The only thing the republicans know is STEALING.

Fourty-friggin-three? Is that a new record?

These Republicans, seriously…

Ah man! those stupid republicans just cannot keep their hands out of the cookie jar.They learnt a lot from bush and cheney.

Another name to add to the guest list on the Ted Stevens show. With special guest appearances by Scooter Libby, Tom Delay, and many more.

Lets have some more whine from you cheesey republicans.

Go ahead, say it ACORN! I knew you could, except ACORN didn't commit election fraud, they turned themselves in for registration fraud, fired the workers who commited the fraud, and moved on!

Go factcheck yourselves! Get over it, and stop voting for these criminals!

We all pick on the politicians for thier wrongs but, WHO PUT THEM IN OFFICE? Let those who voted for the accused look in the mirrow and say its my fault. When you vote THINK.

What is wrong with these people? I hope these are not the "morals and values" they want to encourage Americans to aspire towards. UUgh.

WHAT? There's gambling here? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you. Another corrupt republican – surprise, surprise.

If you just wait long enough the rats come out of the woodwork.

Real power players.

Add Renzi to the list of Republican leadership.

To Liberal and Proud of it;

A higher form of treason is exposing the identity of a CIA Operative who is fighting terrorism, because that operative is married to someone the treasonous person is mad at for telling the truth.

Are you listening Cheney, Rove, and Novak?

It is very simple way to do with Rep. Richard Renzi just lock him up. Like the former president of Taiwan.

Don't despair, Bush will pardon them all.

Why is the republican party so ripe with thieves and corruption? One has to ask themselves this as the republicans try to regroup. Maybe THIS is why the party has no trust from the American people? Lock him up and throw away the key. All these slaps on the wrist apparently aren't doing anything to deter other republicans from following suit.

And, by the way, if the Democratic Congressman from Louisiana who is accused of taking bribes is found guilty, I think he should certainly be sharing a cell with Renzi.

Another "RETHUGLICAN" bites the dust! What a disgrace to our party. Throw all of these law breakers out! Then we can start rebuilding from the ground up. By the way, I know in my state that if your a convicted felon you loose your right to vote. How the heck is Senator Stevens going to be able to vote in the senate? Just a question! He is another that needs to be thrown out!

another Republican bites the dust for corruption…

Be careful with John McCain .he might have some knowledge of RENZI who is also from Arizona. Ah! just when the Cardinals are making a move Renzi is also making a move but to the JAIL.

Renzi, just another carpetbagger who moved to Arizona to run for congress. An east coast idiot who tried to come here to Arizona and protray himself concerend about the People of his District and Arizona. Now he is up on charges of corruption, this is just another corrupt Republican who was looking out for himself and his buddies. He ran in the rural area of Arizona in hopes no one there would see what he was doing. OOPS! he got caught and the White House tried to get the Justice Department to not push the case through. That is why Mr. Charleston was fired by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Thank God the Grand Old Pundits are limited to power for the next four years. Greedy Jerks!

A Republican caught in corruption? Shocking!

For all of you foaming at the mouth right wingers…..William Jefferson deserves jail also. I have no qualms about that.

And the ACORN stuff….yeah, never materialized did it? Ask about Republican operatives in jail for voter fraud thanks to YPM and Lincoln Strategy.

This whole time the McCain campaign was just misunderstood by the Right-Wing MSM. When it came to shady land deals, they didn't mean Rezko, they meant Renzi! I can see where the confusion came from.

What ever happened to William "cold cash" Jefferson [D] Louisiana?

Another Republican bites the dust!

The Dems here aren't clammering about ACORN,how come?Talk about corruption,the Catholic Church has broken all ties with Acorn last week ,because of election fraud,Obama's Acorn.Hello!!!

You Dems so biased

Republicans=crooks

Another radical right-wing mouth-breathing extremist dies by the sword he lived by…oh well.

