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Saturday, April 21, 2007

No end to right wing corruption in sight

I'm tired of writing about this. There is nothing else that needs to be said:
Representative Rick Renzi of Arizona stepped down suddenly Friday from the House Intelligence Committee, saying he was doing so because he was under federal investigation dealing with a series of financial transactions.

Mr. Renzi is the second Republican congressman in the last two days to relinquish an important committee post because of a federal inquiry, a development suggesting a quickening pace of some federal corruption investigations of members of Congress.

Representative John T. Doolittle of California gave up his seat Thursday on the powerful House Appropriations Committee. Mr. Doolittle has been linked in three inquiries to accusations that committee members accepted bribes or campaign contributions in exchange for earmarking federal money to certain projects.
Progressives are not under the impression that all Republicans are corrupt - but enough is enough. It's the phenomenon from the Stanford Prison Study in a different form - a whole class of power hungry, greedy Republican politicians who have betrayed their constituents and their own values.

There seems to be no end in sight.

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