The FBI teams, surveillance planes, trained dogs, and hundreds of volunteers from several countries were brought in for a high school girl whose friends say she was drunk and got in a car with some guys she didn't know.Do you think that Hastert or Shimkus or Boehner or Reynolds would have looked at that as just a cute, white son of a judge and his two friends being friendly by offering a ride to the girl? Or would that have been considered overly friendly? Or is it not about protecting or helping our children at all to Republicans, just keeping House and Senate seats.

Leahy is an amazing person. Republicanism can be cured. It just takes a man or a woman to realize that Democracy can not exist without honesty. If they allow the lies of Bush and other Republicans or to stand, they harm Democracy. They harm the US, in a very blatant manner.

Do Republicans not know this, or is their "team" loyalty more important than the honor, integrity, safety and well being of the USA? I would think that any red-blooded American of whatever Party would call for the resignations of Hastert and Shimkus and Boehner and Reynolds and all those others who knew this was happening and said and did nothing. It's time to decide whether being a Republicans means defending the country and its' children, or looking the other way for any lie, any indiscretion or crime committed by anyone in the Republican Party. I pray no child gets abused or molested by some copy catter basing his actions on the "strong moral character and leadership" demonstrated by the Republican Party's attitude of the seriousness of allowing a sexual predator to prey on our children right from America's House.

I don't hate Bush (okay, maybe that's not 100% true) but I do really dislike all those Republicans who just let a lot of self-possessed fanatic right wing hacks obtain power to play a game of Risk with the world. This isn't a game. Besides putting the country in enormous debt and ruining the futures of our children, they've stripped this country of the integrity of being able to say at least we had an honest disagreement and messed up.

I respectfully request that all the Freepers and Trolls and K street lobbyists and those who work for these people - all of you who hang out as ghosts or instigators at DU - to consider the consequences of your actions on this country, our country. We may disagree on small or even large issues, but your guys have really done an incredibly bad job, repeatedly, and it has damaged the country beyond recognition. By propping up the media that reinforces the lies of the Cheney, Rice and Rumsfeld administration, you are no different than any other person in this or another country who wants to harm Americans right here on our soil.