Bushies of Tammany Hall

[JHB]

I posted this quote in an LBN thread about Richard Perle (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=578099&mesg_id=578845), but it occurs to me that it applies across the board, to the necons and the BFFE in general:

It's all Tammany Hall in the 21st Century.

From "Plunkitt of Tammany Hall":

There's an honest graft, and I'm an example of how it works. I might sum up the whole thing by sayin': "I seen my opportunities and I took'em."

Just let me explain by examples. My party's in power in the city, and it's goin' to undertake a lot of public improvements. Well, I'm tipped off, say, that they're going to lay out a new park at a certain place.

I see my opportunity and I take it. I go to that place and I buy up all the land I can in the neighborhood. Then the board of this or that makes its plan public, and there is a rush to get my land, which nobody cared particular for before.

Ain't it perfectly honest to charge a good price and make a profit on my investment and foresight? Of course, it is. Well, that's honest graft.
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http://www.uhb.fr/faulkner/ny/plunkitt.htm

[salin]

1. Apt comparison