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Check out the very last paragraph in this article on Kennedy’s attacks on Rumsfeld. In a city where the number of lobbyists has doubled in the past four years (the rise of George Bush’s everything for sale gov’t) and taxes have been cut 5 times in the same timeframe, the sudden interest in accountability for the administration’s actions by the Democrats is, well, tepid and somewhat pathetic. See this article in the Washington Post on the depressingly great market for lobbyists in DC today.

If the Dems had any interests other than preserving their own seats in Congress, they would be outraged and would start filing ethics complaints against people like Duke Cunningham. Read more about this complete jackass on Josh Marshall’s Talking Points Memo.

Final political rant.. I’m watching the Daily Show, and I get to see Duke, James Sensenbrenner (who embarrasses me because he’s from my home state), etc., pass their flag burning amendment finally. How? By consistently invoking September 11th to bludgeon the opposition into a shambles.

Thanks. That really helps with the war on terror, with a strong economy, with small government, with fiscal responsibility, with health care and the environment. These are not the actions of human beings with honor, with dignity, and with respect for others. In the words of the evangelicals, what would Jesus do? I believe he’d be burning a flag and tossing the moneychanging lobbyists out of the temple, if you’ll allow me to stretch a metaphor.

Ah, that felt good.