To wit, the inestimable Jim Bacon:
McDonnell and Cuccinelli are big boys. They know how the game is played. And they deserve to take heat for their oversights. But if those offenses amount to a “scandal,” it’s pretty weak stuff. Where’s the quid pro quo? Where is the string pulling? Where’s the abuse of power? Where’s the big pay-off for Williams or Star Scientific?
‘Twould appear as if this story of gift giving may be all smoke and no fire after all? Or smoke with a fire so small, no one is going to care? Bacon caveats (if that can be a verb), but doesn’t see the story either…