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November 17th, 2004 by SteveSource. Simply put, the Republicans are overturning an ethics law which requires congressional members to give up their posts if indicted in order to protect their House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay. The irony?
House Republicans in 1993 — trying to underscore the ethics problems of Dan Rostenkowski (D-Ill.), then-chairman of the Ways and Means Committee — adopted the rule that requires a party leader to surrender his or her post if indicted by any grand jury, federal or state.
They do something right, then one decade later turn around and change it so they can stay in power. I’ve said this before and I’m saying it again: The current GOP leadership is corrupt and Machiavellian to the core. Power trumps legality, common sense, and even ideology to them. Republican supporters, your ideology aside, you need to clean up your house. I know there are good Republicans working to clean things up (no, not John McCain, he chickened out this campaign season; I mean the regular supporters of the party), and if you are a GOPer, you need to get in touch with them and start putting pressure on the GOP leadership. We on the left are taking care of the infestation of corrupt Democrats, don’t worry; if there’s one thing I’m not, especially on this kind of thing, it’s partisan. I will soon be writing something regarding the Democratic Party elite (and by “elite”, I mean “the rich people currently in charge of the place”).
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