The oh-so-moral types who think the law is for everyone else. . .next. . .

Wanted to get rid of the Clean Air and Water Act-is that true. What the USA needs, polluted water and air. Appeals to the most stupid hillbillies, hayseeds, rednecks and rubes.

As crooks go, this former bug exterminator eschews sublety and emerges as little more than a common thug who has somehow transcended the political dung heap from which he emerged and become a national figure. I think the trend he's representative of is far more disturbing and depressing than he himself could ever be (after all, prosaic con-men are pretty much a dime a dozen, however elevated their station in life may be). After Johnson, Nixon, Watergate, Vietnam, IranContra, etc. etc....we seem to have become a calloused, indifferent nation with a blunted moral sense. Nothing seems to shock us anymore; no crime or malfeasance or mendacity. We're more concerned about where Michael Jackson's glove has been than we are by the multiplicity of increasingly complex problems that plague this nation. We're more indignant about Janet Jackson's naked breast than we are about Bush lying us into a war with no end in sight. Ethics, morals, logic...all have become a sort of laughable relic of the past, at least to a lot of people in positions of power. People like DeLay or Bush or Cheney will invoke the names of people like Washington or Jefferson at the drop of a hat, particularly if they want to emphasize the patriotic nature of the theocracy we've become. My suspicion, however, is that if there is such a thing as an afterlife, Jefferson and Washington are turning over in their graves.

Delay is screwing up America through his pro-Terri Schiavo efforts? That's the problem with him? OK.