AP: "Frist, DeLay Fend Off Probes Into Ethics"

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http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/28-09232005-545670.html

Frist, DeLay Fend Off Probes Into Ethics

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Heading into a midterm election year, Republicans find themselves with not one, but two congressional leaders - Bill Frist in the Senate and Tom DeLay in the House - fending off questions of ethical improprieties.

The news that the Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into Frist's sale of stock in HCA Inc., the hospital operating company founded by his family, comes as a criminal investigation continues of Jack Abramoff, a high-powered Republican lobbyist, and his ties to DeLay.

Less than a week ago, a former White House official was arrested in the Abramoff investigation.

For Republicans, the timing couldn't be worse.

"The last thing you needed was a Martha Stewart problem," Marshall Wittman, a one-time conservative activist who now works for the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, said of Frist. "He doesn't even have a good clothing line or a popular television show."

and these are the house and senate majority leaders...

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1. Bush got away with it when he blatantly sold Harken stocks prior...

to Harken nose-diving. Mothra can't get away with it, but Bush did.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020722/leopold20020718
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1030-06.htm

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2. A "Martha Stewart problem" huh..

Martha Stewart's problem was that she is a Democrat. Frist and Delay's problems are that they are ethically challenged criminals. Thanks for pointing that out Marshall Wittman(R) of the DLC, you fucking prick.

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3. "centrist Democratic Leadership Council"

The only thing central or leadership about them is their path leads scentrally into corporate Americas hip pocket :hurts:

Btw remember to say :hi: to the centrist Democratic Leadership Council at Saturday's Anti-War rally