Congressional Republicans Beating Congressional Democrats by 6-2 Margin,
at least in the criminal investigation competition.
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That list omits Tom Feeney (R-FL), allegedly implicated in the Jack Abramoff scandal.
Before you criticize a blogger for not posting about something you might actually want to check first, because he has an item on Stevens today.
Hey, just because we Alaskans are winning in the "my congressional delegation is more corrupt than your congressional delegation" race, don't try and convince us to switch horses. According to the Article, 2/3 of our congressional delegation is under investigation. I doubt any other state can beat that. But in reality, that underscores our corruption awesomeness, because Lisa Murkowski (the Senator that was appointed by her father, Governor Murkowski, to replace him when he became Governor) is also under investigation. Give up you citizens of the Lower 48. With your larger Congressional Delegations, you'll never be able to rival us. No matter how hard you try, you'll always wind up with one person who has some slim sort of conscience.
And just how else would we do that, other than by having the Republican DOJ investigate the corruption and prosecute the offenders? There are no provisions to recall Congressmen and Senators, so how would we have "cleaned up our act" after the last election, other than by doing what we're doing? If the allegations pan out, and their districts still reelect them next time, then your question might be valid. Until then, we Republicans are doing pretty much all we can do.
Nick
Yeah, but just as your bigger delegation works against you, your longer history works against you as well. Granted, it's a grand long history of corruption, but when you look at the percentages, especially if you count by terms rather than people, you guys just can't compete in corruptivity.
I know, I am shocked -- just shocked -- that Instapundit isn't noting this; after all, as he always goes out of his way to tell everyone, he is a non-partisan, libertarian.
It took republicans another 30 years to catch up to the crooked sleaze that the democrats achieved in the 1970's.
However, the argument we are no worse than the democrats is NOT an argument republicans should be making. Republicans aren't supposed to be the hypocritical liars that we know from the start the democrats have been my entire life.
Says the "Dog"
No, not with a score of 6-2. Maybe stick to last year's trope that corruption doesn't matter.
Charge them already or make that crap illegal. I don't want to be the only one with an unpurified party!
After all that talk about "draining the swamp", the Democratic leadership (led by corrupt-land-deals Pelosi) put both Murtha and Jefferson in key committee positions. If that isn't a demonstration of a lack of seriousness, I don't know what is. On the Senate side we have "lucky" land speculator Harry Ried at the top job.
And the Dems are all set to put a Clinton back in the White House. I don't know why Hillary wants to be president, since she has a demonstrated ability to get 100:1 returns on cattle futures. Why doesn't she just do that for a living? She could probably take her magic show on the road too - you know, the one where she makes law firm records appear out of thin air. Maybe Sandy Burger can be her assistant.
I don't know how the Republicans can ever hope to match this Democratic trifecta.
1. On this comment thread from Hei Lun Chan 2. At instapundit
TED STEVENS' HOUSE searched by the FBI. And IRS
That post was timestamped at 9:51 AM which is about 8 hours before greedy clerk let the snark fly. Hei Lun Chan even included a link to it in his comment.
If Greedy Clerk had bothered to do a search on "ted stevens" at instapundit he would have found 16 posts. None of the posts are friendly to stevens and this one gives an idea of the general flavor of the posts.
MORE PROBLEMS FOR TED "BRIDGE TO NOWHERE" STEVENS: One can only hope greedy clerk does a better job of due diligence in his legal career.
At least some authentic political corruption gets investigated even in regimes we'd all agree are pretty rife with corruption. Sometimes institutional memory and local human integrity get in the way of the best laid plans.
On the other hand, I enjoy the good, spirited competition shown by Louisiana and Alaska. As a California, I note with pride that we, numerically, are tied with Alaska with 3 members in trouble or convicted (Randy Duke Cunningham, Dolittle, and Lewis), so I take some measure of pride in our good state, but do concede, on percentages, we have a ways to go to approach Alaska's numbers.
Nick
If the raid of Senator Ted Steven's house had a legitimate goal of going after the Republican Senator, the FBI would not have had a professional locksmith come unlock his front door. Since when does the FBI hire locksmiths to open a door to execute a search warrant? They bash the door down if it's not opened by the owner upon request (assuming they don't have a no-knock warrant).
No republicans Congresspeople are going to get in trouble, because it would mean they'd lose their seat and give the Democrats the advantage. Bush and his DOJ feel that God placed Bush in office to fight the evildoers and he's not going to have his DOJ get in the way of God's plan and his own Good Work.
So they just put on this little show so they can say "look, see here, we're investigating Republicans, we're not biased." And most people will buy it.
Also, I think you don't have any reason to believe US Attourneys are "Certified Loyal Bushies". The fact that one (one!) misspoke during congressional hearings is not evidence of a shadow government.
If anything, the Bush administration has been afraid to go after Democrats lest the prosecutions be deemed "political". That's the only explanation for Harry Reid's continued freedom. And why isn't William Jefferson in jail yet? Where is the criminal investigation into Nancy Pelosi's business dealings?