Seriously, this administration is starting to look like that old television show in which contestants lined up their shopping carts in a grocery store and, on the signal, began running around throwing every valuable item they could find in their carts. Whoever grabbed the most high-priced items won. The contestants here and now are corporations and lobbyists.
The amusing case of the congressman whose house was bought by the founder of a defense firm for $700,000 more than it was worth is being exceptionally well-reported by the congressman's hometown paper, the San Diego Union-Tribune. You will not be amazed to learn the congressman in question (Randy Cunningham) oversees the committee that grants contracts to that very defense firm.
The story gets better by the day -- the congressman lives on a yacht in D.C. owned by the defense contractor, and employees of the defense firm say they were threatened with firing if they did not give to the company PAC. Well shut my mouth!
Meanwhile, the Senate has endorsed the Bush administration's do-nothing policy on global warming by approving a measure that avoids mandatory reductions of heat-trapping pollution. These are the same bozos who refuse to require better mileage per gallon from the auto industry, even though the technology is readily available.
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Molly Ivins: The Republican Shopping Spree
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We have no one to blame for this type of unlawful behavior through greed and blatant belief that would ever,these politicians care to do with our money is perfectly okay,we have no one to blame but the fifty or so million people that elected these bums we have in office in the Bush administration,Bush seems to have given along with Cheney carte blanche to anyone they can get rich via this conflict in Iraq regardless of how many people who died blood must be on that money. T.A.
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