Can't touch this.

So House Majority Tom DeLay seems pretty much like a scum bag. To save you, the reader, the hassle of actually reading up on current events (better get back to the MJ trial) I'll paraphrase, the Hammer as he's known for his love of MC Hammer or being a bad ass politico basically took money from people he really shouldn't have. And then he was heavily connected with another guy who had some shady dealings with doling out money as well. Anyways, he's in hot water.

My question is why are the Republican's supporting this guy. Rep. Chris Shays is one of the few who isn't supporting him, but it seems he stands fairly alone. After the fuss that came up over changing the House rules on whether or not the Majority leader would have to resign after being indicted (which it looked like would happen at the time due to some "irregularities" in Texas) you would think the Republican's would slowly step away from Rep. DeLay, I would at least. Why would you want to protect a guy who is making a farce of the system, someone who is cheating in the land of the free and fair. He's making the Republicans look bad. But I don't know what's going on. I understand that DeLay has been a very powerful force for the Republican party of late, but this is politics, when you miss your step, you fall. Maybe it's some of that Bush loyalty that we've heard so much about. The administration is using it's power in the party to protect Rep. DeLay. Who knows, anyone have any other ideas?

D-E-M-I... whatever

So I was watching CSPAN like two days ago. Yeah that's right, I'm a lazy slacker that watches CSPAN for fun while others work. But anyway in the House they were discussing the Estate tax and whether or not to permanently repeal it. Rep. McDermott (D) from Washington got up there and started talking. That's fine, I'm not into the whole tax thing, but in this great country we have representatives who try and make the right decisions.

But Rep. McDermott gets up and talks about Teddy Roosevelt and the Republicans. I can't even tell you the what he was arguing about besides obviously he was against repealing the tax. He said it would create an oligarchy (he said it, not me!). So then he says, "... Republican, R-E-P-I... whatever..." Brilliant. You can't even spell Republican. Listen, I'm no genius, but I'm also not in the House of Representatives. And I don't mean this to be an Ad Hominem attack (which it is), his argument may have been good (I didn't pay attention).

But I got to thinking, where is the CSPAN bloopers tapes. He's certainly not the first to be stupid on television, so let's get all the silly moments of Senators and Representatives on CSPAN 4 (or whatever). I scare myself with my own brilliance. (And yeah, I probably misspelled something or some grammatical error, sue me.)