I have a hard time dealing with stupidity before I’ve had my first cup of coffee.
Has society come to just blindly accept as “business as usual” that politicians, like lawyers, eat their young? No one is very surprised any more when what used to be headline scandals involving Democrats are now little more than “look at me!” Twitter twitches traipsing like tiny Tinkerbells across the national conscience. Certainly, the left-wing bias of the mainstream media will be reluctant to shine light on even the most blatant cheating and indiscretions of Democrats currently bragging and bullying their “progressive” take-down agenda around Washington like a bunch of drunken high school rebels with a dangerous cause, but where, oh, where is the collective voice of the American people?
GOP consultant Joe Gaylord, an aide to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, recently told FOXNews.com he believes GOP values and principles played a role in getting more attention paid to ethics accusations against Republican lawmakers.
“Republicans who have generally used the ethics process become much more susceptible to the hypocrisy charges because they set a high standard for how people should behave,” he said. “Then when a Republican doesn’t behave properly, it becomes a bigger story.”
No, Mr. Gaylord. The fact is that nobody likes a hypocrite. Period.
It’s that very same decided air of snobbish moral superiority, used to cover up the reality many Republicans are just as outright corrupt as the majority of today’s Democrats that causes them to think they’re strung up higher when caught. And about as effective as that Saran Wrap covering yesterday’s Republican TARP pork sitting next to the dish of Democratic TARP pork in the refrigerator.
I have a suggestion. Both parties need to clean up their act. Then we, the people, need to put the media in its place and go clean the House. And the Senate.