Add Another GOP Scumbag to the Picture Below

As if Ohio's Republican's didn't have enough recent embarrassment, Scooter Libby is not the only GOP official currently inducting himself into the Republican Criminal Hall of Fame. The entire Republican party of Ohio is trying to fulfill it’s scandalous obligations with the ‘ol rare-coin investment trick.

It all started when the Ohio State's Workers Compensation Fund had invested $50 million in rare coins, which in and of itself raised eyebrows – and then dropped jaws when 121 of those coins turned up missing. (This, however, is NOT to be confused with Halliburton “misplacing” $8.8 billion in Iraq).

Well, at the risk of adding the ever clichéd suffix to political scandals, I have to say the whole coin-gate saga raised red flags for all the right reasons.

Tom Noe, prominent a Republican donor and Family Values chief of Ohio, was charged Thursday with illegally funneling $45,400 into President Bush’s re-election campaign.

And this whole time you were trying to figure out how the most incompetent and reckless president in U.S. history set a record for campaign finance contributions.

The White House would not comment on the scandal.

No Shit. Something tells me they have their own indictments to worry about. Read more about coin-gate here.