The non-profit, non-partisan Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has released its assessment of the 20 most corrupt Congresspersons and 5 "Dishonorable Mentions". You can read the PDF "Beyond Delay Report" for yourself. Also see this Netscape version. Some of the names on there might surprise you. They did me. (HT: DftCW)
The "20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress" :
The "5 Dishonorable Mentions":
Notice there are 3:17 Dems to GOP in the first category, and 1:4 in the second. So Dems are 20% as corrupt (roughly) in the House and 25% as corrupt in the Senate as Lincoln's party...
A well-established trend has been observed historically that the majority party always grows more corrupt over time, until a reversal of fortuntes occurs (as will this November), and then the fraudulence cycle perpetuates in the other direction. Hooray for change, the only constant known to man ;)
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- Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT)
- Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN)
- Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)
- Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO)
- Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA)
- Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA)
- Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL)
- Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL)
- Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA)
- Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA)
- Rep. Gary Miller (R-CA)
- Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-WV)
- Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO)
- Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA)
- Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ)
- Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX)
- Rep. John Sweeney (R-NY)
- Rep. Charles Taylor (R-NC)
- Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)
- Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA)
- Rep. Chris Cannon (R-UT)
- Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-IL)
- Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ)
- Rep. John Murtha (D-PA)
- Rep. Don Sherwood (R-PA)
Notice there are 3:17 Dems to GOP in the first category, and 1:4 in the second. So Dems are 20% as corrupt (roughly) in the House and 25% as corrupt in the Senate as Lincoln's party...
A well-established trend has been observed historically that the majority party always grows more corrupt over time, until a reversal of fortuntes occurs (as will this November), and then the fraudulence cycle perpetuates in the other direction. Hooray for change, the only constant known to man ;)
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