Saturday, December 10, 2005
The stink of Republican corruption has carried across the Atlantic.
And the Times of London is reporting it to their readers.
A DECADE ago Newt Gingrich’s Republican revolutionaries seized control of Congress after 40 years of Democrat rule by promising to end the culture of graft and corruption on Capitol Hill.Any one part of the current plethora of Republican scandal would be enough to bring down a parliamentary government.
Today, after a string of indictments, scandals and a criminal investigation that threatens to implicate dozens of politicians next year, the tables have turned full circle. It is now President Bush’s Republicans who are seen as the party of sleaze.
Polls suggest that two thirds of Americans believe that corruption is a serious political problem. That, allied with the growing unpopularity of the war in Iraq, is raising fears in the White House of a voter backlash in next year’s mid-term congressional elections.
Since the summer, leading Republicans have been hit by a steady stream of scandals.
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