Snow And Hornswoggle

Oh my goodness, guess who's back!

If it isn't ole Tom DeLay.

He's flicking the dust off his fleece suit, heartedly slapping his old pals on the back, and resolidifying his power on the hill.

Can you beat that !!!

Thought ole Tom was a goner when he was indicted in Texas on illegal campaign fund-raising charges, but no! the Republican party, known as the party of graft and greed, has honored dear ole Tom with power positions. A seat on the Appropriations Committee and a seat on the subcommittee overseeing the Justice Department.

Now, how fishy is that?

The Appropriation seat DeLay is inheriting hasn't had time to cool since Calf. Rep. "Duke" Cunningham occupied it. What a lucrative seat! Cunningham was able to steal $2.4 million while sitting in it. Bet the Republican party thinks ole DeLay aught to be able to refill their coffers with more than that !!!

Republican party motto: It takes a crook to replace a crook, eh?

But hold onto your hosses, padre, the intrigue doesn't stop there. That second seat? On the subcommittee overseeing the Justice Department? It's the very one investigating the influence-peddling scandal perpetrated by Jack Abramoff and his cronies.

It doesn't take two steps into the goose down to figure out what will happen next. There's gonna be a whole bunch of whitewashing going on, isn't there? Are those gangsters going to be exonerated, or what?

Talking about exoneration . . . are there going to be new laws in Texas? A bit more flagrant than DeLay's redistricting schemes? Say! Texas is George W's home state, isn't it?

Those Republicans! They sure hate to see all that ill-gotten money slip out of their checking accounts, don't they? Musta darn near killed 'em to have to donate the Abramoff rake-offs to charity. What better way to restore it than to appoint DeLay to these two positions?

Guess that it just goes to show that those wily Bush Republicans can steal a fella blind . . . and get away with it.
Snow And Hornswoggle © 2006 Chaeli Lee Sullivan