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...financial disclosure forms. He could have received up to six months in jail on each count. The ethics violations have even party loyalists for the first time hinting that the embattled governor should step down. "I'm pretty confident that he should resign," said Neil Clark, a top GOP lobbyist. "I don't know how else we can rebuild the confidence of the people...
Last week's indictment of former Republican superlobbyist Jack Abramoff by a Fort Lauderdale grand jury could be making at least one member of Congress skittish: Ohio GOP Rep. Bob Ney, who twice put statements in the Congressional Record that favored Abramoff's side of a bitterly disputed deal involving gambling boats that is at the heart of the charges...
...year old Russian joke has Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev having a smoke with U.S. President Richard Nixon and French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Nixon produces a steel cigarette case inscribed with the words "To our leader, from the GOP." Giscard opens a silver case bearing the simple inlay "To my dear Valery." Brezhnev shrugs and flips open a massive gold case, with the inscription set in diamonds: "To our beloved Czar Nicolas II, from the grateful Russian gentry...
...invest in Russia to his and Russia's mutual profit. However, the morning after this ring-giving, I heard a remake of the 30 year-old Brezhnev joke: Putin, Bush and Chirac meet at a party. Bush shows off his steel ring, inscribed with: "To our leader from the GOP." Chirac sports a silver band, inscribed with the words "To my dear Jacques." Not to be outdone, Putin silently produces a white-gold ring, studded with diamonds shaped to read: "World Champions...
...Texas congressman has maintained that rather than face continued questions in the press, he wants to make his case to the House Ethics Committee, which is in charge of investigating if members violate House rules. That committee didn't meet for several months this year because Democrats were protesting GOP changes to its rules. Republicans reversed those rule changes, but now the committee is fighting over how its staff should be organized. The Ethics Committee's Chairman, Rep. Doc Hastings, wants to put one of his staffers in a position as co-director of the committee, to allow...