Washington Talk: Partisan Denunciations Fly Over Secret Strategy Memos By NEIL A. LEWIS, NYTimes

The Senate sergeant-at-arms, who is nearing the end of an investigation into the tampering, told senators last week that the Republican staff members’ activities went on much longer and were far more extensive than previously believed. …

Faced with a difficult-to-defend situation, many Republicans simply withdrew from the field of battle, quietly slipping out of the room. Senators Jon Kyl of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina joined Mr. Hatch in agreeing that what had happened was terribly wrong. …

The most unrepentant of Republicans was Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, a member of the Republican leadership. According to the newspaper Roll Call, Mr. Santorum told reporters that he still believed that “the real potential criminal behavior” was with the Democrats because the content showed their unwholesome ways of colluding with outside interest groups to oppose Mr. Bush’s judicial nominees.

mjh’s Dump Bush weBlog: The GOP is Spying on Everyone

Republicans spy on Democrats (and protestors, and the UN, and everyone) and then get indignant that people are outraged over the content of what they have stolen. These fools have learned nothing from Watergate. mjh