What are they smoking in the blue grass state?
There is no shortage of conservative political hypocrites who tell other people to live virtuous lives while doing just the opposite in their own.
My personal favorite was Bill Bennett, who had the equivalent of a basketball double-double:
While the drug czar under the first President Bush, Bennett told kids to stay away from weed. Fine, but Bennett had no problem hiding the fact that he was a heavy smoker, and that cigarettes are far more deadly than marijuana will ever be. And Bennett, who has fancied himself as a relentless moral crusader, was more than a little embarrassed when it was learned that he had lost some $8 million (some of which he no doubt earned telling people how to live their lives) at slot machines in Las Vegas and Atlantic City.
David Williams of Kentucky will never challenge Bennett for the Phony of the Decade award, but he has carved himself a nice little niche. Seems Williams, who happens to be the Senate President in Kentucky, is the leading opponent to efforts to bring casino gambling to the state. That was all fine and dandy until last week, when it was noted in divorce records that some of the money that Williams is paid by the citizens of Kentucky was being lost at out-of-state casinos.
Williams now says casinos have ?unbridled greed,? a curious statement given that Republicans talk a lot about deregulating businesses so they can make more money. Casinos, says Williams now, would have an ?invasive and destructive? effect in the state. He also compared gambling to crack cocaine.
Williams now says he has seen the light, and will no longer be frequently casinos.
Don?t do as I did. Do as I say.
Decades ago Will Rogers said, ?When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky because it's always twenty years behind the times.?
It still applies.
There is no shortage of conservative political hypocrites who tell other people to live virtuous lives while doing just the opposite in their own.
My personal favorite was Bill Bennett, who had the equivalent of a basketball double-double:
While the drug czar under the first President Bush, Bennett told kids to stay away from weed. Fine, but Bennett had no problem hiding the fact that he was a heavy smoker, and that cigarettes are far more deadly than marijuana will ever be. And Bennett, who has fancied himself as a relentless moral crusader, was more than a little embarrassed when it was learned that he had lost some $8 million (some of which he no doubt earned telling people how to live their lives) at slot machines in Las Vegas and Atlantic City.
David Williams of Kentucky will never challenge Bennett for the Phony of the Decade award, but he has carved himself a nice little niche. Seems Williams, who happens to be the Senate President in Kentucky, is the leading opponent to efforts to bring casino gambling to the state. That was all fine and dandy until last week, when it was noted in divorce records that some of the money that Williams is paid by the citizens of Kentucky was being lost at out-of-state casinos.
Williams now says casinos have ?unbridled greed,? a curious statement given that Republicans talk a lot about deregulating businesses so they can make more money. Casinos, says Williams now, would have an ?invasive and destructive? effect in the state. He also compared gambling to crack cocaine.
Williams now says he has seen the light, and will no longer be frequently casinos.
Don?t do as I did. Do as I say.
Decades ago Will Rogers said, ?When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky because it's always twenty years behind the times.?
It still applies.
