REMEMBER CUNNINGHAM & THE HOUSEBOATS HE USED TO LAUNDER HIS BRIBES? GUESS WHICH OHIO CONGRESSLOON DID THE SAME THING (3 LETTERS, RHYMES WITH OY VEH)

Just when you thought Ohio's crookedest congressman, Bob Ney couldn't possibly have done anything more than what has already come out, along comes those commies at the L.A. TIMES to throw more fuel on the fire-- and just when Ney had finally bullied and threatened the Ohio Republican Party chairman to finally shut the hell up about Ney retiring!

It shouldn't really surprise anyone, but Ney has been swindling and cheating his way to the top for over 2 decades. He went from chiseling free drinks from Columbus, Ohio lobbyists and other penny-ante kinds of graft, to wheeling and dealing on a national-- and even international-- scale. Now it turns out Ney has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes-- perhaps millions-- and, according to the TIMES story "In exchange for gifts, Abramoff said, Ney agreed to introduce legislation for at least one of the lobbyist's American Indian clients. Ney also placed statements in the congressional record supporting Abramoff's efforts to buy a Florida gambling company." All through Ney's political career he had always run a shady office and several of his associates are in prison for misdeeds which no one was ever able to pin on him, at least not judicially. And indeed, until now he has never been criminally charged. If you want to read the details of Ney's unseemly past-- including his best known achievement: forcing the congressional cafeteria to rename French fries "freedom fries," take a look at the L.A. TIMES article here.