AYERS—REZKO I believe thats enough said!! And how much time did CLINTON get for lying under oath?

the beginning of a long list of republicans who will be defending themselves in the halls of justice. bush/cheney/rove will be in court next year. the people will demand justice for the war criminals of the 21st century.

What is it with Republicans and indictments! Geeze. Republicans = criminals apply here!

So, when is he and Stevens going to jail????? OR, will this be swept under the rug?

For a party that preaches enforcing Christian morality at the point of a gun, a lot of its members seem to forget little things like "Thou shall not steal". There are still some good Republicans out there, but they need to dump the crooks, liars and hypocrites overboard and get back to basics.

How does the justice department decide which congressmen to go after? The ones who piss off the wrong people? I seriously doubt there's more than a dozen congressmen who don't do the same thing.

i hope is time to review all GOP record

Let get the real crooks,the ones that just stole $700,000,000 from Americans everywhere.Their names are Paulson and bernachi.

What ever happened to Sandy Berger for stealing the top secret documents and "misplacing" them for Clinton?

Well, well – yet another Republican has been caught out for his misdeeds while in elected office Have you figured out the trend yet?
Republican in elected office = fox guarding (and raiding) the henhouse.

sigh…
another scandal, another republican.

and the repubs are fundraising because they are scared the liberal dems will try to steal the MN recount and GA runoff. pot calling the kettle black?

Rezko finances Obama and is sitting in prison.
Renzi comes from McCain's home state and will be sitting in prison soon.

Obama hires all of the people from Clinton's cabinet in the 90's -

The more things change the more they stay the same.

HOPE. Yes We Can. Change. Boy are we a bunch of gullable idiots

@ amused but happy in Vegas November 14th, 2008 11:34 am ET

Thanks for the info. Sorry about that but then I guess we got our own crooks too. LOL My personal opinion is that I wouldn't give you a hill of beans for the entire lot of politicians.

So it's "43″.

Now we know how many crimes a Republican office holder has to commit before the Bush Justice Department will do something about it.

I know that Senator Clinton would make a good Secretary of State. But I am personally hoping that Obama makes her Attorney General.

She should be able to clean up the Bush crimes just in time to take the first opening on the Supreme Court.

Just another crooked Republican. This isn't news!

Like a house of cards they are falling.

The next one will be Sarah Palin and then the Big THREE ,Bush,Cheney and Rumsfeld.First ,how did Sarah Palin build that mansion of her's?

Another Republican Scandal?

I'm shocked.

No, really.

Maybe him and Senator Stevens of Alaska can share a jail cell. In Alaska would be great.

Man… it must be REALLY bad when a Republican Justice Dept indicts a Republican. This guy must be stinky dirty.

67 days till the end of the Bush administration.

How come it is Republicans who are always caught for being "dirty" and being corrupt? Oh wait, it could be because Democrats are better at hiding it…

You just watch 2009 – 2012 will be the time to focus on which Democrats are dirty…I mean look at Franken, trying to steal the election from the peope of Minn.

Look at Acorn and the embezzlement, and fraud there…registering people to vote who don't exist…I bet they voted in the Minn election.

Palin, give up those clothes (150,000+ worth), or there's another suit for you, it's orange!

Beware! Your own will turn you in!

Another potential felon that McCain pals around with!

Sure glad he didn't win.

This is distasteful and unfortunate. Should he be convicted by a jury, then he is deserving of the fullest punishment our justice system can bring to bear. These crimes, if committed, hurt us all.

McSame pals around with crooks so what does that make him, my friends?

Another One? who in the Republican party is not a crook, please raise your hand….I repeat…!

Dont blame me…………

Wrong again, dumb-dumb.
ALL the crooks should be put away. No exceptions.
That includes the sitting president, vice president, the chief of staff of the vice president… OH, WAIT, HE WAS PARDONED! By the President!

So it looks like the ones covering stuff up aren't just Democrats either. Take a good look in the mirror and decide who you are talking about before you spew your partisan crap.

Isn't he friends with McSame? I bet they have spent more time together than Ayers and Obama. Maybe McSame is a crook too and should be checked out for being friends with this guy.

