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...real hypocrites? Because their decision making is usually more diffuse, institutions aren't as susceptible to cognitive dissonance. Corporations and political parties routinely say one thing (the GOP is the party of strict values) and do another (the party let Louisiana Senator David Vitter, who unlike Craig holds a swing-state seat, get off with a simple apology after he was linked to a female prostitution ring). The GOP's moralizers deserve some pity. The party itself, not so much...
...years, Democrats charged that Congress was neglecting its constitutional responsibility to oversee the activities of the Executive Branch. No longer. In the first eight months of 2007, congressional Democrats held 913 oversight hearings--300 more than GOP leaders had presided over during the same period in 2005. Wielding subpoenas to investigate everything from the treatment of returning soldiers to waste in government contracting to the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys, Democrats have enthusiastically embraced their new role...
...significantly more time at work than the 109th Congress (1,967 hr. vs. 1,433), this Congress has also managed to pass more legislation. Some of those bills count as real accomplishments. Between the House and the Senate, Democrats have passed 122 substantive bills (compared with 77 by their GOP predecessors), including lobbying and ethics reform and an expansion of children's health insurance. But they've also done a lot of speechifying. The number of purely symbolic measures passed by Congress has nearly doubled...
...Republican candidates have weighed in on the scandal. Rudy Giuliani's campaign declined to comment, as did the exploratory committee for former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson, who is weighing a run. Meanwhile, two conservative GOP presidential hopefuls, former Mike Huckabee and Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, have, ironically, taken a more moderate stance on Craig. Brownback told MSNBC that "we ought to look and see what the facts actually are and then build and move forward off of that... Larry's a colleague. He is somebody that I know. I want to hear what he has to say." And when asked...
...party if it is simply left alone. Thus far the Republican knee-jerk reaction - to reassure the conservative base - has had the side effect of energizing gay groups. Why attack him and risk the ire of gay-rights groups when Democrats can sit back and watch the GOP eat their...