The Party of Values

The Grand Old Party.

Let's see what we've seen today from these great men, these staunch defenders of everything that's right with America, these mind-blowingly hypocitical bastards:

1) Ohio Representative Bob Ney. Current Representative Bob Ney. Who has pled guilty to taking bribes from White House friend and convicted criminal Jack Abramoff. Who's still in Congress, because he won't resign.

Now, to be fair, GOP leaders have said they intend to get rid of him as the "first order of business" in the next session. After the election.

Now, Ney's not totally ignorant of his need to resign. "Ney's lawyer, Mark Touhey, told the judge Ney would resign before sentencing on January 19. Under the Constitution, he'll be gone before then. His term expires when the new Congress is sworn in at noon on January 3."

And remember the Mel Gibson defense? The Mark Foley defense? "It weren't me, yer honorableness! It were the demon rum what made me do them awful things. I swears!"

"The treatment and counseling I have started have been very helpful, but I know that I am not done yet and that I have more work to do to deal with my alcohol dependency," he said in a written statement.

2) Connecticut Rep. Chris Shays. He's been saying stupid things lately, but he's hit a new height of ignorant and irresponsible with this one. During a debate on Wednesday, Shays said "Now I've seen what happened in Abu Ghraib, and Abu Ghraib was not torture. It was outrageous, outrageous involvement of National Guard troops from [Maryland] who were involved in a sex ring and they took pictures of soldiers who were naked." No, Chris, a sex ring is what Mark Foley was trying to turn the page dorm into. Abu Ghraib (photos here on Salon) is an example of humanity gone wrong.

I see the evil and greedy are busy today.