One Party Rule
This year's scandal outbreak arises from prolonged one-party rule, which gives politicians a sense of being beyond the law, since they have the power to dole out favors to lobbyists for money.
Recently, ABC News released sexually explicit e-mail messages sent by Florida Republican Rep. Mark Foley to a 16 year old male congressional page. Foley, who served six terms in Congress and chaired the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus abruptly resigned.
California Republican Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham has plead guilty in a defense-contractor bribery case.
Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Ney became the first elected official to plead guilty and cooperate with a probe of the lobbying activities of Jack Abramoff. Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay faces money-laundering charges and is a subject of the Abramoff probe. Messrs. Ney and DeLay have dropped their re-election bids.
According to the Congressional Quarterly, N.Y. Republican Rep. John Sweeney voted with Tom DeLay 92 percent of the time. An independent watchdog group “Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington” released their annual report listing John Sweeney among the top 20 most corrupt members of Congress. Sweeney has had to defend his participation in two trips to Park City, Utah and Lake Placid, N.Y. with lobbyists who later donated to his campaign.
At this point it doesn’t matter how bad Saddam was. What matters is the absolute incompetence and unwillingness to change direction that has brought us to the point where our nation is less secure and financially solvent than it was before 9/11.
Republicans running for Congress would like to be judged only on local issues and not on the foreign and economic mess they have helped create. If congressional Republicans are re-elected this futile and counterproductive war will continue to it’s inevitable disaster. The same people who mismanaged Katrina and the Iraq war will continue to increase deficits and pass the cost of their incompetence on to our children and grandchildren. Congressional Republicans individually and collectively created and continue the military disaster and fiscal mess we are in today.
Recently, ABC News released sexually explicit e-mail messages sent by Florida Republican Rep. Mark Foley to a 16 year old male congressional page. Foley, who served six terms in Congress and chaired the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus abruptly resigned.
California Republican Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham has plead guilty in a defense-contractor bribery case.
Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Ney became the first elected official to plead guilty and cooperate with a probe of the lobbying activities of Jack Abramoff. Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay faces money-laundering charges and is a subject of the Abramoff probe. Messrs. Ney and DeLay have dropped their re-election bids.
According to the Congressional Quarterly, N.Y. Republican Rep. John Sweeney voted with Tom DeLay 92 percent of the time. An independent watchdog group “Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington” released their annual report listing John Sweeney among the top 20 most corrupt members of Congress. Sweeney has had to defend his participation in two trips to Park City, Utah and Lake Placid, N.Y. with lobbyists who later donated to his campaign.
At this point it doesn’t matter how bad Saddam was. What matters is the absolute incompetence and unwillingness to change direction that has brought us to the point where our nation is less secure and financially solvent than it was before 9/11.
Republicans running for Congress would like to be judged only on local issues and not on the foreign and economic mess they have helped create. If congressional Republicans are re-elected this futile and counterproductive war will continue to it’s inevitable disaster. The same people who mismanaged Katrina and the Iraq war will continue to increase deficits and pass the cost of their incompetence on to our children and grandchildren. Congressional Republicans individually and collectively created and continue the military disaster and fiscal mess we are in today.
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