Well, I’ve finally had all I can take from the stinking scumbags we call leaders in today’s society so I’ve created a category just for them.  As I come across stories of greed, avarice and unethical behavior involving our leaders in politics, government, business and popular culture I’ll post them under the "Stinking Scumbags" category/tag.  It should contain the most posts on this blog in very short order.

Our first "Stinking Scumbag" is actually two people, Tom Delay and his wife Christine.  She was paid $115,000 over three years by a firm tied to the Abramoff scandal.  Here’s a description of the hard work she did for that money:

An attorney for
U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay on Monday said that $115,000 was a reasonable price
to pay the congressman’s wife to determine favorite congressional
charities and compile information on each one…

“She was paid
by Alexander to work on a project and the project enabled her to do it
from Houston,” Richard Cullen, one of Tom DeLay’s attorneys, said
Monday. “She would contact the … members of Congress to determine which
charity in the congressman’s district was the congressman’s … that he
thought was the best-run or was his favorite charity in that district.

Christine DeLay then tracked down those charities in each
of the nation’s 435 congressional districts. She learned such facts
about them as what their tax status was, what geographic districts they
operated in and what projects they were working on, Cullen said.

Cullen said he didn’t know how many hours it took for Christine DeLay
to complete the project, nor did he know what Alexander Strategy Group
did with the information.

Cullen said Christine DeLay was not the sort of person to do the job haphazardly.

"She’s not a superficial person,” he said. “She’s going to do it right.”

Now that’s what I call soft money.  Read the whole story here.