I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
What, it's up to me to point out the hypocrisy of drug addiction?
OK.
Preznit giv me plausible deniability...
Yeah, god and the mob's got this little thing goin' up there in Connecticut.
We should have known that Jimmy Swaggart set a precedent. "I've sinned. Sob. Sob. But my God is a forgiving God... blah, blah, blah." And some of the people fell for it.
Nowadays, mention God and it gets you off the hook. What a bunch of lying, hypocritical losers.
If the preznit was really the good Christian he claims to be, wouldn't he be the first one to condemn all these commandment-breaking puglies?
words matter, deeds don't, so sayth the GOP
Now I know where Clinton made his mistake.
Oh! Hear that, Dems?
I like the acronym IOKIYAR, because when you pronounce it, starts out sounding like "Yucky."
Perfect for Republicans!
Hmm....last time I checked an elected official was supposed to do the bidding of the people. If he starts listening to God, Connecticut is going to become a judeo-christian state. Hey connecticuters [or whatever]! Move to NYC! We allow everyone to come in, even people who DON'T believe in God.
Like the supposed 'prohibition' of voluntarily praying in school, the founding of the Constitution upon the 10 commandments (particularly the first four), and the academic conspiracy supporting the theory of evolution, I call this sort of stuff 'Lying FOR God'. Do they think God will be pleased?
Is he sure it's his god who is shouting at him?
How does he know it isn't his devil?
"Gov. Rowland... don't worry, you didn't really do anything wrong. It's just the damn librul media out to get you. Stick with it, don't back down..."
Seriously, do we really want people in power who, when they get caught doing something wrong, suddenly hear voices shouting in their heads telling them they are right? Seems kind of dangerous to have people who do what voices in their heads tell them to do in positions of power...
anecdote about alfred hitchcock, seeing a boy talking to a priest from his car: "Run!"
There can be nothing healthier than trashing the pseudoreligious who would enslave deomcracy. We'd rent multiple hookers if we knew where certain Cross-worshippers were staying.
I'm glad to find this out.
For a while I thought Neil Bush fucking Thai sex slaves might be a bad thing for him to do.
What surprizes me is that after hearing the wife read them that poem the newspaper editors didn't all resign and committ seppuko in their cars.
kei & yuri, youse guys are funny, when are you going on the road?
Wow! A Repuke admitting that he's not perfect. He was probably just kidding, though.
Yeah right, god is shouting at you to take graft from the mob? and the press is bad mannered for pointing it out? What a dickhead.
voices shouting in their heads
Not to quibble, but not all in-head voices are bad. I hope. Um, not that I would know about this from experience.
It's the wife that bothers me. "The SCLM made him do it. Wait, no, he didn't do anything. Snivel."
Also, Janklow is appealling his manslaughter conviction.
Wants a new trial.
When atrios points out the hypocrisy of the Republican pseudo-religious crowd, he doesn't mention the fact that God wants President Bush to be reelected.
It's mourning in America!
IOKIYAR -- pronounced "yuckier".
Yes indeed, the GOP just keeps getting yuckier and yuckier.
Someone should frog march that poor duo excuse for Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker outta Connecticut, before the Southern Baptists catch wind of their obvious inability to connive and swindle the masses...
Once again, last para is key...
"...Late Tuesday, the University of Connecticut released its own poll of 645 state residents showing that 55 percent of those polled thought Governor Rowland ought to resign. That poll had a sampling error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points..."
So Rowland goes before the media and pretty much states (with a straight face) that even though he's been taking bribes and selling influence, its OK because, you see, God says he's forgiven. (Natually, God was not available for comment). Not to be outdone, the First Lady steps up and delivers a rebuke to the godless heathens in the press, set to "The Night Before Christmas". I'd like to see how many editorials in Connecticut newspapers will make a point of saying how totally bizarre the entire spectacle was.
BTW, what's with Quinnipiac U.? I've read some real strange Right-leaning polls from that place lately. Why are they being quoted so often as a major polling center (I realise they are in Conn. in this case, but I have read other polls on national issues recently from there.)
"No matter what - It's Okay If You're A Republican!" -- and white.
Re: Quinnipiac Polls.
Yes, after the capture of Sadaam, I think, in the story the WaPo ran they quoted a Quinnipiac Poll about aWol's approval ratings that were so far out of the ballpark it was laughable. Their poll isn't even on the Polling Report (link on Kos) and they have some kind of weird methodology that is a rolling sample that they purport can give accurate results about how opinions change overnight. Strange.....
Naw, just keep repeating the truth about the Republicans, because while God may forgive them, the voters ultimately don't. Case in point: Rep. David Crane, a Republican representing a district in Central Illinois around Olney, used the "God forgives me" defense after he was caught getting it on with a 18-year-old female Congressional page. He refused to answer questions posed by the press, even his hometown paper. Then he went to his conservative Protestant church on Sunday. Emerging from the church afterwards, he reported that he confessed his sins to God, and that fellow members of his church forgave him on God's behalf. Therefore: Issue closed. But in the next election, the Democrat got 56 percent of the vote in a very Republican district.
