WOULD IT SHOCK ANYONE IF DeLAY & CO. WERE RUNNING A PIMPING SERVICE FROM CAPITOL HILL? WOULD ANYTHING SURPRISE YOU ABOUT THESE LOWLIFE CROOKS?

I don't know if DeLay and his gang were running a traditional pimping service from their Capitol Hill offices or not. There is virtually nothing I could read about these people that would surprise me! The heady combination of frightened, lazy, bigoted bucktoothed rednecks, a fatally corrupted mass media and "democracy" has thrown up some might scary specimens in the past... but nothing comparable to Tom DeLay, Bob Ney, Rick Santorum, Randy Cunningham, Dick Pombo, Bill Frist, John Doolittle, George W Bush, Duncan Hunter, Conrad Burns, Jerry Lewis, Roy Blunt, Denny Hastert, and the team of vicious and crooked self-serving fascists who have done America so wrong in the last half dozen years.

I mean forget simple bribery for which many of them will soon be relocating to the federal prison system! Selling national security secrets, fixing elections, creating a cozy career environment between congressional offices, Big Business and the K-Street lobbying establishment, turning "charities" into political honeypots, stealing from government-funded programs to bolster campaign coffers, corrupting the relationship between churches and state to the detriment of both... all these things and so much more mark the Republican culture of corruption which has come to be so pervasive in Washington. And the newest kink? Feeding Wall Street brokers inside government info so their clients-- and certain familiar congressional figures-- could benefit from day-trading.

In 1997 Congress passed legislation favoring day traders which began the downward spiral that eventually lead to the GOP leadership scheming with day trading firms to exchange insider information-- see you thought Bill Frist was the only stock manipulating crook in the Congress!-- for quick profits in day trading. John Byrne of The Raw Story has uncovered an immense scandal involving Republican-controlled committees, like the "Duke" Cunningham/Henry Bonilla-infected Defense Appropriations Subcommittee (not to mention Duncan Hunter's Armed Services Committee or Jerry Lewis' Appropriations Committee), "passing on information to stock brokers on how the House is going to vote on legislation that affects large companies..." Last November Washington Democratic congressman Brian Baird officially requested that Tom DeLay's specially-installed, ethicless House Ethics Committee Chairman, "Doc" Hastings open an investigation into this practice. Hastings, who was installed in his position to PREVENT ethics investigations that would slow down the GOP corruption mechanisms, ignored Baird's concerns.


FRIDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE: THE DELAY-SANTORUM K STREET PROJECT MEETS WALL STREET

In today's HILL Jim Snyder shows how Republicrook scum like Santorum and DeLay were able to mix their K Street Project and Wall Street's unrestrained greed to benefit the GOP-- and themselves. If you want to be able to follow the mechanics the DeLay Crime Family worked out in this scam, this article is a must!

This could turn into a big story-- at least in the blogosphere-- this weekend. THE DAILY SANDWICH has just started the ball rolling.