Whose At Fault For The Scandals?-All Persons In US Who Are NOT Republicans

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Nostra Maxima Culpa (It's All Our Fault)

With the current lamentable (albeit hot 'n' spicy) sex scandal concerning Republican homosexual pedophilia, the official cover-up thereof, and the inevitable after-party of breast-beating, hand-wringing, and finger-pointing, we now have no choice. The truth is manifestly clear and all Americans should be man enough, woman enough, and child enough, to admit it.

This is our fault.

By "our" I mean, all persons in the U.S. who are not Republicans serving in government: Democrats, Independents, Libertarians, Anarchists, Socialists, Whigs, Tories, Monarchists, Mugwumps, Hobbits, Romulans, Berserkers, Big Scientists, Epsilon Semi-Morons, Eloi, Ewoks, and Ents. It's our fault that the Republicans now have to endure such embarrassment and shame and we've just got to do better to help these people.

The Foley scandal--both the naughty e-mails and the naughty IM's about the naughty masturbation, and the naughty cover-up, the metastasizing of which will probably overwhelm and out-strip this article, and the too-lurid-to-be-true fact that the distinguished (if naughty) gentleman was chair of the House Caucus on Missing (pity, yes, but ho-hum) and Exploited (Yeah, baby!) Children. The lies of Condi Rice. The lies of George Bush. The lies of Donald Rumsfeld. The lies of Dick Cheney. Incalculable financial corruption in Iraq. The "shock" at Abu Ghraib followed, three years later, by retroactive and future legalization of torture. Torture-by-proxy via "rendition." The elimination of habeas corpus for whomever the President decides he doesn't like. Illegal wiretapping (and who among us isn't nostalgic for when that seemed the most outrageous thing they could ever do?). Patronage hacks and nitwit think-tank interns as far as the eye can see, from New Orleans to Baghdad. "Signing statements" written like I.O.U.'s promising not to obey the laws being enacted. The parade of influence peddling and corporate malfeasance led by drum-major Jack Abramoff and followed by the flag-waving, close-order drill team of Safavian, Lay, Skilling, DeLay, Brent Wilkes, Ney, Dusty Foggo and, of course, the Dukester.

Have I forgotten anything? Of course I have. I forgot Bill "Virtue Czar" Bennett's gambling and Ralph "Christian" Reed's exploitation of Indian casino owners. But who can keep up? Add your own favorite examples to the list, and then ask yourself, What do they all have in common?

much more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellis-weiner/nostra-maxima-culpa-its_b_30890.html