Spying Gives The RNC a Million Dollar Boner

Republican Leader John Boner participated in one of Newt Gingrich's many unethical and dishonest activities back in 1996, just hours before then-House Speaker Gingrich admitted wrongdoing in a House ethics subcommittee probe. In lieu of hearings that would cast the light of day on dishonest republican chicanery, Congress agreed to accept Gingrich’s mea culpa on the condition that he not launch a counterattack against the committee. On a December morning in Florida, however, John and Alice Martin overheard a conference call involving Boner, Gingrich, (dick) Dick Armey and other Republican leaders orchestrating a GOP’s attack on the charges. They recorded the call on a scanner and gave it to the head of the ethics committee, who disclosed the republican dishonesty to the country. In response, Boner sued his congressional colleague for disclosing the dishonest and unethical conduct recorded by the Florida couple; and was recently awarded 1 million dollars in attorneys fees.

He then dressed up this outcome in sanctimony and hypocrisy. Boner, who along with all of the other Congressional Republicans over the last seven years has aided and abetted the Bush administration in its ongoing criminal and lawless behavior, said the following: "Members of Congress have a responsibility not only to obey the law and congressional rules, but also to defend the integrity of those laws and rules when they are violated. I remained committed to this case ... to uphold the belief that no one ... is above the law." Right. So Boner has no problem with the Bush assministration illegally tapping millions of calls under the pretense that FISA is a problem for them; but Boner gets his panties in a wad over his call being tapped.

Boner's newfound dedication to the rule of law and its applicability to the highest of the high brings to mind Churchill's comment that "we have already determined what you are. Now we are just haggling over the price." Since we now know what it takes to get Boner up (in arms) over illegal spying, all we have to do is buy off a few more cheap whores and we can get the rule of law restored to this country.