The Cup O' Joe Report 01/19/06: Robbing The Bank You Own

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The word on the street is that there are now some conservatives who are speaking out and demanding explanations about the Bush administration's illegal wiretapping. Among those doing the complaining are right-wing sugar daddy Grover Norquist, whose goal is to "make government small enough to drown it in the bathtub". And despite their rhetoric about preserving our freedom from an all-powerful government, what these people really want is to be free to rip us off and get away with it. They figured out a long time ago that it's easier to rob the bank if you own it, and that's just what they're doing.

With all the reports of Republican corruption starting to surface (and believe me, we're only seeing the tip of the iceberg), the meme from the right is that it was Washington that corrupted them, which is, as always with them, a complete and utter lie. These people were corrupt long before they came to Washington, and however corrupt things were before they got there, they're certainly worse now.

Trying to figure out what the endgame is for people like Norquist is enough to make you start pulling your hair out. Are the financial backers of the GOP looking to cut George W. Bush loose now that he's seemingly outlived his usefulness? Are all these announcements simply part of another strategy trying to make government in general look bad? Is it a combination of these, or is it something else entirely? You know what, it doesn't matter. Let's just kick the SOB's the hell out of our government and figure it all out later.

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