Everywhere You Turn: Scandal, Corruption, etc, etc.

The Most Ethical Congress In History.

In 2006, for a total of 6 weeks leading up to the election, you could not turn a page or to a news station without the scandals of Republicans Mark Foley and Duke Cunningham being repeated and condemned by the Dems and their grunts in the media.

Ultimately, because of these two buffoons, the entire Republican party was looked upon as being corrupt, and majorities were lost in both the House and Senate. Speaker Nancy Pelosi proclaimed that hers would be "the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.". This is shaping up to be one of the sincerely dumbest statements she's ever uttered, and that is really saying something. With approval ratings for Congress at historical lows (around 15% approval), the only thing holding this House of cards together is a complicit media and an ever-revolving liberal spin machine.

This "most ethical Congress" has elevated some of the most incompetent, sleazy individuals imaginable into positions of the highest importance, reeking havoc with our financial system, and producing a Presidential candidate with enough dirty relationships that he makes Tony Soprano look like an alter boy.

The genesis of this current and unfolding financial crisis can be directly connected to the sub-prime mortgage bomb, which, at it's very core, has the fingerprints of several powerful, prominent Democrats. Senators Chris Dodd and Chuck Schumer, Representatives Barney Frank and Maxine Waters, and yes, even Barack Obama co-opted Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae as there own mortgage slush fund, forcing these entities to dole out loans and mortgages to people who were not qualified to receive them.

Because of this, we are now mired in their financial pool of corruption and insidious lack of prudence, with things revealing themselves to be worse everyday.
And that's not all! Many other stellar, ethical tendencies have produced some fine prospects for the good of our country. Things like Chris Dodd's sweetheart CountryWide mortgage deal, Barney Frank's "ex-partner" (who, among other things, Frank paid to have sex with) running what amounted to a brothel out of the basement of his house, and Senator Harry Reid passing legislation that all but guaranteed the firms of his son and son-in-law getting bundles of money from Nevada real-estate lobbyists.

All noble endeavours, of course, with the best intentions for the country in mind.

We need real change, but we are not going to get it with either the Democrats or the Republicans. They are two sides of the same coin.