Apathy in the Public yet heat in Washington DC

In a huge moment of irony....The Washington Post first shares this article GOP Contest Prompts Yawns Outside Beltway

As some House Republicans campaign to oust their scandal-blemished GOP leadership team, they are facing an obstacle back home. It seems many voters could not care less.

If this is true, it means the Democrats are going to have to find another message rather than ethics alone. As many of us have stated it has to be more than that, there has to be a clear message of what are you going to do....not "oh look at what those bad Republicans did"...

I think those of us in Ohio know this first hand from not only our local election but on a state level as well.

But? While the Washington Post is reporting apathy outside of DC, inside DC? Reid Apologizes for News Release is the next story. Evidently a staffer was a bit to thorough in digging up the dirt on Republicans who cried "Foul!".

"Republicans cannot be trusted to end the culture of corruption" was the title and it appears Reid did not read the document before it was sent out.

'The idea of Republicans reforming themselves is like asking John Gotti to clean up organized crime.' "

Then a whole laundry list of "bad behavior" such as:

GOP Sen. George Allen's days as Virginia governor (1993) he once "kept a noose and a confederate flag in his office and home"

Before we all say tsk tsk to the Democrats though:

In 2004, House Republicans changed party rules to allow Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) to remain as majority leader if indicted, but they rescinded the action under heavy public criticism. DeLay relinquished the leadership post last year after a Texas grand jury indicted him on charges of money laundering.

Last April, the legal counsel to Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) resigned after admitting that he wrote a memo about possible political advantages to Republicans who intervened in the case of Terri Schiavo, a severely brain-damaged woman in Florida.

The never ending cycle of the fine art of tit for tat as displayed by our career politicians....One of the many reasons to check out VOID and to continue to demand real plans, real goals and not just the never ending finger pointing.