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"...the 'Hsu' is on the other foot." Very clever, Mike! 
Yes, the liberals point one finger at us with all of their pointing back at them and their toes too! We all know what hipocrites they are.
Speaking of finger pointing Gayle... It's no accident that the photo of Johnny Chung. another disgraced Chinese Democrat fundraiser, sits at the top of this comment board.
Chung's giving US the finger, not the persons responsible for his presence in the White House with the Clintons.
Ya know, I think the reason Democrats aren't nailed to the wall with these scandals is pretty much the same as why so few world leaders complain about Muslim acts of barbarism. We expect uncivilized barbarians to do barbaric things, so we also expect immoral and unethical people to do scandalous things.
Republicans actually have moral and ethical standards that we are expected to live up to. Democrats have no such personal or public bounds and can do anything without recrimination. They are like the kid who kills his parents then demands special consideration because he's an orphan.
When are our Republicans going to grow a backbone and go on the attack?
Same thing with Sandy Burglar, a pat on the wrist.
The only way it seems to get anything done anymore Mike is to moan and hollar to these wimps through email and phone messages.
I guess it's time to tear up the phone lines again!
I just hope Hsu is well protected while DoJ investigates. It would be a grave mis-carriage of justice for him to have an untimely end. There is just too much money involved in this case to let it get swept under the rug. This has the makings of something akin to the Teapot Dome scandal.
Indigo: I've often remarked that Democrats daily demand a higher standard of conduct and accountability from Republicans than they would ever for themselves. And they do get away with it because it is clear they have no standards or values.
Marie: The Sandy Berger case is another good example of a HUGE scandal that just disappeared. And Sandy STILL has not taken the polygraph he agreed to take as part of his plea deal. Perhaps with that, we would find out more about what was on the documents he stole and destroyed.
Anna: It does seem that we are seeing the tip of the iceberg in what is perhaps a much larger problem for Democrats. Did all these rich Clintonistas go out and find a con man to run a scheme to funnel money to Hillary? We won't get answers unless our side asks questions.
While spinelessness is undoubtedly one element in the reluctance of Congressional Republicans to pursue the Democrats on their corrupt practices, I think there's also a charactar issue: While those on the left are by nature a profoundly litigious bunch (witness the ACLU and all those hungry, independant liberal trial lawyers out there who have no problem with suing the innocent on frivolous or fraudulent grounds, and the liberal tendency to try to change the Law of the Land via the courts rather than the Senate), we conservatives are not.
The left banks (no pun intended) rather heavily on that.
They will back burner vital issues in order to battle to nail a Republican politician to a wall, guilty or not, for anything they can, while the average Republican will simply get on with the business at hand.
That said, this is definitely one of those times when they need to be called, emailed, snail mailed and faxed, as bringing the real culture of corruption, the one over there on the left side of the aisle, to light would be highly instructive to the voting public.
"WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICANS?"
it's much ado about nothing. you guys are the corrupt ones.
KEvron
Only a total blind fool would say anything so stupid!
Kevron, you are grade A moron!
Seth: No doubt that is the explanation we might get from a GOP Senator. There are after all only so many hours in a day.
But if you don't win the political battles like this one, especially when your Dem opponents hand you a gift on a silver platter, how can you expect to rewin control of the House and Senate?
And in the end, isn't that more important than issue X, Y or Z?
Mike, you have a good memory. There were so many Clintonian scandals connected to the Far East that I forgot them all.
Good blog. It will be interesting to see how much all this stuff doesn't come up during the election year. If it is brought up I expect to hear, "that was her husband...", and "Let's not focus on the past; it's about the economy stupid".
Here we go again. chip
Absolutely, Mike, which is why I advocate, and plan to do Monday, calling and then emailing those who purport to represent me in Congress.
I'd love to see our folks pursuing their folks for a change, especially in light of the fact that most of the career-ruining attacks levelled by the Democrats are based on fiction, yet with the MSM and the full weight of the Dems behind them, they succeed again and again.
Chip: I'll be posting my full report on my visit to Little Rock and Hot Springs Arkansas and "Clinton Country" in the next day or so.
And yes, I expect that the Clintonoids will try that line of dismissal just as you suggest.
But there are just too many parallels from both Clinton's past to the future to let them get away with that.
No one in their right mind would want to relive the Clinton scandals of the 1990's with Hillary in the White House. And since it's clear both Clinton's never learned from their mistakes, we would be forced to go through it all again.
Seth: I'm glad you are doing your part to light a fire under our represenatives. I hope they listen.
I see you've got some "stinkyluvin" going on here, Mike!
This scandal will have absolutely zero effect on Hillary. I think you're right to focus on the GOP. Hsu can be a great issue in the general election, particularly if the Republican nominee can maintain a record of complete propriety in the money game.