I just see that being in "politics" is like walking among land mines. what is the saying about …. "power currupting absolutely?" we need the checks and balances not only in our financial systems but in our political systems – obviously. When something smells rotten – check it out – then clean it up! Fix it.

Nobody is perfect in this world – and always be careful about throwing the stones!!

First you get the power, then you abuse the power with dirty money then your respect goes out the window….

I love it every time I see a crooked politician (REp or Dem) being brought to justice.

This guy must be a freind of Tom Delay and Jack "the hat"Abramhoff.

Another fine example of why the Republicans lost across the country. They say one thing, talk about truth and honesty on government while doing exactly the opposite. Maybe they could win an election if they stopped the LIES that the GOP has adopted as a way to run campaigns. The American people saw through all the lies and said so with their votes.

Another republican eh? How ironic.

It has become painfully obvious that the only way republicans do anything is with criminal allies and deceptive reasons. The republican party is a cancerous fungus of america. It must be eliminated once and for all. It's full of nothing but felons and frauds!

Just another example of republican corruption it's just too bad we didn't catch more of the bigger fish!

Jay you had to go back years to find the Democrat that was corrupt; to find a corrupt republican all you have to do is go back 6 months. Every 6 months there's another republican being investigated.

He went down. And now I am waiting for this Bush administration to go down!! I can see them now on January 20th leaving out the White House with handcuffs on!! Karl Rove, Cheney and Bush she be the first to arrested!!

Did John McCain say something during the campaign about all the corrupt politicians in Chicago………….

AND HE WAS WRONG AGAIN…republicans go figure

they dont have a golf course at Levenworth do they?Fed crime should do Fed time.

About time! This guys been a crook for years!

Lets get all the cheaters. Seems many people here are anti-Republican, as if the only lying, cheating, stealing and misleading is done on the right. I can recall a few of those types of Democrats too. Jefferson in MS, I believe, with a freezer full of money. Be fair and call a spade a spade when dealing with our corrupt, Democrat and Republican, thieves, I mean leadership.

There are about 1/2 dozen democrats that SHOULD be indicted for this finacial crisis. One of them made 90 million off of this in just 6 years.

But I am sure that the democrats with COVER IT UP.

I agree that if guilty he should certainly pay the price. But where is the American ideal of innocent until proven guilty? I'm a moderate who voted for Obama, and not a neo-con Repubilican. Let him have his day in court before yelling "off with his head"! He, at least, stepped down when indicted. Now Stevens, ooohhh, that's a different matter! He HAS been found guilty of a felony (technically, I think, seven felonies).

As for Bush, et. al. even though CNN wouldn't publish my comment on Cafferty's file yesterday, I adhere to believing that a large number of the Bush administration were guilty of malfeasance in office, and that we cannot prevent it from happening again if we don't know actually what happened.

"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

Yup! Republican "family values", alright!

hey renzi – don't drop the soap when you go to the 'big house'

lets get acorn cheaters too

He should rot in prison with Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Feith, Wolfowitz, Pearle, Stevens and all the other Repub scumbags.

Stevens has a 7 felony-count indictment. That looks like a misdemeanor compared to this congressman. Renzi has a racketeering charge. That's what mob guys get charged with. He should be tried under the RICO law. Plus this guy was chairman of McCain's Arizona campaign. I'm shocked that this story didn't break during the election. Sounds a bit shady. Maybe we should look into the so called "Meverick's" affiliations.

This guy should be in jail soon.Come on kids lets get our daily Koolaid and talking points from our savior,Rush Limbaugh.He wants to tell us who to fear and hate today.

This is just another reason why we need term limits in place for all politicians, not just the presidency. When they're in office too long, they just get corrupted by the power they wield and forget why they ran for office in the first place. None of these positions were ever meant to be careers.

another one bites the dust…..the republican party needs to just close down shop and then reopen under another name!

