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| Written by Frank McGovern -Argonaut | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Friday, 07 October 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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There are two different justice systems in this country, one for rich
Republicans and one for everybody else (except rich Democrats). It’s a
good thing for the ruling Republican regime that they’re now in a
position to stack the courts in their favor, because it looks like
they’re going to need all the help they can get. Tom Delay is the most recent good Christian Republican to be indicted for conspiring to defraud the United States. Delay is being charged with using a fundraising apparatus he created — Texans for a Republican Majority — to funnel corporate monies to be used in funding Texas political campaigns during the 2002 election. I can’t be too quick to jump to any conclusions concerning Delay’s guilt or innocence, since Delay has a lot of support from the government. The White House has defended Delay as a “good ally,” and many Republicans from both the House and Senate are supporting him against this vicious and unfounded partisan attack. However, I wouldn’t feel as though I’d done my job as a supporter of terrorism if I didn’t point out a couple of wee inconsistencies. The White House is run by this guy, George W. Bush. This Bush fellow is a high-ranking government functionary and no stranger to corporate adversity himself. He somehow escaped prison after being caught red-handed in an insider trading scam that involved somewhere around $800,000. That’s more than ten times the amount that sent Martha Stewart to the ol’ Federal Prison Hotel. Bush’s right-hand man is Dick Cheney who, prior to running the country, ran a corporation called Halliburton. Halliburton is using a war the American poor are dying in to violate American taxpayers to the tune of several billion dollars. One of Bush’s best friends is Ken Lay, arguably the most heinous corporate criminal in the history of our country. Enron was the No. 1 contributor to the Bush campaign. They were so close, in fact, that Bush called him Kenny-Boy. Isn’t that sweet? The corporations Bush, his family, Cheney and a huge majority of Bush’s cabinet and friends are intimately involved with stand to make billions in Iraq. (That’s the war started by Bush, who knowingly lied about the intelligence it took to get us there.) Another supporter of House Majority Leader Tom Delay is Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. The Frister has been relatively quiet about the Delay scandal because Frist himself now faces federal investigation into a super-shady stock sale. It’s not that Democrats are totally clean. Kennedy did that Chappaquiddick thing … I don’t know, in the ’80s. Plus there was that massive, ultra-expensive investigation into Clinton. He was mixed up in that Whitewater scandal that turned out to be … oh, absolutely nothing. But he totally lied about fooling around on his wife. If it wasn’t for the Godly Republicans, how would the sordid details of a man’s sex life have been forced down the throats of every person in the country? I guess the point is, the Republican majority is flushing your money down the toilet along with governmental class, trust and integrity. If I were to snatch the purse of a woman who’d been financially ruined by Enron, I would be filing down the business-end of a toothbrush as we speak to keep Martha Stewart away from my smokes. Clinton was impeached for lying about a (rhymes with snow-cob), and the corpulent, mendacious elephants fleecing this great nation are the patriots of the “values” party.  Add as favorites (24) | Views: 897
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