Corruption allegations - Harry Reid

[Xiahou]

Personally, I really don't think this is sleazy enough to get a Democrat senator in much trouble. For some reason, a few newspapers are picking this up- but the story is still largely under the radar and isn't picking up any momentum from what I've seen.

Now had this been Cheney.....

[Seamus Fermanagh]

There are some corrupt politicians in both major US political parties.

The "tone" taken by the mainstream media with such affairs is simple. That is:

Some Democrat politicos are crooks and need to be removed from office, and

Some Republican politicos are crooks and this is why the Republicans need to be removed from office.

[Fisherking]

There are some corrupt politicians in both major US political parties.

The "tone" taken by the mainstream media with such affairs is simple. That is:

Some Democrat politicos are crooks and need to be removed from office, and

Some Republican politicos are crooks and this is why the Republicans need to be removed from office.

Well said!

Yes we have had a tendency to forget all of the Democratic Congressional Scandals that were ever a plague in Washington prior to Newt Gingrich in 1994, was it…
The house banking scandal, congressional retirements where they left office to more pay than in Congress and a government-paid staff larger than what they had on Capitol Hill…
The usual rider at the bottom of laws making Congress exempt from the statutes good enough for the rest of the country. All of those terrible things those dastardly Republicans did …and the Grinch that stole Christmas…

In all fairness though there are a lot of crooked Republicans and they should suffer.

But the main difference in the Democratic crooks is that they more generally make it a Party Effort…