re: There's just way more Democrats involved in public corruption

Do you just pull this stuff out of your ass? Er, trunk?

2000-present

Executive Branch Scandals -

Alphonso Jackson (R) Secretary of HUD resigned while under investigation by the FBI for revoking the contract of a vendor who told him he didn’t like President Bush (2008)

"Lawyergate" -[4] the Bush administration firing without explanation of a number of Republican federal prosecutors which he himself had appointed. It is alleged they were fired for prosecuting Republicans and not prosecuting Democrats. As congressional hearings were called, a number of senior officials cited executive privilege and resigned rather than testify under oath, including:

Monica Goodling (R) White House Liaison

Michael A. Battle (R) Director of Executive Office of US Attorneys

Bradley Scholzman (R) Director of Executive Office of US Attorneys who replaced Battle

Michael Elston (R) Chief of Staff to Paul McNulty

Paul McNulty (R) Deputy Attorney General

Kyle Sampson (R) Chief of Staff to Alberto Gonzales

Alberto Gonzales (R) Attorney General

Joshua Bolten Deputy Chief of Staff to the President, found in Contempt of Congress

Sarah Taylor (R) Assistant to Karl Rove

Karl Rove (R) Assistant to the President

Harriet Miers (R) Legal Counsel to the President, found in Contempt of Congress

Lurita Alexis Doan (R) resigned as head of the General Services Administration. She was under scrutiny for conflict of interest and violations of the Hatch Act (2008)

Jack Abramoff scandal in which Abramoff bribed administration officials and legislators as part of his lobbying efforts. See Legislative scandals.

David Safavian (R) Administrator of Procurement Policy for the OMB, found guilty of four counts of lying and sentenced to 18 months

Roger Stillwell (R) Staff in the Department of the Interior under George W. Bush. Pleaded guilty and received two years suspended sentence

Susan Ralston (R) Special Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to Carl Rove, resigned October 6, 2006 after it became known that she accepted gifts and passed information to her former boss Jack Abramoff

Steven Griles (R) (former Deputy Secretary of the Interior) pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and was sentenced to 10 months

Italia Federici (R) staff to Secretary of Interior, obstruction of justice, four years probation

Mark Zachares (R) staff in Labor Depart, bribed by Abramoff, guilty of conspiracy to defraud

Robert E. Coughlin Justice Department official pleaded guilty to conflict of interest

Julie MacDonald,(R) Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior, resigned May 1, 2007 after giving government documents to developers (2007)

Lester Crawford (R) Commissioner of the FDA, resigned after 2 months. Pled guilty to conflict of interest (2006)

Brian J. Doyle (R) Deputy Press Secretary in the Department of Homeland Security. Charged with 7 counts of using a computer to seduce a child and 16 counts of transmitting harmful materials to a minor (2006)

Downing Street Memo minutes of UK government secret meeting (dated 23 July 2002, leaked 2005) include summary of MI6 Director Sir Richard Dearlove's report that "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and the facts were being fixed around the policy"

Bush administration payment of columnists to say nice things. Illegal payments were made to Armstrong Williams (R), Maggie Gallagher (R) and Michael McManus (R) (2004-2005)

Sandy Berger (D) former Clinton security advisor pleads guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unlawfully removing classified documents from the National Archives in (2005)

Bernard Kerik (R) nomination as Secretary of Homeland Security derailed by past employment of illegal alien as nanny, and amid allegations of various other ethical improprieties (2004)

Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse top US officials allow Iraqi prisoners to be tortured for information by US troops (2004-2005)

Plame affair (2004), in which CIA agent Valerie Plame's name was leaked to the press in retaliation for her husband's criticism of the Bush administration

Kyle Foggo (R) (Dusty) Executive Director of CIA, guilty of bribery February 17, 2007

Lewis Libby (R) (Scooter) Chief of Staff to Dick Cheney, convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice March 6, 2007. Sentenced to 30 months and fined $250,000. Commuted by Bush July 1, 2007 CIA leak scandal (2003) and Plamegate.)

Yellowcake forgery: just prior to the 2003 invasion of Irag, the Bush administration presented evidence that Irag was seeking material for making a nuclear weapon was presented as true, but is alleged to be false.

Enron collapse (2002) leading to investigation of Kenneth Lay (R), a top political ally and financial donor to President George W. Bush. Lay was found guilty of 10 counts of securities fraud, but died before sentencing. Attempts to link individual politicians with Enron malfeasance have not been particularly successful, due to the fact that so many politicians of both major parties received campaign contributions (including 158 Republicans and 100 Democrats in Congress (as of 2001) [5])

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_scandals_of_the_United_States