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PATHETIC: ?Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) blasted ?tea party? protests yesterday, labeling the activi?

By Glenn Reynolds

PATHETIC: “Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) blasted ‘tea party’ protests yesterday, labeling the activities ‘despicable’ and ’shameful.’”

Ironic: “The husband of an Illinois congresswoman pleaded guilty Wednesday to tax violations and bank fraud for writing rubber checks and failing to collect withholding tax from an employee. Robert Creamer, a political consultant married to four-term U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, could face four years in prison on the two felony counts when he is sentenced Dec. 21.”

Tax hypocrisy abounds in Washington, but they’re angry that people are protesting. . . .

UPDATE: Moe Lane comments: “Why do people like Creamer think that they can get away with tax evasion? Because when you?re married to a Democratic Congresswoman, very often you can. That?s because people like Schakowsky don?t think that the rules apply to them. Which is her problem with the Tea Parties, really: the people involved with them have a distinctly different opinion, and they aren?t the sort that get amused with the argument that social justice sometimes requires bank fraud. Best to try to squash them quick.”

Good luck with that. The folks I met yesterday didn’t look very squashable.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 16, 2009 (boomark / email).