ok, seriously, how many more republicans are going to have to resign or step-down or be indicted before america wakes up and realizes that the gop are utterly corrupt? let’s play a game, from memory how many leading republicans can we think of who’ve been indicted or investigated or forced to step down in the last year?

bob ney
mark foley
scooter libby
tom delay
susan ralston
bill frist
jack abramoff

that’s just the tip of the iceberg, but it’s all that i could think of from memory in 30 seconds.
who else?
if i were a republican i’d be furious(and, as i’m kind of a lefty, i’m actually pretty happy…schadenfreude).
the republicans have squandered their power.
remember the ‘contract with america’ in 1994?
it promised:
1-fiscal responsibility(now the republicans have given us the biggest deficit in the history of the united states).
2-national security(now the republicans have given us a war that the nsa/cia/fbi/et. al. have agreed is creating more terrorists and making the world egregiously less safe).
3-a return to moral values(so…asking a 15 year old congressional page to send you naked pictures of himself…that’s
the moral high ground?).
i know that some of you are republicans. don’t you think it’s time to admit that your party has fucked up?
i mean, really, what do republicans stand for anymore?
and now we see that the religious right were pretty consistently ridiculed and made fun of in the white house(David Kuo, an evangelical Christian conservative, makes the accusations in a newly published memoir, “Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction” (Free Press), and that conservative christians were only used by the white house to get votes.
it can’t be a particularly happy time to be a republican.
-moby

the republicans can’t be happy when these are the 3 top headlines in the new york times:

washington

prosecutor in cia leak case calls for new grand jury

delay ex-aide to plead guilty in lobby case

halliburton case is referred to justice dept., senator says

again, it might be schadenfreude, but it’s fun watching the republicans implode/fall apart.
even if the imploding/falling-apart isn’t going to last, and even if the dems aren’t prepared to step up and assume leadership, it’s still fun to watch.
moby

isn’t it funny(aka-sad)that republicans(i.e-george pataki and mitt romney)who are thinking of running for president have to dumb themselves down in order to be competitive on a national level?
when is a big name republican going to stand up to the arbitrarily insane right wing, who have come to control the republican party in the u.s?
when is a big name republican going to stand up and say: ‘i’m a republican, but i oppose automatic weapons and cop-killer bullets. i’m a republican but i think that the morning-after pill should be available to all who choose to use it. i’m a republican but i think that evolution makes sense and should be taught in our classrooms.
i’m a republican and i’m a christian but i think that mandating school prayer is antithetical to the teachings of christ.
i’m a republican but i think that the death penalty is barbaric.
etc’.
what the hell has happened to our country?
when did opposing evolution and being a fan of cop-killer bullets become the sole criteria for seeking national office?
?
moby

a few months ago the bush administration came to the defenseof republican trent lott after he made some racist statements.now the bush administration is defending republican rick santorum afterhe publicly compared homosexuality to incest.at least it’s nice when racist, homophobic republicans showtheir true colors. it makes it even easier to loathe them.i saw tim robbins at a party last night and he reassured me by sayingthat in his opinion bush is a ‘paper tiger’ who could easilybe defeated in the next election if the democrats just gettheir act together.

i hope he’s right.

and i’ve heard that michael moore is releasing a documentary on bushright before the next election. and in this documentary michaelmoore will apparently shine a light on, among other things, the strangerelationshipbetween the bushes, the cheney’s, and the bin laden’s.
moby

utterly depressing.
republicans now control the house and the senate.so i guess we’ll see the alaskan wildlife reserve opened up for oil drilling.
and we’ll see more subsidies for oil, coal, nuclear, and natural gas producers. and we can give up any hope of gun-control legislation.
and the national endowment for the arts will probably cease to exist. and money for aids research will be cut drastically.
money for education will be cut drastically as well, well, money for inner-city, non-faith-based education will be cut, that is. the next 2 years will be great years for christian fundmentalists,energy companies, cattle ranchers, timber companies, gun owners, the arms industry, etc.
like i said, the election results are utterly depressing.
and i guess this means that bush and company are going to be invading iraq as soon as the opportunity presents itself. unless the idea of invading iraq was just a ploy to deflect domesticcriticism of the bush administration in a bid to win the mid-term elections.
i dunno. it’s a bad time to be an american.
moby