As the Washington Post reports below, Emanuel and the DCCC are looking to make corruption a major theme of the 2008 cycle:
Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) is breaking out last year’s political playbook for a “culture-of-corruption” replay that he hopes will help bring legislative success in rallying support for lobbying reform this spring on top of last fall’s electoral success.
“The issue of the culture of corruption still casts a big shadow,” Emanuel, the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, told Capitol Briefing this week. …
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has already taken the raid on Doolittle’s home, where his wife Julie runs a consulting firm that worked for imprisoned ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and turned it into a free web video attacking the lawmaker’s ethics, to the tune of “Bad Boys”, the theme song for the long-running Fox show “Cops”.
The trick for Emanuel, however, is turning the ethics investigations into something more than a political attack. “We made a pledge to reform the system, and we’ve got to reform it,” he said, ticking off a series of internal rules changes that banned the previously common practice of freebie meals and tickets to big-time sports events and concerts.
But, four months into their reign, Democrats have yet to change any laws governing how lobbyists ply their trade or place any new limits on the revolving door for members and staff and post-legislative employment on K Street.
See also The Politico.
you ask me, this is Rahm still operating in a minority mindset. I’m sure he’s polled it pretty well, but I think he’s forgettin gthat it is the job of majorities to govern: to pass legislation, to get things done, to make things happen… minorities go on the attack, majorities get stuff done.
Plus, frankly, one plays a very dangerous game if Democrats make ethics out to be the watchword of the cycle… all it takes is one of your 300 to screw up, and all of a sudden your credibility is quickly taken out at the knees.
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Emanuel is one of the worst dirtbag politicos in the country; he’s pure slime.
In two years or less, the MSM will turn on him.
Just like what happened to Newt.