Many links.

This may be like Abramoff – both sides of the aisle implicated. If I were to make a wild guess I’d say that both sides of the aisle are about equally implicated.

What did Twain once say? The best Congress money can buy.

However, this is small potatoes. Just wait till the rock covering drug prohibition is lifted. The corruption on that one will be near 100%. Police, legislatures, the prison/industrial complex, the medical cartel, etc.

Do they still teach alcohol prohibition in the schools?

File this under GOP, A Culture Of Corruption:

(CBS/AP) Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI director Robert Mueller signaled they would resign this week rather than give in to Congress in a dispute over an FBI raid on Rep. William Jefferson’s Capitol Hill office, an administration official tells CBS News.

Top law enforcement officials at the Justice Department and the FBI indicated to their counterparts at the White House that they could not, and were unwilling to, return documents to the Louisiana Republican which were seized as part of a bribery investigation.

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Inside the administration, Vice President Dick Cheney’s office was pushing for the materials to be returned. Cheney’s Chief of Staff David Addington argued internally that the search was questionable.

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House Majority Leader Dennis Hastert complained about the raid to President Bush at least twice. He was joined Wednesday by his Democratic counterpart, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, in a statement demanding the FBI give back the material it seized.

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Its unprecedented nature and the lack of notice given Hastert set off loud complaints from both Republicans and Democrats that the administration was overstepping its authority.

Yes sir, what we have here is definitely a Republican culture of corruption. It’s right there, as plain as the nose on my face.

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You’re kidding, right? Spending bills originate and are passed in Congress before the White House has a chance at them. Likewise the immigration bill. Granted that we know what Bush’s position on the immigration is, and that it doesn’t agree with the majority of the people, but it’s still Congress that writes the bill and passes it. Look at what the Senate passed yesterday – the White House had nothing to do with it….yet!
What you’re saying is that they should be mad at themselves…or maybe at their compatriots in the Senate…

If the documents reveal embarrassing Katrina info, it would be no wonder for GOP to hide it as well.

What is really funny, the more stupid stuff like this they do, the more they increase the odds of her and the democrats winning.

The libertarian minded blogsphere needs to pull a 3rd party candidate out its collective hat for 2008. Anyone who could win the repub or demo primaries is not going to be a candidate we can likely vote for without holding our nose. We can not go through another one of those elections.

Even if our 3rd party candidate doesn’t win, we can still get something better. Remember, the last time a third party candidate knocked a republican out of office we got the great ’94 congress two years later. We need a repeat of ’94, but perhaps we have to make them taste a ’92 again first.

Where to start? How about here: House Rep. and Minority Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Caleefornia) is facing a revolt from – surprise – the Congressional Black Caucus. Essentially, they’ve accused her of a ‘racial double standard’ of sorts…

I recently learned that someone I know has known Speaker Hastert for many many years. I asked him about Mr. Hastert’s sometimes apparent tone deafness to the political music and “always disheveled” look. My friend assured me that Mr. …