… more boring US politics

You would be hard pressed to prove that Democrats are any better politicians than Republicans.

But Republicans are far more hypocritical. They fear monger, pander to racism, cheat, steal and out-lie the Democrats by a wide margin. (Some would say they are more skilled at the “art of politics”.)

Case in point — “happy-go-lucky sexual predator, Mark Foley, the Republican congressman from Palm Beach, Florida, who had been luring teenage congressional pages to his townhouse of iniquity” — only the latest in a long line of two-faced Republicans.

Publicly Foley had been fervently anti-Gay. And the first elected official to vote to “protect children”.

Sidney Blumenthal gives a run-down of the scandals among GOP lawmakers if you want to be reminded of past deceit.