No Democrats Dare Call It Corruption....

Athenae is right. In terms of simple justice, this stinks to high heaven.

DeLay's indictment. Frist investigated for insider trading. The Plame investigation continues unabated. Two hurricanes prove the Federal government has spent a lot of money and given the American people absolutely nothing for it. Iraq? Only the willfully obtuse can defend any aspect of that nightmare any longer. And now, this:

Federal auditors said on Friday that the Bush administration violated the law by buying favorable news coverage of President Bush's education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.

In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, said the administration had disseminated "covert propaganda" in the United States, in violation of a statutory ban.

The contract with Mr. Williams and the general contours of the public relations campaign had been known for months. The report Friday provided the first definitive ruling on the legality of the activities.

Lawyers from the accountability office, an independent nonpartisan arm of Congress, found that the administration systematically analyzed news articles to see if they carried the message, "The Bush administration/the G.O.P. is committed to education."

Does some public figure (aside from bloggers) finally have the "green light" to complain of corruption in this Administration? How bad does the stench from the Gulf States have to be before we decide this all means something?