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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Democratic Corruption Cont'd: Travel Junkets

Ankle Biting Pundits summarizes the WaPo article about travel junkets that Congressmen took, courtesy of lobbyists. Not unexpectedly, most were Democrats. Another interesting fact I just heard on the radio: of the last five Congressmen who went to jail for corruption, four were Democrats (and that doesn't include likely-to-be-indicted Alan Mollohan (D-WV) and "Cold Cash" Jefferson (D-LA). Not a good idea for them to bring up "culture of corruption."