This smacks, by the way, of the same type of cover-up that the Catholic Church has now disavowed.  It cost the Church millions of dollars and resulted in great shame.  Hastert & Co. are as smarmy as the Church was in their cover-up.  One, they need to go in shame.  Two, a fund needs to be created for the interns affected by all this, carved out of Hastert’s personal fortune, or a lawyer needs to be appointed to charge Hastert with conspiracy and perjury, and to sue for injuries and damages.  If those who perpetrated this, and helped to conceal it, are taken care of, the Republican Party can claim clean hands.  Remember, this is not the rank and file, this is the Leadership of the Party.

If you don’t think that “Power corrupts. Absolutely power corrupts absolutely,” all you have to do is look at the Foley-Hastert scandal. There was talk of taking Foley’s campaign contributions and giving it to another Republican group; Hastert wrote the letter to the FBI; why isn’t an independent counsel called for when the fact is these were not rank and file, these were the Republican Party Leadership?

For those who still want to vote Republican, think, really think, about the alternative. Sure the Democrats are spineless and whimpy. But what you’re proposing, not voting for them is playing the victim, and that seems to be the role they’ve assigned for yourselves. When you get over it, and strike back to reclaim the electorate by asking the hard questions and not dumbing down statements like “Bush lied today”, or “Bush made wildly conflicting statements today” or “Bush didn’t answer the question he was asked.” When this begins to happen, when influential people say, Stop the madness, they won’t be victims any more. So if you help Republicans in any way, by not voting or by not persuading your friends and family to vote, by not contributing to the Democrats, you’ll be helping to promote a draft, long term war, destruction of this country as we know it, among other things too stupid to mention. So make sure the Democrats win this time around, and don’t jawbone about it or prevaricate or think about how inept or stupid they are, just vote for them. Right now the Democrats are the only force that will balance off the Republican’s march to a totalitarian state; they may become corrupt but it’ll take some time for that to happen.