"We've seen the hubris, and now we're seeing the scandals." - David R.
Gergen
Are the Republican's chickens finally coming home
to roost?
Tom DeLay has finally been indicted. This is for
his financial improprieties dealing with his TrimPAC. The spin machine going
full speed and talking points are being distributed, but the Republican blame
deflectors have been working overtime lately and maybe they don't have enough
power to save Mr. DeLay. If this is all this ultra-corrupt politician goes down
for, it will be like when the FBI took down Hoffa for tax
evasion.
While DeLay alone should make
party loyalists question their contributions; add to that Bill Frist's possibly
illegal stock dealings, Karl Rove's illegal outting of a covert CIA operative,
the rising mound of evidence against Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the
rampant cronyism revealed by the Hurricane Katrina disaster, the rising American
body count in Iraq, the rising gas prices, and the rising deficit. You have to
wonder how these people are still in power. Maybe, finally, the sheer mass of
their mistakes will finally shake the O'Reilly wax from the ears of moderate and
conservative Americans and make them realize that the party they elected doesn't
have their interests at heart. They have their own interests at heart and they
don't care about the rest of us.
Kinda
makes you miss the days when Monica Lewinsky was the big scandal.
Posted: Thu - September 29, 2005 at 08:24 AM
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