How more outrageous can they get?

Anyone remember the Plame affair?

Well, let's see. The Bush/Cheney bunch caught once again ignoring the laws by secretly monitoring International banking. They are furious that the media revealed this. They don't like their lawbreaking to be leaked. The Republican response when Bush/Cheney are caught flagrantly breaking the law? Change the law.

The House, having passed a flag burning constitutional amendment for the nth time, is hoping the Senate will do likewise this time. Apparently they believe they are within one vote of succeeding. It's really good that this vital issue is moving along. We wouldn't want Iraq, Afghanistan, the national debt, wages, health care, oil prices, or the environment to interfere when we're onto something really big (I think there may have been two instances of flag burning in the past year.

Then there is the issue of the minimum wage that has not been raised for nine years, the same amount of years the House has given itself an annual raise. They are also succeeding in changing the estate tax so fewer obscenely wealthy people will have to pay it.

It is now estimated by the Bagdad morgues that at least 50,000 Iraqis have been killed in Bush' "war." Other estimates put it at more than 100,000. Oh, well, what's a few thousands of innocents here and there? They're just "towel heads" anyway. The 50,000 estimate is at least 20,000 more than Bush has mentioned. But who's counting?

It turns out that for a $100,000 investment in Grover what's-his-name's money laundering scheme you could get a face-to-face meeting with King George. And some did. Of course Grover skimmed some off the top. This was just one of the schemes that our friend Abramoff was involved in. Republicans really know how things work in Washington.

Alberto the clown is making a really big deal of arresting seven "terrorists" in Miami. These guys were talking about bombing the Sears tower and I guess other potential targets. They had no money, no explosives, no contacts with terrorists, and may not even have known where the Sears tower was. But they were being helped by the FBI agent who was on to them. They had no boots. He bought them boots. They had no camera to film potaential targets. He gave them a camera. The local joke is they must have been preparing to kick down the Sears tower.

At the very moment that Dick the Slimy said the worst thing we could do to redeploy our troops General Casey was hatching a plan to do just that. So while the Repubicans were denigrating Democrats for wanting to "cut and run" that is exactly what they were planning. No lying and cheating is above them.

Immigration reform. The House insists we need a countrywide series of meetings to discuss this issue. And we need it now. Otherwise they might have to do something about it. What they want to do about it is simple. Declare eleven or more million Hispanics felons, lock them up and deport them. Realistic, no? One Republican has an even better idea. Put them all in "camps" and force them to build a wall along the southern border. Forced labor anyone? Republicans are so creative (and also compassionate).

The Voter's Rights Act was scheduled to be renewed but some southern Repulicans objected, saying that it was no longer needed and they shouldn't have to print Spanish language ballots (too expensive after spending a few hundred billion on Iraq). What they really are up to is scheming to prevent Blacks and Hispanics from voting. Clever, these Republicans.

Finally, although one could easily find more examples of their outrageous behavior, we have Santorum rushing back to announce that WMD's really do exist in Iraq. They found stuff that had been used for making cannonballs back in the 18th century and insist this is evidence that Bush/Cheney were right all along. It seems pretty clear that when brains were passed out Santorum was hiding behind the door. Maybe, just maybe, this idiot will actually be defeated in the coming election. Could we be so lucky?

Rest comfortably knowing that you are in the good hands of the Republican Party.