The many, the corrupt: the GOP

Word to Diogenes: you can just skip the GOP caucus completely. Waste of good lamp oil.

Corruption Scandals Cast Shadow on GOP Leadership Race

In eight concise paragraphs, two moderate and two conservative House Republicans put into writing last week what they say many of their colleagues quietly fear: the GOP's plunging poll numbers, rising public support for a Congress controlled by Democrats and the increasing belief among voters that the Republican Party is corrupt.

House Republicans will gather Thursday to elect a successor to Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) as majority leader, and the perceptions of corruption, though "neither fair nor accurate . . . are reality," Reps. Jim Kolbe (Ariz.), Charles Bass (N.H.), Paul Ryan (Wis.) and Tom Feeney (Fla.) wrote in a letter to their colleagues, imploring them to vote for change. "We must realize that the Majority we have all worked so hard for is in jeopardy."

Neither fair nor accurate? C'mon. Libby, DeLay, Abramoff, Ney, Cunningham, Safavian, Frist, Santorum, Blunt, Boehler are still Republicans, last I heard. And what about "the DeLay rule" and the blatant manipulation of the House Ethics Committee?

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