This falls into the trap of dim logic.
Donations to the accounting industry aren't illegal. The point is that democrats keep crying wolf with smear campaigns while having no clean slate themselves. If it was wrong for Cheney to say good things about an Andersen audit while at Halliburton, then it is wrong for Torrecelli and Shumer to lobby against changes at the SEC, which is the greater sin, BTW. Especially in light of today's facts.
Look, nobody's saying the Pubbies are angels, but it is the DemocRats who want to castigate the Pubbies as evil somehow while putting themselves out there as the guardians of the small people.
It's hogwash!