Shockingly, this liberal flavored list excluded Diane Fienstein (spelling?), who has steered close to $1 billion dollars to her husband's defense firms, or the new flow of pork that has gone out to San Francisco since Queen Bee Pelosi took over Congress and did absolutely nothing she promised to do.

I am surprised they even put William Jefferson on here, it must have pained them to have to put a Democrat on the list, even one who is arguably the filthiest member of Congress.

Members of the Armed Forces, who have sworn to uphold the constitution, protect against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, and obey the orders of the officers appointed over him/her are in a bad situation.

What should a military member do, if the Commander in Chief is not upholding the oath of office, is amassing greater and greater powers within the executive branch, and using these powers in direct violation of the constitution?

Does this not also make the military member an accomplice?

Seems to me that the military member is placed into a loop and would need to sue the President. Because the military member is placed in a position, unable to fulfill the oath of enlistment and obey the orders of the Commander in Chief, at the same time.

But what would the precise law suit (or other legal action) be?

Comments?

I guess that it all depends on your particular interests, i.e., whose "ox is being gored". As long as the Constitution is ignored, as law of the land, when it comes to the rightful concerns of government, what you call "corruption" is just a part of the game. The solution is, of course, a return to basics. How to do that? Today we have what may be America's last chance, a vote for Ron Paul. Who is he really? See http://bigeye.com/ronpaul.htm

Those who allowing the debacle in the desert to continue are corrupt!

Your research missed Obama who has a land dealing in Chicago with Antoin "Tony" Rezko which is highly questionable and at least on par with some of the scandals you mentioned. Hillary of course Has Whitewater in her background, so asking what scandal was related to her shows ignorance of politics to say the least. I suppose you mean recent scandals. I am sure if we actually researched every politician in Washington we would probably find a skeleton or two so cherry picking a few is questionable behavior. I suppose Barney Frank allowing a prostitution ring to be operated out of his apartment is not corruption as he was not prostituting himself. But then he is a Democrat and you expect hedonistic behavior from them just like you expect Republicans to act like pharisees.

Kerwin

I suggest that readers of the reports pull up the full report on each member. Some of the reports are a bit thin -- Pete Domenici's misconduct is limited to the pressure on U.S. attorney David Iglesias. But others (e.g., McConnell & Stevens) are a treasure trove of information on shady deals. Some of the summaries don't come close to suggesting the full scope of the venality identified in the reports!

Great job, but I think the single charge against Domenici does not qualify him to be included in this band of scoundrels.

After the HSU thing, and Hillary isn't on the list?

Sept 18

What about Senator Dianne Feinstein??

While on the MILCON subcommitte, Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions of dollars to firms owned by her husband, Richard C. Blum. This included millions of dollars in contracts awarded to Blum's Perini Corporation to provide goods and services in Iraq and Afghanistan.

As the ranking Democratic, Feinstein would have again become chair of the MILCON subcommittee when the Democratically controlled Senate of the 110th Congress was sworn in on January 4, 2007. However, Feinstein resigned from the subcommittee prior to the new congressional term, forfeiting chairmanship of the MILCON subcommittee to Tim Johnson. Metro Newspapers reported that Feinstein's resignation was attributable to a series of articles, partially funded by the progressive Nation Institute, exposing the potential conflict of interest posed by Feinstein's voting to award contracts to her husband's firms.