think that would be conservative, but apparently not.
Often, it is the drunk driver castigated as the killer of our
children, the destroyer of families.
And Republicans (and many Democrats, to be fair) will line up to
endorse harsher sanctions, including longer jail sentences that
ultimately do not really address the problem.
But when it comes to the President of the United States, the
Vice-president of the United States, and now Washington State's
Republican senatorial candidate, they are just youthful indiscretions,
minor mistakes to be ignored.
You have to wonder how many people are still in prison from snorting
from the same batch of cocaine that incurious George tooted himself.
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Republicans are above the law.
Harry
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