Republican Leadership

I am accumulating a list of the criminal misconduct, ineptitude, failure and embarrassments that have characterize Republican leadership for the past several years.

• Corruption


• Tom Delay


• Conspiracy to violate Texas campaign finance laws


• Bill Frist


• Insider trading
• Insider trading
• Insider trading


• Abramoff


• Various corruption charges
• More on the story


• Safavian


• Indictment


• Flanigan


• Withdraws nomination


• Nick Smith


• Bribery


• Espionage


• Valerie Plame


• Exposing an undercover agent


• Katrina Leung


• Chinese Spy
• Chinese Spy
• Losing the case against a Cinese Spy


• Larry Franklin


• Spying for Israel


• Leandro Aragoncillo


• Philippine Spy in the White House


• War on Terror


• September 11


• Congressional Report


• Leadup to the War in Iraq


• Ten lies


• The aftermath in Iraq


• Failure in planning
• Calls for withdraw


• Abu Graib


• Torture


• General Government


• Hurricane Katrina failures


• FEMA in New Orleans


• Social Security Privatization


• Problems with Bush's plan


• Medicare bill


• Problems


• No Child Left Behind


• Rethinkings Schools


• NCSL


• Restoring America


• TV Week


• Propaganda


• Buying the News
• Charges to be filed


• Cronyism


• Michael Brown at FEMA


• unqualified


• Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court


• Less qualified than others
• Conservatives too

In addition to the above list with links to specific articles on each topic, I want to recommend the following sites for overall coverage of the listed topics. As new information comes up on each issue, these folks will have useful commentary.

PERRspectives Repository Great source of documents on many issues.
Mark Kleiman on Plame.
Josh Marshall on Plame, Abramoff, Safavian, as well as others.
Kevin Drum Plame.
Talk Left lots. Look on the right side bar for the "Category Archive". Follow the links.
Daily Kos for all kinds of info and discussion.