The details about who Jack Abramoff will implicate in his web of corruption will be fleshed out in the coming weeks, but I thought it might be worthwhile to take a step back and look at what’s become of the Republican establishment.<\/p>\n
* GOP uber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff has pled guilty to fraud, tax evasion, and conspiracy to bribe public officials — and may ultimately implicate as many as 60 lawmakers<\/a>, in addition to several Bush administration officials<\/a>.<\/p>\n * House Administration Committee Chairman Bob Ney (R-Ohio) has already been implicated<\/a> in the Abramoff scandal and is in a world of trouble<\/a>.<\/p>\n * Tom DeLay, who is already facing money laundering charges in Texas, has reason to worry about what Abramoff might<\/a> tell<\/a> prosecutors.<\/p>\n * The Bush White House already lost one high-ranking aide due to a criminal indictment<\/a>, and is still under a criminal investigation<\/a> now. (Fitzgerald’s grand jury met this morning, by the way.)<\/p>\n * The Bush administration is also facing an investigation<\/a> into whether it circumvented the law by engaging in warrantless searches.<\/p>\n * Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is under investigation by the SEC and the Justice Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n A few months back, for the first time in American history, we had a White House, Senate leader, and House leader all under criminal investigations at the same time. And that’s without even getting into “Duke” Cunningham’s almost cartoonish corruption<\/a> or the bevy of scandals among several Republican<\/a> governors<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Culture of corruption”? Sounds about right to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The details about who Jack Abramoff will implicate in his web of corruption will be fleshed out in the coming weeks, but I thought it might be worthwhile to take a step back and look at what’s become of the Republican establishment. * GOP uber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff has pled guilty to fraud, tax evasion, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}