Republican Disgrace

Shameless Republicans in Congress, who have gone from the law-and-order party to the lawbreaking party, decided not to investigate the Bush Administration's wiretapping program despite significant evidence that the program broke the law.

The Republicans have instead decided to retrofit a new law to the problem rather than hold the President accountable for breaking the old one.

Only because they hold all three branches of government can they get away with such a disgusting ploy, which goes against decades of passionate rhetoric about reforming the government.

My family's civil rights were violated by disgraced President Richard Nixon, having been placed on his infamous "enemies list" entitling list members to IRS audits and FBI wiretapping. So I'm familiar with the excesses of rogue politicians like Bush, whose arrogance and incompetence eclipse Nixon by a long shot.

But because the Republicans own Congress, the idiot President is being protected from his own lawbreaking. Meanwhile, oversight and ethics committees have become a joke, like the clowns who run them. But nobody is laughing. Republicans have betrayed their principles, and have dishonored themselves. Pure disgrace.