Friday, November 03, 2006

Belated Post

A great deal of interesting news has come out while I havebeen away.

It is election season and while the Republicans might holda majority in the house and senate, it will not be a very significant one. The Republican party has by and large betrayed itself with a hear no evil seeno evil speak no evil attitude towards its own members. I am still a great believer in the Republican party, but only a Republican party that has much higher standardsof practice when it comes to member accountability. Regardless of external ethics rules, the party needs to police itself internally much better. Politicians should be careful about how they profit while in office, and while I think they have the right to be enterprising, they should maintain a levelof propriety that is above reproach.

Politicians have incredible access to money, power and avenues to increase those that normal citizens do not [Harry Reid Land deal]. While Harry Reid did nothing illegal, his actions were not above reproach. No Harry Reid's actions rise nowhere near the level of say Jack Abramoff and Co. But they were still not the cleanest of actions.

Tom Delay has been accused of some crimes, but so far nothing has come to light that substantiate the allegations. We shall se where that leads.

Mark Foley, well that was a landmine. He voted for a bill that became a law making his actions illegal. Well thats just stupid. So now he is a creep on par with Jon Mark Karr. He is out of office, and is also an alcoholic... Well great. The House leadership...what did they know? Well just as much as the FBI who also sought to do nothing about the origianal alleged emails. The IM's were something sandbagged by someone, some pranks others apparetly real.

I hope the public can screen the candidates betterthemselves. The funny thing is that even wives sometimes don't really know their own husbands and vice versa, so really getting to know your elected official can be an astronomical task. But it is our duty as citizens to keep these people accountable. Each election, each press conference, and each session of Congress.

due dilligence is the price we pay for having a representative government.