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24-09-05, 09:08 PM | #1 | ||||
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absolute power
it's something less than a surprise that, less than one year after winning the trifecta of American politics (control of the White House, the Senate, and the House Of Representatives), the GOP leadership of all three are enmeshed in criminal investigations.
first we have Bill Frist, Republican Senate Majority leader, apparently engaging in the same activities that sent Martha Stewart to jail: Quote:
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24-09-05, 10:10 PM | #2 |
flippin 'em off
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Also unlike the Clinton years those don't involve foreign nations like China and Indonesia subverting the US by buying influence from the democratic party.
And no imprisoned drug kingpins buying their pardons either. Clinton still holds the prize for absolute corruption. Give the man a cigar. |
25-09-05, 02:59 AM | #3 |
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LOL Clinton gave the cigar to Lewinsky.
The Chinese are naming a new line of condoms "in honor of" Clinton and Lewinsky.
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David Safavian, the chief of the White House's federal procurement office official who resigned several days before his arrest has apparently had the additional distinction of being a lobbyist for clients associated with Hamas and Hezbollah - groups the US has designated as terrorist organizations and therefore, with whom the US is at war:
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25-09-05, 10:22 AM | #5 |
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Don't you see that the fact that people are being investigated and possibly indicted is evidence to the fact that they don't have absolute power?
I await your witty, sidelong response followed up with an other opinion editorial. I know you won't disapoint. |
25-09-05, 05:53 PM | #6 | |
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well if you'd been rotting away in some orwellian patriot act prison somewhere tied naked to chairs with no access to lawyers, or phones, or any way to contact loved ones, with armed, arrogant keepers poking you, and baiting you, screaming obsenities at you and dogs barking and scaring the hell out of you, lights on lights off, no chair to sit in nor bed to lay in, sprayed with ice water, told when to eat, when to sleep, when to piss, made to crap in your pants, and had this been going on for years without you having been so much as charged with jaywalking, you might begin to feel these guys had absolute power over you. guess what? i'd forgive you for thinking so. - js. |
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