The culture of corruption

I guess Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid knows corruption when he sees it. The Washington Times is reporting that Reid is now reimbursing his campaign for personal expenditures he’s made over the years – expenditures like paying bonuses to his personal staff at his Ritz-Carlton condo in downtown DC. Couple that with yesterday’s news that he’s decided to amend his ethic reports after being busted on it by AP (of all people) and hanging up on them during an interview.

I guess it’s not corruption if you give the money back and refile originally false reports when you’re caught being deceitful. Now Dingy Harry Reid releases a statement blaming Republicans for his own misdeeds.

In related news, the Washington Times is also reporting today about Robert Menendez, New Jersey Democrat who is apparently under Federal investigation for a rental deal with a non-profit organization which receives Federal funds guided by Menendez.

Let’s talk about Nancy Pelosi securing Federal Transit Authority grants for donors to her PAC. Or John Murtha who has pushed $95 million in contracts to PMA Group which employs his brother Kit and a former staffer. Or William Jefferson, the famous Democrat Congressman from Louisiana who just happened to keep $90,000 in his refridgerator. And no recitation of Democrat corruption would be complete without mentioning silly old Sandy Berger and his smuggling of National Security Archives documents that accidently got stuck in his pants and his socks.

Yup, there’s a culture of corruption alright. And Democrats are just as guilty, if not more guilty, as everyone else. But then they’ve been doing it longer than the rest, too.

Category: John Murtha, Politics