"Contract With America" Null and Void

Lobbyist and friend to Tom DeLay and other top Republicans, Jack Abramoff, has peaded guility to three felonies and will now cooperate in an investigation into illegally lining the pockets and campaigns of the people who were elected to serve us in Washington. The Republicans rode into Washington in 1994 on their big white horses promising to restore ethics and trust in the government. Since this tactic was so successful, they used the same promise when they ran in the Presidential election of 2000. I don't know about you, but between the outing of a CIA agent to smear her and her family because her husband had accurate news about WMDs that they didn't want to hear; the trampling of civil liberties in return for "keeping us safe", secret torture prisons overseas, as well as spying on Americans and legal residents at home, I wonder where the ethics went? I'm sure there'll be some Democratic politicans caught in the lobbyist mess in order to make it appear non-partisan, but this is a Republican scandal through and through.