LPA:Again we hear of scandal in Washington DC, and we have become almost immune to the news. Time after time, day after day, we hear of payoffs, pork-barrel subsidies, and now we hear of lobbyists paying off our elected officials with golf club memberships, yachts, and junkets accross the planet for themselves and their families.
If you are a Democrat, then you probably got have gotten an e-mail from the DSCC telling you to contribute to the Democratic Party, so that they can clean out the evil Republican politicans in the 2006 elections. What they fail to mention, is that there are more than a few Democrats throwing Jack Abramoff's money at the first charity that will take it. Does that surprise you? Probably not. The truth of the matter is that I don't believe any of these allegations are surprising anyone that has kept up with politics for the last few decades. The only thing I find surprising, is that they had gotten so bold about it, that they hardly tried to cover their tracks. I believe that many of the Washington gang had done it for so long, that they thought of it as business as usual. I saw Newt Gingrich on CBS News, talking with Bob Schiefer how the politicians had violated not only the law, but their contstituents trust for them to uphold the laws that they helped to legislate. Hearing the former Speaker of The House who resigned, rather than face public scrutny for his personal infidelities, reminded me of Tom Delay promising a "Republican Revoulution" that would bring American values back to Washington in 1995. You can't tell the politicians from the criminals without doing an NCIC background check anymore. It doesn't really matter whether they are Washington insiders or outsiders, because it doesn't take any of them long to learn the ropes. They deny everything until the indictments start rolling down the corridors, then they get all teary-eyed and tell us how they didn't know what they were doing. I remember trying that line on my Dad a few times. I found out it was better to just admit it and take the consequences. It only made things worse to act like I didn't know right from wrong. Especially when it was my Dad that taught me in the first place.
This is one reason we decided to start this New Party. I can't trust any political Party on their platform, or their people anymore. I saw Clinton being castigated since the day he took office. He was the most investigated President that we ever had. I remember the Special Prosecutor Starr, hounding him for every deal he ever made as a businessman or a lawyer and came up with nothing. This President has lied to the American people almost everyday that he's held office, but I see no Special Prosucutor asking where the Weapons of Mass Destruction are. I see no congessional commitee investigating him fror wiretapping Americans in full violation of the Constitution. Where is the oversight on this administration? The only time I hear criticism is when the Democrats are e-mailing me for contributions. Meanwhile I now hear that Iraqi deaths are estimated to be around the 100,000 mark. How many people have to die before anyone asks why we are there in the first place?
No, it doesn't surprise me that Jack Abranoff was paying off politicians under the guise of a "lobbyist". There are many things that are happening in this country that are far worse than that. It is about time that the American people take back their government in Washington by sending those that aren't doing what they were elected to do, home. The only way we can do that is by defeating these political elite at the polls. That is why we are here. That is why the American people will be hearing from us more and more, with each passing day. The time to act is now. We can't do this alone. It has to be an American movement. It starts not with just a new political party, but a new American spirit. It starts with American Values that our forfathers taught to us. It starts with looking back to the past, and taking the things that Jefferson, and Washington, and Adams, and all the other forefathers of our country taught us, and applying it to today's world. It takes rememembering Eisenhower's last speech about the military-industrial complex. It takes remembering the word's of JFK when he told us "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country". It takes American men and women to stand up for to stand up for not what is just convieniant or expediant, but for what is morally right. To stand up, not for what someone tells you is right, but what you feel is right. It is time to listen with not just our ears, but with our hearts.