This is coming from the observations that:
- One Congressman - Chris Collins (R NY) - and people within his circle are all facing criminal charges stemming from Insider Trading.
- A second Congressman - Duncan Hunter (R CA) - and his wife are facing criminal charges regarding Campaign Finance Fraud involving questionable spending habits.
- A third Congressman - Jim Jordan (R OH) - is facing accusations he covered up / ignored sexual assaults - which could be felonies - by a doctor who worked for the same Athletic Department at Ohio State University.
- The current Republican occupant of the White House - someone I admit I cannot call President because he sickens me - is a well-documented sexual assaulter who is either the focus of or a part of ongoing criminal investigations into A) a family-managed non-profit accused of illegal conduct, misspent funds, and other acts of fraud, B) working with a foreign power to subvert, corrupt, hack, and otherwise steal the 2016 Presidential Election, C) committing acts of Obstruction to stop federal agencies from investigating that foreign power's intervention in that campaign as well as corruption of officials receiving high ranking jobs in government afterward, D) paying off mistresses to hide affairs during his third marriage, in some cases using campaign funds (against the law), with implications he gave his handler direct orders to do so, E) openly violating the Emoluments Clause written into the Constitution itself. I'm not even getting into his human rights violations involving immigrants and asylum seekers, nor his disregard for international treaties and trade agreements.
With all that I've pointed out as publicly documented scandals involving Republican party figures - some of them key leaders among the ranks - this is the question I am posing to the entire Republican Party.
With all your obsessions with attacking Democrats - not even specific individuals like Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama (who never faced serious criminal investigation before or during his tenure), I am talking about the whole party - as corrupt or crooked or deviant, why the hell are you worried about them when your own house is a goddamn mess?
You do understand how hypocritical the Republican Party seems to any rational outside observer, when you are bashing Hillary for all the sins she's been accused of ("But her emails") while your own party leadership are violating legal, ethical and moral standards across the board?
Any sane and responsible party leader would be at the least gathering everyone in a backroom somewhere behind closed doors and yelling at the rank and file "GODDAMMIT WILL YOU KEEP YOUR OWN DAMN NOSES CLEAN!"
But you're not. None of you, not the vacating and fleeing Paul Ryan, not the obstructive and offensive Mitch McConnell, not your party spokesfigures Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, not even the "adults" in the room like John McCain or Lindsey Graham or Mitt Romney (yeah, that's how bad it is that the Plastic One with all his corporate greed is now the moral leader of the GOP).
Answer that question, Republicans. Why berate anyone else for criminal misdeeds when your party is getting caught nearly every other day breaking federal and state laws?
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From Carl Newman's Twitter feed:
"Jules Suzdaltsev
Verified account @jules_su
Aug 18
Since 1965
Democrats (25 years in power):
3 indictments
1 conviction
1 prison sentence.
Republicans (28 years in power):
120 indictments
89 convictions
34 prison sentences.
Remind me again how both parties are basically the same?"
-Doug in Oakland
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