Just how corrupt ARE the Republican politicians?

TPM Muckraker totals up the current scoreboard. From the past:

• Jack Abramoff. (Prison)
  
• Ex-Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-CA). (prison)
  
• Ex-Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) (Prison.)
  
• Ex-Reps. Mark Foley (R-FL) (Retired due to sex scandal)
  
• Katherine Harris (R-FL) (Defeated)
  
• Tom DeLay (R-TX) (Retired due to criminal indictment)
  
• Curt Weldon (R-PA) (Defeated)
  
• Ex-Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT) (Defeated)

Next we have the current scandals:

1. Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) (Sex scandal)
2. Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) (Sex scandal)
3. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) (Payoff from Veco Oil Co)
   
4. Rep. Don Young (R-AK) (Numerous scandals under investigation includein payoffs from Veco Oil Co.)
   
5. Reps. Tom Feeney (R-FL) (Abramoff-related investigations)
6. John Doolittle (R-CA) (Abramoff-related investigations)
7. Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) (Investigation for corrupt land deal)
8. Rep. Gary Miller's (R-CA) (another crooked land deal.)
9. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) (Insider land deal that failed to pass the "smell" test.)
10. Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA) (Under federal investigation apparently connected to the Duke Cunningham scandal.)
    
11. Rep. Ken Calvert's (R-CA) (Crooked land deals)
12. Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) (Ethics investigation connected to the removal of New Mexico U.S. Attorney Iglesias) and
    
13. Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM) (Ethics investigation connected to the removal of New Mexico U.S. Attorney Iglesias)

Republicans lost control of both the House and Senate in 2006 partly because of the many scandals that they had prior to that time. The current situation looks even worse for them come the election of 2008.

TPM Muskraker promises to keep us informed of further developments in The Grand Old Docket.