U.S. conservatives rubbed their hands with glee on Wednesday over news that the Democratic governor of Illinois has been accused of attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama.
…Obama should escape being tainted by the scandal since he has never been close to Blagojevich, analysts said…
…The issue of Democratic Party corruption is sweet for Republicans, whose party has been rocked by a series of corruption and sex scandals that helped lead to large congressional losses in 2006 and continued with the recent conviction of senior Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska.
Why, oh why, can’t Reuters leave the editorializing to the editorial staff? This is supposed to be straight news. There’s not even a pretense of disguising the “us, the Democrats” vs. “them, the Republicans” perspective in this dispatch.
