Biting Irony
May 26th, 2006If you had told me two years ago that I’d find humor in a story about a Congressman’s office being searched by the FBI due to the rumblings of corruption, I’d have thought you daffy. Last weekend, however, the FBI searched Congressman William Jefferson’s office, and it led to Nancy Pelosi and Dennis Hastert coming together to speak out against the search. Jefferson is, all signs indicate, a crooked politician who belongs in prison. Regardless, there’s “a right way and a wrong way to conduct searches within the boundary of the Constitution, argues Dennis Hastert, and he’s right — he’s absolutely right. The FBI doesn’t have the right to do what it did, and the integrity of the government would be tarnished even further if the Speaker assented to these types of searches on Congressman.
It’s a shame the Speaker only finds it appropriate to exercise Constitutional Caution when the situation concerns himself and his peers rather than millions of Americans. Self interest precedes ideology in today’s Republican Party. The humorous thing about this lies with the rich irony that Hastert would be opposed to searches of Congressional offices but not the invasion of tens of millions of phone lines. Surprisingly, President Bush has done the right thing and ordered the records sealed that were gained in the weekend’s search for awhile.
Today, the Senate confirmed Hayden to be the Director of the CIA, and they’ve condoned the Honor Killing the Bush Administration is intent upon. What an incredibly ironic moment — the Republican Leadership of the Senate supported Hayden. The GOP House didn’t. Hastert is up in arms over a nasty search. Republicans confirm a man who loves those. My my, Republicans. What biting irony you’ve got there!
The media is ironic, here, too. How ironic it is that the media has fallen in love with Al Gore? And how ironic is this? Iraq is backing Iran in their pursuit of nuclear materials.
If modern Republican diction isn’t enough to make an English Major chuckle at the absurdity of it all, then their ironies are enough to flatten a reader’s lungs from laughter. Until you take the time to realize that Truth is Stranger than Fiction.