And you thought the Abramoff scandal was just about buying off politicians
Exactly how hostile to family values does the Republican party have to get before people start waking up?
Remember how just two years ago George Bush claimed he wanted to put a stop to human trafficking - i.e., women being forced into sexual slavery?
Then why was the Bush administration’s premiere advocate for stopping such sexual slavery forced out of his job a while back?
According to the Sunday Los Angeles Times, he was fired because convicted criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff was representing one of the countries that most profits from sexual slavery and human trafficking, the Northern Mariana Islands. Abramoff wanted this Bush administration official fired because the official’s anti-human-trafficking agenda - now George Bush’s agenda - posed a direct threat to Abramoff’s pro-sex-slave client.
But Jack Abramoff doesn’t have the power to fire a Bush administration official - all he can do is ask. Someone inside the Bush administration had to do Abramoff’s dirty work and fire the official on behalf of Abramoff and his client. According to the Los Angeles Times, that someone was former senior Bush White House official, and now head of the Republican party, Ken Mehlman.
One of George Bush’s top aides, the man who ran Bush’s re-election campaign, and the man who thanks to George Bush now runs the Republican party, is also reportedly the man who fired a top Bush official in charge of stopping the international human sex slave trade because Jack Abramoff’s clients like sex slaves.
Just when you think your opinion of the Republican party can’t drop any lower, they find new ways to disgust.
Apparently all they have to do is preach ‘family values’ and flatter their religious voting blocs by referring to them as ‘values voters.’ I guess we can’t underestimate the power of telling people what they like to hear.
Like anyone believes the GOP gives a shit about women. To them “family values” means keeping their female property in line and making sure their boys grow up to be womanizing pedophiles like themselves.
Twincats is right. For decades they have been spending millions to get on TV and feed us whatever we want to hear, so we will vote them back in and be robbed again. Notice that the term “crooked politician” is almost never used anymore? It is redundant! Fire the Dems and Repubs!