Druggie Republican House Member Trey Radel back at work. A poor guy on the street would be in prison! Why the difference?

 I can hear it now:  He will Rep Radel will be standing with his expensive lawyer, his forgiving wife and a Evangelical Preacher.  Rep Radel will say he is sorry and GOD, his wife and his family have forgiven him so WE, AS CITIZENS, MUST DO THE SAME.  He will then pass more laws throwing Pot Smokers in jail.

Forget whether 10,000 people might lose their own jobs for the same offense; the Beltway fight will be how much mere moral disapprobation we ought to be tossing the good hypocritical tough-on-crime coked-up drug-testing-advocating important person's way, and how much moral disapprobation might be too much. Oh, there will still be moral scolds, mind you, but their guns will be pointed the other way on this one, as they so often are, and the columns and letters and interviewees will demand that a man who has declared himself redeemed ought to be redeemed, because that is what Christ would want, and more than one of those scolding demands for forgiveness will be written by people who have little packets of fine white powder in their own desk drawers and who have already decided which of the white-shoe firms will tell the world they too are now reformed, if the wrong person ever opens that drawer. Did you know that some columnists once did the Mary Jane? It is true, and you can admit that sort of thing in these modern times because nobody gives a shit whether our thought leaders once did the Mary Jane, so long as the lesser people out there in the rest of the nation know that we still intend to destroy them if they try the same thing.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/07/1267871/-Rep-Trey-Radel-now-reformed-returns-to-the-House