Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 1:24 PM by Gene

Jerry Lewis engages in taxpayer comedy, including a vaudeville routine with a friend of the unlamented DUKE -- and an AmSpecian is not amused?

Of course, liberals seize on it. They seem to live in some fantasy world where the problem is the party at the wheel, and not the fact that an incredibly large government is a corrupting one.

I will presume Lewis innocent until proven guilty. But it is worth noting that this is the same Jerry Lewis who last month tried to scuttle budget reforms and helped load up the emergency appropriations bill. These guys operate on appropriations, not principle. So color me unsurprised when any of them abuses his office and runs afoul of the law.

MSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. PELOSI! THE GAVEL AWAITS!

OR:

It is not clear where the investigation is headed or what evidence the government has. But the probe suggests that investigators are looking past Cunningham to other legislators and, perhaps, the "earmarking" system that members of Congress use to allocate funds....

"For goodness sake, why would they be doing that?" Lewis asked.

I haven't the FOGGIEST idea, Jerry -- unless it's the PIGLIKE NOISES coming from your STY.

Or to paraphrase Mae West, goodness has nothing to do with it.

The government is looking into the connection between Lewis and his longtime friend Bill Lowery, the sources said. Lowery, a lobbyist, is a former congressman from San Diego.

As chairman of the Appropriations panel, Lewis has earmarked hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts for many of Lowery's clients, one of the sources said.

OINK! OINK!

Cunningham challenged Lowery, the incumbent, in the 1992 Republican primary. But Lowery dropped out of the race after he was identified as one of the worst offenders of "Rubbergate," in which several members of Congress were discovered to have written numerous bad checks on the House bank. Lowery acknowledged writing 300 bad checks.

Cunningham's campaign slogan was: "A congressman we can be proud of."

PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!!!!!!!!!!