When K Street and neocons collude

The net around the Delay/Abramoff ethics violations investigation has widened to pull in more big fish. So far, scrutiny of his emails has revealed heavy ties to "antitax activist Grover Norquist and Christian conservative Ralph Reed." Word has it there are a lot more neocons on the Hill who are nervous about being implicated in the political payola gained through the wholesale defrauding of Native America casino owners.

"If you painted that money purple, there'd be a lot of purple pockets around town," says Senator Byron Dorgan, the ranking Democrat on the committee.

And that does just about as much for our democracy as all those purple fingers did for Iraq's.

[via Buzz Flash]