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Jon may soon be fielding complaints from actual prostitutes who feel insulted by the comparison.
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It’s spelled “ophthalmologist.”
I know, but a pet peeve of mine.
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It really is an unfair comparison given how many prostitutes in the US are victims, be it of drugs, trafficking or physical and/or emotional abuse, as much as anything else, while the politicians selling out themselves and their country are if not completely equal partners in their actions, at least are not acting from a position of powerlessness.
With Republicans trying to turn everything into a --gate, and gotcha journalism trying to whip everything into another outrage, they’ve desensitized the public to real outrages. We treat it all like just another Huffington Post headline, certain that if we look closer, there won’t be anything there.
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“Eh, it’s a fuzzy line, what are you gonna do?”
Isn’t that the motto of the Teabaggers?
This is my shocked face 
Quick, get a Villager’s highly paid, no talent kid on the story!
Quid Pro Quo - The Ol’ Bush mantra
Corruption is the one thing Republicans do better than Democrats. Tom DeLay was a genius at hiding the Quid Pro Quo by laundering the payoffs thru other groups, such as churches.