{"id":10128,"date":"2009-09-23T06:06:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T06:06:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-23T06:06:36","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T06:06:36","slug":"whose-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/23\/whose-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose corruption?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read Bill Hedricks post on Calvert being cited by CREW as being one of the most corrupt congressmen in Washington&#8230; again. &nbsp;On that basis alone, I would wish Bill luck. &nbsp;But, we should not get too cocky about this. &nbsp;Remember, &nbsp;Maxine Waters made the same list for the 3rd time and Laura Richardson has quickly gotten into a position be be recognized. <\/p>\n<p>No party has a lock on corruption and you don&#8217;t excuse it for the good deeds done otherwise. Case in point, check the <a href=\"http:\/\/anticorruptionrepublican.blogspot.com\/\">AntiCorruption Republican. <\/a> Some are still trying to purge the part of the stench of Abramoff. &nbsp;I would be just like their Washington correspondent probably left the courtroom to go join CREW and watch Tom DeLay on Dancin&#8217; with the Stars. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I remember Pete McCloskey warning us that politicians are like diapers. &nbsp;They need to be changed frequently&#8230; and for the same reason. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read Bill Hedricks post on Calvert being cited by CREW as being one of the most corrupt congressmen in Washington&#8230; again. &nbsp;On that basis alone, I would wish Bill luck. &nbsp;But, we should not get too cocky about this. &nbsp;Remember, &nbsp;Maxine Waters made the same list for the 3rd time and Laura Richardson has quickly gotten into a position be be recognized. <\/p>\n<p>No party has a lock on corruption and you don&#8217;t excuse it for the good deeds done otherwise. Case in point, check the <a href=\"http:\/\/anticorruptionrepublican.blogspot.com\/\">AntiCorruption Republican. <\/a> Some are still trying to purge the part of the stench of Abramoff. &nbsp;I would be just like their Washington correspondent probably left the courtroom to go join CREW and watch Tom DeLay on Dancin&#8217; with the Stars. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I remember Pete McCloskey warning us that politicians are like diapers. &nbsp;They need to be changed frequently&#8230; and for the same reason. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[271,7882,7883],"class_list":["post-10128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-271","tag-7882","tag-7883"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Dm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}