She's such a nice lady. But then again, what's a nice lady like her doing with thugs like she runs with? Add her campaign finance embezzlement problems to the rest of the GOP's enumerated corruption scandals.

* The federal grand jury indictment of Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff;

* Two Texas grand jury indictments of former Majority Leader Tom DeLay for conspiracy and money laundering;

* The federal investigation of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist for misuse of insider information in the sale of stock in his family's health care company;

* The arrest and charge of David Safavian, former head of the White House Procurement Office, for obstructing two investigations into whether he aided Jack Abramoff in his effort to acquire government property;

* The indictment of a senior House Appropriations Committee member, Representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham, accused of a sweetheart deal with a defense lobbyist that netted him $700,000;

* And, most recently, the indictment of Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff, "Scooter" Libby.

They call this arrogance, the culture of corruption.  I'm calling it just plain stupid.

Stupid for them to try and get away with it and stupid of all the rest of us for letting it continue.