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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 |
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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. |
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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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25-09-05, 06:42 PM | #7 |
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And away goes Jack into paranoid persecution fantasy land.
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the scum also rises
the indictment of Jack Abramoff, which has already produced the arrest one top administration official, is rippling through the GOP establishment in slow motion like a crude oil spill - less of a tangled web than a spreading stain.
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so, do we get to see Delay do the full perp walk, in handcuffs? ok, the GOP meme on the Delay indictment is gonna sound like this: Quote:
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28-09-05, 01:02 PM | #11 |
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You'd love to think that all Republicans are as corrupt as Tom Delay, wouldn't you? Are Democrats any better? Do you actually feel better about your country knowing that your elected leaders are criminals?
I hope for America's sake that nobody considers these events to be good things just because they're happening to the party in power. Your gloating turns my stomach, knife, you should be mourning. |
28-09-05, 01:08 PM | #12 |
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Yes knife, and you should be mourning for poor Valerie Plame too. You just turned your back on her didn't you?
And poor Cindy Sheehan as well. You just use them for your partisian political lambasts and then forget them like cheap whores while their suffering continues. Do you actually care for anyone or anything except as a tool for attacking conservatives? Last edited by albed : 28-09-05 at 01:18 PM. |
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are the Dems any better? probably not - but they haven't been calling the shots for the last five years, so they really aren't the issue. google the "K Street project" and learn what your elected leaders have created in Washington in the last 5 years. |
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Obliviously they are not any better, 11 of the 15 people Ronnie Earle has prosecuted have been Democrats..........
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28-09-05, 01:25 PM | #15 |
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You live in this country don't you, knife? They're everyone's leaders even if everyone didn't vote for them. You're right that it's a positive thing that they're not getting away with breaking the law, but it's a bad thing that they broke the law in the first place. I'm not bitter because they're Republicans, I'm bitter because they're Americans elected to a position of trust and they've broken that trust. I get just as upset when Democrats do these things too.
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beyond Delay
coincidentally, CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) just released Beyond Delay, a report documenting the 13 most corrupt members of Congress - after Tom Delay :
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Dreier is allegedly a closeted homosexual who hired his reputed live-in lover as his chief of staff at the highest possible salary allowed by law for a committee staff member. Nepotistic, self-dealing and classic Republican loathing of sexuality....he'll fill DeLay's shoes just fine.
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Jack Abramoff will be an albatross around the neck of the Republican establishment for the foreseeable future. the latest, but certainly not last, to fall is Timothy Flanigan, as the GOP culture of corruption continues to disintegrate:
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I think the real power is in the unelected bureaucrats.
How could anyone think different?
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