Why the corruption, why now?

It wasn't always this way. Public service once meant something and people have been known to commit suicide when even the hint of corruption soiled their good name. What happened? Which statement or statements below most supports your point of view?

I think it's an inversion of the 1960s "if it feels good, do it" ethic. Folks like Rove and Rush Limbaugh were geeks during the '60s when all those disgusting hippies were having fun. I think they've been pissed and felt cheated ever since. I think they believe they deserve some "freebies" for keeping their noses clean and being ignored then.

Texas everything is big and loud and stomping all over Midwestern ethics and New England modesty.

burst their bubble? Time for the Texas bragging to come to an end?

I've ever met. I think everybody knows the stereotypical Texan we're talking about here: We've seen the spoiled Connecticut boy swagger around and butcher the language for way too long now. He and his cronies are setting the tone in the country, and it's given any and every weak-willed sonofabitch licence to indulge themselves in blood, hate and money to everybody else's detriment.

Let's see if we can be honest and ethical without creating a logo & slogan-driven PR/marketing campaign. All I'm really asking for from Dems and Republicans is some sincerity. Life does not fall into a business model - neither should politics & culture.

The rotten eggs went to government, the low quality wood that couldn't get
real jobs, become corporate slaves begging for cash to corrupt their voting
obligations later. What decent person wants do with that? Then consequently,
politics has driven away most of the decent folk.

So, now after 30 years of dumping our lowest quality shit-for-brains in to
government, because the smarties were too busy making millions for theirselves.
So steven jobs is making ipods instead of fixing califorinia's transit systems.
We've driven away the best wood by providing an environment where slander and
liabel are not effectively policed or enforced in the media.

Just how far do you think Steve Jobs or any of the rest of us geeks would have gotten in politics?

:rofl:

is sorely needed, and its tragic the system drives those with it out
not thinking "geeks" would get where in politics. Maybe geeks are
exactly what is needed in politics. The creative geek-edge could
transform the world again several times over if the intelligence that
brought us the internet was unleashed within the rule of law.

Its tragic, and even more tragic that it's funny... the decline
since nixon has been staggering. The moral quality of the wood has
gone from solid oak to rotted pine, a wood that only floats
in swiftboat adverts.

And all those panels of cal tech nerds googling
about their robotic toy on television. They were endearing.
:-)

Too bad geeks are so unphotogenic, or they would not
be getting laid so much. I hear its quite a lot of work
being larry ellison's penis! :-)

have been just as corrupt as now continuously since at least the last quarter of the 19th Century.

this is nothing new. they've just moved up the food chain, leaving a moral vacuum in their wake, populated by cronies. Part of their methodology, as old as raiding Vikings, is that civilized people will be so busy puttting out lesser fires of corruption and nailing the occasional crooked congressperson that no one will catch them, way out in front, with the biggest pile of loot that has ever been looted in the history of the earth.

that the ONLY way they could ever stay in office with their bullshit view of the world, was to take total and complete control of the Government. Do I think repukes owning evoting machine companies and having their machines used in the 2000 election was just a fluke? NOPE. They knew if they could take that election, the country was theirs. That's exactly what's happened. They have forever wanted to undo the New Deal and the only way they could do that was with a stranglehold on this nation. That's what they have. 2002 they used their evoting machines to complete their takeover of the House and Senate. 2004 they maintained their control with the machines. They are now systematically dismantling Prescott Bush's most despised program...the New Deal. This is what they have wanted to do since the New Deal was implemented, but they could never do it with Democrats in power. The ONLY way to do it was ILLEGALLY. If that's what it would take, so be it. Their hatred has run deep for a LONG, LONG time. Their hatred of DEMOCRATS runs even deeper.

This was their chance. They found an uninformed IDIOT to run as a puppet president. They knew if they had someone like the MORAN in office, they could do their thing in the background while the dumb shit vacationed. It worked.:(