Loading ...Drinking, nudity, no walking on water at GOP bash
flockwoodRepublican big wigs and their staffers went on an all-expenses-paid junket to Israel and stood near the shore of the Sea of Galilee.
But this wasn’t a prayer meeting and they didn’t treat the place like Holy Ground. Instead, they burst out the bubbly. Drunkenness followed. And at least one Republican congressman got naked and jumped into the sea where Jesus once walked on water.
The FBI got involved. The scandal was hushed up — for a year. But they couldn’t hide their misconduct forever. And now Politico has the details.
Question of the day: Does the typical U.S. politician in 2012 behave more like Solomon or Belshazzar?
Do we as Americans run the risk that one day, in the midst of our eating and drinking and self-congratulations, a hand will appear on the wall and write:
August 20th, 2012 at 12:36 pm
Hmmm — the early Solomon or the late Solomon?
August 20th, 2012 at 12:41 pm
Good point, Peter. I was thinking more about Solomon’s wisdom than his wives and concubines.
August 21st, 2012 at 11:50 am
I think that the problem was not so much the piety (or lack thereof) as much as it was an environmental problem… that of water quality protection. Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee in modern terms) serves as the principle supply of drinking water for that region. Having that many unwashed Republicans splashing around in the drinking water is a major contamination… it would take a whole lot of bleach and purifiers before I would wash or drink behind those goobers…
August 21st, 2012 at 12:26 pm
There is an old adage that you are gonna get what you deserve. Look at what the good old USA is getting now. There are some definite consequences for immorality whether personal or regional or national. However, it does leave us ripe for another Great Awakening.
October 12th, 2012 at 11:14 am
Debauchery is no respecter of party.