A trip down memory lane………..

……………. will surely point the way toward the future. So, let all of us Republican bloggers take a moment away from our cannibalism and start to focus on some of the opportunities before us.

First, the Democrats are likely to replace their second favorite target, Tom DeLay with a man, Jack Murtha, whose new sobriquet is “Unindicted Co-Conspirator” Murtha as Majority Leader. The conspiracy in which Murtha was involved, but from responsibility he escaped because of his raw political power as a member of the then, as now, majority party, was the taking of bribes. AbScam is back in the daily lexicon after a 26 year absence. Maybe those future bribes Murtha was soliciting way back then are due to be paid now?

Then, we learn that Speaker Pelosi supports Alcee Hastings of Florida for Chairman of the Select Intelligence Committee. Now, let’s not forget Cong. Hastings' past. Hastings was the last federal judge to be impeached and convicted, and thereby removed from office. This prosecution was done by a then Democrat majority. Guess the crime? Bingo-bribery in office. That is the man with whom Speaker Pelosi wishes to entrust this nation's most sensitive national security secrets. If selling lenient racketeering sentences will bring $150,000 just think of the income the sale of say, nuclear launch technology, could bring? I’ll bet it’s a lot more than selling acquittals.

Alcee almost makes it easy to forget about Cong. William Jefferson, the guy who had $90K in his freezer and is openly linked to multiple bribery scandals.

So, how should we respond to this new new Culture Club of Corruption? Just in the unlikely event that I’ve been too subtle in the past, we need a two prong approach. Like the Democrats, we must stay on the attack. This culture of corruption ended up hurting us, so let’s educate the voters about the real face-and I mean literally-of corruption: Jack Murtha, Aclee Hastings, and William Jefferson. Unlike the Democrats, we must also stand for something positive-like really cleaning up government. I think the American voter should get to know its new Congressional leadership, don't you?

So, in a bipartisan effort to clean up government, and mindful of Democrat statements regarding Tom DeLay, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney and Mark Foley, all Iowa Republicans should ask our Sen. Tom Harkin and all three of our Democrat Congressmen, Leonard Boswell and the newly elected Dave Loebsack and Bruce Braley, to call for Sen. Reid and Congressmen Murtha, Hastings and Jefferson to follow the examples of Tom DeLay, Duke Cunningham, Mark Foley and Bob Ney and resign from Congress.

Any other position will conclusively demonstrate that the author’s of “Culture of Corruption” are indeed familiar with the fungus.