I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
goddamn Republicans.
Lie. Cheat. Steal. Act entitled.
Go get him! Let's send them a bill for the postage and check out his payroll records while we are at it.
"Reagan proved that deficits don't matter."
Apparently Nixon proved that neither does lawfulness.
I don't care if he's dead, I still want to impeach the bastard.
For that matter, I don't care that both of them are dead, I still want to impeach both bastards!!
These stories don't even surprise me anymore. I'll bet other rethugs in Texas have done the same thing.
Auditors, where are you?
NO! A repug cheating, stealing, using his office for personal gain? I just don't believe it! What will happen next? The Supreme Court stopping the vote counting and deciding in favor of a repug for president?
What the frank is franking?
this sending out of questionnaires has got to stop...
before you know it, he'll be talking sense on issues that people care about ...
uen, that's doubtful...but funny.
so, texas repugnican politicians are still thinking they are above the law?
amazing.
What the frank is franking?
Instead of a stamp, or a postage permit, the congressman's signature, or "frank" goes on the envelope and the federal government pays for the postage. Congressmen have franking priviledges that they can use for official correspondence, including letters to their constituents. They can't use them for campaign literature, but most congressman walk up to the line on that, sending out letters that pretty much say "I'm groovy, look what I've done for my district" but fall short of actually asking you to vote for them.
Okie-dokie IOKIYAR
Franking: To mark a piece of mail with a signature or sign indicating the right of the sender to free mailing.
Shameless OT plug: Check out my take on the REAL story behind the Iraq handover, here.
Texas Oil Men: The foutainhead of Bush's evil, slimey, oily base. What crafty little devils they are! I live and work in their midst(s), and very strongly believe they are driving us all to the tar pits. Nasty old bastards.
Eh, this could be an honest mistake.
Let's spend some time getting upset about Bush turning tail at Tora Bora in 2002 thus letting a billion opium poppies bloom instead.
So few people know how bad Bush and Rumsfeld strategic errors at Tora Bora actually were. This should be the central issue of the election.
OT:
Colin Powell in a hard hat singing YMCA
*Fountainhead*...
(repressing)
Ayn Rand...ugh.
Howdy Generik!
There is a great article in the July Vanity Fair about Tom Delay and his actions regarding the slimy-ness with which he operates. It also discusses the re-districting mess he was involved in. Not to sound naive, but I didn't know he was *that* corrupt. Slimy maybe, but the power he has given himself opened my eyes. For those who are uneducated about the details, check out the article.
didn't a certain dem congressman, Dan Rostenkowski, go to jail for something similar?
What is with the Texans in congress from the good old GOP???
Endless. Tom DeLay has taught them well, the term mafia comes to mind. As does arrogant and above the law (GW Bush comes to mind). As does pissy (Dick Cheney comes to mind).
The citizens of Texas deserve better. The cows of Texas deserve better.
OT
Thanks a lot, George. Fumbling around for details on this animation we actually saw in Arabic on a temporary trial of an elective cable channel, with a spacefaring society based on 1870s Prussia and a character named "Royal Windsor", we come across this. At the bottom of the page. Inbetween the Japanese and Brazilian flags. Sheesh. Damn site's about old computer games, for Christ's sake.
What is with the Texans in congress from the good old GOP???
And why is the rest of the House, at least, willing to go on being Tom DeLay's dog?
Why do they behave as though they are afraid of him?
Eh, this could be an honest mistake.
Ummm, no. They know exactly who's in their district.
This was deliberate. Everyone in texas knows about redistricting, especially the texas congressional delegation. They sat around like fat cats dividing up the state.
Assholes.
didn't a certain dem congressman, Dan Rostenkowski, go to jail for something similar?
smarty jones
Silly filly, you answered your own question!
He's a DEMONcrat and so obviously must be punished.
A member of the GOD is above repute, and apparently the law.
What's the latest skinny on the DeLay investigations, anyway? Is there any chance the Bugfucker will ever be frog-marched out of office and sent to some country club for white collar criminals, as he so richly deserves? (He actually deserves a lot worse than that, but that's about the best we can hope for in his case.)
(Hi psy!)
Tom DeLay has taught them well, the term mafia comes to mind. As does arrogant and above the law.
Tony Soprano
The GOP Mafia......Pass it on.
If you want to be more specific: The Texas GOP Mafia. (eg)
k&y - the hatred of the u.s. is deep and your catch of this was amazing/odd/weird. thanks.
What's the latest skinny on the DeLay investigations, anyway?
http://www.takingontomdelay.com/ is on the trail. And a Texas blogger whose link I can't remember right now has been all over it.
Thanks, monica_nyc, I've bookmarked that page and will refer to it regularly in the future. Let's hope they have some good news to report soon!
I can't stand that nasty little Joe Barton. Little asshole is a big time protector of the major air polluters in north Texas. He's a repug's repug, too. Little twit. I hope he gets nailed but good.
TO THE RAMPARTS!
One of Barton's aides was instrumental in the redistricting fracas. He wrote a particularly obnoxious e-mail about how the had been shafted, parts of which were reprinted in the local papers. Did anyone (like maybe the Supreme Court) raise a stink? Nope. IOKIYAR indeed.
"obnoxious e-mail about how he had shafted the Democrats"
...and I haven't even had a margarita yet.
Here's the text of the e-mail. (If my HTML screws up, click homepage.)
Dan Rostenkowski (sp?) spent some time in jail for congressional post office misdeeds. But he was a democrat, and I was young at the time.
The citizens of Texas deserve better. The cows of Texas deserve better.
Hell the fireants, snakes and Johnson grass deserve better.
Morris Meyer called me up here in NY state a couple of days ago, and we had a nice chat. I had sent a whopping $25 to his campaign some months ago, and he was hoping I could donate again. I was impresssed that the candidate hisself was working the phones and reaching out to small donors...
Morris Meyer is a great candidate near Dallas. I have donated to him a couple of times and would encourage anyone who wants to help Democrats to do the same.
didn't a certain dem congressman, Dan Rostenkowski, go to jail for something similar?
No. Rosty was accused of exchanging a few thousand $ worth of postage stamps for cash. He never pled guilty but was convicted and did his time.
What struk me as odd about it at the time was the trivial ammount of money involved, in comparisson to other, legal, sources available to congresspeople.
Rosty was a champion at bringing federal $ to Chicagoland.
Now I knowing what a franking privilege is. Voters getting franked.
Now is the time to boot out the sleezoids like Joe Barton -- every dollar contributed to Morris Meyer's campaign will help us get rid of sleezoids like "Smokey Joe".
Your contribution *will* help the Meyer campaign.
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