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Its just a culture of corruption with these Repub oh I mean Democrats isn't that right nancy LOL
Mike your posts are below your sidebar again somthings oversized either in the post or the bar
Troll: You're screen resolution is set to 800x600.
I pushed the White House photo down a bit in size, so if Bush looks scrunched we have only you to blame.
Should I tell the Grizzly Mama to get you a bigger monitor for Father's Day?
Mike, you know that only GOP leaders can be accused of graft and corruption. Anything resembling graft or corruption within the Democratic Party is "just business as usual." It's a Democratic elitist entitlement initiated immediately upon taking the oath of office. We who are not above the law must continue to acquiesce to obeying the law.
I adjusted my pixal range up... Now I need a magnifying lens to read the type...god it sucks getting old sometimes
Troll: If resolution 1024x768 is too difficult to read then you DO need a bigger monitor.
The Dems' culture of corruption list is adding up....let us not forget Cynthia McKinney in the bunch.
P.S. 
Glad I have a huge flat panel monitor.
Yah, Rush was talking about all the corrupt dems today and I was thinking that I need to sit down and make a list and post on it.
You said it Mike! Thanks for the great post!
-APV
enate Minority Leader Harry Reid said it's his official duty to attend boxing matches in Nevada...
Uh, huh. Right.
Ooops! The Anonymous was actually me, duh.
Boxing part of his duties? Well, using that logic I suppose he also insists on gambling at the casinos and visiting all the brothels.
The irony of him being such a slave to the "culture of corruption" is just too much.
Gee Mike I'd love to have a dialog over at chickenhawk express but it seems I've been summarily banned for pointing out inconvenient truths.
Now let's get to the heart of the matter. At CHXPRS you sent me to the link about the Reid clan. Do you really want to tell me that because the Reid clan operates in the netherworld where politics and lobbying meet, that is proof of criminality? What laws have they broken? What indictmens gathered? What guilty pleas arranged for? What prison terms given sentence? You guys run the DOJ right now. It's OK to quash the investigation into Abramoff/Delay enabling sweatshops in the Marianas, replete with sexual trafficking, but Gonzales can't find anything to pin on Reid, given his supposedly obvious level of blatant corruption? It is to laugh.
Perhaps there's another political family you'd be interested in looking into to see if their network provides them with significant advantages that ordinary politicos lack. I'm sure you've heard of or know of them. They're named the Bushes.
However "damaging" the profile of Reid's family alliances may appear to you, the fact is that the AP made false inferences and allegations about Reid, and that he did not do anything inherently improper in accepting the invitation to accept the credentials provided by the boxing commission. He was not given tickets, he was given an invitation to sit in a section reserved for officials. He did purchase tickets for friends who attended the fight. McCain's grandstanding display of "paying" for tickets that carried no value was craven on his part. The promoter of the fight gave McCain's money to Catholic Charities because he was prohibited by law from accepting money for the seats Reid was given. Hard to see how giving seats that can't be sold legally qualifies as a bribe. Additionally, Reid's legislation was inimical to the interests of the boxing commission, so in no way can it be seriously regarded as a sign of quid pro quo. There's no quo there and really not much quid either. It's a nice try, but that dog simply won't hunt.
Looking forward to your next choice of favorite straw man argument, now that your first has proven so woefully inadequate to address reality.
It's easy to understand why you got canned at ChickenHawk Express Bilfold.
You're transparent partisanship deprives any substantive arguments you pretend to make of credibility.
Period!
I love it how you folks seem so comfortable defining what law is and what it is not so easily.
After all, you learned from the master: "depends on the meaning of the word 'is.'"
You criminalize Republican political behavior, ala Tom Delay and just ignore the far worse problem in your own backyard.
Not to get too biblical, since I am sure most professions of faith are offensive to you folks, but I am reminded of the verse "Remove the pike from your own eye, before you attempt to remove the speck from mine."
This "culture of corruption" and it's a GOP problem is such a sham that even die hards like you should be, SHOULD BE ashamed.
Do you REALLY want to go back through the whole sorry list of criminal misdeeds from the likes of Clinton, Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy (all of them)???
I would be happy to do so, but somehow I imagine that effort to provide you with some historical and legal context would be a waste of time.
Suffice it to say that you folks are really NOT serious about ethics. It's always been a political issue where you apply very strict standards ONLY to Republicans.
What better example can you find than Hillary Clinton? After all, as a staffer on Peter's Rodino's House Judiciary Committee she promulgated many of the standards for conduct in office that she and her husband later trashed when he was President.
It's just a shame that you folks are more interested in partisan gamemanship than serving a higher purpose.
"He was not given tickets, he was given an invitation to sit in a section reserved for officials."
"he did not do anything inherently imprope.."
Bilfold,
what a lovely diatribe of rationalization and denial.
"He was not given tickets, he was given an invitation to sit in a section reserved for officials."
Right...and people don't "die", they just get an invitation to forever remain in a section reserved for corpses!
Mike,
It's your blog so I'm going to be nice. Now, would you care to address the substance of the points I raised. You say I'm defining the law? How so? What do you know about Nevada statutes that I am missing?
Regarding DeLay, you do realize that DeLay's close associates have pled guilty to charges associated with illegal campaign activites, don't you. Pled guilty. Not indicted, not accused, admitted guilt. DeLay himself has been named in one pending indictment as "Official A." DeLay's close associate, Jack Abramoff, also pled guilty twice, in one instance in a case attached to a murder investigation. Tom Noe, guilty-illegal campaign fundraising. Illegal phone jamming in New Hampshire-Guilty. Cunningham- bribery-guilty. This is settled law, Mike. And we're not even getting into the allegations of poker parties and hookers.
