When Will The Madness Stop???

The trouble for House Majority Leader Rep. Tom Delay (R-Texas) continues to escalate this weekend when fellow republican Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado) called for Delay to take a temporary leave from his position due to "ethic" violations. This follows a call from moderate republican Rep Chris Shays (R-Conneticut) who said earlier this week that Delay should step down.

Delay has been having problems with Democrats hounding him about campaign financing and payments to his family from a campaign fund. Tancredo and Shays are allowed to have their opinions expressed, but what worries me is how this will affect the party. An investigation should happen, but until then calls for Delay to step down from his leadership position should not start until he has been found guilty of actually doing something wrong.

A divide in the party is not needed, especially when mid-terms elections are slowly creeping up on us. With the republican party in control of the Congress and the presidency we need to be united as much as possible to win more senate and house seats next year. Also, with the high possibility that Bill.....errrr Hillary Clinton will run for the presidency in '08, we must be careful as a party to not damage any possible contenders for the republican nomination by saying things that are not true and/or causing a split in the party.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next few days.