Republican Confusion on Right and Wrong

I could go down a list of why Americans are pissed off at Republicans but I would need four or five days worth of writing and band-aides for my finger tips as they caught fire. Has it not been blasted across the television and the papers of one Republican member after another in the Congress thinking that they were untouchable in the eyes of the law? I could literally list out just one blog after another pointing out one after another Republican that broke the law, walked the fine line of the law, and simply ignored the laws that they make for ALL Americans.

I’m not saying that Democrats are any better and have not broken the laws we are supposed to ALL live by. I’m just saying that they haven’t been caught at it in such large numbers as Republicans have. This is the avenue of politics that we are stuck with. Walking the fine gray line and crossing it here and there is not okay and that is why the voting people are pissed off at the Republican Party.

Add one more to the tote board hall of shame from the Republican Party with his bitch slap from the United States Senate…

Ethics Panel Says Craig Acted Improperly

Feb 13 07:32 PM US/Eastern
By MATTHEW DALY
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate Ethics Committee said Wednesday that Idaho Sen. Larry Craig acted improperly in connection with a men's room sex sting last year and had brought discredit on the Senate.

In a letter to the Republican senator, the ethics panel said Craig's attempt to withdraw his guilty plea after his arrest at a Minneapolis airport was an effort to evade legal consequences of his own actions.

The six members of the committee—three Democrats and three Republicans—told Craig they believed he "committed the offense to which you pled guilty" and that "you entered your plea knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently."

The panel also admonished Craig for showing the arresting officer a business card that identified him as a U.S. senator. Craig has been reported to have told the officer at the time, "What do you think about that?"

The committee wrote, "You knew or should have known that a reasonable person in the position of the arresting officer could view your action and statement as an improper attempt by you to use your position and status ... to receive special and favorable treatment." - Breitbart.com

Being a U.S. Senator does not make you free of sin. Being a Republican U.S. Senator does not make you immune from being gay and just not admitting it to yourself or your wife. Being caught in a gay police sting operation makes you… pretty much persona non grata over at the GOP.

Do as I say and not as I do seems to be the mantra of the GOP and that policy is why the people do not trust them to lead our nation any longer. Not just in Presidential politics but in congressional races across the land. Being an incumbent Republican is no longer the favorite slot to be in when it comes to any political race.

The flood of Republican’s leaving office on their own is the writing on the wall that the gravy train and free for all is over. Those that stay behind and win another term will either have true character or public service was the only gig they had left.

Sometimes the scales of justice are tipped just a bit too far and sometimes they are knocked off the scale completely. The GOP has only the recent past public servants to blame for the massive Democrat voting numbers. And they are voting in numbers to blow the doors off the status quo politics as usual comfort zone.

Papamoka

Congressional Ethics Police… LOL!

Don’t get me wrong, I love Mike Capuano from Mass A Two Sticks but he is living a pipe dream. He is proposing a regulatory independent agency to more or less police the Congress for ethics violations. The only problem with his plan is that Constitutionally this outside law force would have to be armed with feathers. Gives a whole new meaning to “Packing Heat” does it not?

I’m thinking little tiny down feathers in little tiny holsters on a lawman from the old west. Armed agents patrolling and roaming the halls of the Congress ready to arrest anyone that steps over the line of truth, justice and the American way. Stepping into the dark corners of the law and breaking the ethics rules just might get you a handful of feathers tossed in your face. Take that you wrong doer!

Over at the Washington Post they have this to say on it…

House May Add Outside Watchdog For Ethics

By Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 20, 2007; Page A27

A House task force yesterday recommended creating an independent Office of Congressional Ethics that would have the power to initiate reviews of lawmakers' behavior.

The new office, whose creation requires the approval of the full House, which reconvenes in mid-January, would be the first in either chamber to allow an outside body of nonmembers to examine alleged ethical misdeeds.

"It breaks the appearance of the good ol' boy network," said Rep. Michael E. Capuano (D-Mass.). Capuano headed a task force that spent a year trying to craft a compromise for the new ethics office in the wake of the lobbying scandals that helped sweep Democrats into power.

But some ethics watchdogs warned that the office, if approved, would not be strong enough, particularly because it would lack subpoena power. - Washington Post

Keystone Cops mentality all over again…



Not to mention the fact that any Congressional member could at any point in time, when under fire for ethics violations, recite the Constitution and then express a raspberry with their tongue.

For those in the Congress not knowing what a raspberry is, you insert your tongue between your lips, gently press down with your lips and exhaust air from your lungs in a rapid exhale. Not through your nose People! Take two. Insert your tongue between your lips, gently press down with your lips on your tongue, and exhale rapidly through your mouth. Not through both your nose and mouth Congressman. This is going to take some practice. Most of these folks have not lived in reality for a long time so you might want to check back later. When you do come back could you bring about four hundred pair of underwear. That last try had some of the older members of the House in a most discomforting position. That’s a first isn’t it!

Oh screw it, they could just lift up the middle finger, close the rest of their fingers and show it to the Congressional Police. No, No, NO Congressman. You close your thumb too! Everyone knows that is how you hail a cab for a F’n ride. This is going to take a long time to educate these folks about how American’s really live. When you come back with the underwear would you bring some coffee too.

Speaking about how American’s really live, when we have corrupt leaders in our government, if they do not police themselves, the voters can fire them at the polls. For Congressional members that happens every two years, President is every four, and Senators every six years. Then again there is this whole whacky thing called freedom of the press that sometimes can shame SOME people in our government into resigning from office.

I applaud the attention that Congressman Mike Capuano has put into this but I fear that any outside influence on the Congress would be the first step in finally killing the Constitution. That is something as an American that I could never accept. Neither should you and that is why we all should vote based on our own personal ethics. Democrat, Republican or Independent political mindset, if you see a wrong then right it with your vote. It is as simple as that.

Papamoka

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Cross posted at Michael Linn Jones and Bring IT ON!

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