‘In the Family’s Best Interest,’ Ohio Style
Totally disgraced, Representative Bob Ney expects us to swallow the announcement that he's leaving the November race "in his family's best interests."
Bob Ney, the ‘on the edge of indictment’ Representative from Ohio is stepping down from his run for election to an eighth term.
Yep, just like Nixon, they won’t have ol’ Bob to kick around anymore. It didn’t bother Ney for even a heartbeat that
He was named as ‘Representative #1’ in the Abramoff payoff scandals
House Speaker Dennis Hastert bounced him from his chairmanship of the Administration Committee
The House Ethics Committee (if it can only find its gavel) is poised to (possibly) bring him up (maybe) on charges
John Boehner, the Majority Leader put the screws to Ney, personally
He couldn’t raise any money because everyone thought he was a crook (which reads as being comfortably negotiable), but (worse than that) about to be proven a crook (a no-no)
Even his ‘ruby-red’ congressional district back home had some standards and Ney’s ruby-red …