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Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Cronyism and Scandals
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f one looks at the history of American political scandals of the last hundred years, one has to conclude that nobody does corruption like the Republicans when they gain power. The Democrats do their best to keep up, but they never really come close to being as sleazy, especially when the GOP has got good and complacent after holding power for a while - people forget how awful the scandals of both Reagan's and Nixon's second terms were.
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or some reason, sooner or later, the GOP raincoat always pops open and we get flashed. The scandals we are seeing now are only the ones a friendly Justice Department and friendly Congress could not bury, and in all likelihood there are plenty more scandals where those came from.
Posted by fm on October 04, 2005 at 12:17 AM