As if it were not bad enough that we have to endure the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld trifecta day after day, now comes another Three Musketeers of sleaze, Abramoff,Reed and Norquist that has bagged many Congresspersons.Of course, we have Rove,Hadley and McClellanas the White House jokers who cannt shoot straight at anything.The Supreme Court has its embedded sleazoids, Scalia, Thomas and Roberts with Alito threatening to join these Three Musketeers in the role of D’Artagnan.There are plenty of sleaze bags in the Press that sing the praises of their brethren in this administration, but I will single out Woodward,Fineman and Novak.
In trying to diagnose why sleaze is a uniquely Republican disease, I have come to the conclusion that the Republican Party has no interest in public service;in fact, it thinks that no public service at all is the ideal.So, every Republican believes that it is his right to plunder the treasury.Also remember that all the fundamentalist preachers are Republicans.Plunder and cheating are congenital “assets” in their profession.
” What need we fear who knows it, when no one can call our power to account”–Lady Macbeth in the voice of Lynne Cheney.
Ah, Professor Klatoo, you have the gift of discernment for sure. I have wondered myself about the basic sleaze factor of Republicans. It seems that conservative philosophy breeds a particular type of selfishness that seems so prevelant in the current crop of Repugs.
If our democracy manages to survive Bush’s virulent strain of infectious rot, may the Republican party evermore be considered to be nothing more than toilet scum waiting to be flushed.
I’m not feeling very bipartisan today, could be constipation, could be Spectre’s hissy fit at Teddy.
Bipartisanship is another word for castration of your political opponents.
Oh good, I was so afraid it was constipation.