Repub party corruption

This first little note is just too funny. Democrats are the ones historically tagged with the political corruption--thinking here of the Daly machine in Chicago where the dead voted and other things occurred. But now the party that wraps itself in the flag and Bible doesn't blink at electronic voting machines with no paper trail and other voting irregularities. So, in the election to replace Delay, we have this:

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: "No honor among vote scammers!

This is actually kinda funny. Rich Lowry just filed this little squib at the Corner. 'More ballots cast [on the House leadership vote] than there are members. Re-voting now....'

Roll Call has it too: 'House Republicans are taking a mulligan on the first ballot for Majority Leader. The first count showed more votes cast than Republicans present at the Conference meeting.'

Says TPM Reader JP: 'This is priceless. They try to steal their own elections!'

TPM Reader JW is even more biting: 'That's right, the Repubs are so corrupt they can't even hold an honest INTERNAL election...'

TPM Reader JM has a constructive suggestion: 'Shouldn't Jimmy Carter have monitored the GOP vote?'"

Also in the same blog, Marshall notes that:

Interesting. Allen Raymond, one of the guys at the center of the New Hampshire phone-jamming case, was sentenced today up in New Hampshire.

In court, his lawyer, John Durkin, said that when Raymond was executing the election tampering plot he "was acting at the behest of the state and federal Republican parties (italics included)."

The call came from the campaign committee run by Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN). Jim Tobin, who's now appealing his conviction, was the guy who worked for Frist's committee, the NRSC.

And less anyone think that I assume that democrats are better, you should know that I don't. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. What I believe about my party right now is that they are dedicated to checks and balances whereas the Republican party seems to think that they elected a King. I also think that this is exactly the fruit of the Religious Right trying to push religion into our process--practically inviting immoral people like Tom Delay to brag about his faith in Christ while running our government like the mob.