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Members of the leadership on both sides of the aisle cut checks to legally embattled House colleagues, and even Barbra Streisand contributed $1,000 to Rep. Jim McDermott’s (D-Wash.) legal expense fund.
Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.), who will face trial late this month on an array of bribery and corruption charges, has collected a total of $166,550 since 2005 to help defray legal costs.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) have sent a steady stream of checks to the Louisiana Democrat, and this quarter was no different. House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.), a prominent CBC member, donated $5,000 through his leadership political action committee (PAC), and Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.), a former CBC chairman, cut him a check for $1,800. Weldon J. Rougeau, a past chairman of the CBC Foundation and a lawyer at Arent Fox, donated $1,000 this quarter.
Never mind that McDermott has already been convicted and appeals exhausted on his issue.
But I think a fair question is.... Do democrats/progressives/liberals support corruption?
Look at all the people in the democratic party who have been charged and/or convicted of impropriety. Billary, Ted Kennedy, Marion Berry, William Jefferson, Jim McDermott, Barney Frank, Patrick Kennedy, the list goes on and on.
Not only have these guys received continued support from the party, they've even kept their jobs as an elected official. Is their any crime a democrat can commit that would command rebuke from party loyalists?
Go over to the GOP side, Newt Gingrinch, Bob Packwood, Bob Livingston, Trent Lott, Bob Ney. Not only to these guys lose their jobs, but their also convicted of crimes. Hell even Larry Craig is going to lose to a democrat (or hopefully a GOP candidate in a primary) for his little texas toe tap in the bathroom stall.
The fact is, conservatives won't support such leeches.
Why do democrats?
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