South of the Border

While there’s nothing more pleasurable for me than to watch the Republicans self-destruct in a sordid pool of gay scandal and hypocritical denial, I still think that as long as there is electronic voting in the US with no paper trail and no way to do an honest recount, the Republicans will never lose another election.

Unless they choose to. Which given the state that they have put the country in over the past 3 years, they may do next month. Let the Democrats sort out the mess.

That's the great thing about American politics. You can be as corrupt as you want, and nobody really cares. But it's always the sex that gets you in trouble. They really need to get over this.

I heard some nut on the news last night claim there was a “gay Republican cabal” that had been plotting the downfall of their own party for some time now. Whatever.

Legally, I don’t think anyone in this has done anything wrong. It’s just all a bit unsavoury for the party of family values, I suppose. But what is it about men in power that they think they can leave a trail of explicit e-mails and text messages and never get caught. Where are people’s brains?