So why so much focus just on Democratic scandals?  Because they annoy me pointing the finger at the corruption in the Republican party when their house is just as dirty.

They claim to be the party of the working class and accuse the Republicans of being owned by rich money. As this story shows, they have more then a little cash on their side:

Soros-linked group hit with huge fine

The Federal Election Commission has fined one of the last cycle’s biggest liberal political action committees $775,000 for using unregulated soft money to boost John Kerry and other Democratic candidates during the 2004 elections.

America Coming Together (ACT) raised $137 million for its get-out-the-vote effort in 2004, but the FEC found most of that cash came through contributions that violated federal limits.

The group’s big donors included George Soros, Progressive Corp. chairman Peter Lewis and the Service Employees International Union.

The settlement, which the FEC approved unanimously, is the third largest enforcement penalty in the commission’s 33-year history.

And speaking of the Democratsd and their finance woes, here is another:

PRO-CLINTON 'DIRTY CASH' MAN FLEES

A Pakistani immigrant is wanted by federal authorities on charges he channeled $30,000 in illegal contributions to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential war chest.

The FBI is hunting Los Angeles businessman Abdul Rehman Jinnah, who vanished soon after his grand-jury indictment for violating federal election laws last May.

Clinton's camp has denied any knowledge of Jinnah's scheme, which is also alleged to have funneled more than $50,000 in illegal donations to the political action committees of Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday.

His scam is very like the one Hsu used with the Paw family.

Read more at fec.gov, NewsBusters.org, The Caucus, The Anchoress and Wake up America,  The Trail,  TIME and MSNBC

All this does, frankly is remind me that the problem is not a culture of corruption in one or the other party, but a culture of corruption in Washington DC.  Money costs elections, elections mean power and money becomes influence, and that's the bottom line. 

The lobby industry and these campaign donation schemes prove that money is more important then ethics. 

Our political process is corrupt to its roots, and no finance laws will be enough to change it when the lust for power is more important the quest for honest governence.

The sound you hear in DC is not the bells of freedom, it is the Cha-Ching of another politician selling his or her soul for power.

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