Dan Casey over at the Roanoke Times is a funny guy:
Warner never used his influence to get Puckett’s daughter a job anywhere. At worst, what he did was contemplate helping her land a job.
If Mullins cannot comprehend the difference between two, then he must believe that an idle daydream about robbing a bank is the same thing as pulling one.
…because I’m sure Warner and Puckett were silently contemplating the consequence of… you know… trading votes for jobs.
Casey misses something very critical to the entire scandal, namely that no reasonable person believes that Warner’s actions should escape inquiry by Senate Ethics Committee. One can admire Casey’s verbal gymnastics, but the hard substance of the matter still remains, and those facts remain quite stubborn things.
