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Oops... Another RepubliCON bites the dust...

Hmm... There seems to be an epidemic. B-Rod was a little more blatant, but he was stupid. This guy was apparently smart enough to become House Speaker; you'd think he could avoid this sort of thing. Really...

Embattled Fla. House speaker steps down for now -- AP.

The speaker of Florida's House of Representatives says he's stepping down to deal with legal issues stemming from a probe of his lucrative job at a state college.

Speaker Ray Sansom said Friday that a fellow Republican will replace him at least until he resolves his legal issues.

Sansom faces investigations by a grand jury and the state ethics commission after taking a $110,000-a-year job at Northwest Florida State College the same day he became speaker. Critics say the job was payback for channeling more than $25 million to the school.

He has also been accused of putting $6 million in the 2007 budget for an aircraft hangar to benefit a supporter.

Sansom has served in the Legislature since 2002. He stepped down from the university job earlier this month.

Come on, guys... two elections in a row, and you STILL can't clean up after your own dogs?

Republican Corruption -- It's not Over

I know many have been enthralled by the scandal involving Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, but he's a rank amateur when compared to many Republicans. Check this out regarding Senator Thad Cochran's top aides:

Senate aide linked to Abramoff took 2 salaries - Yahoo! News.

A former top aide to Sen. Thad Cochran now implicated in a lobbying scandal was paid more than $20,000 by the Mississippi Republican after leaving his office and starting another high-paid government job at the state's public broadcasting agency.

Ann Copland left Cochran's office last spring after working there for three decades. She went on the payroll of Mississippi Public Broadcasting on March 24, at a salary of $92,000. But Copland continued to collect her roughly $140,000 annual salary from Cochran's office through May 9 — an overlap of nearly two months.

Copland could not be reached for comment Thursday. Cochran's spokeswoman, Margaret McPhillips, said Copland was kept on the senator's staff to ensure "a seamless transition."

They will not disappoint, folks. Not only was she tied to Abramoff, she took more of your tax money than she was entitled to.

Those Republicans... they never disappoint...

Former President Bush! Thank you for this Wonderful Economy!

Wow! That supply-side economics works like a charm, doesn't it?

From today's washingtonpost.com.

The 3.8 percent decline in gross domestic product from October through December compares with a 0.5 percent decline in the previous three months, and modest growth for the first half of the year. For all of 2008, gross domestic product -- a broad measure of the goods and services produced by the economy -- rose 1.3 percent, compared with 2 percent the year before. It is the weakest showing since 2001, when the aftershock of the collapse of the technology industry and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks held annual growth to just 0.8 percent.

Yes, you read that right, folks. This downturn compares with the one in 1982, which was supposedly caused by Jimmy Carter, and his damned high interest rates. Only... interest rates aren't particularly high, the money supply hasn't been tightened, and inflation hadn't supposedly been a major factor leading up to it... Hmmm... mysterious...

This is all about supply-side, folks. Read my post at Please Cut the Crap Later today, and I'll explain it to you...

In the meantime, thank God the Democrats are running things.