more media bias: "Corruption dogs both parties"

[unpossibles]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060824/ap_on_el_ge/corruption_politics

NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio - Bemoaning a "culture of corruption" in the Republican Party, Democrats are convinced they have a winning election-year issue. The GOP claims it's a wash.

Allegations of criminal wrongdoing and ethical lapses among lawmakers shadow several competitive House and Senate races from Ohio to Texas and Louisiana to Montana this midterm election.

"We need a new direction that restores honesty to the People's House," Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California said recently, emphasizing one of her party's campaign messages as scandal-scarred Republican Rep. Bob Ney (news, bio, voting record) of Ohio abandoned his re-election race.

Out of power for a dozen years, Democrats are trying to persuade voters to give them the reins of Congress by arguing that ethics questions surrounding a few Republicans are part of a broad pattern of corruption in the GOP.
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the article does not really back up the headline. It does mentinon 2 Dems who have had trouble, and many Reps who have, but WTF? Liberal media my ass.

[Stinky The Clown]

1. Ben Publican had sex with four young men and two dogs

Don O'Crat had a speeding ticket back '84.

See, they're all corrupt.

[Supersedeas]

5. any discussions re: degrees of corruption might require Joe Shill Reporter

to actually do some homework instead of regurgitating Pubby talking points.

[Parisle]

2. Some "Corruption" Is Legal....

---- ... and the headlines don't always tell the whole story. My personal "worst example" of legal corruption is the manner in which SUV's were permitted to dodge the EPA gas mileage requirements in the mid-90's,.. by somehow being counted as "trucks." Auto companies gave generously to legislators of both parties,... the deal was done,.. and no headlines followed. It wasn't front page stuff,.... but it has cost billions in fuel costs,.. as good intentions were effectively waylaid by big corporate money and the "political industry" which feeds off it. That "political industry" includes BOTH parties.

[unpossibles]

3. I agree that corporate corruption is the potential downfall of our system

and there are many examples of it. While some people create a target of "welfare queens" for people to hate, the reality is much more of our taxes go to corporate welfare and deregulation, the results of which we are starting to see in the ever-widening salary gap, scandals with lobbyists and money laundering, etc.

I still feel there is much more corruption in the RW. I am not a Dem but they tend to align more with my beliefs, so I usually vote for them, and frankly the NeoCons (including some like Lieberman) have done nothing but push me further left.

My problem with the Right is that I see many inherent flaws in their belief system: "big government is wasteful" they say they think it should be pared back and broken up and deregulated (and actually spend more and grow authoritarian systems). They try to starve the government, yet increase its power. It's ridiculous.

I say we fix the damn thing instead. If my car is running inefficiently, I try to correct the problem, not throw it away (onto someone else's lawn). My country needs a tune up, and frankly I don't trust the Right Wing to walk my dog; they'd either eat it or sell it to the highest bidder.

[leesa]

4. It's the "they do it too" tactic and it works because of the stupid

'bipartisanship' game Democrats play. NAIL EM with their corruption...but they won't. As Joe L. would say, it wouldn't be polite and it wouldn't help reaching across the aisle (for $$$)