Ney’s got friends in low places.
By on Feb 28th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Ney’s got friends in low places.
“Former Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, expresses remorse and quotes singer/songwriter Garth Brooks in an e-mail sent to friends Wednesday, a day before he is to enter federal prison after pleading guilty to corruption charges.” Ney’s letter quotes lyrics from Brooks’ song “The Dance.”
and now i’m glad i didn’t know
the way it all would end, the way it all would go
our lives are better left to chance,
i could have missed the pain,
but i’d have had to miss, the dance
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That’s just beautiful. If I wasn’t such a cold-hearted bag of wind, bones and extraneous fecal matter, I might be able to shed a tear over that one.
February 28th, 2007 at 6:23 pmWhat he’s saying is it was fun to be bad. Ass
He should have said “It wasn’t a “dance” worth being a thug for”
February 28th, 2007 at 6:31 pmNey, darling, that song is about love and passion — not dirty low-down Republican corruption.
I suggest instead [I Hate] Everything About You, by Ugly Kid Joe.
February 28th, 2007 at 6:37 pmWell that will go over real well with the pretend cowboy in chief….
February 28th, 2007 at 6:38 pmHow poetic.
February 28th, 2007 at 6:38 pmThat he is going to jail is poetry also.
time to dance a different dance…. I hope he knows how to follow
February 28th, 2007 at 6:41 pmi could have missed the pain,
but i’d have had to miss, the dance
Sounds like he’s enjoying prison – *cough*. Wonder who his new ‘dancing-partner’ is!
February 28th, 2007 at 6:41 pmHeh. By “the pain” he means non-consensual sex forced on him by a guy who used to run a meth lab.
February 28th, 2007 at 6:42 pm“Do da dawg baby”…
February 28th, 2007 at 6:49 pmBetter that Bob Ney should’ve quoted:
February 28th, 2007 at 7:10 pm“A Bunch of the repug-repubs were whooping it up at the Malamute saloon;
The butt-boy that handles the music-box was hitting a sod-time tune;
Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Tom DeLay,
And watching his luck was his light-o’-love, the lady that’s known as Jack Abramoff–PLAY-FOR-PAY…”
(With APOLOGIES to the Late, Great Mr. Robert W. Service)
Ney: “Crime totally pays. I’m glad I did it. My Republican’t buds are going to hook me up bigtime when I get out!”
February 28th, 2007 at 7:16 pm“if you can’t find a partner,
February 28th, 2007 at 7:22 pmuse a wooden chair……
lets rock, everybody lets rock,
dance to the jailhouse rock……”
Quoting Garth Brooks as your farewell message before your incarceration is the lamest thing I’ve ever heard of.
February 28th, 2007 at 7:59 pmAh, so like Libby I guess Ney is a member of the republican “Criminal Poet’s Society”. I thought that most folks found god when they’re looking at doin’ time – but Ney finds Garth Brooks? These guys are a hoot.
February 28th, 2007 at 8:01 pmWhite men can’t dance.
February 28th, 2007 at 9:41 pmIs it just me, or does Ney’s use of that quote mean that he’s got no regrets?
March 1st, 2007 at 2:20 pm