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Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
You reap what you sow
by Rich Galen
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  • I don't care how many times the news programs, papers and magazines tell us the blowout last night was because of the Iraq war.

  • It wasn't.

  • It was because the American public has decided that Republicans are no longer good stewards of the US Congress and threw them out.

  • The Republican Leadership has allowed the Members to engage in self-dealing on an unprecedented scale. Whether it was trips paid for by lobbyists; hiring family members at high salaries to plan parties; steering consulting business to former staffers; or outright bribery, Members of Congress have been developed a sense of entitlement which would embarrass most of us.

  • The Republican Leadership has allowed the Members to spend too much of our money on projects most of us don't care about, don't need and, if we knew about them, wouldn't want.

  • These are "earmarks" - the business of demanding that Federal agencies spend hundreds of millions of our tax dollars to placate favored friends, businesses, donors and/or lobbyists which became the norm among members of the Appropriations Committees.

  • Appropriations Committee and Subcommittee chairs are known as "The Cardinals," which indicates their high status as first amongst equals. It was a title they have embraced. It was a position younger Members aspired to. Get a position on an Appropriations sub-committee and your fund-raising problems are over.

  • Maybe it was always thus, but we expected better of the inheritors of the Gingrich Revolution.

  • The Mark Foley matter was not the norm, but it became the shorthand for everything a majority of Americans thought had gone wrong with the Republican Leadership in the House.

  • We have been told the House Leadership only knew about the e-mails, but didn't know about the instant messages until they became public and we all found out about them.

    • A. If it takes that long to explain something, you've already lost the argument and,

    B. The House Leadership has done nothing to give us any confidence they were telling us the truth.

  • The Republican members of the House Leadership couldn't get their stories straight. They couldn't remember who had told what to whom or when. All we knew was that it looked very much like they - either by themselves or through their staffs - were protecting a potential pedophile, allowing him to continue to prey on House Pages.

  • And you wonder why, as of 2:30 AM on Wednesday morning, according to CNN, the Democrats have picked up 26 seats; a number which will most certainly go higher as more votes are counted and more concession speeches are required.
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    Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. Rich Galen currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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    Reply # 1
    Date: Nov 10, 2006 - 7:57 AM EST
    MyOpine
    I know. After 9/11, like many Americans I wanted to know.....WHY. What I've learned is that it has nothing to do with our government though the media et al tries to make it so.

    It is 'US'. Our society, our culture and our individual freedoms - that they hate. And they think they know better than us how to run our lives. And EVERY American needs to understand that.

    There are so many threats against our way of life and people had better wake up if we are to survive.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s13D4JwpJUY

    http://www.anti-cair-net.org/

    The new Minnesota Congressman
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25321











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    Date: Nov 9, 2006 - 8:48 PM EST
    Laughing@you
    This is only a short preview but it will stiffen the hair on your neck.
    http://www.obsessionthemovie.com
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