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From The Top A Smell Of Corruption
Written
by Stephen Crockett, co-host of
Democratic Talk Radio
The shear number of
scandals that seem to link back to the highest reaches of the Bush
White House is alarming. They are so numerous that a short article is
insufficient to even list them much less accurately detail them. From
the CIA Agent Outing Scandal to the firing of US Attorneys for not
playing politics as prosecutors, links to George W. Bush, Dick Cheney
and Karl Rove are everywhere.
The scandals include large
matters like the Cheney Energy Taskforce and lying to the American
public to take us to war in Iraq. It goes into clearly illegal
political matters like the jamming of Democratic phone lines to rig US
Senate elections in New Hampshire. Often, the corruption is clearly
financial like the billions of taxpayer dollars missing in Iraq or the
questionable actions of Republicans in government like Paul Wolfowitz
who used his position to get a raise of over $100,000 a year in
taxpayer dollars for his girlfriend.
The corruption includes
campaign funds and public policy. Trade deals that benefit large
corporations but shaft taxpayers and American workers are key
components of the Republican culture of corruption. Blocking
universal, single-payer health care because of campaign donations is
part of the corruption.
Making unionization of
workers difficult or impossible is part of the Republican culture of
corruption. It is little wonder that this corrupt White House is
threatening to veto the Employee Free Choice Act. The right to
unionize has been stripped from huge number of American workers
including many nurses, graduate students and government employees.
Corruption has weakened
worker safety and anti-pollution efforts. Ineffective enforcement of
mine safety regulations may have been directly responsible for many
recent deaths of American miners.
American elections are
being impacted by the Republican culture of corruption. There has
never been a effective, unbiased criminal investigation of Katherine
Harris and the illegal fake felon purge in Florida just before the
2000 presidential election. This seemingly illegal activity is
directly responsible for putting the Bush gang in charge of the
federal government including law enforcement, prosecutors and court
appointments.
The US Attorney firings
are beginning to show the intense fear of the Bush Republican
leadership over exposure to unbiased law enforcement. Hopefully,
Americans now understand why the national Republican leadership has so
aggressively sought to pack the courts with ideologically extreme,
highly partisan judges.
We can all understand the
Republican push for more and more government secrecy. We understand
why Bush Republicans seem to push the idea that Bush Administration
personnel should not testify under oath and in public. We now
understand why the Bush Republicans seek powers to spy on American
citizens including the media and political opponents.
The common thread tying
all these factors together is the Republican culture of corruption.
Citizens can expect investigations to be attacked by Republicans with
charges of witch hunts and blocked at least temporarily by claims of
executive privilege. The dam has broken. The flood cannot be stopped.
Hopefully, with the help of American voters, the culture of corruption
will finally be washed away.
Written by Stephen
Crockett (co-host of Democratic Talk Radio
http://www.DemocraticTalkRadio.com ).
Mail: P.O. Box 283, Earleville, Maryland
21919. Phone: 443-907-2367. Email:
midsouthcm@aol.com .
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