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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 09/11/2008 : 03:34:23
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....oh my!
In the midst of our current political spasm over Republican presidential nominees and their various foibles (Obama doesn't seem to have very many foibles), we've forgotten, or at least shelved, Congressional misdeeds. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has released its fourth annual report, "CREW's Most Corrupt Members of Congress, outlining Washington politicians who it says have "most egregiously betrayed the public's trust."
12 of the 24 members of Congress listed in the report are under investigation. The thirteenth, New York Congressman Charlie Rangel, has opened a House ethics investigation on himself.
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What is interesting here is the proportion: R vs. D. The Republicans out-number Democrats by enough to make me wonder if a certain genetic type (the lying poltroon gene?) is more attracted to that party.
Anyhow, here you have it and it's conceivable that it only scratches the surface.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 09/11/2008 : 22:57:26 [Permalink]
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I suspect it's not genetic, Fil, but I can't prove it.
I think there are actually a fair number of Democrats who got into Congressional politics due to idealistic motivations of public service. Then the lobbyists came sniffing around, and too many of those Democrats were corrupted.
I think the Republicans in Congress, by contrast, were nearly all recruited by the lobbyists and private interest groups before they even ran for office. They don't need to be corrupted. They started that way.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Pigs and lipstick and Congress.....
