Why are corrupt politicians always Republicans?

Dominos. Republicans are dominos.

Maybe the democrats are just as corrupt, but smart enough not to get caught? Just a thought.

They are arrogant and stupid. The arrogant part gets them into all kinds of trouble that the stupid part can't find a way out of.

One of my republican friends tried to say both parties were the same, but the numbers of republican crooks must be outpacing the DEMS about 6 or 8 to 1 at least, perhaps more. JIMBO has the equation down as good as MATH can say it.

I want to know when Tom DeLay will finally join Abramoff.

I love it when criminals get what is coming to them.

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

So when is the media going to cover some other fundraisers with the same amount of coverage that Abramoff has? Specificly, I'm talking about Norman Hsu, William Lerach, Peter Paul,and the NXIVM group to just name a few. Seriously, ABC and the rest of the media seems to buy Hillary's "I didn't know", even though Hsu must have gotten a background check by the Secret Service since he has been photographed with Clinton at multiple events. Also, the media ran headlines about Hillary giving away the "questionable" donations, but the media did not cover that she's only given away a small percentage of the donations. I'd like to see some balance here. I say bust all dirty fundraisers, but stop focusing on just one guy and one political party (hey, didn't Abramoff give to both parties? Where's the mention of the Democrats who got some of his money?).

The media gave plenty of attention to the Hsu donations. One reason the republicans are getting so much coverage probably has to do with their promises to be better than the democrats were when it came to 'corruption'. Well, it turns out that they are better at it, and they're not very good at covering their tracks. There has been so much corruption and incompetence in Congress and the White House in the past 8 years, that it's hard not to laugh at the arrogance of those involved.

Yesterday, an excerpt from a book by Bush's former communications director (his name escapes me right now) was released that revealed that he was lied to about who was involved in the Valerie Plame incident, and that Rove, Cheney, AND Bush were actively involved in feeding him false denials of knowledge of who was culpable. This crap will stop only when we're rid of the 'holier than thou' crowd that is in the White House now. Bush promised to return 'respectability' to the White House and Presidency, but there isn't a single country in the world that respects our current administration because of the way they lie to get what they want.

The democrats would have impeached Bush and Cheney long ago if they'd had a sufficient majority in both houses to ensure it, except that Nancy Pelosi doesn't want the first woman to become president to do so in that fashion. Besides, having B&C where they are through the next election will help Hillary become our first woman president. Unfortunately, she's going to have one hell of a mess to clean up.

Bob:

I seem to remember Pelosi claiming that she would have the most ethical Congress in history. She refused to appoint the ranking Democrat Jane Harman and began talking about appointing Alcee Hastings, an impeached judge, as the head of the House Intelligence Committee. Instead of Hastings, she appointed Sylvester Reyes, a guy who had been on the committee since 9-11, but didn't know the difference between Shia and Sunni or which terrorist organizations had Shia or Sunni members.

Pelosi also wanted Murtha to be the House Majority Leader. This was the same Murtha who was caught on tape attempting to take bribes during the Abscam investigation. Again, there was an outcry and he was not appointed.

I can name other examples with just this current Congress. I'm sure you are thinking, but they weren't appointed, so who cares... Can you imagine your reaction if the same thing happened under a Republican Congress?

As for the Hsu donations getting plenty of media attention, this is a plain lie. Hsu has received a fraction of the media's attention that Ambramoff has for the same amount of time. And I noticed that you ignored the other examples that I have listed. Where is the media attention on those corrupt donations?

Lokifer,

Your character assassination of Murtha is as tired and worn out as is Dick Cheney's seat cushions, and about as true as Cheney's many assertions of the successes in Iraq. Try to come up with some new talking points before '08...these don't fly any more.