As soon as the Democrats decided to call the Republican disease "the culture of corruption," the right wing frothing heads began waging a campaign to muddy those waters.  "Corruption?," they ask innocently.  "Why, that affects both parties.  Yes, corruption is bipartisan."

Which is true, and completely distorts the reality of the problem.

As you may or may not know, one of the A-list blogs, Daily Kos is holding a convention in Sin City, USA....

Allen Raymond, the Republican operative who carried out the 2002 Republican scheme to jam Democratic phone lines in NH has gotten out of prison and started explaining himself to The Boston Globe:

It's easy to lose sight of the fact that the sleaze of Jack Abramoff and his many, many cronies and stooges have had real effects on real people for a really long time.

Case in point: the Northern Marianas Islands, as documented in a 2002 government report not released until recently.

Bob Ney, the Republican Congressman from Ohio appears to be about neck deep in the Abramoff scandal (not that you can always tell, since he's become invisible to Republicans).

Now, according to a piece in the Times Reporter of Ohio, has taken to publicly deriding and insulting a reporter for Copley News Service.

Not to start off a rant by sounding a lot like Andy Rooney, but d'ya ever notice....?

In yet another illustration of Republican family values, the Senate and House have passed, and Bush is anxious to sign, the "Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act."

The Boston Globe has identified a dead giveaway that more Iraqis are being injured and/or killed in U.S. military operations in Iraq:  the amount of money given to Iraqi victims and their families quadrupled from about $5 million in fiscal 2004 to about $20 million in fiscal 2005.

Raw Story has posted a Vanity Fair article By CRAIG UNGER
investigating how the forged Niger yellowcake documents came into being and found their way into the willing hands of US intelligence people.

Most of the major drug companies now have some form of program which allows poor people to obtain certain drugs free.  This being the land of the middleman and hype, however, some clever people have figured out a way to piggyback on those free programs and turn a profit--by charging the poor not for the free medicine itself, but for "help" in identifying the available programs and completing the paperwork.

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