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On days of Republican leaders live...a recap of live soap opera.... (April 6, 2006 11:07 AM)
Posted by: Good Will
Ever watch a soap opera and wonder why is it that everyone is plotting and backstabbing and getting even and blah...blah... Of course on TV they do it to keep the viewer interested in watching. What the excuse of many Republican leaders...and the days of their lives?
Lets begin...

Vice President Dead-eye Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff Scooter Libby resigns after being indicted on felony charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements in the CIA leak investigation

President Bush severely criticized for his role in the domestic NSA wire tap program;

Close advisor Karl Rove deeply involved in the same investigation that indicted Scooter Libby

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has been severely criticized for his role in the torture memos.

Tom DeLay, former GOP House Leader already under indictment in Texas, suddenly resigned from Congress Tuesday under a swirling dark cloud of corruption speculation after two of his former senior aids copped pleas and a third may be about to follow suit (Lindsay Beyerstein)

Senate Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist is under investigation for possible securities violations regarding his stock in the company his family founded. He has not been charged with any wrongdoing

Leading Bush 2000 Campaign contributor and personal friend to the President, Ken Lay, currently being tried for his alleged role in the Enron debacle while he was CEO

Ohio Republican crony Tom Noe indicted on 2/13/06 on 53 counts, including forgery, money laundering, and theft, related to Coingate (Background and mugshot). By some reports, Noe was on the verge of being put in charge of the U. S. Mint in some senior level capacity

Top-Gun Republican Congressman Randall Cunningham sentenced to eight years and four months in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges of accepting over two million dollars in bribes

Republican mega-money man Jack Abramoff plead guilty to several felony corruption charges and is facing the distinct possibility of more. Currently free after being sentenced to over five years in prison to cooperate in other investigations one of which involves the gangland style execution of Konstantine Boulis

Presidential Domestic Policy Advisor and self proclaimed Christian conservative Claude Allen arrested for his alleged leading role in a seedy, felony shoplifting racket

Department of Homeland Security Assistant Press Secretary Brian Doyle facing arrest on 23 charges related to soliciting sex from a 14 year-old minor in a police sting operation (Don't you feel safer?)

David Safavian, who quit on Sept. 16 as head of procurement policy at the White House Office of Management and Budget, was arrested yesterday on charges of making false statements and obstructing the inquiry.

Source: dailykos.org

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