August 20, 2006

Culture of Corruption Bites Back

If you are wondering why the Democrats have let up on hounding the Republican's on their relationship with Jack Abramhoff wonder no more.

Captain Ed writes: The Culture Of Corruption Redux

"The Culture Of Corruption ReduxWhen the Democrats adopted the "culture of corruption" meme as their campaign theme earlier this year, we noted that the culture hardly respected party lines. The leader of the Senate Democratic caucus, Harry Reid, took contributions from clients of Jack Abramoff and intervened on their behalf at least four times, and Abramoff hired one of Reid's staffers and started holding fundraisers for the Senate Minority Leader in Abramoff's offices.

Now COGirl at Hang Right Politics points us towards a Los Angeles Times report on the "culture of corruption" surrounding Harry Reid and a new real-estate development outside of Las Vegas. Reid has intervened on behalf of a powerful developer to gain government concessions while the developer puts money into Reid's campaigns -- and pays Reid's sons' salaries:"

Read the rest...

Really now did anyone other than the Kossacks really think that Abranhoff would only do in the Republican's?

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