It's goint to be good!
This election as all of them have been since the Clinton gang got involved is going to be about sheer power. It will come down to which candidate can smear the other with as much tar as can be found. The tow candidates will be vying to able to show a listless, rudderless and clueless center that the lesser of the two evils is _________? (for you moron liberals the blank means fill in the blank)I can't believe that I have to give instructions for that but after previous dealings with moron liberals here instruction are necessary. Sheesh!
"The tow candidates" corrected to say
"The two candidates"
Huh...just like the ME we always have to follow the money trail.
He who has the gold makes the rules. Ugh!
This is the reason that we lost control of the congress and may not get it back even as the Dems self destruct.
We (Republicans) have no leadership. What we have is a pack of carear politicians that have their heads shoved up their collective asses.
We have an ILLEGAL Alien advocat running the RNC, and buffoons like Trent Lott that both get upset when the base pushes back on the one issue that would drive the vote out to the poles. Illegal Immigration.
Add to that the lack of BALLS that has infected this Party since Newt was driven from office, and before Newt the only member of the party that had a set and was willing to call a spade a spade was Ronaldus Maximus.
The lack of a coherent simple conservative platform and anyone to speak it is a direct result of carear politicians.
We are at war, we are being invaded by illegals, we sit on oil reserves that dwarf Saudi Arabia yet we give our money to buy oil from people that take that money and buy bullits and bombs to kill us with.
And your shocked that there is no outcry about the Chinese continuing to pour money into the democrats coffers when there was never an outcry when they bought weapons technology from Bill Clinton in the same manner.
The politicians have become the internal threat to our very existance, and I fear it will take the event of a couple hundred thousands of our deaths before the masses react.
If we are lucky when we lose a city it will be DC when both houses are in session....
September 23, 2007 -- The decision of the leading Republican candidates for president to skip the debate being organized by African-American talk show host Tavis Smiley this week is shortsighted, not just for the party but for the country.
Contrary to what candidates in either party may think, the political dividing line in America doesn’t run between the GOP and minorities. For most Americans, it’s not even found between Republicans and Democrats, or the red-versus-blue-state invention of the media.
The real division is between hardworking, tax-paying Americans - of both parties and all races - and an entrenched, permanent governing system in Washington and state capitals designed to serve its own needs and not the needs of the American people.
Over the 42 years since the beginning of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, the increasing power of public employee unions, the growth of the bureaucracies, the rise of lawyers, the development of complex regulatory legalism, and the entrenchment of an elite establishment that imposes political correctness have combined to create this permanent governing class system.
And the values of this permanent government are not those of the Americans who pay the taxes and the union dues that support it. Its bureaucracies value process more than achievement; its lawyers value rules over results; and its politically correct elite value avoiding embarrassment more than telling the truth about failure.
By NEWT GINGRICH
Troll, tell us how you really feel.
Seriously, I appreciate people's respect and love for this country. I didn't think there were so many like me until I started a blog.
With humility and hope--thanks.
chip
“it's much ado about nothing. you guys are the corrupt ones.”
Wow, I don’t know about you but $2.6 million is not nothing to me! You can say the republicans are corrupt. Just don’t play games like the democrats are clean as can be. Even Hillary noted there are problems across the board for God’s sake.
Chip's right, there is hope. We're reaching beyond the limitations of linkages fostered by talk radio and conversative media and creating our own networks of like minded and ever more impassioned and dedicated conservatives.
Troll: Be careful not to overstate your disgust with GOP leadership. Haven't you been impressed by what John Boehner has been doing in the House standing up to Democrat hardball tactics?
And in the Senate, we've blocked Dem efforts to surrender in Iraq.
A long way to go before the election in 2008 but progress abounds!
P.S. Newt's WRONG about the GOP not allowing Tavis Smiley to conduct a debate. I looked at the questions Tavis asked Democrats and it might has well have been an advertisement for the next Democrat platform.
Screw Tavis and his liberal hack acolytes!
I agree on the tavis debate to a point. It's a matter of level of engagement.
Boehner is doing a yeomans job but it's a drop in the bucket of the two fisted aproach that needs to be taken on all levels.
The party leadership needs to be pounding out the basic faults with the Democrat Plans and Why and Shoving an Honest CONSERVATIVE Plan down the throats of the every journalist.
When a Democrat plan of seizing control of healthcare or demanding retreat comes up there should be Republican standing there LAUGHING at the bufoon who stated it...
Mike did you see the Newt piece in the Post, it's up on my sight.
Oh please, the point is the system and BOTH parties are corrupt beyond redemption. Both Dems and Republicans need to grow backbones, stop collecting 'contributions' and actually DO the job they are elected to do instead of running for the nEXT office. And voters need to smarten up and stop voting for the louses.
Get real.
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