Frank Rich tears the GOP a new one

Frank Rich's latest column in the times is great. I haven't been a huge fan in the past, but this is making me a believer. This caught my eye, but read the whole thing.

"By my rough, conservative calculation — feel free to add — there have been corruption, incompetence, and contracting or cronyism scandals in these cabinet departments: Defense, Education, Justice, Interior, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services, and Housing and Urban Development. I am not counting State, whose deputy secretary, a champion of abstinence-based international AIDS funding, resigned last month in a prostitution scandal, or the General Services Administration, now being investigated for possibly steering federal favors to Republican Congressional candidates in 2006. Or the Office of Management and Budget, whose chief procurement officer was sentenced to prison in the Abramoff fallout. I will, however, toss in a figure that reveals the sheer depth of the overall malfeasance: no fewer than four inspectors general, the official watchdogs charged with investigating improprieties in each department, are themselves under investigation simultaneously — an all-time record."

(http://select.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/opinion/13rich.html)

Did we really think we'd be off the hook that long?

Jack Abramoff heads to jail tomorrow-- for six years so far, other charges pending, but according to ABC News, the carnage isn't over. He's been speaking "almost daily" with Justice Department prosecutors, and will continue to meet with them from a minimum security prison in Maryland. ABC reports he's allegedly spoken to them about Rove and "six to eight seriously corrupt Democratic senators." The honeymoon might be over if this blows up. But oh to get Rove in the process...

See the story on ABC's the Blotter:http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/11/abramoff_report.html