I'm glad this guys finally going away. What an embarassment.

The man didn't even have the common courtecy to take his bribes in the form of campaign contributions, speaking fees, golfing trips, and nice cushy jobs after he's out of office.

That way this guy could become a pundit on cable TV after he's out of prison.

Guy gives good government a bad name. Kick him out.

There is an on-going investigation.

The question that comes to mind with this administration is "why now?" What story is about to hit the front pages that the administration wants to try to diffuse with this indictment?

Soon after I started graduate school in Chicago, I remember reading about Illinois' Secretary of State, Paul Powell, who was found dead in his hotel room in Springfield, with wads of cash ($800,000) in a shoe box, in Oct. 1970. He certainly did his part to uphold Illinois' fabled reputation for public corruption. Jefferson's $90,000 is just chump change, considering the amount of inflation we've had since 1970.

of cries from readers here that this is only a "partisan witch hunt." It will be great to see him go, finally. Good riddance, Mr. Jefferson.

Anonymous,

The Libby sentencing is tomorrow. Any coincidence that months old terrorist plots are suddenly revealed along with this?

Exists on both sides of the Legislatutre. Charges? What is good for the goose should be good for the gander. There must be some honest people amongst them too.

For years I have pestered my DINO congressman with letters and messages about the abuse of power by the Bush administration, about starting a phony war and incompetently waging that war, about the detention without trial of Americans and torture of prisoners, about using our soldiers the way a bratty kid with a matches and lighter fluid uses his toy soldiers. All I ever got back was the standard "Thank you for your interest. As you know, bla blah blah" letters.

Except on one issue. That was the search of Congressman Jefferson's office. Oh boy, on that one he was willing to stand up and indignantly announce that this was something that just could NOT be allowed!

Nice to know they're looking out for the interests of ordinary Americans.

This one has been coming for ever. The Dems could have earned a lot of credibility by aggressively prosecuting one of their own. By letting it drag on this long they ceded the initiative on the corruption angle.

It's just too bad that his constituents were too stupid not to vote him out when they had the chance. I never understood why the Republicans stood up for him in the phony outrage over the search of his Congressional office--that made some of Bush's separation of powers arguments look almost credible.

This guy is a disgrace who didn't even have the decency to resign after they found $90k in his freezer. He needs to go. Now.

What's embarrassing is the story today by AP writer Andrew Taylor that the House Appropriations Committee chairman has ordered that specific earmarks shall be kept off of bills until the very end of the approval process...when it is too late for members to oppose wasteful spending.

We elected these guys to clean things up. I'd like to see Salon hold the dems' feet to the fire as well as the Republicans. With any luck, they'll be in charge for the next few years and they should know going in that we're watching and they're accountable.

Look at all the Republicans who have been on the take for the past 6 years--quid pro quo "campaign contributions", "gratuities", or--if we're honest--payments for legislation. How many of them have been Indicted? And of those Indicted, what happened to the Federal Prosecutors who had the gall to Indict a Republican?

Jefferson, however, was outspoken on, among other issues, the not-so-benign neglect of the victims of Katrina--more accurately, the victims of the Bu$h Regime. Speak up against the Fourth Reich, and there are consequences. Profit from the War OF Terror, e.g. Fraulein Feinstein, what used to be called "war profiteering", http://www.metroactive.com/feinstein ? Business as usual, or sharing in the profits.

TLC

Not the fridge. What are you, retarded?

Let all who are found guilty rot in the prisons I help to pay for. My only surprise is that most of thsee prisons weren't built using no bid contracts for KRB or one of their subsidiaries...

The Scooter Libby sentencing would be the 'wag the dog' in this particular case.