Wherever I Look, I Think I See, A Republican Committing a Fe-lo-ny (to be sung to the tootsie roll jingle-tune)

Ah yes, the Grand Old Party.

Standup guys, they are (from CNN.com):

California Republican admits to taking $2.4 million in bribes

SAN DIEGO, California (AP) -- Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy and tax charges and tearfully resigned from office, admitting he took $2.4 million in bribes to steer defense contracts to conspirators.

Cunningham, 63, entered pleas in U.S. District Court to charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud and wire fraud, and tax evasion for underreporting his income in 2004.

Cunningham answered "yes, Your Honor" when asked by U.S. District Judge Larry Burns if he had accepted bribes from someone in exchange for his performance of official duties.

He's Such a Dick

• Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday lambasted Democrats accusing the Bush administration of misleading the country on prewar intelligence about Iraq, calling their allegations "one of the most dishonest and reprehensible charges ever aired in this city." - 11/16/05
• "I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time," Cheney said. "The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." - 6/20/05
• "We need, obviously, a large force and we’ve deployed a large force. To prevail, from a military standpoint, to achieve our objectives, we will need a significant presence there until such time as we can turn things over to the Iraqis themselves. But to suggest that we need several hundred thousand troops there after military operations cease, after the conflict ends, I don’t think is accurate. I think that’s an overstatement." - Dick Cheney, answering Tim Russert on Meet the Press, 3/16/03
• "We Will, In Fact, Be Greeted As Liberators" - Dick Cheney, answering Tim Russert on Meet the Press, 3/16/03
• "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us." - Dick Cheney, 8/26/02
• "George W. Bush will repair what has been damaged. He is a man without pretense and without cynicism. A man of principle, a man of honor. On the first hour of the first day he will restore decency and integrity to the Oval Office. He will show us that national leaders can be true to their word and that they can get things done by reaching across the partisan aisle, and working with political opponents in good faith and common purpose. I know he'll do these things, because for the last five years I've watched him do them in Texas. " - Dick Cheney, 8/2/2000
• "I had other priorities in the '60s than military service." - Dick Cheney, 1989, on why he received FIVE deferments from military service during the Vietnam War.

Does President Bush Have Any Credibility Left at All?....With Anyone?

"We do not torture" - President Bush earlier today in Panama City, Panama.

Meanwhile, back in the good ol' U.S. of A.......

Over White House opposition, the Senate has passed legislation banning
torture. With Vice President Dick Cheney as the point man, the administration is seeking an exemption for the CIA. It was recently disclosed that the spy agency maintains a network of prisons in eastern Europe and Asia, where it holds terrorist suspects.

(from CNN.com)