All right, all right - where does it end?
I’m speaking of the new reversal of rules put through by House Republicans that would allow Tom DeLay to remain majority leader even if he is indicted on campaign finance fraud charges. This tactic is being met by understandable resistance from the Democrats; a resistance that is being called “politically motivated”.
COME ON!!! what do these babies expect?
It becomes more and more obvious that the GOP (hahaha! what a misnomer!) has become a party of bullies who will manipulate proceedings in shameless fashion to serve their purposes. More and more, their rhetoric becomes heavy-handed and arrogant. If you need further proof, look to the remarks made by the newly appointed Republican Party chairman for New York, Stephen Minarik. His remarks that were broadcast on NPR recently bore the ring of an overbearing used car salesman.
Where is the moral high ground that was so espoused during the campaign season? The pro-life movement that rallied behind the GOP this past election has, at present, become alarmed with the possible appointment of Arlen Spector to the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. I understand this viewpoint, but I suggest that there should exist a uniformity of principle applied. We cannot select which of the Ten Commandments we support above any others. Justice and the sanctity of life must work hand in hand.
I am no less than disgusted with this degree of blatant disregard for simple decency. It has been the case that for some time, the ground of political progress has been scorched and broken by a failed two-party system. Now, on that desert ground, the rails are being laid for single party rule. This is, by another name, the political disease known as fascism. I exhort you, my friends, to keep this in mind and to demand justice.
We have to remain vigilant and angry at the dispossession of OUR power. It has been wrested from our hands to the same degree that we have been complacent toward government by the few. Revolutions begin with small turnings, whether by the people or the “ruling class”.
STAY AWAKE.