IF YOU'RE HAVING TROUBLE REMEMBERING IF RENZI WAS WOLFOWITZ' MISTRESS OR THE CROOKED CONGRESSMAN FROM ARIZONA...

Today's Slate has just the guide you need: everything everyone needs to know about the Republican Party's Culture of Corruption.

Having a hard time keeping track of all 10,000 GOP scandals? Between fired U.S. attorneys, deleted RNC e-mails, sexually harassed pages, outed CIA agents, and tortured Iraqi prisoners—not to mention the warrantless wiretapping, plum defense contracts, and golf junkets to Scotland—you could be forgiven for losing track of which congressman or Bush administration flunky did which shady thing. Renzi—now, was that the guy with the skeezy land deal? Or the woman Paul Wolfowitz promoted?

There's an hilarious interactive version. You click on the face of the Republicrook and up pops the relevant story. I got really excited when I saw a cockroach, thinking it would be an update on Tom DeLay; but it was the story of the Bush Regime's Walter Reed Hospital tragedy. It didn't take long to find DeLay's mug, down in the lower right hand corner with his pals Abramoff, Cunningham, Doolittle and Foley. The text version-- far from definitive and leaving out plenty of major players-- is divided into neat categories:

* Paul Wolfowitz in the World Bank With Nepotism
* Federal Employees in the Department of Education With Corporate Ties
* Bushies in the Election Assistance Commission With Fraud
* Partisan Hacks in the Press With Bought Agendas
* Bernard Kerik in the Department of Homeland Security With the Nanny … and the Publisher … and the Mob …
* Karl Rove in the White House With the Delete Key
* Lester Crawford in the Food and Drug Administration With Tainted Stocks
* Bushies in NASA With the Weird Science
* The GOP Leadership in Congress With Dirty Money
* Bored Soldiers in Iraq With the Cameras
* Eavesdroppers at the National Security Agency With the Wiretaps
* Bureaucrats at Walter Reed With Cockroaches
* Jack Abramoff on K Street With the Wallet
* Steven Griles in the Department of the Interior With the "Special Relationship"
* Scooter Libby in the White House With the Faulty Memory
* Alberto Gonzales in the Justice Department With the Pink Slips
* John Doolittle in Congress With the Campaign Donations
* Mark Foley in Congress With the Instant Messages
* Halliburton in Iraq With the Defense Contracts
* Tom DeLay in Congress With the Corporate Funds
* Randall Tobias in the Massage Parlor With Scented Oils
* Rick Renzi in Congress With the Land Deal
* Duke Cunningham in Congress With the Candlestick
* Dusty Foggo in the CIA With the Bribes

Not much about Cheney, the Bushes, the Ohio Republican Party, Ernie Fletcher, Bob Ney, Dirty Dick Pombo, the theft of the 2000 election, the theft of the 2004 election, Jerry Lewis, Gary Miller, Ken Calvert, Patrick McHenry, Virgil Goode, Jr...


EVEN WINGNUTS CAN'T TOLERATE THE CORRUPTION INSIDE THEIR OWN PARTY ANY LONGER!

As I mentioned a couple days ago, the far right extremists at RedState are on the warpath against their own corrupt officeholders. We applaud them-- and wish them luck. They're trying to appeal to a sense of decency among men like Tom DeLay's sock puppet Roy Blunt and John Boehner, the GOP bribery-king who was caught handing out checks from Big Tobacco on the floor of the House of Representatives... during a debate! Today Raw Story has the full story.

One of the most prominent conservative blogs has started a crusade against Republicans who it says continue to promote ethically questionable congressmen and ignore the will of their base.
"A group of men and women across this nation ... are tired of defending a party that continually puts into positions of power known perverts, louts, and corrupt common criminals," RedState.com editor Erick Erickson wrote in a post Monday outlining his "battle plan" against Republican leaders. "We must be willing to wage war upon them until they bend to common sense and decency."

Sounds like curtains for itsy bitsy teeny weeny North Carolina lunatic fringe maniac Patrick McNutcase, right? I mean he's a pervert, a lout and a corrupt common criminal all rolled up in a tiny toxic little package. But Erick Erickson is going for the really low-hanging fruit: Ken Calvert, who was arrested with his dick in some prostitute's mouth-- in his car-- and is one step from indictment for some standard GOP shenanigan pertaining to buying some cheap property and then earmarking some money for a federal highway out to it. I didn't hear RedState talk about Denny Hastert doing the exact same thing. (Not the hooker in the car; the earmark for the highway.)

Still RedState's a good boy for urging his kooky readers to not support Republican re-election efforts until Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA) is booted from the House Appropriations Committee and he's asking his readers to call the offices of more than two dozen Republican leaders and steering committee members to find out who voted for Calvert's appointment to the Appropriations Committee. RedState readers also are being asked to refuse any donations to Republican candidates or the National Republican Congressional Committee until Calvert is removed. "In his battle cry, Erickson said RedState readers should be willing to see Republicans lose elections rather than continue to support corrupt lawmakers. RedState is targeting Republican members of the House Steering Committee, which decides committee appointments, and asking them to support Calvert's removal. Also targeted is Rep. Tom Cole, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee; RedState readers are asked to 'pledge not to give not one dime nor bit of energy to the NRCC' as long as Calvert remains on the Appropriations Committee. And readers should deliver the same message to House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio.

"If we must take on the vulnerable members of the House Steering Committee and contribute even to their electoral defeat, so be it," Erickson writes. "This party of ours must be pruned and it must be pruned by those of us who care about it before meeting the butchers' shears in the hands of the voters again in 2008."

You go, girl!