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Wait…you mean to tell me that a governor from Illinois is corrupt? Next you’re going to tell me that 60 seconds=1 minute. While the right is scrambling like the one lemming with common sense on the precipice of the cliff to wrap President-Elect Obama to Blago, the rest of us over here in the real world are pushing the IL state legislature, and/or the IL Supreme Court, to bounce Blago faster than you can say, “George W. Bush is a war criminal”.

Which brings me to the title of this post. I can’t help but notice that when a GOPer gets indicted, the right-and their propaganda machine-rally behind these crooks and say things like, “leftist conspiracy”, or, “witch hunt”, or, “he was just trying to get toilet paper off the bottom of his shoe”.

There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that Blago deserves to go to prison. In fact, the loudest cries are coming from Democrats in Washington- including the President-elect. Were it not for the push by Barack Obama to get ethics reforms passed in the IL state legislature, it would have been more difficult for Blago to get his indictment.

This sudden exercise in character on the part of the GOP looks about as convincing as UFOs in an Ed Wood flick. But it doesn’t stop with Blago.

Senator Arlen “magic bullet” Specter (Senile Old Man-PA) has called for a delay in the confirmation of Eric Holder. Never mind that he jumped on the bandwagon to fast track John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, and Michael Mukasey. Never mind that Holder was appointed by Reagan, or that Holder himself prosecuted some very high profile Democrats. Nope, Specter is putting the brakes on the confirmation because Holder didn’t step in and cancel the pardon of Marc Rich.

I know, it sounds really fucking dumb to me, too.

Get used to this kind of behavior from Republicans, friends and neighbors. The same people that let it slide when Mukasey said waterboarding was only torture if it happened to him will stop at nothing to shove a broomstick in the spokes of progress.  So I’m going to ask you guys to do me a favor…in the next couple of weeks, write some Op-Ed pieces about some of the biggest disasters of the Bush Administration-and the members of Congress who were quick to usher them in. Chances are, you’ll find the same people are now playing obstructionist.

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