21-50 to all units: standby for a voter reality check.

I wonder what the hell the majority of voters were thinking these past twelve years. After all, it took a majority to place the current crop of miscreants in office initially and a majority has kept them in there these many, painful years.

Presently there are twenty representatives that CREW, a non-partisan organization, has named as the most corrupt. Seventeen are Republicans, three are Democrats. Of the five that received dishonorable mention (AKA: ones to watch) four are Republicans. Reps. Ney and Cunningham, both Republicans, have accepted plea deals in the Abramoff scandal. Rep. DeLay, also a Republican and the former majority leader, was indicted in Texas and in all probability will face federal indictment. Reps. Jefferson and Mollohan, both Democrats, are now being investigated by the feds along with Republican Sens. Burns and Frist, both Republicans.

Now shades of Peter Graves pedophilic character Captain Oveur from the movie Airplane! Rep. Foley, another Republican, has resigned in disgrace for sending emails best described as creepy and sexually explicit IMs to a former male, teenage page who worked for another Republican. Now the FBI will be investigating Foley as the Republicans are scrambling to hide their complicity for having known for at least a year of Foley's behavior – perhaps as long as five years. The irony is the fact that the federal law for which he’ll be investigated for violating is the very one he actively helped to put on the books.

Granted, there are a few Democrats on the lists; but it’s Republicans who make up the vast majority of the disgraced, indicted and scrutinized. This is the same party that claims to stand high upon the mountain of virtue, swords of righteousness held on high, wrapped in the flag and clutching a bible. They are anything but the image they present and they count on non-issues to cloud the real ones when it hits the fan, using emotion and fear to gain and hold power.

Once the Republican Party or any of its ranks are under the microscope they divert attention to things that hit a raw, emotional nerve with voters short on attention and even shorter on cerebral abilities. Flag burning, gay marriage, violent videogames and terrorism where there is none are just a few examples of how they divert attention. We’ll know when they’re in it really deep when they introduce a bill to ban the recognition of gay marriages performed by flag-burning, radical Muslim clerics who sell violent videogames in the newly added terrorist state of Luxemburg.

But it’s not just Congress and the Senate. The Whitehouse having been back-doored under the FOIA revealed that Jack Abramoff organization (read: criminal enterprise) has had something like five-hundred contacts while Whitehouse staffers only claimed but a few. How can we not believe them? After all, their claims that Iraq was a hotbed haven and winter resort for terrorists while stockpiling massive WMDs has been well document – NOT!

What this all boils down to is that the RICO statutes are being violated daily by the crowd in power in Washington. There is little difference between the Washington of today and the Chicago of the 1920s. Wave a lot of cash around and officials will look the other way, push a bill through or give out a contract. Reelecting these miscreants to federal office today is like giving a fat kid the keys to a Baskin Robins a second time after he'd eaten everything in sight.

The vast majority of voters have to be mentally vacuous to believe that the Republicans in DC represent their concerns and interests as they are oblivious to the overwhelming evidence of Republican corruption and hypocrisy because they continue to reelect them regardless. These guys only care about lining their pockets and those that do the lining. As the average John and Jane Taxpayer are eating reheated meatloaf while watching anything but the news on TV their representatives are eating steak and lobster at their $2,500 a plate fundraisers while taking envelopes under the table.

One definition of insanity is “to repeat the same behavior expecting a different outcome”. Keep that in mind when you vote this November.

21-50 – out.