Friday, April 28, 2006
Republican scandals and the human response...
Scandal and the current Republican leadership have gone together like hand and glove. The wafting scent of graft and corruption emanates from this White House and Congress like the funny colored steam pumped out of NYC sewer grates. Let's review...
Abramoff, Duke Cunningham, Katrina response, Iraq war, Iraq reconstruction, CIA leaks, Medicare reform, illegal wiretapping, port security, energy policy and on and on. Like a reverse Midas, everything this bunch touches turns to shit. And yet through it all the right wing has continued to win elections and seems almost unaffected by the reams of moral decay floating about them.
I've wondered why this is the case. How is it that a party so exceptionally bad at governing keeps getting more opportunities to do it? Why do none of their misdeeds resonate with the voters? I think I have it nailed. There's no sex. When Bill Clinton got a hummer from a chubby intern, this was a national crisis. When Bush enters into a land war in Asia that appears completely unwinnable, it's an inconvenience.
Well finally the Wall Street Journal has uncovered a scandal all can get behind. Duke Cunningham had a lobbyist pay for parties with hookers in hotel suites at the WATERGATE Hotel. Yes, dear reader that WATERGATE Hotel(apparently Duke has a sense of historical scandal irony). Now we know the Duke was dirty, hell, he's already in jail. But the operative word in this article is suites. Unless Duke is the kinkiest Son of a Gun since Caligula, he didn't need multiple suites to do his business in. This leads one to question who else could be involved?
Well Dean Calbreath of the San Diego Union Tribune(who won a Pulitzer Prize for his work on the Cunningham scandal), told Joe Scarborough last night that as many as a half dozen other Congressmen may be involved. See that video here.
If a Clinton blowjob is worthy of impeachment, what is the going punishment for lobbyist funded Congressional orgies? One can hope that it is at least a switch to a new party in power.
Abramoff, Duke Cunningham, Katrina response, Iraq war, Iraq reconstruction, CIA leaks, Medicare reform, illegal wiretapping, port security, energy policy and on and on. Like a reverse Midas, everything this bunch touches turns to shit. And yet through it all the right wing has continued to win elections and seems almost unaffected by the reams of moral decay floating about them.
I've wondered why this is the case. How is it that a party so exceptionally bad at governing keeps getting more opportunities to do it? Why do none of their misdeeds resonate with the voters? I think I have it nailed. There's no sex. When Bill Clinton got a hummer from a chubby intern, this was a national crisis. When Bush enters into a land war in Asia that appears completely unwinnable, it's an inconvenience.
Well finally the Wall Street Journal has uncovered a scandal all can get behind. Duke Cunningham had a lobbyist pay for parties with hookers in hotel suites at the WATERGATE Hotel. Yes, dear reader that WATERGATE Hotel(apparently Duke has a sense of historical scandal irony). Now we know the Duke was dirty, hell, he's already in jail. But the operative word in this article is suites. Unless Duke is the kinkiest Son of a Gun since Caligula, he didn't need multiple suites to do his business in. This leads one to question who else could be involved?
Well Dean Calbreath of the San Diego Union Tribune(who won a Pulitzer Prize for his work on the Cunningham scandal), told Joe Scarborough last night that as many as a half dozen other Congressmen may be involved. See that video here.
If a Clinton blowjob is worthy of impeachment, what is the going punishment for lobbyist funded Congressional orgies? One can hope that it is at least a switch to a new party in power.
