House Dems Mum on Corruption?

There are some House Democrats who really understand what it is going to take to regain the majority. There are others, however, who don't.

The former are the lawmakers who know they need to make the GOP's corruption a major issue. The latter are those who want to shy away from talking about how our government has been overrun by Big Money interests. And unfortunately, these folks are trying to keep the Democratic Party quiet. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports:

"Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean is trying to get voters to hold the Republican Party responsible for the 'culture of corruption' he sees in Washington, but Dean is getting virtually no help from fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives...House Democrats are victims of 'a kind of mindset that too often creeps in in Washington —to get along, go along,' Bell said in a telephone interview from his law office in Houston. 'There's not a more adversarial act you can take in the House than an ethics complaint, and some people just don't have the stomach for it.' Indeed, at the DNC's executive committee meeting in Washington in early June, Dean publicly acknowledged that some congressional Democrats had urged him to tone down his 'culture of corruption' rhetoric because they did not want to get caught up in the same ethics probe as [House Majority Leader Tom] DeLay..."

That this article shows just how pathetic some House Democrats really are goes without saying. How to change this attitude among Beltway Democrats and make them see that going after GOP corruption is a winning issue is much less evident: if they can't see it now - or are too afraid to see it - I'm not sure they will ever be able embrace the mantle of reform. I sure hope I am wrong.

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