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Over a decade in power has made them fat, lazy, and corrupt. Scandal after scandal, a well earned reputation as the new ”Do-Nothing” congress, blatant and arrogant pork barrel spending (anyone remember Ted Stevens infamous declaration that he would resign from the Senate if his colleagues took away his “bridge to no-where”), all once again prove those age old words of wisdom; power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Thanks to the genius of our founding fathers, the Congressional and Senate members of the GOP are certainly far from having absolute power or being absolutely corrupt, but 12 years of basically unchallenged supremacy due to the feckless Democratic party (don’t get me started there) has made the GOP leadership soft. They are a collection of men who no longer believe in their own platform.Â
Unfortunately for all of us we are at a terrible time in history. The United States is currently facing our greatest threat since the cold war, while both of our political parties are lost in the wilderness.
The only thing that will save the GOP this election cycle and I still believe they will maintain majorities in both the House and Senate is a Democratic Party that is still plummeting towards a very hard bottom.
A GOP electoral win in November will most certainly reward a party that does not deserve to be rewarded, however a Democratic victory in November will further demoralize FDR, Truman, JFK Democrats like myself and offer more power to the leftists who have hijacked my party.
Whoever wins in November, the American people are certain tol be the losers. God help us all and my God Bless the United States of America.
Foley’s uncommon interest in young teenage boys had become parlor talk among the pages, but either Hastert didn’t want to find that out or deliberately avoided it. Hastert apparently made the decision not to follow procedures and refer the matter to the Page Board, the bipartisan committee that oversees pages, and that looks very clearly like a cover-up.
[tags] congressional corruption, Mark Foley, Dennis Hastert, GOP, Democratic Party[/tags]
Linking Posts
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist: the Taliban should help run things in Afghanistan again…
Both the AP (Yahoo! News) and the International Herald Tribune are reporting that the head GOP Senate guy is reminiscing of the “bad ole’ days” of Afghanistan; the days of Taliban rule, even though we are still at war in Afghanistan a…
Trackback by Gun Toting Liberal � October 3, 2006 @ 9:51 am
Some Serious Crying From The Left & The Right…
I have been a little bit miffed with the rights reaction to this whole thing from day one. As soon as it was learned the emails and IM’s were to young men many on the right just threw Foley overboard without any hard information. I mean at leas…
Trackback by Flopping Aces � October 3, 2006 @ 10:42 am
Another Satisfied Customer…
One thing’s for sure; the Foley scandal has highlighted the disillusionment many feel with our congressional leadership. Our friend The Real Ugly American is one of them:
…12 years of basically unchallenged supremacy due to the feckless …
Trackback by Decision '08 � October 3, 2006 @ 8:24 pm
The Foley Blame Game…
Ace of Spades - It’s AOL’s fault!! Who knew IMs were saved on servers??
American Thinker - It’s the American Psychiatric Association’s fault for changing the definition of Pedophilia!!
Atlas Shrugs - It’s all Jim McGreevey’s fault for putt…
Trackback by Reconstitution � October 4, 2006 @ 9:45 am
Pandora And That Damnable Box…
Pandora had repeatedly fancied that sounds like whispers issued from the box. The noise now seemed to increase, and she breathlessly applied her ear to the lid to ascertain whether it really proceeded from within. Imagine, therefore, her sur…
Trackback by Blue Crab Boulevard � October 4, 2006 @ 11:11 am
Unfortunately for all of us we are at a terrible time in history. The United States is currently facing our greatest threat since the cold war, while both of our political parties are lost in the wilderness.
You know, it’s true that we’re facing the greatest threat since the cold war, but, good god, man, the cold war had the real threat of total annihilation! Let’s keep a little perspective here!
The threat from al Qaida is that they will hit us again and kill dozens, maybe hundreds, maybe thousands of innocent people. That’s bad. That’s terrible. I’d say it’s unthinkable, but, since I’m 40 years old, I remember the cold realization that we could *all*, every single one of us, be killed in a nuclear war. (Would Australia inherit the earth? Or would China be be spared as well? I was never really sure about the geo-poliical realities back then.)
We are facing a terrible enemy, yes… but a very, very small one.
At one point, the estimates of the total forces against us was 20,000 people. If every single one of them was in Iraq, then they would total one tenth of one percent of the Iraqi population. One person in a thousand.
Those idiots who talk about “nuking the Middle East to glass” would be killing an absolute minimum of 999 innocent people for each terrorist they killed. Except, there are larger nations than Iraq in the Middle East, so the ratio would be much, much worse.
Here’s an interesting thing. If the number of possible enemy terrorists was 100,000, then a billion dollars gives you ten thousand dollars for each and every terrorist; four billion gives you 40,000.
With one month’s worth of the money we’re spending in Iraq, we could hire one hundred thousand people at $30,000 a year, plus benefits, each with the job of tracking down one single solitary terrorist.
With two months, we probably have rental of office space and hiring of assitants; with four to six months of the money we’re spending in Iraq, we probably have every single thing we need (including sweet bonuses for each captured terrorist) to have one person chasing after each and every terrorist.
This is, of course, not entirely realistic. We don’t have 100,000 trained terrorist hunters just sitting around, waiting to be hired for $30,000 a year. Nevertheless, while we’re facing a big challenge, the numbers show that we’re facing a very manageable challenge.
The biggest threat since the Cold War? Sure… but there haven’t *been* any real threats to us since the Cold War.
Comment by Longhairedweirdo � October 4, 2006 @ 9:32 pm