Republican 'culture of corruption': Articles & Commentary 2003-2004

The following are Articles & Commentary related to the main article Republican 'culture of corruption'.

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 * Republican 'culture of corruption': Articles & Commentary 2005
 * Republican 'culture of corruption': Articles & Commentary 2006

2003

 * Andrew C. Revkin with Katharine Q. Seelye, "Report by the E.P.A. Leaves Out Data on Climate Change," New York Times, June 19, 2003.
 * Nicholas Confessore, "Welcome to the Machine. How the GOP disciplined K Street and made Bush supreme," Washington Monthly, July/August 2003.
 * Alan Keyes, "Arnold's corruption of Republican Party," WorldNetDaily, October 6, 2003.

2004

 * Murray, "America deserves better #1, 1/21/04," America Deserves Better blogspot, May 22, 2004.
 * Laura Mansnerus, "Limits on Campaign Gifts Approved by Legislature," New York Times, June 11, 2004: "The New Jersey Legislature approved long-contested campaign finance restrictions on Thursday, with Democrats applauding the measure as an important step to curb influence-peddling and Republicans calling it a pretense at best. ... The package of ethics legislation was produced by Democratic leaders this spring as Republicans and good-government groups accused them of perpetuating a culture of corruption in New Jersey."
 * Benjamin Wallace-Wells, "Party Down. Like the Democrats during the 1970s, today's GOP is hidebound and out of touch," Washington Monthly, October 2004.
 * "Closed for Business" 3-part series, Boston Globe: Susan Milligan, Part 1: "Back-room dealing a Capitol trend. GOP flexing its majority power," October 3, 2004, and Part 2: "Energy bill a special-interests triumph," October 4, 2004; Christopher Rowland, Part 3: "Medicare bill a study in D.C. spoils system," October 5, 2004. Registration may be required.
 * Judd Legum, "100 Facts and 1 Opinion: The Non-Arguable Case Against the Bush Administration," The Nation, posted October 30, 2004; November 8, 2004 (issue).
 * "House Republicans Change Rules to Protect DeLay (Update1)," Bloomberg News, November 17, 2004: "Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives changed their rules so that Majority Leader Tom DeLay could stay in power if he's indicted by a Texas grand jury. ... The deepest irony is that [Newt]Gingrich pushed through this rule change in the early 1990s when the Congress was held by the Democrats. At the time, he was arguing against the prevailing culture of corruption that he felt unfairly held down the minority (at that time) Republican party."
 * Lou Dubose, "K Street Croupiers. How Two of Tom DeLay's Players Beat the House at the Grand Coushatta Casino," The Texas Observer, November 19, 2004.
 * Chris Bowers, "Reid To Investigate Republican Corruption," mydd.com, December 14, 2004: "New Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said Monday his party will launch investigative hearings next year in response to what he said was the reluctance of Republicans to look into problems in the Bush administration."