"We didn't say or do that, and if we did it wasn't wrong - certainly Not Me."

Want to know how a professional Republican lies to Congress and refused to take responsibility for decisions he would allow no one else to make? In terms of purely professional, low-down bamboozlement (have I yet mentioned lying?) and absolutely unethical behavior from someone who screwed up, doesn't want to take responsibility for his screw-up and who would happily, even proudly, do it again no matter how many people his actions hurt, go watch this clip of James Connaughton testifying to Congress about why he deleted warnings regarding the dangers of asbestos and other pollutants in the air in New York City shortly after 9/11 and sent out a Press Release telling residents it was safe to move back home when it wasn't.

This is your Republican government at work. It's not smaller government. it's not useful government. It is dishonest and dangerous government. It's Republican government, and the Republicans cannot be trusted. They order that their whims and fantasies be carried out, regardless of who get hurt. Then the rest of them get together and cover up their screw ups.

We are now getting out the information about how badly the Bush administration cocked up the rescue response to 9/11 (Shades of New Orleans!!) nearly six years later. Who knows how many lives and health problems they created? Show me a Republican - officeholder or voter - who even cares what Connaughton did?

Are the Republicans who refused to hold any Hearings on this murderous behavior by the Bush administration, murderous behavior which can be blamed directly on clearly guilty individuals like James Connaughton, any less guilty than Connaughton himself? What about the people who appointed him to the office he misused and supervised his work there?

Connaughton is clearly wrong. Bush was wrong to put him in his office, and wrong to cover up his actions (and that's assuming that Bush didn't DIRECT those Press Reports be scrubbed of warning before they were released.) Bush was wrong. The the Republican Congress covered it up. They were wrong - every Republican in Congress. Finally, the voters who voted to place these lying, murderous people into office to misgovernment the country and then cover up their errors - every damned Republican who voted for these criminals is guilty of their actions. Connaughton is the poster boy for the Republican Party. Connaughton IS the Republican Party.

The Bush administration was already doing America a bad disservice with its behavior in office. That is one Republican problem. Then it has consistently lied or ignored the problems - a cover up. That is Republican problem number two. But then the Republican leadership of the Senate (under Bill Frist) and of the House (Denny Hastert and his boss, Tom DeLay) concealed what their murderous Republican brethren had done. That is Republican problem number three.

And this all came from the first fracking year of the Bush administration! Before Iraq. Before Katrina/Rita.

When Eisenhower was elected President in 1952 he also came in to office with control of the House and Senate (83rd Congress ). That lasted two years, and the Democrats took Congress back in the midterm elections of 1954 (84th congress.) Before the Bush administration was that was the last time the American voters ever let the Republicans steal gain control of both houses of Congress and the Presidency at the same time. The last six years have demonstrated the wisdom of not letting the Republicans have control of government. Connaughton's testimony is just one more example of why they can't be trusted with power.

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Go back and look at the history of the Republicans in control, in power, and attempting to regain power since 1929 in my previous post Why did LBJ escalate Viet Nam in 1965?. Little has changed since the days of the Robber Barons and since the 1920's.