Republican Culture of Corruption - Enabling

One of the major reasons that the republican party has gotten so corrupt, is it is so easy cheat and steal, why not. The fact is they work very hard to cover up for and enable each other.

as example;

Break the law in support of the party, and we will pay hundreds of thousands in legal fees.

Despite a zero-tolerance policy on tampering with voters, the Republican Party quietly has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide private defense lawyers for a former Bush campaign official charged with conspiring to keep Democrats from voting in New Hampshire.

Screw up a national rescue, don't worry, the failed FEMA response will not be investigated, heck they won't even bother to find out how a man with a bogus resume could win approval from the Republican controlled Senate.

The Senate voted along party lines yesterday to reject creation of an independent panel to investigate the government's fumbling response to Hurricane Katrina.

The proposal, from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), would have established a panel similar to the one that examined the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The partisan wrangling came amid rising calls from members of both parties to change how the nation manages major disasters.

Blow the cover of a US Covert Agent, we will block efforts to investigate it. We can't risk the truth coming out.

Republican leaders in Congress have refused to investigate who exposed covert CIA agent Valerie Plame, whose identity was leaked after her husband, Joe Wilson, challenged the administration's claims that Iraq sought nuclear weapons.

Is not like they don't like to investigate, they set records investigating in the past;

During the Clinton administration, Congress spent millions of tax dollars probing alleged White House wrongdoing. There was no accusation too minor to explore, no demand on the administration too intrusive to make.

Republicans investigated whether the Clinton administration sold burial plots in Arlington National Cemetery for campaign contributions. They examined whether the White House doctored videotapes of coffees attended by President Clinton. They spent two years investigating who hired Craig Livingstone, the former director of the White House security office. And they looked at whether President Clinton designated coal-rich land in Utah as a national monument because political donors with Indonesian coal interests might benefit from reductions in U.S. coal production.

Committees requested and received communications between Clinton and his close advisers, notes of conversations between Clinton and a foreign head of state, internal e-mails from the office of the vice president, and more than 100 sets of FBI interview summaries. Dozens of top Clinton officials, including several White House chiefs of staff and White House counsels, testified before Congress. The Clinton administration provided to Congress more than a million pages of documents in response to investigative inquiries.

So we are left with only one answer, it is just that they want to enable corruption by republicans. And it is working, the level of corruption, from DeLay, to Nay, to Cunningham, to Kentucky, Indiana, Mass, Ohio and on and on and on.

Cover-up, crime, profiteering, and obstruction, what a republican government has brought us.