The Republican Cornucopia of Scandals

You're really starting to need a scorecard to keep track of them.

OUTSIDE the Administration, you have the Republican House Majority Leader under two separate indictments, one of them for money laundering.

You have the Republican Senate Majority Leader under investigation for insider trading.

Now, the guy who replaced Tom DeLay has House Majority Leader has his own ethics problem as the tentacles of Jack Abramoff reveal themselves. It seems Missouri Rep. Roy Blunt and his evil spawn, Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt, were in on the game as well.

And let's not forget the Ohio GOP coin scandal, which demonstrates how the party's organization in that state, the one which threw the White House back to George W. Bush, is rotten to the core.

INSIDE the Administration, you have Pentagon analyst Lawrence Franklin pleading guilty yesterday to giving classified information to an Israeli diplomat.

You have former White House chief procurement official David Safavian indicted on charges of making false statements and obstruction of justice in the investigation of Jack Abramoff.

You have former Marine and White House aide and intelligence analyst Leandro Aragoncillo under investigation for allegedly misusing his top-secret clearance to steal classified information from computers and sending it to people in the Philippines. [Gavin at Sadly, No wonders if Michelle Malkin still favors internment camps....]

And rumors are swirling of up to 22 indictments about to be made by Patrick Fitzgerald in the Valerie Plame outing case. In the past, Karl Rove's attorney has said that his client is not a target of the case. Now, he's not saying anything one way or the other.

Now, it's entirely possible that Fitzgerald could conclude that no crime was committed, so I dare not get my hopes up. But the change in Robert Luskin's tone is interesting, to say the least.

And these are the people who claim to be the upholders of moral behavior in the United States? Funny how the same people who shrieked about Clinton seem to think that there's absolutely nothing to ANY of these investigations. Smoke, fire, etc.