Public Scrutiny: Two-way Street

Doug Thompson at Capitol Hill Blue makes a valid point when he writes that public scrutiny "works both ways and those who want more of it soon find out such scrutiny can turn around and bite them in the ass. So it’s fun watching the sanctimonious partisans who dominate the political blogs scream in anguish because one of their own is under a microscope."

So attention so-called progressives, be careful when you cast apersions.

Sadly, they – like their counterparts on the right – apply a hypocritical double standard when it comes to judging their own. Politics and the web is overrun by get-rich-quick, fast-buck artists and the lust for money and power is non-partisan. Jack Abramoff, Grover Norquist, Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas are political opportunists cut from the same cloth and, when it comes to political opportunists, those of us who seek the truth use one simple rule:

Follow the money.