REPUBLICANS NOW A LIABILITY THAN A REAL ASSET.

Instead of blaming everyone for the faults and failures of its own party and representatives, the GOP should try--for once!--to own up to the fact that no amount of finger-pointing and heated accusations will erase their own depravity and endless shame.

From Abramoff, to DeLay, to Duke Cunningham...and now Mark Foley, the GOP has each and every time sought to place the blame on some obscure incident or loss of self-control--even go as far as blaming minorities, liberals, even Democrats for their mistakes.

Whatever happened to holding themselves accountable and recouping the high ground as a result? Is there something so wrong with that ideal? Or is admitting to mistakes a crime in the circle of politics these days?

Well, whatever the excuse is now, the GOP has proven to the American people and the world, that it cannot lead or make those tough decisions which have greatly affected everyone around them.

Instead, they foot drag their way through, while bungling up one opportunity after another. And when the stuff really hits the fan, they seek to smear those underneath them as being the primary troublemakers and attack their patriotism.

If a group as corrupt, incompetent, and morally bankrupt as the GOP is allowed to foster its poisoned ideals and blind ignorance to those around it, it doesn't give much credence and strength to the country as a whole.

It becomes a weakness. It becomes a liability in the end. And we know what we do to things that become liabilities, don't we?

It gets cut.

Schuyler Thorpe

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