Wednesday, June 11, 2003

Come Nineveh, Come Tyre version 2.0

Word is from DC, that Tom Delay is up to his mandibles in a nasty little corruption scandal.
It seems a Kansas Company Westar Energy forked over some 56,000 smackers to various Delay approved GOP congressional campaigns in return for some favorable legislation.
The front page of the June Sixth Washington Post lays out a very credible series of events that at the very least ought to be referred to the committee on standards of official conduct.
Don't accept any contribution that is linked to any official action, past or prospective. 
It would seem the Rep. Delay played fast and loose with the above quoted admonition which is a cut-and-paste job from off the Ethics Committee's very public website.
Now, if this was old Tom Foley selling off the laws of the land at chump change prices you can bet that obnoxious little snitch Newt Gingrich woulda gone crying to the Ethics Committee in a New York Minute.
Hell I heard that in his palmy opposition days Newt kept the ethics committee phone number on speed dial and was known to file a complaint if Jim Wright couldn't produce a receipt for the zagnut bar in his pocket!
Newt will go down in history as a vicious skank who imported a pimp's self righteous attitude to national politics.
So we can thank him for making the adjudication of potential congressional ethics violations another venue for ideological warfare.
So why isn't anyone on the Hill investigating these allegations? Isn't selling policy is a profoundly corrupt act that taints ALL of congress in one go?
Well this IS Tom Delay we are talking about a demagogic vengeful power hungry nut who reminds me of Allen Drury's "Senator Fred Van Ackerman" character in the "Advise and Consent" series.
He is apt to get a mite touchy if someone stood up and called him a corruptard and a sellout.
You know Delay doesn't get away with outrages like this cuz' he is so unbeatably tough (I mean who really is in this life save true behemoths like the Mighty Goldberg?)...no Delay runs amok because his opposition refuses to confront and obstruct his rampages.
It is as simple as that....vice is promulgated primary because of virtue's torpidity.
You'd think someone from a safe seat like say Rep. Ed Markey or Barney Frank would raise some hell about this.
Nancy Pelosi is never going to be the first female Speaker of the House unless someone is willing to start conducting a little free lance ideological warfare on Capitol Hill.
Think about that...

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