"A stench of corruption" ("You can't keep up without a scorecard.")

[tuvor]

By: Tim Grieve
Wed Sept 28, 2005 9:18 PM ET

MACON,GA.(Salon.com)- Over the course of the summer, Howard Dean worked hard to get voters to associate the Republican Party with a "culture of corruption" in Washington. The message didn't get much traction then -- in part because Democrats in Congress didn't push it out of fear that it would come back to bite them, and in part because voters had bigger concerns about George W. Bush and the party he leads.

The message is getting through today.

Just after news of Tom DeLay's indictment broke this afternoon, White House press secretary Scott McClellan appeared for his daily press briefing, where a reporter asked him on live television if a "stench of corruption" now swirls around the president and his party. McClellan dismissed the question as relying on a "broad characterization" but acknowledged that there are "instances" and "individual situations" where "the legal process" will need to proceed.

That's certainly fair to say.

From Texas to Florida to Ohio, from K Street to Congress to the inner circles of the Bush administration itself, the Republican Party is suddenly -- or maybe not so -- looking like the party of scandal. You can't keep up without a scorecard. Here's ours.

http://www.maconareaonline.com/news.asp?id=12067

[rodeodance]

1. "stench of corruption" i like the sound of it (not the smell).

[Miss Chybil]

2. And they want to talk bad about "looters." These guys are robbing the

country blind.

[nankerphelge]

3. I thought this article was great...

It was on salon earlier today - I e-mailed it to everyone I know.

[emulatorloo]

4. kick n/t

[DELUSIONAL]

5. and bush is still a drunk -- a wet drunk.