Culture of corruption

Culture of corruption

Culture of corruption was a political slogan used by the U.S. Democratic Party to refer to a series of political scandals involving Republican politicians during the first two years of George W. Bush's second term as President and leading up to the 2006 midterm elections.

As a slogan, the phrase fits into a family of similar phrases in which political parties characterize themselves or their opponents of having a set of values inculcated at the cultural level (e.g. Culture of Life, Culture of Death).

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2006 Republican party scandals

Background

The phrase was used in connection with a national political scandal by Howard Dean in an attempt to link allegations of insider trading by Senator Bill Frist to the then-emerging Abramoff Scandal. Dean asserted that "Republicans have made their culture of corruption the norm." The phrase was thereafter repeated by other Democratic Party leaders, including Nancy Pelosi (responding to the indictment of Tom DeLay), "The criminal indictment of Majority Leader Tom DeLay is the latest example that Republicans in Congress are plagued by a culture of corruption at the expense of the American people."

List of scandals

List of politicians

Resigned

Retired

Lost re-election

2006 elections

Democratic party victory

Political corruption was a key issue cited by voters at exit polls during the 2006 Midterm Elections, as the voters made their frustration known. [2] The Democratic Party regained control of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Democrats also regained a majority of state governorships and control over a plurality of state legislatures.

Individual districts

Republican response

Background

Responding to the use of the phrase "culture of corruption" by the Democratic Party, authors Lynn Vincent and Robert Stacy McCain published "Donkey Cons" in April, 2006. A review on right-wing web site WorldNet Daily said: "Vincent and McCain do not claim that the Republican Party boasts only the good, the pure and the beautiful, as Aristotle said..." They contended that "the Democratic Party has a 200-year history of urban corruption, treason and subversion, mob control, alliance with corrupt unions, and aiding and abetting criminals that has no parallel in the GOP... Which was "supported by 650 end notes that should give pause to even diehard Democrats." [2] Democrat William Jefferson was re-elected in his district despite the on-going investigation, which some political commentators such as Rush Limbaugh have decried as a hypocrisy of the "culture of corruption" label that the DNC had been branding the Republicans with.

Republicans have also accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of hypocrisy, who had promised to "drain the swamp" and have "the most open, most honest, most ethical Congress in history," [3] while defending ethically-challenged former House Ways and Means Chair Charlie Rangel.

2006 Democratic party scandals

While usually avoiding using the phrase, Republicans responded to Democratic charges by pointing out that Democrats had also been involved in similar scandals. These Democrats included:

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