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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Dems Not Quite Ready to Clean Up Culture of Corruption

Democrats ran on ending the "culture of corruption." Don't laugh. As Rush Limbaugh explains,

Anybody who believes these guys are going to be corrupt-free, ethically pure, is just silly. I don't think anybody buys that or believes that. By the way, Pelosi is promising from this day forward, she's not talking about assembling people who are free of corruption in their past. It's just her way of "contrasting." It's a slam on the Republicans. That's all that is. They all have their own scandal problems.

Of course, next to pork-barrel spending King, Robert Byrd (D-WV), Nanci Pelosi and Harry Reid are two of the biggest pork spenders in Congress (Reid just because he tries to enhance the value of his various land investments). Then, apart from Alan Mollohan (D-WV) and William "Cold cash" Jefferson (D-LA), we have Alcee Hastings (D-FL), soon-to-be Chairman of the Intelligence Committee; Hastings is a former judge indicted for bribery (you heard that right), who even the WaPo has a problem with! And of course, the potential majority leader might go to none other than Jack "Cut and Run" Murtha, who was up to his neck in the Abscam scandal.

What was that about the culture of corruption disappearing?