Analysis: Scandal Again Testing GOP

[Omaha Steve]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20060915/D8K5H72O1.html

Analysis: Scandal Again Testing GOP
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Sep 15, 4:56 PM (ET)

By DAVID ESPO

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans decided long ago their party won't pay a significant price at the polls for the scandal spawned by lobbyist Jack Abramoff. It's a proposition likely to be tested anew in the aftermath of Rep. Bob Ney's agreement to plead guilty to corruption charges.

Within minutes of the disclosure of Ney's signed plea bargain papers on Friday, House Democrats circulated a list meant to suggest guilt by association. It highlighted the names of more than 60 Republican incumbents who have accepted political donations from the six-term lawmaker.

"Americans are ready for a new direction this November because it's time for a Congress that will put the American people's interests ahead of the special interests," said Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois Democrat who chairs his party's campaign organization.

Republicans said that as a national strategy, ethics was a non-starter.

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[Kagemusha]

1. GOP: "As a national strategy, ethics is a non-starter."

What a statement.

[madinmaryland]

2. WOW! They admit to a Culture of Corruption.

[glitch]

3. Freaks. nt

[gratuitous]

4. It's up to the Republicans only?

Only the Republicans can decide whether their corruption is a campaign issue? Gee, I would have thought the Democrats, along with an independent media, would have a say about that. But apparently not.

Move along, folks. Nothing to see here. Just another powerful Republican committee chairman going off to the Gray Bar Hotel for a stretch because of corruption. Not a campaign issue. Don't linger, don't look. Move along.

[MasonJar]

5. Their brash assumption that the American public can easily be

duped over and over is rewarded only by the Diebold machines. This year if obvious machine or election manipulation occurs we MUST be the ones to take to the streets. As Newt said, democrats slogan should be "Had Enough." (As always even the blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.) This Newtism was heard by me last night when quoted in Louisville by Barack Obama, who also said, by the way, that he seldom quotes the Newt...which is of course easy to believe.

[samsingh]

6. without the whoring of the media, the gop would have gone down

long ago