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Dan Casey over at the Roanoke Times is a funny guy [2]:
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 [3].
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 [4]. One can admire Casey’s verbal gymnastics, but the hard substance of the matter still remains, and those facts remain quite stubborn things.