With Tom DeLay http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/29/politics/29pacs.html dealing with his indictment, and other GOP elected officials facing their own ethics problems, President Bush's agenda for his second term might have hit a brick wall. Sen. Frist (Tennessee-R) is being investigated because of possible insider trading with his 'blind' stock portfolio. Rep. Roy Blunt (Missouri-R), now filling in for DeLay, has his own ethics problems http://citizensforethics.org/press/pressclip.php?view=672 Karl Rove, Bush's right hand man, is under investigation by a federal prosecutor for allegedly leaking the name of a CIA agent. A former White House staffer, David Safavian, was arrested. Jack Abramoff, lobbyist and best friend of DeLay, is also under investigation. With all this republican corruption hitting the fan, who knows where and when it will end?
Some political experts are adding their opinions to the GOP culture of corruption: http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050929/w092910.html
"The Republicans can't focus right now," said Charles Cushman, a politics professor at George Washington University.
"You've got this swirling set of accusations about greed, corruption and graft. This is going to follow them right up to the 2008 election. It's going to hurt a lot."
