Do you have $90,000 in your freezer?

No, no, we aren't talking about anything Dave Obey's done . . . we are talking about the new definition of "cold, hard, cash."

Rep. William Jefferson (a Democrat) was found to have $90,000 stashed in his freezer. Not only was this cold, hard, cash found but a former aide and a businessman have plead guilty in arranging bribes for Mr. Jefferson.

While this isn't an attack on Dave Obey per se, we do wonder why he isn't "kicking the hell out of" Jefferson - on two fronts. First, he should be kicking the heck out of him because Jefferson, and his pals, Alan Mollohan (lead Democrat on the ethics committee who has allegedly steered millions of dollars to business associates), Cynthia McKinney (Democrat who allegedly punched a Capitol Police Officer) and Patrick Kennedy (Democrat who nearly ran down a Capitol Police Officer with his car) are knocking Republicans off the front page of the scandals in Washington. These four have taken the wind out of the sails of the Democrats who say the Republicans are engaged in systematic corruption in Washington. What we are learning though, is that it's not Republicans or Democrats that are the problem, it is a handful of each who have taken themselves so seriously that they believe they are above the law. We see no evidence that Obey believes he is above the law, though we're quite certain he believes himself far superior to the average voter in Wisconsin's 7th District.

Second, if Obey were such a big reformer in Washington, why isn't he publicly decrying these actions by his Democrat colleagues? If Obey truly believes, as he's said, that private money is the evil of campaigns, he should be on his soapbox, calling out Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Mollohan to come clean. Instead, he will continue to kick the heck out of Republicans, blaming them like he always does for all that is wrong in America. He will simply continue to play political hatchet man.