DPW: Making Jensen look good by comparison

Scott Jensen was found guilty of a trifecta of felonies and a misdemeanor today, bringing an end to the caucus scandal that has hovered over this state for too long. It was a sad end to a sad situation, and Governor Doyle – much as it pains me to say – may have summed things up best:

When our elected officials misuse the public's trust, they should be held accountable. I am pleased the jury has done so. Their verdicts affirm the commonsense notion that everyone must follow the law, especially those charged with making them.

I will avoid launching into the obvious critique of Governor Doyle and Adelman Travel because, frankly, the justice system ought to be independent of the political system. But such is a notion that apparently escapes Michael Murphy, the slimeball running the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. In a statement today, he screeched:

The records and testimony showing Mark Green and Scott Walker deep in the thick of the caucus scandal cannot be ignored. It is time for Green and Walker to come clean and explain what they knew about the caucus scandal and when they knew it. These serious questions need to be answered before Wisconsin can put the caucus scandal behind us and move forward.

Mr. Murphy apparently thinks it is 1972, he is working for The Washington Post and Richard Nixon is in the cross hairs – this might be the first non-cynical employment of the “what did you know and when did you know it” cliché outside of newspaper columns and the blogosphere since then. And, frankly, it is ludicrous.

Leave it to DPW to turn a serious moment for the State of Wisconsin into a blatantly political excuse to run off and defame the character of Messrs. Green and Walker. It is pitiful and, frankly, it makes the entire party – including Mr. Doyle – look equally pitiful.

Is nothing sacred? Or is DPW just that desperate?