Feel free to pass this list (including links) along to your self-righteous GOP friends and neighbors.

For the sake of brevity, I won’t get into the well-documented history of GOP graft and corruption. Instead, I’ll concentrate on sexual morality, since this is the subject in which rightwing Republicans sanctimoniously declare their superiority to Democrats. Do they really hold the moral high ground over the Dems? As you will discover, there is overwhelming evidence which proves quite the opposite. If this were a contest, these sexually repressed neo-cons would be the hands-down winners when measuring them by their own standards.

In addition to the most recent revelations of George W. Bush authorizing leaks of critical intelligence information to silence Iraq war critics, Bush had this to say when responding to the decision by disgraced Republican Congressman Tom DeLay to retire from Congress: “I wish him all the very best and I know he is looking to the future. My own judgment is, our party will continue to succeed because we're the party of ideas.'' The party of ideas? Off the top of my head, here’s the only Republican ideas I’ve seen in the last five years:

• Doctoring evidence used to start a war with a country that did not attack us and posed no threat to America.

A great summary of how Bush and others, such as the media, vastly failed all Americans in 2005:

Call it the year of lame excuses,

Officials sought any shelter in the year’s storms, both natural and political

By Alex Johnson
Reporter
MSNBC
Updated: 9:04 a.m. ET Dec. 29, 2005

“I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees,” President Bush said on Sept. 1, three days after Hurricane Katrina punctured the system of dams protecting New Orleans and created the greatest natural disaster in American history.

This is the final word on Terri Shiavo, thank heaven. Since it turned out as it did I guess that the inquiry is a good thing for Michael Shiavo, but the hell that Jeb Bush has put him through for some political advantage is monstrous. Now Jeb just wants to be the hero of hurricane Dennis and let us all forget what he has put the Shiavos through.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Gov. Jeb Bush has declared an end to the state’s inquiry into Terri Schiavo’s collapse 15 years ago, after Florida’s state attorney said there was no evidence that criminal activity was involved. Bush had asked State Attorney Bernie McCabe to investigate Schiavo’s case after her autopsy last month.

`Pathetic' label fits school woes

By Dan Gelber

"Pathetic." Gov. Bush recently called the Democratic Party "pathetic" over the reported failure of the party to submit payroll taxes for two quarters in 2003. The dictionary definition of "pathetic" is "arousing or capable of arousing sympathetic sadness and compassion." As a Democrat, I am, of course, appreciative of the governor's sympathetic concern, but let me suggest a few and more proper applications of the word "pathetic."

Pathetic is having the worst high school graduation rate in the nation. Worse than any other state and worse than any other time in Florida history. Now that arouses sympathetic sadness and compassion.

Remember how Bill Frist lied about Terry Schiavo's persistent vegetative state? According to RawStory.com, the Tennessee Medical Board is currently reviewing complaints against Frist. If you were outraged by Frist's conduct, consider writing a letter like this one, sent to us by Dr. Jeff Wade of California. Dr. Frist is licensed in both TN and DC.

Board of Medical Examiners:

As a physician, I was deeply dismayed recently upon seeing the actions of Dr. William Frist. Dr. Frist is on public record as giving an apparent diagnosis and prognosis on Mrs. Terry Schiavo during the nationwide debate and political jockeying that surrounded her death.

June 24, 2005

DROWNING IN FILTH

John Chuckman

"We are all drowning in filth…I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth."

George Orwell (diary entry for 27 April, 1942)

I've given the date of Orwell's words lest someone think they were written by a contemporary bearing the writer's name. Recent events surely qualify the United States to claim some sort of title from the Guinness Book of Records such as the world's largest moral and intellectual open sewer.

A man by the name of Ed Klein has written a vile book called The Truth about Hillary. Perceptive readers may require no more information about this book than the fact that Klein is a former editor for The New York Times. The Times reputation as a newspaper upholding genuine liberal values exists only in the minds of those who regard rolling on the floor and babbling in tongues as divine inspiration. For decades, The Times has demonstrated enough dissembling, unwarranted personal attacks, subtle omissions, and tweaking of words to qualify many times over for a J. Edgar Hoover Official G-Man Helper Award. So what would you expect from a former editor?

Any body hear about the new Jebbie thing in FL?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/17/schiavo.governor.ap/index.html

He wants to investigate the Schiavo collapse 15 years ago.

This is the sickest, most obvious political ploy that I can recall.

This is how desperate these GOPs are after looking silly over the whole
Terri Schiavo thing.

I bet the media who help spread all those lies and blasting her husband won't print or retract an update. All the damage they caused... but if he were wrong; it would be all over the place, he would have even more threats.

Schiavo Autopsy Shows Massive Brain Damage
Jun 15, 08:10 PM EDT
By MITCH STACY - Associated Press Writer

LARGO, Fla. (AP) -- The autopsy of Terri Schiavo backed her husband's contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding she was severely and irreversibly brain-damaged and blind as well. The report, released Wednesday, also found no evidence that she was strangled or otherwise abused before she collapsed.

http://news.yahoo.com/fc/us/assisted_suicide

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Schiavo Autopsy Shows No Sign of Trauma
AP - 30 minutes ago
LARGO, Fla. - An autopsy released Wednesday found no evidence to contradict the diagnosis that Terri Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state after her 1990 collapse, backing up her husband's contention that she would not have recovered if she was given additional therapy as her parents requested. "There's nothing in her autopsy report that is inconsistent with a persistent vegetative state," said Dr. Stephen J. Nelson, a medical examiner who assisted in the autopsy.