MORE ON THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL
WESTAR ENERGY SCANDAL

"It never ceases to amaze me that people are so cynical they want to tie money to issues, money to bills, money to amendments," said DeLay, whose Texans for a Republican Majority PAC received a $25,000 Westar corporate contribution.

Some Democrats and Public Citizen, the citizen advocacy group, have called on the Justice Department to determine whether federal bribery laws have been broken.

Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, who received Westar contributions as a Senate candidate, this week declined to say whether he would recuse himself from matters involving the company, the Associated Press reported. Rep. John Conyers (Mich.), ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, yesterday called on Ashcroft to appoint a special counsel to investigate the Westar controversy in order to "offer the public the assurances that the investigation is being done fairly and impartially."

Even though this is very serious business, it's really hard not to laugh at the situation these guys are in. DeLay spouts his usual stream of stupidity, no doubt caused by brain damage resulting from his many years of inhaling bug poisons while he operated his "successful small business" in Sugarland, Texas. Ashcroft, also stupid, but not brain damaged, apparently knows when to shut up.

Hahaha.

But make no mistake: this brewing scandal is simply business as usual; we only know about it because of Westar's newly elected corporate board of directors cleaning house and 'fessing up, an unprecedented situation. Nailing a few Republican Congressmen won't fix the problem. Overhauling campaign finance and changing the American culture of greed, however, will fix the problem.

Of course, I'm not holding my breath.

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Thanks to Eschaton.

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