Revolution in reverse
Today's Washington Post has a great column piece by E. J. Dionne Jr. Entitled Revolution In Reverse Dionne offers a compelling case for why the House GOP is moving directly contrary to their own ethical claims from the 90's by voting to modify House Rules so that DeLay won't have to step down, temporarily, if he is indicted.
"And I want to say to you bluntly: You live today with the most corrupt congressional leadership we have seen in the United States in the 20th century. You have to go back to the Gilded Age of the 1870s and 1880s to have anything comparable that we've lived through."
Sounds like a Democrat venting frustration about the House GOP's ethics, right? But, it's actually a direct quote from Newt Gingrich in 1992 venting about House Democrats ethics. And it's not substantively different from what many Republicans said about the Clinton administration later in the 90's. Heck, even now many grassroots Republicans complain bitterly about Clinton's ethics. And of course we all remember the whole "rule of law" mantra that GOPers reiterated 24/7 when it was a Democrat falling short of ethical standards.
Where is the outcry from Republicans about the "rule of law" when it's Tom "the hammer" DeLay who appears to have fallen short of ethical standards? Some moderate Republicans like Rep. Shay of Conneticut are expressing disbelief and frustration with the downward ethical spiral that House Republicans seem bent on pursuing. But conservatives? :::silence:::
Hypocrits!
2 Comments:
There was a piece in the NY Post that I thought hit the nail on the head. John Poderatz cautioned the GOP on acting arrogant or they will lose their power.
The symbolism of this act is one that I think will come back to haunt the GOP.
It was a stupid rule that never should've been introduced by Republicans in the first place.
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