Corruption issue besets House Democrats, again

From csmonitor.com:

The indictment comes at a tough time for Democrats. Public assessment of their performance since taking charge of Capitol Hill in January has been worsening, polls show. On Democrats' other big election issue – the war in Iraq – they disappointed antiwar activists last month by approving President Bush's war-funding request for this fiscal year.

'The Jefferson case was much less important to Democrats when they were in the minority,' says Julian Zelizer, a congressional historian at Princeton University in New Jersey. 'Coming after a watered-down ethics bill, the story is about failing to reform a system they promised to change.'

'For those frustrated on Iraq as well, it becomes part of an ongoing story on whether the Democrats can follow through on what they promised.

Wolfowitz : Another country heard from

Wolfowitz critics point to his lack of ethics - MSNBC.com:

JAKARTA, Indonesia - The controversy surrounding World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz spotlights a lack of ethics that was apparent two decades ago when he was U.S. ambassador to Indonesia, say critics who recall how he failed to speak out against corruption and rights abuses.

Today, as head of the bank, Wolfowitz has been arguing that corruption is crippling the world’s poorest nations. But that was “the very thing he closed his eyes to” when he served as ambassador from 1986 to 1989 during the regime of the dictator Suharto, said pro-democracy activist Binny Buchori.

“He’s a hypocrite,” she said. “He should quit.”

And now we wait for Christopher Hitchens?