"Republican U.S. Rep. Richard Renzi of Arizona, a state co-chair for Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign, was indicted on corruption charges stemming from land deals in his state, Justice Department officials said on Friday."
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Hmmm – and McCain still pals around with G Gordon Liddy and members of the original Keating 5.

Looks like the US dodged a bullet this time, by NOT putting McCain in absolute POWER

How convenient that this comes out right after the election. Wasn't he McCains campaign chair in Arizona? Aren't they close friends? Why didn't this whole case get more coverage during the campaign?

He should go to Alaska since being a felon up there is a badge of honor and number 1 item on your resume if you want to get elected.

Oh how the mighty republican party is falling. And it is by their own doing. Keep up the good work!!!!!!

Ted Stevens is still on the lam, Renzi should just be arrogant as Stevens, seems as if most ploictican have immunity from prosecution

What party would Jesus really belong to? I think after he figured out how the Republicans sabotaged him, he would turn atheist!

Another one bites the dust

A crooked poitician. What else is new?

Chris F.

LOL… oh you have to stop, my side is hurting…

Palin is yesterdays news people, Get over it. If she tries again in 2012, then we will have plenty of time to question her AIP connections, her medical records, her tax returns, her charging the state for her staying home, etc… However, for now, she is absolutely NOTHING except the governor of the state of Alaska. Let them worry about her. She comes back in 2012, the rest of the country can have all the fun we want tearing her apart.

Why does the media avoid questions to Sarah Palin on being a member of the AIP?

Ken in NC November 14th, 2008 11:22 am ET

WOW It's been a bad few years for Republicans with Bush, Cheney, Renzi, Palin, Stevens, Dole, Spitzer and others. Seems like every time you turn around one is being investigated and or charged with a crime. At the rate they are going there will be no Republicans left to run against Obama in 2012.

unfortunately, I think we Dems have to claim Spitzer for our own….

is this guy ted steven mentor

NO COMMENT ABOUT THE REPUGS MAFIA JUST THIS PUT ALL THOSE CRIMINALS IN PRISON WORRY PUT BUSH AND DICK IN PRISON TO BEFORE THEY OPEN THEYR WINGS AND FLY WAY TO NORTH GET THEM PLEASE THATS MY COMMENT

And by the way this country would not be in a bad shape if Bush was not President. He should go to jail for what he has done to America and our relationship with other countries.

This is how the republicans work, they are only out for themselve's, thank god Mccain and his 700 million didn't buy an 8th house to their collection, the white house. Thank god!

Tony in Maine:

Let me help you out, this is NOT TONY RESKO!!! This is Congressman Richard Renzi of Arizona (R).

Boy, they just keep coming out of the woodwork don't they??
I trust and hope that President elect Obama will not stand for any of this nonsense from either party once he is sworn in…..we don't need any of this from either side….we want and need an honest government.
I just wonder when Ted Stevens is going to face the music….running around in Alaska like he's done nothing wrong is disgraceful and then of course we have Sarah out there as well.
Did they really think the American people were DUMB enough to let them loose in the White House for 4/8 years…..I think not!!!

That is one more duty politcian and when will to IRS look into the Palin's tax filing. Tell me isn't it wrong to collect tax payer monies while living at home for those 312 days?

Oh and we never did know about her medical records uhm!

Sad. No self control.

Another in a long line of [R] scumbags. I think more of these [R]creatures will be flushed from the bushes (ha!) as [D]s get even more control. Clean the scum out.

And Sarah Palin get away with all the corrupt things she has done huh?….Why because the justice system thinks she sexy?….. What a joke! She should be next!

Hey Renzi…take Stevens with you!

WHAT??? A criminal in our government? That never happens! Repub or Dem (it happens on both sides) these guys need to be ousted and sent to jail.

We, as citizens, need to wake up and pay attention with all of the representatives who are being charged with felonies lately.

They always get away with it anyway, so whats there to worry about. So Bush, Cheney, Palin, Hannity, Limbaugh and others no worries. A slap on the wrist is not too bad for all the lies and crimes you have committed.

