Dr. Forbush Thinks

Didn’t I write this before? If I have, which I most likely have, it needs to be written again. After all, the truth can not be repeated to often. If it was, the marketing firms for corporate America would go out of business.

The latest corruption scandal to rear its ugly head is of course the deceit of the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives over the disgusting behavior of the gay pedophile, Mark Foley. I’m guessing that most Americans are certainly willing to forgive a pedophile, as long as he’s a Republican, but most Republicans certainly like their pedophiles, straight. So, what is the Republican Party that hates gays doing with a gay pedophile amongst its ranks?

Well, most Republicans must be thinking that Mr. Foley must have been able to keep his activity as secret as the White House plan for Iraq, but today we know that that isn’t exactly the truth. In fact, the Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert was informed of Mr. Foley’s activities before this was released to the public. Of course, as with the rest of the Republican agenda, these things have priorities. For example, maintaining control of congress takes priority over protecting the pages at the Capitol. Isn’t it strange how things seemed so different in 1999 when the congress, lead by the Republicans that that the protection of interns that were of age was the top priority, when they brought forth Articles of Impeachment? Maybe the American people will now be able to shed the light of truth on these last few years of politics. If the American people consider that the Republicans actually took Bill Clinton to the woodshed for their own benefit, then they shouldn’t be surprised by the fact that they protected their own for political purposes as long as they could. This, of course, is major hypocrisy.

But, as I have said before, the Republican Party is build on the hypocrisy of saying whatever will get a politician elected, and then following the Party agenda once elected. These two items are not always in lock step with each, and most often are not even close to the same priority level. We have seen this through out the last five years for certain. They frighten the people about terrorism to get elected, then drag their feet on protecting our ports, chemical and nuclear plants that are the most vulnerable targets in our country. They tell us about the danger of gay marriage being the most important threat to the welfare of our country, then they remain quiet about a homosexual pedophile soliciting sex from a 16-year-old page.

This hypocrisy is a metaphor in microcosm if you just look at Mark Foley’s efforts on Capital Hill. In private he is a homosexual pedophile. But, in congress he is chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children. He exploits children in private, while he passes laws that he intends to break in public. But, it seems to me this is exactly what the Republicans have done with the Torture Law that was just passed by the congress. The “stay the course” President, George W Bush, does not intend to change anything that they are doing in the “War on Terror.” He was encouraging the passage of a law that would offer the fewest violations for those who continued to follow the administration policy, but the public was lead to believe that they will adhere to the Geneva Convention’s language. The truth is that the law is left ambiguous while it gives more power to the Executive Branch to determine what torture should be defined as. Obviously, the secrecy of the administration is quite helpful in maintaining the status quo, like it was for Mark Foley.

This hypocrisy is seen over and over again. We can look at the tax cuts for the wealthy passed by George W Bush and the Republicans. The voters who elected these Republicans to congress were convinced that their personal tax burden would be reduced in order for them to get tax relief, but very little real tax relief went to this segment of our society. Enormous tax breaks went to the wealthy that could potentially live on their stock dividends at a much lower tax rate than the person working at the Wall Mart or Seven Eleven. And, the wealthy are actually trying to reduce this tax on their dividends to zero. This means that a person born into a wealthy household could be given a gift of stock, or they could inherit all of their parent’s stock and spend only their tax dividends with out paying income tax on that money at all. Where is the civic responsibility in this equation?

The Republicans obviously want to contain this corruption, but the truth is that the Republican Party is built on a flawed political ideology of personal selfishness. People attracted to the Republican Party want personal gain for their allegiance to the Party. They believe that small government is good, because they will be able to keep more of their personal wealth. They want reduced taxes and fewer government projects because they believe that this mayhem will result in more personal opportunity to exploit the system. They don’t have morals, but they believe that passing laws that make religious moral violations a crime will win them more votes to pass more laws that will make them wealthier. In fact, the hypocrisy goes so far that they cut welfare so that single working women need to leave their kids unsupervised while they work to feed them, but they have thousands of corporate welfare laws where wealthy corporations get tax breaks for doing what they had planned to do all along.

Hypocrisy is a dangerous moral strategy, because it means that you have sold your soul to the highest bidder. Hypocrisy with greed at the center makes every hypocrite on Capital Hill a National Security Threat. When we have a congress lead by hypocrites looking for the best deal, but with access to all levels of government, then all a terrorist needs to do is pay off a congressman with a need for cash and the terrorist has access to the same things that that congressmen has access to. If many congressman has such low moral standards to exploit children, whose to say that he wouldn’t exploit the National Security of our nation?








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