[nothing]: Campaign rhetoric from Dems and Republicans this election season

The Prometheus Institute ^ | 9/19/2006 | Matt Harrison

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Democrats: "Republicans have a 'culture of corruption.'

Lord Acton famously suggested that political power itself corrupts. This axiom would make the Democrats, to any extent that they are relatively free of corruption, only so because they are not currently in power themselves. Tom DeLay and other Republicans have abused their ability to pass basically whatever legislation they want. They are getting paid extra to do so, but they are hardly the first documented cases of corrupt political officials.

As it turns out, the Democrats are far from free from corruption themselves. One of their congressmen was recently found with $90,000 worth of bribes in his freezer, and other local party members have been accused of mysteriously becoming unsuspecting beneficiaries of other mysterious campaign irregularities.