Tammy's Take
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WOW! Just when I thought the Republicans might be turning the corner on the Democrats claim of the Republicans Culture of Corruption by ousting Indicted Tom Delay as Majority Leader Up jumps the DEVIL.

I guess when you are the top criminal in the Republican Party and you move out of the way so your party can recover from your indiscretions you are put to the head of the line for big time rewards!
You would think that with the off year elections at hand you would try to show the electorate that your party has turned a new leaf and has cleaned up its act. Instead, the Republican Party has decided that they would rather say
IN YOUR FACE AMERICA!
They elected Rep. John Boehner of Ohio as the "NEW" Majority Leader in the House . This is the same John Boehner of Ohio who in 1995, broke House Rules by passing out Tobacco money on the floor of the House. He passed this money out to buy other Republican members of Congress. This way they wouldn't have to use outright black mail to coheres their votes. Boehner handed out the checks from the tobacco industry to members at a time when lawmakers were considering eliminating a tobacco subsidy. 

Delay has used black mail many times; in fact the now defunct ethics committee reprimanded him for this practice. As a reward for being the criminal that he is, Speaker of the House Rep. Dennis Hastert and Majority Leader Boehner have named Tom Delay as the New Chairman of the Prestigious House Appropriations Committee. Replacing the now convicted former chairman Rep. Randall Cunningham (R. Ca. aka The Dukester).

This shows that their corruption knows no bounds! They put an individual who is under indictment for money laundering in charge of the checkbook in Washington. They also appointed Delay to the Sub-Committee on the Justice Department, the very agency that is prosecuting Jack Abramoff for a corruption scandal that is likely to include Tom Delay himself! Not to mention the White House, the Speaker of the House and yes even the new Majority Leader.

I am appalled at what these criminals have done to our America! They have destroyed all semblances of what America Stands for. They use FEAR as a tool to keep power because they have failed us as leaders. Now that the 2006 elections are just around the corner you can mark my words! There will be more tapes released of Osama Bin Ladin, there will be more stories of foiled terrorist attacks that never really happened, there will be more false alarms to evacuate the Capital. There will be more disinformation perpetrated by this criminal administration.

Do you recall when President Bush made the statement that anyone caught leaking classified information in his administration would be fired? Well guess what? During the Valeri Plame investigation Scooter Libby, former chief of staff to V.P. Cheney gave sworn testimony that Dick Cheney told him to leak certain classified information to the press
. "Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said in documents filed last month that he plans to introduce evidence that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff, disclosed to reporters the contents of a classified National Intelligence Estimate in the summer of 2003." I would say that Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby should both be indicted for TREASON!

It is time to clean up OUR house! Throw those Republican BUMS out and bring back our DEMOCRACY.  We deserve better and America deserves better!

Tammy


                                     
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