My time has been a bit consumed by following the coverage of the indictment of Congressman William Jefferson (”Dollar Bill”). Some idiot they interviewed on the news today said, “They still don’t have anything on him.” Really? Does this guy not watch the news? Can he really not remember the $90,000 they found in frozen food containers in Jefferson’s freezer before Hurricane Katrina? How ’bout the two cohorts of his who pleaded guilty and are serving time? To me, that’s not nothing. I am all for “innocent until proven guilty,” but I am even more for a Congressman doing what is best for his district and his constituents, especially when New Orleans is in the crisis it is in.

And there is little hope that Jefferson will step down of his own accord. And it just burns me up that to the rest of the country it just appears to be another example of how we here in Louisiana just seem to gravitate and support the crooks and liars in politics. There is no way this can bode well for the support New Orleans needs from Washington.

Please just know that not all Louisianians support Jefferson; that many of us are humiliated by and ashamed of the whole story and of Jefferson’s actions of late in his handling of the situation. If only he would resign on his own. Alas!

I find it very interesting to see the House doing an ethics investigation into his indictment with the possible outcome being to eject him from Congress. I may soon get to use one of my big words: defenestration. I’ve waited almost ten years to get an opportunity to use that word. Well, hot damn. Something good may come out of all this after all!