Former Louisiana Rep. William Jeffer son got 13 years in federal prison this month after being convicted of receiving a $100,000 bribe.
So, by that standard, Bayou State Sen. Mary Landrieu should go away for how long? The remainder of the millennium?
Jefferson was caught on videotape three years ago accepting a $100G bribe to promote a Nigerian telemarketing scheme. And then the feds found $90,000 in the family freezer.
But Landrieu had her hand out last week — and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid laid on at least $100 million in Medicaid subsidies in exchange for critical support during the weekend health-care debate. (The price could eventually run as high as $300 million.)
Whereupon Landrieu — still boasting of her cash coup — promptly agreed to host a fund-raiser for Reid.
So not only does Reid avoid possible derailment of his health-care package in an early procedural vote, but he gets a political payday, too.
What a piker, that poor Jefferson, huh? His real crime wasn’t being on the take — it was selling out for chump change.
Now he’s looking at 13 years to ponder the unfairness of it all.
For Reid and Landrieu, it’s party time.