[gpilot]

* You can't swing a dead cat in the senate room without hitting a senator that has family on the payroll. This is not unique to DeLay. That's why this crap is so bogus. *

I hate this arguement. Is this the way you raised your kids ("Come on... all the kids smoke a little.") We MUST hold our people, as ourselves, to a higher standard than "everyone does it."

[whereasandsoforth]

It is a sad argument, but I will not sit back and allow DeLay to be dragged through slime by the very folks that have slime all over them. No, Its not ok to selectively persecute selected republicans for selected ethnic violation suspicions and never aim those same suspicions at those doing the selecting.

Holding ourselves to a higher standard is the biggest sucker game in Washington. Is it done to enable us to sleep better at night? Is it done to set an example that others will start following tomorrow? Or is it a crappy-ass way of letting the filthy democrats run the show? This is a tug-o-war of sorts, and I don't mind a bit if the republicans show a little mud while pulling the democrats into the stink hole.