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Somebody remind me, why are we (American taxpayers) paying scandal-infested indicted-arrested-tried-convicted-imprisoned former Republican congressmen for the rest of their lives? I’m talking about the comfortable government pension that we’re stuck paying people like Bob Ney and Duke Cunningham (soon Tom DeLay as well) and Mark Foley for the rest of their lives.

ABC News reports that Duke Cunningham is already making $64,000 per YEAR while he’s in prison rotting away for taking 2 million dollars in bribes and illegally awarding government contracts to defense contractors with no regard to their actual abilities, qualifications or competence. That’s outrageous.

ABC also says that future House Speaker Nancy Pelsoi wants to have hearings on the issue, which will bring the names of indicted and convicted Republican lawmakers to the forefront again. More power to her, I say. There is no way in hell we (as Americans) should be paying these convicted criminals sizeable pensions every year for the rest of their lives.

Filed under: Bob Ney, Abramoff Scandal, Z-TDB Blog