It’s the Corruption, Stupid
The culture of the democrats
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If there is one thing the Dems have shown they can do as a minority party, other than giving aid and comfort to whatever terrorist organization that happens on the scene, it is to prove you don’t need clout to engage in pay-to-play.
We have William Jefferson (Democrat-LA) storing cash in his freezer and even using the National Guard to help him retrieve it when it was threatened by Katrina. We have Alan Mollohan (Democrat-WV) becoming a millionaire by steering taxpayer money to business cronies. We have Robert Menendez (Democrat-NJ) engaging in the same behavior that got Robert Torricelli (Democrat-NJ) canned.
And now we have a new entrant on the scene, Maria Cantwell (Democrat-WA):
Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell helped arrange more than $11 million in federal money in the past year for projects benefiting clients of a lobbyist who is advising her re-election campaign and still owes her money from a personal loan.
Cantwell, …has reported for years that former campaign manager Ron Dotzauer owes her between $15,000 and $50,000 for a personal loan predating her first Senate election in 2000. Dotzauer now runs a lobbying firm.
… The senator's office said Dotzauer continues to advise informally Cantwell's campaign as an unpaid adviser.
Since last fall, Cantwell has helped persuade Senate appropriators to set aside $9.6 million - known as "earmarks" in congressional parlance - for a dam project benefiting two clients of Dotzauer's firm and $2 million more for the biotechnology company Inologic also represented by his firm.
Just imagine the world of possibilities opened if these people were actually in power.
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agustin, red county, california
Yeah, it might look something like Cunningham, DeLay, Ney, Frist, Ryan... shall I go on?
Ok...
Ferguson, Moore Capito, Hayes, Wilson, Northup, Ryun, Shaw, Jr., Chocola, Kline, Graves, Forbes, Simmons, Kennedy, Green, Tancredo, Latham, Ryan, Johnson, Porter...
The point is corruption exists on both sides of the isle and should be rooted out and addressed in all of its forms. Why ignore the people who are supposed to be representing us? Does it represent us? I sure don't think so.
Why is Ted Stevens blocking the bill to make a data base of contributors?
if you are a democrat and Ted Stevens isn't blocking the bill, the bill passed yesterday.
Stop, trolling, June. You did it yesterday, you're doing it again today. Fair warning.
I hope you are correct in that the bill did pass. It will be beneficial in innumerable ways.
p.s. Although I can see how it appears troll-ish I simply disagree with many ideas expressed on this site and am here for genuine discussion.
And then we have President Bush, starting a war in Iraq, even though even he admitted that Iraq has NOTHING to do with 9/11 or Al Kaeda. If he was really retaliating, he should have gone to Afghanistan. That's where Osama gathered Al Qaeda and organized 9-11. That's where a RESURGENT TALIBAN ON BUSH'S WATCH* show he can't get the job done, even when he breaks the law. But it serves Bush's other objectives to attack Iraq, so he implied (and convinced a lot of Americans) that Al Kaeda was there.
*Point of view of the Economist, a very conservative media source:
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7037572
Bunch of monkeys on the ceiling, sir! Grab your egg-and-fours and let's get the bacon delivered!
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Even those who learn from history are surrounded by those doomed to repeat it.
This was the funniest:
Point of view of the Economist, a very conservative media source:
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"I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more I have of it." -- Thomas Jefferson
I was planning on watching this since I wanted to see what their angle would be. No matter than they changed the facts, since I would watch it with my family and comment appropriately.
Let ABC and the Dems have this. I'd like to see a flurry of blog postings on Monday morning highlighting Clinton's big security failures over his presidency (Cole, Khobar, etc.) that led us to 9-11. Let's see them stop that.
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."
.. a "culture of corruption".