GOP's Culture of Corruption

[MellowOne]

The GOP's Culture of Corruption

By Stephen Pizzo, News for Real
Posted on November 30, 2005, Printed on November 30, 2005
http://www.alternet.org/story/28891/

The old saying goes that even a broken clock is right twice a day. So when
Democrats accuse Republicans of fostering a culture of corruption, it proves the
old saying true. (That's once; the other time they've been right lately is in
calling for an early withdrawal from Iraq.)

We saw further evidence of the GOP's culture of corruption yesterday when
California Republican Rep. Randy Cunningham resigned from Congress after
admitting to taking $2 million in bribes from a defense contractor.

But Randy is a small fry; his take is chump change. Further up the GOP food
chain, the crimes and corruption are so enormous they would have left even Carl
Sagan at a loss for superlatives. (Billions upon billions upon billions…)

Only now is the general public starting to learn just how corruption swept
through the GOP ranks after the party's rise to majority status in the 1990s.
But it didn't happen all at once. And it didn't begin yesterday. It began over
eleven years ago.

[annabanana]

1. Corruption is the lingua franca of this administration..

It is their very reason for being. If there was no way to shovel buckets of cash out of the Treasury to the pals and cronies.. they wouldn't have bothered taking over...

[texpatriot2004]

2. GOP Culture of Corruption and the Cover-up Congress nm