The Rooster Gets Tough

It's nice to see that someone in the Republican party is finally standing up and talking about taking action against the sleeze and corruption that has taken over the grand old party. Convicted congressman Duke Cunningham (R-Leavenworth) and soon to be convicted Tom DeLay (R-Lucifer) and Bob "this vote for sale" Ney of Ohio and all the other Republican soon to be ex-congressman and prison inmates must be quaking in their boots at the proposal from Mark Kirk. Congressman Kirk currently is in his last term (absently) representing the 1oth congressional district of Illinois. He follows the leadership of his president by only appearing in public at staged events with the "public" consisting only of his hand-picked supporters. Bush has chosen the wildly imaginative nickname of Markie for our congressman, even though Kirk has pleaded with Bush to call him Rooster. Now, what kind of supposedly grown man has to give nicknames to everyone? As I recall from my youth, the people who gave out nicknames were either bullies or idiots. Your choice...yes, you can pick both. Now, we also need to ask, why would anyone ASK to be called Rooster? Anyways, statesman Kirk has said Congress must reassure voters that it is taking its members' ethics problems seriously. He wants to deny pensions, floor access and parking privileges to congressmen who are convicted of felonies. That's right you merchants of sleeze...when you sell out your country for a few thousand dollars in bribes, you will no longer have a reserved parking space at the Capital!!!!! After serving a couple of months at a country club type prison (assuming you don't get a presidential pardon) and returning to Washington to make several times your congressional salary as a "lobbyist" in one of the many K Street firms whose staffs are managed by DeLay, you will have to find your spot to park your Lexus. Try finding a space in the overburdened parking garages of DC and pay $18 out of your own pocket for the privilege. If that doesn't get Republican congressmen to abandon their corrupt ways, I'm sure the Rooster will come up with something even tougher...could we someday see felons being denied a table at the congressional cafeteria?!

Blank Justifies the Means

Is it possible for the ends to justify the means when there is no end? In an amazing feat of chutzpah, or maybe he just doesn't listen to or understand what he is reading when giving a speech, Bush today said that he accepted responsibility for taking the U.S. to war in Iraq based on faulty intelligence while saying the invasion still was justified by the threat posed by Saddam Hussein and international terrorism. Coincidentally, this came just one day after Kenny Boy Lay gave a speech pointing out his innocence against charges of being the poster boy of corporate criminals. Taking direction from his leader and pardonner, Ken's next speech will no doubt take responsibility for ruining the lives of thousands of employees and customers of Enron, but that his actions were justified because he and his buddies made a lot of money.