I often say that today's GOP Party is morally bankrupt, intellectually dishonest, and institutionally corrupt. But that's only because it is. Last Friday morning, at 6:00 am, I posted in "Where There Is Smoke There Is Usually Fire":
Here's a time line of what we know:
1 - GOP Deputy Chair Michael Brodkorb resigns: 12 October 2011
2 - Senate GOP Majority Chief of Staff Cullen Sheehan resigns: 09 November 2011
3 - GOP Chair Tony Sutton resigns: 02 December 2011
4 - GOP Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch resigns Majority Leader position: 15 December 2011
That's four - FOUR - major resignations in two months.
Well, now the tally is five - FIVE - major positions going vacant in two months because ol' "Mud Slinger Mike" Brodkorb is no longer spinnin' tales of lies and deceit as GOP State Senate Communications Director. While there is no official explanation of why Brodkorb is out, speculation and smart money is betting it has to do with whom the ousted GOP Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch was with whilst hikin' the ol' Appalachian Trail.
Last Friday morning, when I asked these questions about "takin' a hike," I wasn't expecting a sex scandal:
There's a LOT of smoke here. Why would an operative like Brodkorb leave a spring-board job like the "unpaid" State Deputy Chair position, to a "volunteer adviser" position on the quixotic campaign of gaffe-prone GOPer Mike Parry? And why would the former staffer of Norm "4th Most-Corrupt Senator" Coleman (not to mention, YouTube Sensation) Cullen Sheehan pack it in? We know that, essentially, ol' "FEC Tony" Sutton was, essentially, shoved out the door; they just let him call it a "resignation for family reasons" or whatever tripe it was that Tony spewed.
But Koch's decision to take a hike? Well, Brodkorb is/was Koch's "executive assistant"... but, still. Why take the hike, now?
I was expecting a breaking story about the GOP's continuing financial scandal.
And I'm still expecting that story to break. Amy Koch's sordid scandal is a convenient diversion for the GOP; gives the base something else to look at.
In the years since The Tostenson Memo came to light, GOP State Party Officials hardly had an epiphany. If only half of what is being talked about is true, it makes pre-Tostenson activities look like Choir Boy antics.
That's where the GOP Base should be looking, and looking to hold those accountable accountable - but a sordid sex scandal is a convenient diversion for those that dug the GOP so deeply into debt.
But I won't be surprised if that story is kept swept under the rug; if it is it'll just another pathetic example of today's GOP Party being morally bankrupt, intellectually dishonest, and institutionally corrupt.