Moral Majority?

Is anyone truly surprised over Oklahoma's Republican Rep. Istook inserting a last minute, stealth amendment into the omnibus spending bill that was to be passed yesterday? The Istook Amendment was worded as follows:

"Hereinafter, notwithstanding any other provision of law governing the disclosure of income tax returns or return information, upon written request of the Chairman of the House or Senate Committee on Appropriations, the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service shall allow agents designated by such Chairman access to Internal Revenue Service facilities and any tax returns or return information contained therein."

This wouldn't have anything to do with Texas D.A. Ronnie Earl who is currently prosecuting three of Tom DeLay's cronies for their part in the Texas redistricting debacle, would it? Neither would the republican caucus voice vote to rescind the long standing measure that forced indicted house members to give up their leadership positions, right? Remember that these were the same measures that were passed by the republicans in the wake of Dan Rostenkowski being indicted before he voluntarily stepped down as the chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee after being asked by democrats to do so in 1994. The republicans wanted to show how much more moral they were by making it mandatory for their leadership and they played it up mightily during the off year elections in November of that year.

What will we tell the children?

I suspect that DeLay is obviously worried that one of the Texas Three will decide to flip on him and bring his filthy, corrupt house of cards down around his head. One can only hope to see that sorry example of humanity making his "perp walk" in the very near future.

Once again the republicans prove themselves to be the party of hypocrisy. Moral majority my arse!