Sen. Reid: America Needs Honest Leadership
In his call for “honest leadership”, Sen. Reid appears to have exempted himself from playing by the rules. Using this morning’s Democratic response to the President’s radio address, Reid said:
Republicans “have absolute power, and it has corrupted their party and led to the culture of corruption that we now have in Washington, D.C.,” the Nevada senator said in the weekly Democratic radio address. “It is time now for the president to put an end to this pattern of deceit.”
I won’t pretend like Republicans are lilly white in terms of ethic. Quite frankly, in the money pit that’s called Washington, D.C., almost everyone will have gotten involved in something that, at minimun, appears questionable.
If that’s the standard, then Harry Reid needs to come clean. The AP reported back in November that “Reid had accepted tens of thousands of dollars from an Abramoff client, the Coushatta Indian tribe, after interceding with Secretary of the Interior Gail Norton over a casino dispute with a rival tribe.
Reid “sent a letter to Norton on March 5, 2002,” reported the AP. “The next day, the Coushattas issued a $5,000 check to Reid’s tax-exempt political group, the Searchlight Leadership Fund. A second tribe represented by Abramoff sent an additional $5,000 to Reid’s group. Reid ultimately received more than $66,000 in Abramoff-related donations between 2001 and 2004.”
Harry, isn’t that known as a quid pro quo? You directly intervened on behalf of Abramoff’s clients, then got a campaign contribution the next day. I refuse to think that that check getting there that fast had nothing to do with your intervention. You’d best clean up that culture of corruption first before you tell others to clean up their messes.
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRing
January 22nd, 2006 at 9:03 am
Earlier last week Reid said “I know a thing or two about corruption.”
Yes, indeed he does!
Ever seen the LA Times chart which shows that the male members of his family are raking in millions lobbying daddy on behalf of legislation?
http://mikesamerica.blogspot.com/2005/10/click-on-chart-above-and-read-about.html
In Reid’s case, it isn’t a “culture” of corruption, it’s a “clan” of corruption.
January 22nd, 2006 at 8:57 pm
Seems as though he may be a little more than “Dingy” Harry.