Arthur, what you just wrote gives me hope for our country.
but they are so good at being bad.
in houston, we have a remarkably non-chain winger station - KSEV. headed by a billy sunday former sports broadcaster by the name of dan patrick.
one of their talkjocks was a longtime winger by the name of john mathews - busted recently for sexually playing around with a neighbor's 3 yr old child.
and then they have this very smarmy , militantly xtian, former state leg by the name of mike richards. for whatever reason, he must have lots of friends in high places. because i think he violated all the covenants of integrity when he started featuring on his show the principals of a firm entitled money mortgage. it started with his giving them some air, touting the returns that they offered, combined with their christian orientation.
all the time, this sleazeball touted how he could vouch for the integrity of the investment because they attended the same church. what an interesting congregation that must be.
eventually, in 2002, this winger station devoted the entire friday mike richards' show to this money mortgage operation.
i found it an astonishing instance of winger shilling for what had to be a financial scam at heart. i mean they were touting 10%-12% returns with no downside loss exposure.
i knew some folks in other cities that were mortgage bankers, i asked them if they knew of this outfit. no one knew of them.
hmmmmm.
long and the short of it, all of a sudden money mortgage disappears from KSEV. becomes unmentioned.
why i wondered. in bankruptcy. bilked thousands of winger investors[serves them right]. scam goes unmentioned in houston media, even those that the wingers label "libruls".
show me a ruthuglican and i shall reveal to you a gangster or a gangster manque.
any arguments?
Wow, the god thing is bad enough, but using the troops that way should get him a one-way ticket out of town on a donkey. What a fucking disgrace.
Any of you idiot trolls want to stand by your man on that one?
And as we learned by the example of Roy Cohn, as a guy you can fuck every male in North America & not be considered homosexual, because you're a Republican!
and just two years ago....Rowland was one of the first people to call on Bridgeport mayor Ganim to resign for.....insider contracts. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
Anyone also notice that Lieberman has said that Rowland shouldn't resign, because he hasn't been accused of breaking any crimes (which is, of course, wrong). Is holy Joe paving the way to follow in Zell Miller's footsteps?
Aparently no one has heard of the 11th commandment which was brought down by the 2nd son of god Reagan.
"Thou shalt never talk smack about thou's fellow republicans."
Typical fucking liberuls :/
I've gotten so used to hearing Republicans use God to launder their actions, but the wife and her poem -- what a nutjob.
In all seriousness: is there a Connecticut recall petition under way? Now that the precedent's been set...
Preznit giv me hot tub and a baby!
And kick Lieberman out of the Democratic Party. Right now.
Poor Rowland. And Ken Lay is broke according to his wife ::sob sob::
What is it with republicans that they get so frigging sanctimonious when they get caught with their hand in the till, thier lips on the bottle, or their pecker in the assistant?
On Strom Thurmond,
Has anyone pointed out that, almost certainly, Strom at 22 had sex with a 15 year old. (She was 16 when she had the child.) Today, that would be statutory rape. And as far as responsibility, a white man in South Carolina could not legally marry a black woman in 1925. So much for responsibility.
It really is too bad the serial rapist didn't win in 1948; we wouldn't have had all these problems.
Being from CT, I can only attest to having a blue state run by a red!
He has been accused of wife-beating in the past (I think) it was his first wife, he got caught up in a huge ENRON contract..all though it he came out smelling rosy. Last election practically the day after he won, he laid off 3000 state workers, including services for the sick, elderly and blind!
The guy is Slime. He and uncle joe need to go! The local SCLM is such a vacuous waste of space. The reporting is all from the gov's side - there is one sound bite from the left and then a huge conference spouting god by herr guvner.
Just to be safe, at the news conference in which you denounce your accusers and proclaim your innocence, be sure to surround yourself with Iraq war veterans, as did the good governor of CT.
I'm sure everyone here heard about Joe Scarborough (R-evil), who both knocked up one page and wound up with another female page dead of a suspicious head wound discovered in his office. The guy who currently enjoys a cush MSNBC gig enjoyed zero media coverage about his typical rethuglican antics. I have relatives in the NW Florida area and they said the local paper agreed not to publish the tawdry details if he resigned -- which he promptly did after just winning reelection, divorcing his wife, and marrying the pregnant local girl who didn't fall down dead.
Check out All Hat no Cattle for the ugly details: http://www.allhatnocattle.net/
co...scarborough.htm
Hmmm... so what I'm reading is that if I change over to the republican party, I can get away with a lot....hey, now, that is certainly worth pondering... my defense will be "but I'm republican!" Hot doggies kiddies, I'm heading over to Little Green Footballs to hang with the real patriots. We're going to be eating liberty fries...um, no that's FREEDOM fries, and make plans to keep our king in power!
>Has anyone pointed out that, almost certainly, Strom at 22 had sex with a 15 year old. (She was 16 when she had the child.) Today, that would be statutory rape.
And knowing the social situation in South Carolina at that time it was more than likely not just statutory rape but actual rape. Why would a 16 year old girl want to risk ruin by having sex with a man who cared nothing for her? I'm sure this was a situation that all girls in her position dreaded. What do you do if one of the men of the house insists on having his way with you? If you complain you're out the door. If they force you and you cry rape who will listen?
That to me is the true outrage, not the hypocrisy but the cruelty of it all.
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