Not that I've been working on this blog for that long, but it seems that everytime I sit down to blog, I get distracted by something that is deemed more important at the time...stuff like work, and sleep. In retrospect, they seem trivial.
Dennis "Large Mouth Bass" Hastert is still a congressman. When it came out that he was made aware of Foley's indiscretions more than a year ago, I thought he would fold like a card table and resign. The fact that he hasn't shows just how drunk with power the republicans are. They have not been held accountable for their failures in such a long time that they have a sense of entitlement.
Another example
Recently indicted Rep. Bob Ney waited until after he had entered a guilty plea to corruption charges to resign his seat in congress. Ney had been indicted for participating in Jack Abramoff's dirty deeds.
Among all the horrible things going on in Iraq and our own Congress, the Karl Rove Propaganda Machine kicked into high production mode, sending UN ambassador and hothead John Bolton and Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice out to the Sunday morning shows to gloss over those topics and highlight the necessity for China to join the world in its sanctions on North Korea. Now, this is an important news story, and is important on the world stage, but in less than a month, this country will hold elections which could swing congress back toward the democrats, and stories dealing with the travesties in Iraq and the whole Mark Foley debacle, could further destabilize the thin ice on which the Republicans are currently teetering.
Dennis "Large Mouth Bass" Hastert is still a congressman. When it came out that he was made aware of Foley's indiscretions more than a year ago, I thought he would fold like a card table and resign. The fact that he hasn't shows just how drunk with power the republicans are. They have not been held accountable for their failures in such a long time that they have a sense of entitlement.
Another example
Recently indicted Rep. Bob Ney waited until after he had entered a guilty plea to corruption charges to resign his seat in congress. Ney had been indicted for participating in Jack Abramoff's dirty deeds.
Among all the horrible things going on in Iraq and our own Congress, the Karl Rove Propaganda Machine kicked into high production mode, sending UN ambassador and hothead John Bolton and Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice out to the Sunday morning shows to gloss over those topics and highlight the necessity for China to join the world in its sanctions on North Korea. Now, this is an important news story, and is important on the world stage, but in less than a month, this country will hold elections which could swing congress back toward the democrats, and stories dealing with the travesties in Iraq and the whole Mark Foley debacle, could further destabilize the thin ice on which the Republicans are currently teetering.
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