A Simple Explanation

There must be an easy explanation for this. A story so simple even the most unbelieving would believe. I mean it is staring us straight in the face. We just don't see it yet.

I mean a half million in cash (ok, a drop more) lying around (ok, stuffed in a few remote locations) is not that much when you consider if you just put away five crisp $100 bills, maybe with a smidge of DNA of a convicted crook on a couple of them, every day for not even three years, you would be done. Could have been for the cleaning lady he forgot to pay.

And who doesn't have gold bullion in their house? I thought it was just a given. When you work for the government and see the level of incompetence and corruption that Senator Menendez has witnessed, you know our democracy is in, as Jack Nicholson would say, grave danger. Any prudent person would certainly take precautions like investing in gold (without technically paying for the same).

Politicians do favors for constituents every day. What else do they do? Poor Senator Menendez (ok, maybe not so poor) and his beleaguered spouse (ok, maybe not as beleaguered as when her house was being foreclosed, ie before it became Fort Knox and the US mint headquarters) are clearly being indicted for the crime of being good friends to so many. And if being good is wrong, well, I don't want to be right.

So give this couple a break. Innocent until proven guilty. Just because there is a history of, let us politely call it, questionable behavior on the part of the Senator, one plus one does not always add up to a guilty plea.

I am a die in the wool Democrat. And I am dying a little today thanks to a fellow New Jerseyan or is it Jerseyite?). I have forever tried to slice and dice Republicans for their hideousness. But, I guess I have to be an equal opportunity hater.

For $2000 and the win on double Jeopardy: name the politician caught not merely with his hand in the cookie jar, but both hands, arms, and every other body part, covered up (I didn’t say cover-up) to his eyeballs in bad.

You got some 'splainin to do Senator.