"The Republican Party is now corrupt to its core."

[BurtWorm]

Excellent post on dailykos.com:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/4/132436/3482


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DeLay has been the biggest power in DC for a decade, reshaping the Republican Party and the DC power structure (e.g. K Street) to suit the financial and influence needs of his machine.

The Republican Party is now corrupt to its core. It can't even blink without breaking a law or ethical guideline. The tendrils of the corruption seep all the way into the deepest corners of Congress and the White House (let's not forget David Safavian and Susan Ralston).

And there's the genius of the polarization that Republicans engineered in this country the last two decades. The more conservatives are conditioned to hate Democrats, the less likely they are to defect no matter how much Republicans stray from their core principles, and no matter how much corruption, greed, mismanagement, abuse of power, and death they preside over. And by controlling the entire machinery of government, they can whitewash any real investigations into those abuses.

Hence there are no checks and balances in place to prevent and punish these abuses. Not from the party's supporters, not from the party itself, and not from the government. All that's left is the criminal justice system, and it's shaping up to be boom times for prosecutors, investigators, and defense lawyers in our nation's capital.

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[Old and In the Way]

1. Lets brand it. The Republican Syndicate.

Organized crime seems to have found a new home.

[CrispyQ]

4. Excellent framing!!

:yourock:

[Christa]

2. I wonder how all those religious rights feel

who voted for them.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Absolute power corrupts......

Absolutely. It never changes.