http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6263616.stm

Yeah, it’s not surprising.  Any cynic could have predicted that from the very start of this whole mess.  But it heightens my dislike of anything “republican”.  In my mind the term is synonymous with viciously crooked lying thugs with no respect for the law.  I cannot respect anyone who calls themselves a republican or associates themselves with that party.  Period.