You have to wonder

The big right wing bloggers are swarming all over the Air America loan story. It's almost too petty to remark on and I find it rather embarrassing to read their posts, with their gleeful "gotcha" tenor. Meanwhile in Ohio, the first convictions in an ethics scandal that reaches all the way into the Governor's mansion goes unremarked.

Air America is a private company, that was apparently duped by a bad manager and has admitted its fault. It's making restitution, which amounts to less than one million dollars. Meanwhile, in Ohio:

The scandal so far has led to a pair of criminal convictions, the resignation of a Taft cabinet member - former bureau administrator James Conrad - exposure of other investment losses at the bureau, including a whopping $215 million Bermuda hedge fund loss, and has spawned 13 state and federal investigations into influence peddling, rare coins, and corruption.

Mr. Noe stands accused by Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro of stealing at least $4 million from the state rare-coin funds he managed, and his own lawyers have told state officials that up to $13 million from the funds is missing.

And this is just a part of the fraud and corruption there that has cost the taxpayers hundreds of millions in lost revenues that won't be reimbursed. Nary a word from the right wing swarmers on this story. Where is the call for accountability here? You have to ask, why does the right hate working people?

I don't understand how these obviously intelligent people can justify that to themselves. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night knowing I was aiding and abetting in obscuring this malfeasance.