Long list of breaches

Michael Fauntroy, a regular contributor to the BBC and NPR, recently wrote of his disappointment in the GOP.

Fauntroy says that unlike many other commentators he has not “gleefully exulted” in House Speaker Tom DeLay’s several recent indictments.

Delay’s possible acquittal does not erase the fact that he’s a “dirty politician,” and may very well get away with what he’s done so far, Fauntroy says....

However, the indictments do signal what may be the end of the Republican rule of Congress, he says.

As Fauntroy sees it, DeLay’s indictment are but “one of a long list of ethical lapses that show the national GOP to be corrupt.”

Simple answer

Fauntroy wonders how the Republicans could possibly go to the voters next year “asking for continued congressional control when it is now clear that all they want to do is use it to enrich their friends and punish their enemies, all on the taxpayers’ dime?”

LToBS says the answer to this is simple: the GOP can go to the voters just as they have done for the last quarter century in the safe assumption that all of their sins will have been either forgiven or forgotten before the next ballot is cast.

Those who have profited financially or philosophically from the corruption will have forgiven the crime.

Or they are so exhausted from past failed efforts to effect any change in the corrupt U-S government that they have forgotten what it means to cast a vote and see any change.

Out, out, out!

All we can do now is to bag the GOP and the Democrats and start all over from scratch, using the principles conceived in the original constitution by the likes of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.

Throw out the rascals. All of them. Both parties. Here and now. Ask Britain or Belarus or Brunei to send us a prefab executive and legislative portfolio of candidates and begin all over again. Practically anyone would be better than what we have now.