America, you bought it! You paid for it! You'll be paying for it for the rest of your natural life! Good luck with that. Yes, the Republican party is the party of manly men, unlike the Democratic party with their mealy-mouthed liberals and their wishy-washy, flip-flopping Washington insiders, and their vegetarian-Californian-commie-pinko cross-dressers, and their mushy-minded political correctness, blahblablah.
Crooks
Too many to list here, Tom DeLay being only the most recent one to actually resign as a result of his own crookedness. Oops--no, it had NOTHING to do with his relationship with Jack Abramoff. Nononono.
Pedophiles
With the announcement that a Homeland Security employee, Brian Doyle, was arrested as a result of an Internet sex sting (for soliciting sex from what he thought was a 14-year old girl--and the dude is 55!!) I started to wonder, AGAIN, how in hell anyone still trusts the Republicans to run our government? And more importantly, why hasn't the religious right turned against them in a BIG way?
I haven't checked Freeperville, but I'm sure that, if they're saying anything at all about this, it's along the lines of
1) He wuz framed by the liberal cops (hee hee) or
2) What's wrong with wanting to have sex with 14 year olds? Doesn't everyone want to? He didn't really DO anything!!!
Argh.
Wimps and Cowards
I am sure this has been diaried extensively, but I only just found out exactly how Cheney's "hunting" expedition actually worked. I learned this from listening to a Fresh Air interview with a Daily Show producer!
The way this particular "game farm" works is as follows:
1. You decide what you want to shoot, and how many (basically you pick the birds or whatever out of cages).
2. The "guides" put the birds into cages and drive you and the birds (in the SAME CAR) out to the "woods".
3. You get into position. The "guides" take the cages out into the trees, and open them up, dropping the birds out onto their heads (to disorient them).
4. Birds start to fly, and you start shooting!
What I want to know is how in hell the Repubs were able to make John Kerry look ridiculous in his hunting wear, when THIS is how these great white hunters "hunt"? There is nothing sporting about it. There isn't even anything (as far as I can tell) FUN about it. It's no wonder Cheney shot his "friend"--it was probably more of a challenge! It's very much like a scene from "The Shooting Party", with the servants up front flushing the birds en masse so the aristocrats can just stand there and shoot them down.
Come to think of it, it's very much like the way they're treating this country.