I went in the NY Times website to find an article about blundering Blagojevich's news conference today. Instead, the front-page article is about the former head of the state Senate in New York and his indictment on corruption charges. The article itself was short and concise; it went right to the main points about the indictment. It also gave the background information that Joe Bruno wasn't just another greedy politician, he was the "de facto head of the Republican Party in New York after Gov. George Pataki had left." I remember an essay written in Time Magazine (I think) stating that in the recent past, the public was enthralled by scandals such as with Eliot Spitzer, Bill Clinton, and John Edwards (I won't use the actual term because I don't want our school filter to block us again...). Now, though, the scandals have changed to involve money, bribery, and other corruption. Joe Bruno is the latest in the ranks that include Bernie Madoff, Rod Blagojevich, and even Caroline Kennedy, not to mention the multiple CEO's who have been paid lavish bonuses right before their companies went bankrupt. The reason the essay claimed this shift was happening was because of the bad economy, people are more interested in money crooks than in sleazy crooks. I had hoped that this wouldn't extend into Obama's administration, but his Treasury Secretary pick Timothy Geitner didn't pay his taxes for several years. Wow. They say he can fix the economy, or else he probably wouldn't have been approved in the first place. Well, until the next politician falls from power for want of money...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/nyregion/24bruno.html
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