Culture of Corruption: But No Congressional Investigation of Democrats!

Yesterday, I reported on the call by Nancy Pelosi to "clean house" and investigate the Republicans and their "culture of corruption" in the House of Representatives.

But I am beginning to wonder if perhaps many of our Democrat defenders who comment here went to public schools or have some other learning disability that dulls their reader comprehension.

After the Brit Hume's "Political Grapevine" report, my second source was the Washington Post story on this matter (which was also most kind to link back to Mike's America). The Post goes on to mention the recent guilty plea of a former aide to New Orleans Congressman Jefferson, (D) and the ongoing public corruption investigation of the Congressman himself.

Pelosi, like our Democrat friends appear willfully unaware of the the scandals which swirl around them, as they continue the one way fingerpointing at the GOP.

So, in an effort to inform them on this important scandal, here's an excerpt from a Los Angeles Times report:

Former Aide's Guilty Plea Implicates Congressman
Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) sought bribes, jobs for his children and other favors for providing political support to a company setting up Internet service in Nigeria, according to a former aide's guilty plea, entered Wednesday in federal court in Alexandria, Va.

In an alleged conspiracy, beginning in 2004, Jefferson, in exchange for providing political help, demanded payments and favors from a northern Virginia company that was proposing to set up Internet service through the Nigerian Telephone Co., according to the guilty plea by Brett M. Pfeffer of Herndon, Va., to charges of aiding and abetting bribery of a public official and conspiracy.
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An indictment against Jefferson, 58, could come in the next several months, according to law enforcement sources who asked not to be identified. Pfeffer is now cooperating with federal prosecutors in northern Virginia, where the case was filed.
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The case also could affect funding to rebuild sections of New Orleans destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Findings of deep corruption in the city and the state could compromise any large injection of federal funding, some opponents have asserted.

The Jefferson investigation was first made public in August, when the Justice Department obtained search warrants for Jefferson's homes, cars and offices, as well as subpoenas of other current and former staffers in his office. Federal agents reportedly took large amounts of cash, recovered from Jefferson's freezer, according to press accounts at the time.

Isn't that peachy? A congressman with a freezer full of cash, an aide pleads guilty to public corruption and implicates the congressman and all Nancy Pelosi finds to talk about are those nasty Republicans.

And again, 20 GOP members of the House officially called for an election to replace Tom Delay as MAJORITY Leader. I repeat my challenge to our Democrat friends: With the cloud of Pelosi's own guilt in violating Federal election law, is there ONE Democrat member of the House who will OFFICIALLY call for her to step down as MINORITY Leader?

Finally when we talk about Democrats and their culture of corruption, New Orleans Congressman Jefferson brings to mind another visual reminder of the consequences of unchecked Democrat corruption:

School Buses in New Orleans, Who Was in Charge?