He’s Dan Rostenkowski, He Solves Problems

By Kleinheider Posted on August 19, 2008 at 8:00 am

That’s good, says Aunt B., because the Tennessee Democrats have one:

Listen, Tennessee Democrats, here’s my idea.  Dan Rostenkowski is not dead.  If we have to have corrupt Democrats trying to throw their political weight around, can we hire ole Dan to come down and put them through some kind of corrupt Democrat trying to throw their weight around boot camp?  Because this [crap] is mortifying.

Lesson One could be: if you want to use secret files to intimidate and bully your political enemies, don’t be so god damn lazy as to just find one corrupt State Trooper and have him give you access to THP records.  No.  You have folks compiling files full of old newspaper clippings, conversations recorded during trysts with hookers you got to first, unseemly photographs taken by ex-cons who need breaks.  You have a lot of minor players collecting a lot of seemingly uninteresting information that you know how to bring together into a bone-chilling collection.

Lesson Two: Just because you think you’re smarter than your opponents doesn’t mean your opponents are idiots.  If you deliver copies of the damning information you have against them to their offices in the middle of the night by leaving those files on their desks and if there are only three groups that have keys to that office–your opponent, the cleaning crew, and the THP–your mother[scratching] right they’re going to figure out in about fifteen seconds who left the files.

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