The Politics of Politics.

As some folks may have noticed I haven't been so political lately. I've been quiet- the election is over and I wanted to see what the democrats would do with "their mandate."

(Oh and that would be precious little if you were to ask). So yep here we are heading into summer and it's not like things are any better.

They're so not.

But the wheels of justice are finally turning again.

Those that should know better are, one-by-one, making their way to the nation's woodsheds for the discipline that has so been waiting for them. Even in Texas, land of Dubya, the state legislature just gave a major gut punch to Gov. Perry and his plan to turn the state's roads over to major foreign owned toll companies while contractually agreeing to let the state's non-toll entities crumble into disrepair. Dang those comfy non-compete clauses anyway.

Still, the unearthing of all the crap that's gone on over the last 6 plus years will take a long time to uncover. Much of it we will never know. Most of it I'm not sure we want to know. Just how deep the Republican corruption went and how it has infiltrated nearly every institution of our government, nearly wrecking the Constitution in the process, is the stuff of George Orwell.

It's so bad my father is actually reading Andrew Sullivan's book about the search for the conservative soul, and dad's mourning whats been done to conservative values and their subsequent hijacking by the neo-cons. On our way to Thai food last night, my father offered that the work of Sullivan reads more like a theologian and that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I admit his was a refreshing admission and I tried really hard not to say one single "I told you so".

Mom still offers that the problem extends beyond the Republicans and I must agree with her.

It extends all the way to the Political Evangelicals who were so willing to trade values for power. Need a current example? Recently James Dobson tried to apologetically position charter member of the Divorce of the Month Club, Newt on the loose Gingrich, as the real anointed leader of the Republicans for 2008.

I knew for sure then that the Colorado based fundies had themselves a mile high case of terminal altitude sickness. Dobson is done politically. He's so leveraged his credibility on this current bunch of crooks, not even another charge against homo's will save his butt from the many disillusioned beleivers in his flock-people who despite their blind loyalty to faith based everything can at least still smell a rat...

I'm not one bit happy that Jesus and His name will be tied up with the current greed creed beltway crowd. The recklessness of the last administration will cause non believers to wonder about Christian charity, beliefs, and motives for some time to come.

I do celebrate the very dark days ahead for several folks sitting in the highest levels of our government. The Attorney General is toast. So is Rove. Today it comes out that the President has most likely lied about his direct involvement in the firing of eight US Attorneys and the forced resignation of several others. Even in the 2006 election, the Republicans, knowing that they couldn't utilize the same voting fraud techniques that served them so well in 2000, 2002, and 2004, tried to influence the election through precisely timed prosecutions. All of these done via the US Attorney's Offices.

Usually such actions were announced right before the election and centered on some trumped up "election tankering charge" against the Democrats. Those moral Republican US Attorneys that didn't play were booted. Those that did kept their jobs. Basically at the discretion of the White House the Department of Justice was hijacked in Missouri, New Mexico, Wisconsin and other states. Only this time the voters were smarter. They'd had enough.

Yet the damage has been done to The Department of Justice and the institution will take decades to recover from the stain that has tarnished their impartiality and the brilliance of the rule of law.

There is a good lesson to be learned here. Anytime someone claims that they have a cornerstone on morality, it's a good time to begin running for the door. The reality of our collective humanity always brings us back to this fundamental truth. Regardless of our faith, we remain human. Imperfection is an intrinsic quality of such status. Thus those who feel the need to proclaim with certainty the rightness of their path are usually the furthest from consistency.

Unfortunately, the wisdom of sweet time hasn't yet caught up to them. But it will. It always does.