jefferson redux

House Democrats voted on Thursday night to strip a Louisiana congressman [William Jefferson] of a key committee position [until his case is resolved] as they tried to avoid any taint of scandal in a year when they want to ride accusations of Republican corruption to election victories.

Ms. Pelosi sought to draw a line between Republican scandals and what she called "individual mistakes." [She said,] "If we have any of that in our caucus, we will deal with them. That is quite different from the Republican caucus. The entire Republican caucus condoned, enabled and benefited from the culture of corruption, and that is what I will continue to rail against."

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Damn right, Nancy P. Way to take my very good advice.