Newt issued a statement:
"The President has to decide: Is he the crony of a corrupt capital or the courageous reformer? What frightens me is that they [the White House] don't seem to know."
Rush Limbaugh puts his two-cents in:
"You [the Congress] haven't been doing the work of the country. . . . You guys are our employees and you treat people in the country like we are your employees and you're the boss."
Too bad these quotes were from 1992!
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These quotes are from
a very interesting article I stumbled across from those paragons of fairmindedness,
The National Review.
The article is about the House Banking Scandal. (or Rubbergate as it was called them because it was around bouncing checks. Ha, ha. What wits.)
It's very interesting to read the outrage, the naked partisan struggle these "Young Turks" (Santorum among them) were in the midst of while trying to make this into a scandal to bring down the Democratic stranglehold of control. Two years later, it worked.
Read the article. Learn from those who were successful in the past. Wave these words of righteous indignation in the faces of the hypocrits who talked a good game of reform back them, but then turned right around and screwed the public like nothing seen before.
For those of you not familiar with the House Banking Scandal, there was a House Bank which was really a check cashing service for House members. Due to lax rules and a lazy old-fashioned system, members routinely bounced checks and were not fined any fees. A few took advantage of this to get illegal paycheck advances, but most didn't even know they were overdrawn since the bank would sometimes take 7 weeks to post checks.
So, if any of your right wingnut friends, relatives or coworkers tries to make the comparison between the House Banking Scandal and today's Abramoff festivities, don't buy it. Tell them you agree with Newt, for once.
Plane Crazy