HOLD BUSH AND CHENEY ACCOUNTABLE

GOP: GREED ON STEROIDS

I think of what Joseph Welch said to red-baiter Senator Joseph McCarthy: "Have you, Sir, at long last no sense of shame?" Republican policies have created the worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression (which was also caused by Republican policies) and they want to continue more of the same. If the word chutzpah ever applied to anyone, it's to this gang of thieves. Bob Herbert writes about it in this column at www.nytimes.com:

The question that I would like answered is why anyone listens to this crowd anymore. G.O.P. policies have been an absolute backbreaker for the middle class. (Forget the poor. Nobody talks about them anymore, not even the Democrats.) The G.O.P. has successfully engineered a wholesale redistribution of wealth to those already at the top of the income ladder and then, in a remarkable display of chutzpah, dared anyone to talk about class warfare.

A stark example of this unholy collaboration between the G.O.P. and the very wealthy was on display in the pages of this newspaper on Jan. 18. The Times’s Mike McIntire wrote an article about the first wave of federal bailout money for the financial industry, which was handed over by the Bush administration with hardly any strings attached. (Congress, under the control of the Democrats, should never have allowed this to happen, but the Democrats are as committed to fecklessness as the Republicans are to tax cuts.)