Scandal-based blogging is enriched...

Scandal-based blogging is enriched...

...by the DCCC's entry, HouseOfScandal.org. It's got all kinds of whiz-bang, click-a-refic features, but I'm particularly taken by the ability to seach for members of the Republican caucus state by state and see just how mobbed up they are with the Capo of Capitol Hill...

For instance, there's the obvious, like Upper Left homeboy Doc Hastings...

Doc Hastings has taken $5,930 from Tom DeLay's ARMPAC. No surprise that Hastings voted with Tom DeLay 96% of the time between Jan. 1 2004 and March 31 2005.

When Democrats offered a solution to clean up the House by strengthening ethics rules, Doc Hastings voted to make sure it never even came to an up or down vote.

Doc, of course, was rewarded with the chairmanship of the now dormant House Ethics Committee.

Less obvious, perhaps, is Chris Shays, who, in some progressive fantasies, might be closet Democrat, someone who can be reached. Looks like he's been reached...

Chris Shays voted with Tom DeLay 85% of the time between Jan. 1 2004 and March 31 2005.

Chris Shays voted to weaken the ethics rules in a move that many say served only to protect Tom DeLay.

When Democrats offered a solution to clean up the House by strengthening ethics rules, Chris Shays voted to make sure it never even came to an up or down vote.

Guess it's true. There are no good ones.