"WASHINGTON — Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean is trying to get voters to hold the Republican Party responsible for the "culture of corruption" he sees in Washington, but Dean is getting virtually no help from fellow Democrats in the House.
During the year since then-Rep. Chris Bell, D-Texas, filed the complaint that triggered the ethics investigation of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, not one Democrat has initiated another complaint, despite the pleas of outside watchdog groups.
House Democrats are victims of "a kind of mind-set that too often creeps in in Washington — to get along, go along," Bell said. "There's not a more adversarial act you can take in the House than an ethics complaint, and some people just don't have the stomach for it."
Indeed, at the DNC's executive committee meeting here in early June, Dean publicly acknowledged that some congressional Democrats had urged him to tone down his "culture of corruption" rhetoric because they did not want to get caught up in the same ethics probe as DeLay. But Dean said he would not hold back."-from the story in today's Palm Beach Post.
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