Criminal Conduct

It looks like republican arrogance and stupidity is still reigning supreme in our country. First we find out from "Scooter" Libby that he was ordered to break the law by our president and vice-president. Libby said Cheney told him that the president had approved the outing of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame.

Georgie told us months ago that he would fire anyone involved in the Plame affair. Once again, he has lied to us. He has not gotten rid of Rove or Cheney, and he has not resigned. Georgie shows us again that he believes himself to be above the law.

Georgie also broke the law by wiretapping americans without a court-issued warrant. He doesn't even deny this, but asserts that the law doesn't apply to him. In this same vein, he has also taken to attaching memos to bills he signs stating that he does not believe the president has to follow the law in question. Do we really want our president [or other politicians] to be immune to our laws?

Georgie also started an immoral war by lying to the american people. He knew when he was giving that famous state-of-the-union message that he was not telling the truth about possible weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But he wanted that war and knew he could not convince americans to go to war unless he lied to them, so he did it.

For someone who professes to be a christian, Georgie certainly lies and breaks the law a lot [both man's and god's law]. Is it any wonder then, that other republicans are starting to think the laws don't apply to them either.

Several republicans have already been convicted and others have already been charged with various crimes, and it looks like more charges will be coming in the future. Each day, we are learning of more and more criminal and unethical republican behavior.

Yesterday, the bugman's campaign manager organized a group of republican thugs to disrupt the news conference of democrat, Nick Lampson. At the news conference, republicans attacked a 70 year old woman by hitting her, shoving her, and trying to pull her hat down over her face. We should expect this kind of behavior. Why should rank-and-file republicans act any differently than their leadership?

If only we had a real minority opposition party. Bush and Cheney should have already been impeached and removed from office, but the opposition democrats don't seem to have the backbone for the job. They were even too cowardly to support a mild censure resolution.

With the republicans too criminal and the democrats too cowardly, who will save our country?