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William Jefferson (D-La,) is suspected of bribery.  The Nation magazine calls him… "one of the worst Democrats in
the House even before he started hiding bribes in the freezer."

Cash found in his freezer is now being defrosted by the FBI. He says there are two sides to every story and refuses to step down.

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William Jefferson (not Clinton), (D-La.) is suspected of bribery.  The FBI found $90,000 in cash hidden in his freezer at home.  They got a warrant and searched his congressional office. 

Congress is in a bipartisan outrage.  At the FBI, not Jefferson.  Separation of powers you know.

That's what they say.  What Republicans are really thinking is, "now everybody knows Democrats are as corrupt as we are."

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Tom Delay is stepping down one step ahead of the law.  The Financial Times of London quoted him saying, “It’s very nasty. Every leftist organisation in America is down here in
Houston. I just realised that my constituents don’t deserve this. They
deserve a Republican."  That's a funny way for a termite killer from Texas to talk. 

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Palestinian voters face the same problem as Americans.  Not much to choose from  political partywise.  We have Democrats and Republicans but they're all members of the Beltway / K street coalition of perpetual office holding.  Still, every so often, voters do rise up and throw the bums out.

Palestinians have Fatah and Hamas  - the corruption party and the terrorist party.  Perpetual office holding for Fatah ran up against its limits when Yasir Arafat assumed room temperature. Fatah hacks gobbled up foreign aid donations like they were Indian casino kickbacks.  Plus they couldn't fix the streets or control the street thugs.  So the voters threw the bums out and replaced them with more disciplined, higher octane terrorists.  Hamas actually can make the trains run on time.  Whether it can wipe out Israel, a major plank in its platform,  remains to be seen. 

One thing is sure.  If Hamas wants to govern it will have to survive the victory party.

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Bob Ney has a funny name. It means mud in horse. On Monday he stepped down from the chairmanship of the House Administration Committee. The Jack Abramoff scandle is a complex mess and evidently Ney was in the middle of it. In addition to handing out parking passes, the Chairman of the Administration committee would be involved in House ethics reform. He should watch his step.

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Abramoff couldn't buy enough access to government while other people had access they didn't know about.