Don't Worry About The Government

Denny.

Denny Hastert.

Know the man? Corpulent weasel. Stepped in when Tom Delay had to scurry back to Texas to deal with his, you know, criminal charges. As in Jail time criminal charges. That's SugarLand all over.

Oh, but that's just politicizing, right? Playing for partisan gain? Something the Republicans, those stalwart paragons of virtue and light, would never do.

Except...Denny will. He's going to delay the reopening of the House for two weeks or so after the Holiday season (bite me Billy!). But not for any partisan or petty reason, right?

Not so much.

Just so that DeLay, epitome of the Washington sleaze merchants, with a penchant for threatening other members of Congress, has the potential to address his indictments prior to other members of the House asking for a new leader. Yep, that would be actually delaying the business of the country to avoid throwing an ethically challenged scumsucker out. Not political at all.

But it gets better. Hastert has also suggested an 'ethics refresher' for the House.

So, just to be straight on this: Republican leadership will postpone the ability to even work on America's business, just to allow an ethically bankrupt member a bit more time to weasel out of the charges and preserve his leadership, while encouraging ethics classes for the members. Ethics refresher? or a tactical manual on how to perform ethical sleight of hand, violating the spirit and idea of ethical behavior while skirting the barest edge of the written rules.

Will Tom Delay have to go? Would it have any impact if he did?

Mainly, though, it's a transparent ploy to catapult the Republican talking points a bit further; to imply that the rampant ethical lapses oozing throughout Washington are bipartisan, rather than almost completely residing on the Right side of the chambers.

They are transparent, shameless, good-for-nothing political power junkies, for whom no act is too craven, no betrayal too reprehensible, as long as they can maintain power. They don't give a shit about you, they don't give a shit about me, they don't really give a shit about this country, except in the ways it can be looted and otherwise converted to the advancement and enrichment of themselves and their cronies.