It's like Christmas in September

[ebonlock]

I almost forgot, I nearly danced around the living room this morning when I saw Scotty McClellen sweating it out while the headline below him read "Tom DeLay Indicted". I swear it was like opening the door to find a bouquet of roses on my front step. I felt just like a kid at Christmas.

Edit: See also Digby-

So, we have a federal probe implicating the president's number one political advisor and the vice president's chief of staff in the violation of laws protecting CIA agents and possibly lying to federal investigators.

We have a multi-pronged investigation into a lobbyist who happens to be a very close associate of Tom DeLay,Grover Norquist, Ralph Reed, Karl Rove and the entire Republican leadership going back to their youth as members of the College republicans. This lobbyist is now implicated in a mafia murder plot and has been arrested on charges affiliated with that crime.

A member of the Bush administration who is a good friend and associate of all of the above was arrested this week for lying to the Feds about his good friend the lobbyist.

The majority leader of the Senate is now officially under investigation by the SEC and federal prosecutors for insider trading involving potentially many millions of dollars.

The majority leader of the House was just indicted by a Texas Grand jury for violating laws prohibiting the use of corporate money in campaigns.


I am so relieved that the Republicans restored honor and integrity to Washington. There hasn't been even one blow job in that town since they took power.



Update: Oh and that reminds me --- David Drier is now the majority leader of the House of Representatives.

Comments

DeLayed Inaction

[h0h0.livejournal.com]

It's sad, but the way the law is written, they have to trace a transaction directly back to him in order to convict him over the shady fund raising.
His speech today was a load of shit.

I was not aware of the mafia stuff, but such things are not unheard of. Do you have a solid news reference (not that the media is reliable by any means)?

Re: DeLayed Inaction

[elenderel.livejournal.com]

This Washington Post article mentions the hit in the first paragraph:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/11/AR2005081101108.html

[wazsgirl.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I don't give two craps if Delay goes down, never did like him. I am curious as to your take on the developing situation in my home state of Maryland (http://www.nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usschu224436974sep22,0,1690297.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines) where the Lt. Gvnr. who is considering a Senate run had democratic staffers take his social security number to illegally run a credit report on him.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

In addition to being a pretty valid reflection of where the Republicrats stand on morals and ethics (I'm glad Chuck turned them in, though--I still have a little respect for him left over), I find that this reflects my real discomfort with how easy it's becoming to assimilate and disseminate information on people. If these two had been a random corporation instead of private citizens, there would have been no fuss about them asking for a credit report--so long as they paid the fees to be customers of the organization that gathers the data.
I'd like to see these two go to court, and since they're not as rich or powerful as Delay, they're likely to actually see the inside of a courtroom and possibly serve time.
Honestly, what I'd like to see is a political system with a little bit of integrity, and not dominated by two large players with a scorch-the-earth damn-the-consequences winner-take-all game plan.
My take--I'd like to see people punished for reprehensible behavior. After the Reagan years, it'd be a nice change.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I don't give two craps if Delay goes down, never did like him.

Well if he's guilty of even half of the charges that have been brought against him in the past few years then you might want to reconsider his relative importance to you. I mean as the head of his party he's theoretically supposed to live up to the ideals of the GOP. Which now seem to include lying, unethical behavior, eggregious moral lapses and fascist-like power grabs.

I am curious as to your take on the developing situation in my home state of Maryland where the Lt. Gvnr. who is considering a Senate run had democratic staffers take his social security number to illegally run a credit report on him.

Well I'd have to say, wow, look at the difference between these two parties when it comes to legal violations:

" Barge, a Democratic operative who led the research unit for a liberal media watchdog group run by journalist David Brock before joining the committee in February, reported her actions to the committee's executive director, J.B. Poersch Jr., within hours. Poersch relayed the information to the U.S. attorney's office and suspended the pair with pay until Aug. 31, the official said."

And I'd agree with what cyranocyrano had to say in regards to it, I also have some lingering respect for Schumer...almost against my better judgment, but I like to think I have a little optimism left when it comes to politics.

[wazsgirl.livejournal.com]

I'd have to be a republican first. ;) I know this might be shocking, but I'm actually an independent because I don't particularly like either party.

Yeah---I'd like to think someone on both sides of the aisle would get turned in for things that quickly though, of course, I have my doubts. Still, it proved interesting to me, watching how this is developing--again, partically because I'm from MD. ;)