Thank You Mr. President...

And about damn time, too. Bush stands shoulder to shoulder with House Majority Leader Tom DeLay in a public show of support.

Lest I again be accused of blind loyalty to the GOP, I will point out once more DeLay has done nothing illegal or unethical and has withheld absolutely zero information about his Congressional activities. The gutless Democrats have done nothing but float innuendo and gossip about the man. Am I thrilled with the system in which our elected representatives operate. Of course not, but if the standard DeLay's opponents are using to call for him to step down were applied across the board, nearly every member of the House and Senate would have to turn in their Capitol security badges and go home.

From the USAToday:

Members of Congress have taken $16 million in privately financed trips since 2000, and more than half were sponsored by non-profit groups that don't have to disclose who is providing the money, a study out today says...

...The new analysis of 5,410 trips in the past five years by about 600 members of the House and Senate was conducted by PoliticalMoneyLine, an online service that provides campaign-finance and lobbying data.

The article also points out that of the 5,410 trips, Democrats took 3,025 trips; Republicans, 2,375; independents, 10 (um, that would be Bernie Sanders of VT).

Democrats even refused a recent offer by Republicans to further investigate the allegations about DeLay. Because they don't want to open up that can of worms. Members of Congress are already scrambling to make sure all their ducks are in a row on their travel records as most of them have failed to file all the necessary disclosure paperwork. But more importantly they don't really want DeLay to step down. They'd rather just use him as a punching bag in the hopes that during the mid-term elections, they can claim his scalp.

Speaker Dennis Hastert, D-Ill., issued a veiled warning that Democrats could also wind up under an ethical cloud.

“There’s probably four or five cases out there dealing with top level Democrats,” he said Wednesday in a radio interview with broadcaster Sean Hannity.

“There’s a reason that they don’t want to go to the ethics process and as long as they can keep somebody dangling out there like they have Tom Delay, they take great glee in that.”

Republicans need to stand up to this BS and show they won't be bullied.

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