McCain/Palin: GOP Lawmakers and Lawbreakers

First it was that awful Palin woman, a sitting governor, who refused to cooperate with a legally-sanctioned state investigation into allegations she abused the power of her office, now they’re trying to keep her staff from putting her on the hot seat, too.

Oh my gawd, they’re not even in office yet and they’re already flouting the law as if they were Jr. and Cheney themselves. And they only have to dick the law around for another six weeks or so before an election victory could give them the opportunity to ignore it altogether for at least another four years. Then pardon themselves on their way out the door should worst come to worst.

This is the “democracy” in action we’re trying to shove down the world’s throat at gun-point?

And this is the “change” these fuckers are threatening to bring to Washington? Who-knows-how-many more years of dodging subpoenas about “investigations under way,” instructing their subordinates to do the same, then refusing to comment on their lawbreaking because it’s “an investigation under way.” Which they’re not complying with. Regular people, the kind they’re peddling their political snake oil to in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana, go to jail when they ignore subpoenas, Republicans go to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Oh, and speaking of change, have you heard about John McCain’s response to the banking crisis? He wants a “9/11-type investigation” into what happened to this country’s financial institutions, institutions he has repeatedly voted to de-regulate. So he’s calling for an investigation of the crisis his actions helped facilitate at the same time as his running mate refuses to cooperate in a lawful investigation in which her wrongdoing in office might be revealed.

These fucking people make me want to puke. They make me miss the simple eloquence of evasions-under-oath like, “It depends on what your definition of is, is.” Clinton may have danced on the head of the pin when it came his time to participate in legally-sanctioned investigations into his ‘affairs’ in office, but at least he had the decency to participate. He had enough respect for the law to think that it applied to elected representatives, too, himself included.

...Not feeling as sorry for John McCain as I was yesterday.