There is an old saying that hypocrisy is the tribute that vice makes to virtue. By that definition, Republican Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota has delivered a magnificent tribute with his demand for full disclosure of details of the so-called U.N. oil-for-food scandal, and the immediate resignation of Secretary General Kofi Annan. You don’t hear Coleman nor any other member of the Greedy Old Party insisting that Vice President Cheney and his friends at Halliburton reveal the full extent of their looting of Iraq at a cost of 100,000 innocent Iraqi lives and billions of American dollars, and that Cheney should immediately resign his office. I cannot recall any member of America’s supermajority party taxing President Bush to reveal all the details of his war-for-oil program, which resulted in the invasion of Iraq and will undoubtedly lead to a preemptive war against Iran; nor has any member of that illustrious tribe called for Bush's impeachment, conviction and removal. 

No one in Republican ranks is clamoring for an investigation into America’s physician-assisted torture program at Guantanamo Bay, or in any way urging its termination; yet this same group of moral Stoics professes to be outraged at Oregon’s assisted suicide program.

This type of behavior by the Republican Party proves to me that evangelicals do not in fact control the President and Congress. No one who believed in the judgment of God, or even in the existence of a Supreme Being, could be so cruel towards his fellow man, and exhibit such hypocrisy when it comes to justifying it.