Sick of it...

I'm kind of sick of the bickering going on back and forth with the Republicans and the Democrats really. For example. Tom Delay gets indicted this week on some possibly campaign contribution money laundering items that the Texas DA (who happens to be a Democrat) brings against him in a grand jury in Texas, and they hand down an indictment. Delay, instead of coming out and saying something like I never did that, we're looking forward to having our day in court so I can prove my innocence, and so on and so forth, Delay's response is something more akin to, "This is just Ronnie Earl attempting a partisan attack on me. He's a democrat with an agenda, and this is nothing more than partisan politics..." Or something of that nature, sure eventually he gets around to saying something about not doing this evil deed, or breaking the law, but the first thing out of his mouth, is the new way the Republicans attack things, and that is to not talk about the issue, but to immediately attack the messenger, and to try and discredit whoever is coming at them. Ronnie Earl the Texas DA who got this indictment, his current record for prosecuting politicians has been 15 people. 12 of which have been democrats. Hmm... Super partisan is he? Then of course the next thing out of the Delay camp when this is brought to their attention is that, well, the democrats that he's prosecuted have been politician enemies of his. This guy is obviously so corrupt, and so partisan and willing to take out anyone in his way, that the good people of Texas have kept re-electing him to the office that he currently holds for almost 30 years. Yeah, he must be really out to get people. Maybe the problem is, is that he gets the people or tries to get the people that break the law, and most of the people he catches breaking said laws are the ones who seem to think that they can get away with anything (cough, cough, Delay, cough, cough). Then along comes this guy and says, not on my watch mo-fo you can't get away with this shit just because you're some high falutent politician. And hey, look. If this guy doesn't have anything on Delay, The Hammer will have his day in court, he'll not get convicted, and then he can go back to being the miserable son of a bitch that he is. Let's face it. Tom Delay is a mean mean man in politics. He rolls over people constantly, and makes no bones about what he thinks his "power" is. I was watching Hardball this evening on MSNBC, and they of course had a guy in Delay's home Congressional region, and they were asking people what they thought of this whole thing. The only people who would talk on camera where the ones who only had good stuff to say about Delay, and one woman who had served on a past grand jury that said she thought Texas grand juries did a good job of deciding the facts, and passing down indictments. The guy reporting on the scene summed it up best though in that, he said folks around there were starting to get disenchanted with Delay, but they didn't want to say that on camera, or give their names because they were afraid that if he heard it, there might be repercussions against them. What the Hell? Where do we live? The former Soviet Union? Damn, that's scary if his own constituents think that he might come after them in some way, shape or form because they spoke ill of Tom "dumb ass" Delay, I mean, that's just messed up pure and simple. Going back to his crying and whining about partisan politics. Hey, Delay, you're not helping matters much by saying that, you're just making the problem worse, and or creating a problem that wasn't there in the first place, and driving a wedge further between the 2 parties by mouthing off like that. And of course, the attacks on Ronnie Earl have begun in earnest from the right wing side of the spectrum. I heard it all today on talk radio. Rush, Boortz, and the rest of the Republican apologists were out there slinging mud at Earl. Not once did they actually talk about whether or not Delay may have done what they said he did, or address the actual issue that one of the more respected (by the Republicans bear in mind) Republican leaders had been indicted on serious felony criminal charges. They were too busy crying about partisan politics, and how Ronnie Earl was "out to get Delay". Obfuscation, and attacking the messenger, 2 things the Republican party has been so so good at since Bush took office. So good.

These high level politicians these days, like Delay are like the spoiled sports stars that we have in the US. They think that they can do anything, and pretty much get away with it. And sorry to say, they're probably right. So whenever I hear about a politician doing something wrong, or illegal, and I just assume that there's a very good chance that they did it. They think they are Gods, and that they can just do this or that. Doesn't matter to them. I think that's why Delay is probably guilty as hell, and if he is, I hope they nail his ass hard, and send him off to federal "bang me in the ass" prison.

Anyway, time to head off to sleep. This cat is tired as all get out. Just needed to get that other stuff out there for this evening.