Reply #31: SFChron/AP on Frist:"An odor of sleaziness is enveloping the Republicans"

[Nothing Without Hope]

Frist and Delay, linked in an Associated Press article as being the targets of ethics probes - this is so sweet to see at last.. Sanctimonious, greedy hypocrites! Put them in a jail cell together and let them suffer from each other's disgusting company.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/09/23/national/w123641D81.DTL
www.sfgate.com

Frist, DeLay Fend Off Probes Into Ethics

- By DONNA CASSATA, Associated Press Writer
Friday, September 23, 2005

(09-23) 17:30 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

Heading into a midterm election year, Republicans find themselves with not one, but two congressional leaders — Bill Frist in the Senate and Tom DeLay in the House — fending off questions of ethical improprieties.

The news that federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission are looking into Frist's sale of stock in HCA Inc., the hospital operating company founded by his family, comes as a criminal investigation continues of Jack Abramoff, a high-powered Republican lobbyist, and his ties to DeLay of Texas.

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The year 1994 marked the Republican revolution, when the GOP seized control of Congress after decades of Democratic rule in the House and years in the Senate. The GOP portrayed their rivals as beholden to special interests and corrupt after years of entrenchment.

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"The overall problem the Republican Party has is it is increasingly looking like Tammany Hall," Wittman {Marshall Wittman, a one-time conservative activist who now works for the centrist Democratic Leadership Council} said. "An odor of sleaziness is enveloping the Republicans and seeping into the administration."

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