Article on Gore with Blog Post

Submitted by John Korab on 2006, January 11 - 7:02pm.

The original article is here...
http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2006/01/gore.html#comment-12993940

My response to the blog comments....

It takes a lot of nerve, or perhaps denial, for any Republican supporter to attack the Democrats as phoneys. On a personal level, you should spend some time noticing the bad toupees on Ney, Delay, Lott, and others. On a political level, Republicans lie so much that they can't even keep their stories straight and they're all as crooked as a dog's hind leg. Jack Abramoff is the symptom of a much larger, cynical Republican assult on America. Are they Nazis? No! Are they fascists and social darwinists? YES!

And

Oops... forgot this... Abramoff's two best friends in the Young Republicans were Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist. Jack was the bridge between them and, in fact between the two halves of the Republican Party... the flat-earther and the flat-taxers. Bush and the rest pretend that Abramoff is an isolated case of scandal, but he is, in fact, one of the architects of the current Republican regime in Washington. In other words, there are only really two kinds of Republicans... The corrupt ones and the ones in denial.

I think it's important we make it clear that some people are simply in denial :-)

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Update
Submitted by John Korab on 2006, January 19 - 9:05pm.

I got a respose, so I added some stuff :-D

What takes a lot of nerve, John, is for a Dem to criticize the bad toupees of any Republican when the crown-jewel of bad toupees sits on Jim Traficant's head...lol :P

(oh, and he's in jail for being corrupt... Dems seem to have forgotten that little tidbit)

Some republicans will be indicted (or at least so wrapped up in scandal that they are rendered moot), but the Dems STILL won't win back Congress, because you are all inept

Posted by: Talk about bad toupee...

My Response...

Traficante is bad news... I've never seen his toupee... but he's certainly not part of a much larger problem, like Abramoff is. Campaign rhetoric aside, the Republican party has become the party of open, even brash, influence peddling to the highest bidder. From bankruptcy laws written by creditors, to environmental regulations rewritten by polluters, to taxing and spending policies that benefit large multinationals while hurting small family businesses, to a foreign policy that always seems to begin with the question "What's best for Halliburton?"; the Republican party is selling us down the river.. lock, stock, and barrel.

Will the Dems win back Congress? I dunno. But for the sake of America's future everyone not in utter denial should vote out the corruption, influence peddling, and social Darwinism because the consequences of our current course are very unpleasant.

AND...

The thing about corruption is that there will always be some corrupt people in any walk of life. Democrat... Republican... it doesn't matter, there will always be some. As aware citizens we can act to lessen the impact of bad government.

The problem with Abramoff is something new and different. This guy was the ultimate Republican insider. His little illegal campaign funding scheme was so huge that it touches nearly every Republican holding public office today.

Bush's repeated evasions aside, Abramoff was in so tight with the White House that he served on Bush's 2000 transition team.

Fellow Americans... Republican, Democrat, whatever... put aside your petty partisan bickering, denials, and evasions our country is in serious danger and needs to be saved from the crooks currently running it. They are stealing not only from you, but from grandma and your kids!

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