[GOP Corruption]

FOD: Friends of the Duke.

My eyes have remained mostly glazed to the whole Duke Cunningham affair, but this is interesting: turns out the crooked contractors who bribed the Congressman were also generous donors to, among others, Tom DeLay. Others lavished with poison lucre include members of the House leadership:

• House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., who got $46,000 from Wilkes, Wade and their associates.
• House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., who got about $50,000 from Wilkes, Wade and their associates.
• Rep. John T. Doolittle, R-Calif., a member of the House Appropriations Committee, who got about $46,000 from Wilkes and his associates

Wilkes, one of the contractors, was likewise a "pioneer" fundraiser for Bush, netting him $100,000; he also gave Ahnold $70k. Not that this means any of these other folks were on the take, of course. Nothing like that.