After following the severe partisanship on Leftist blogs over the past few years, I noticed that they are indignant about perceived abuses in government by those they ideologically disagree with but when the same abuses occur against those who they share the same ideals they ignore the issue. The two sites that I have followed closely are HuffingtonPost.com and DailyKos.com . Over time, I will document the hypocrisy and invite others to share their observations.

I will break down the observations by category.

Intelligence

Dec. 11, 2006

• Incoming House intelligence chief botches easy intel quiz -- Rep. Silvestre Reyes of Texas, who incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tapped to head the Intelligence Committee when the Democrats take over in January, failed a quiz of basic questions about al Qaeda and Hezbollah, two of the key terrorist organizations the intelligence community has focused on since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Reaction

Daily Kos.com

• No Reaction

Huffington Post.com

• No Reaction

Ethics

Dec. 10, 2006

• Legislator's win complicates ethics matters for Democrats -- In awarding Representative William Jefferson a new lease on his political life, Louisiana voters this weekend also handed Democrat Nancy Pelosi another ethics dilemma as she prepares to become the new speaker of the House. Jefferson is under a federal probe and was discovered with stashing $90,000 in his freezer.

Daily Kos.com Reaction

• Followed the results the day of the election but was silent on the race and the problems leading up to it.
• A comment from the Daily Kos site: We (dailykos/kossacks) barely put anything into this race. If we had put the same kind of energy into this race that we did into taking out Lieberman, Jefferson would be packing his bags. There's no excuse for our poor fundraising for Carter, and lack of coverage on the race.

Huffington Post.com Reaction

• No Reaction

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