WOW It's been a bad few years for Republicans with Bush, Cheney, Renzi, Palin, Stevens, Dole, Spitzer and others. Seems like every time you turn around one is being investigated and or charged with a crime. At the rate they are going there will be no Republicans left to run against Obama in 2012.

These guys really should start the Corruption Club, starring Bush, Cheney, Rove, Renzi, Palin, and Stevens.

Goodbye Renzi and good riddance.

Two thoughts after reading the comments

Rezko is not a Congressman.

Stevens will never don an orange jumpsuit.

Paul November 14th, 2008 11:14 am ET
Going to prison is all the rage for Republicans these days. Hopefully Bush and Cheney will be joining them soon.
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Bush and Cheney should be going to The Hague.

It seems to me that the Grand Old Party is full of Grand Old Crooks!! It's too bad the religous right has taken over your party. You conservatives should get back to your parties roots.

His tutor was Ted Stevens.

GOP is rotten to the core….. wait til IRS gets ahold of Palin

I dont see all my friends here defending Renzi.You know ,the Rush Limbaugh, Koolaid drinkers.They will say those evil liberals made him do it.

I'm sure this was all the Democrats' fault. They lured him into it, right?
Evidently Renzi shares the Palin view of favors–take 'em and run.

Going to prison is all the rage for Republicans these days. Hopefully Bush and Cheney will be joining them soon.

This story is a good indication of why our country is in the shape it's in.

Some republicans are like the Jim Jones preacher, conning people into believing that their poison is good.

I hope they catch every last person in Washington that took advantage of the American people.

Hey Republicans, Was this all part of your "contract with america" you all spoke so much about back during the Clinton years when you gained control of the house and senate? Well it looks like that was a bunch of bull also. You are the Whig Party of the 21st century! And you should do what they did and just fade into oblivion! Its too late to salvage your credibility, so do this country a favor and be gone already!

Criminal Politician going to jail? Wow. That IS Change.

@Rockford, You are just mad that the Rupugs are the most corrupt party. The GOP should just stay in the wilderness where they belong. You should crawl in your hole and listen to the Rush and Hannity ..

They have been after him for years, but like the Alaskans, a lot of stupid Arizonan's in his district keep on re-electing him. My wife hit the nail on the head when we first got transferred out here, and that this state has just too much "cowboy mentality."

Really? 43 criminal counts? Was this guy head of the Arizona Mafia or what.? How many criminal counts are Bush and Cheney facing? Apparently when it comes to law enforcement, the idea is to catch the small fish first.

Another One Down! Get All Of The Crooks Out! Republican And Democrat!

Yet another? This is getting out of control.

I guess the land deal guy turned over evidence…

It's a shame Tony Rezko didn't… but then again he's awaiting his pardon… and hush money.

are we really that surprised!!!! I'm sure there will be many more government reps being invested soon. Get them out and lets unite this country by actually putting people in power who are honoreable and loyal to their constituents.

Republicans Gone Wild! Someone should make a documentary about corruption in the GOP.

One more of those useless Republicans found guilty…..wonder when Ted Stevens is going to have to face the music!!!
I am so glad to be seeing the back of this disgraceful administration, what a pathetic bunch they are and they wanted the American people to trust them for another 4 years!!!!!
Do they think we were really that DUMB!!!

Well, thank God he didn't have an affair with an intern. That would be REALLY bad! I just want to know: Why don't these people ever go to jail? At the very least, he should be pouring cement foundations for Habitat for Humanity.

Are there any NON-corrupt politicians any more?

Another GOP in trouble with the law? It can't be; they're the party of family and high moral values!

Those who use public office for corrupt purposes are commiting treason, in my opinion. I hope that every judge who sentences a public official who has been found guilty of using public office for personal gain gives the culprit the maximum sentence: as many years as possible in the clink and the biggest fine the law will allow.

The only form of treason that is worse is committed by those who try to fix or alter election results.

Bye bye.