If the republicans don't want to be ridiculed, perhaps they should avoid pompous statements such as this in the future:




Tom Delay
Rob Ney
Scooter Libby
Randy Cunningham
Bill Frist
Tom Foley
Dennis Hastert
Richard Shelby
Michael Scanlon
David Safavian
Katherine Harris
Ralph Reed

All either convicted, indicted, or under investigation.

Federal Budget deficit: 8.5 Trillion

I don't suppose anyone would care to reconcile this information with the "Contract With America"?

And as for trying to dismiss wrongdoing on one side by saying, “But, but, but… Soandso does that too!” is a poor defense.

Let me ask you this Nephy…. If you were talking to one of your children about something wrong that they had done, what would be your reaction if he/she tried to use the excuse that their brother/sister did it too. Would you let them off the hook? No. Wrongdoing on one side does not excuse wrongdoing on the other.

The actions of some Republican lawmakers can not be dismissed because some Democrats have done bad things as well.

whoa- bad example.

Foley resigned.

Clinton continued to serve.

Stubbs was censured- and continued to serve and be re-elected.

Etc etc.....who protects their sexual predators?

Not us- Leo castigated him- we all did. No one said what he did was right.

Everyone is a hypocrite- at some point.

I guess to some it is ok to be immoral- as long as you make it public.

I have never dismissed wrong doing. Two wrongs don't make a right- but I see hypocrisy and a severe double standard on the other side of the aisle here.

- and everything you said works on the flip side too.

Nor is it evidence against man-caused global warming.

Who defends Foley?

Hope you all are having fun!

Scrooge darlin' we are ALWAYS having fun.

(love the penguin BTW):D

You are one of the worst offenders when it comes to the “But, but, but Democrats!” defense to try and excuse something a Republican did.

Here’s another example… If someone is caught stealing, will the judge dismiss the charges when that someone points out to him that someone else stole too? Not likely.

Crimes committed by democratic politicians do not make the crimes of republican politicians go away. Those Republicans still committed those crimes. Any lawmaker, regardless of party, that commits a crime should be relieved of office. No party should be held above the law.

While I am no lover of the Democratic Party, and will not dismiss the illegal actions of a politician from that party, I find there is far more hypocrisy in the Republican Party. I find he current trend of defending the party at all costs – even to the point of putting party loyalty above the good of the country – to be abhorrent. Republican politicians seem incapable of admitting mistakes or accepting blame. This is especially true of the current administration. This is the reason that I will, for the first time in my life, be voting a straight democratic ticket; not because I am loyal to the DNC (I’m not), but because the Republican Party has become too powerful, too corrupt, too greedy, too out of touch. There needs to be a change. Thank the Goddess that the rest of America is coming to that realization as well.

The Republican leaders did, until the story became public.