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"Americans voted for change. Barack Obama promised that he would have the most open and honest administration and transition in history," said RNC chairman Mike Duncan, on a conference call just now with reporters. "But that's not what we're getting. What we're getting is the same old politics out of Chicago."
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I shouldn't have to comment on this but a Republican has the sack to cry about Barry's transparency and openness? Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
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"If he really wants to be transparent, if he truly is wanting to do the right thing and move the country forward, he has got to talk about his relationship with Rezko and with the governor," Duncan said, later adding: "He's got to come clean and have a press conference where he talks about what they've done in the past, the help that they've done, conversations that they've done."
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The hypocrisy of the Republicans is unbelievable. After 8 years of lies, deception, and criminal secrecy, their chutzpah is amazing. Allow me to cite a couple examples off the top of my head:
Jack Abramoff
Cheney's Energy Task Force
Allowing bin Laden's family to leave the States after 9/11
Allowing New Yorkers to return to Ground Zero, even though the air was still toxic.
Scooter
And I bet I could fill up the page if I actually used the Google. Does anyone think, after watching Barry on the campaign trail for the last 2 years, he is dumb enough to get involved with Blagojevich? I'd even be willing to bet it was Obama's people who dropped a dime on Blago after he tried to shake them down for the Valerie Jarrett appointment. That was the feeling I got after looking over the indictments; after the 'sure thing' to replace Barry in the Senate suddenly withdrew her name.
The Republicans need to STFU and pray the Dems remain their usual spineless selves and not investigate what went on the last 8 years. Obama is too clean for them to treat him like the Clintons. Pat Fitzgerald already said there is no link and that's good enough for me (Fitz for AG?).
I'm tired of all the whining from the children in the Republican Party. They rail against what, a few months ago, was business as usual. They complain when the shoe is on the other foot, when they realize their incompetence and criminality might be exposed to the light (Fitz for AG?).
There are crooks everywhere and the Justice Department's job is to find and prosecute them, whatever their party affiliation. If they're Dems like Blago and William Jefferson or Republicans (time and space constraints preventing me from posting a list; literally hundreds), they all need to go. With a Justice Department staffed with professionals instead of political hacks, I'm sure we'll see a lot more fall in the coming year (Fitz for AG?).
I'm also sure the conservative mouthpieces like Lintball and Hannity will make hay out of this and a lot more (wait for the shouts of 'culture of corruption' in the Democratic Party) before the inauguration, let alone after. See it for what it is, a smokescreen to curb Obama's (and the Dems') power and preclude investigation of exactly what laws were broken during the Bush administration. They need someone else to blame for the mess we're in.
This January we can begin to correct things, to right the ship of state and return it to the proper course. The Republicans will lie and obstruct to prevent that from happening. They know their party (and what it's become) can't survive in a progressive America and will do and say anything to ensure their existence. The noise from the Right will get louder and the bullshit will come in like the high tide. They are incompetent, bankrupt of ideas and solutions, and the only tools they have are manufactured scandal, fear, and divisiveness; acts of desperation.
After watching what they did to Clinton, I do not envy Obama trying to govern in this environment.
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