So spare me the sententious droning about removing the mote from one's eye. If your such a serious student of complexity, having learned at the laps of senior policy advisors, then kindly stick to the topic at hand, and don't go off half cocked throwing around the Bible like you just walked down from Mount Sinai with a pair of big rocks. I'm sure your mentors would advise you to limit the scope of your opprobrium to the facts that pertain to the matter at hand. The AP article is a farce, there is no evidence of quid pro quo and if it's so easy to prove otherwise, please commence doing so. But no. Innuendo, suggestion, misdirection and cynicism is all you currently seem to have on the menu.
DeLay good. Reid bad. This is the distillation of your "serious" inquiry into the matter.
OK, let's say Reid should be flayed for acceptance of gifts. Does the same apply to every Republican who accepted gifts from Abramoff in the form of private jet flights, booze, golf junkets (we know from the Wilson matter how much Republicans despise "junkets"), skyboxes, free meals at restaurants? All in return for political favors that benefit the gift giver? In clear violation of federal law? Are you going to focus on ANY of that activity. Or is Reid's invitation to attend a boxing match, while supporting legislation inimical to the interests of the boxing commission, the shiny new kitty toy you just can't resist knocking around the litter box?
Blifil:
I do so love it when you folks use phrases like "would you care to address the substance of the points I raised."
I did so, and at length. But what you really wish me to do and what I certainly will not, is to accept the basic premises upon which your flawed reasoning rests.
Again, if you were serious about ethics, then you would condemn ALL ethical irregularities.
As you insist on a stricter standard, then why do you not condemn Nancy Pelosi, who was after all found in violation of Federal Election laws regarding PACS after she set up a duplicate PAC when the limits for giving to her initial PAC were reached?
You seem to want to tar and feather every Republican who has ever been in the same room as Jack Abramoff, yet apparently Senator Reid's sons enriching themselves is somehow less a concern?
It's a shame you cannot "stick to the topic at hand" as it relates to the reform of ethics. It's clear, as I surmised earlier, that you are only interested in one dimensional partisan gamesmanship and you have no real interest in ethics reform.
Oh... and let me add, that snarky natterings about "throwing around the Bible like you just walked down from Mount Sinai with a pair of big rocks" simply underscores the futility of even attempting to bridge the differences here and engage you in a serious and mature discussion.
If the concept of Democrats cleaning up their own house is lost on you, then no effort on my part will assist you in restoring a modicum of balance in your views.
I love when you guys say stuff like, "I did so" and "at length." As we all know Republican guys have a different definition of what constitutes "length."
Your invocation of the bible was patronizing, mawkish and desperate, not to mention highly irreligious. It was a diversionary tactic. Please cease lecturing others on what constitutes serious debate.
Again, and we have been through this Mike, once before, Reid's family connections are no more nor less abhorrent than other political mafiosi in the country. Murkowski ring a bell? Oh here's one I'm sure you know. B-U-S-H? Ringing any bells here? If you are insinuating illegality on the part of the Nevada senator, why is the DOJ not cuffing Reid and his cronies this very night? You guys hold all the cards. It should be, what's that term you guys like to use...a "slam dunk."
I'm all for ethics reform including banning of attending sporting events or receiving bottles of perfume. But for you to criticize me as "one dimensional" when you aren't the least bit interested in the connections of sitting Republicans to Abramoff and/or Cunningham (known felons!), while obsessing over minor fundraising infractions like Pelosi's small beer is a high watermark in unintentional hilarity. If Pelosi were such a bad actor, why hasn't the majority taken steps to have her up on the carpet hearing charges against her. I think you and I both know the answer to that question.
Next time you want to assert dramatically how you have already addressed something you haven't addressed, it will make your second hand suit look less ill fitting if you attempt to make use of the hyperlink, so your claims can be verified. I know you're up to it.
Yeah, I figured that any biblical reference would give you heartburn. I wonder why?
Again, I won't bother with the rest of your screed... total waste of time.
You've proven every point that I made earlier and it would be cruel to rub your nose in it.
Why would biblical references from you give one heartburn? For roughly the same reason that led the effort to drive the money changers out of the temple.
Meanwhile, I will accept your objections that asserting your point of view is a waste of time as an utter capitulation. Well played though, old chap.
Blifil: My point of view is asserted here in post after post after post...
I don't feel the need to restate every single viewpoint for the benefit of some left wing kook who either cannot read or expects free tutoring services.
You can take whatever delusional and fantastical victory you want from that. But you're just the biggest waste of oxygen on the planet after Al Gore.
And had I known that biblical references would be that upsetting to you I would have used MORE of them.
These are serious times with serious issues and game playing nitwits like you should be ashamed of yourselves.
If boxing matches are a part of his job, then TK has the right to get drunk and fall down in the Dirksen Bldg (I've personally witnessed this), WJ has the right to deep freeze cash in his fridge. Reps and Dems can spend 500$ a night at hotels paid for by lobbyists, etc., Where does the equivication stop?
Who cares what party these pukes belong to - you can't do this stuff and expect a pass by the people who elected you. And you certainly can't say it's part of your job to accept goodies of any kind.
If these morons in Congress can't police themsleves, then regular morons who continue to send them to Congress should have their right to vote taken away. Harsh? yes. Interesting idea though...vote for your favorite, but if he/she gets put up on ethics violations and convicted, oh well, you can't vote in the next election. How about this...three votes/three convictions, you're out! You can never vote again.
I'd vote for that!
Interesting idea Patd. You planning to run for office on that platform?
We can't even keep illegals and felons from voting. I don't know how you would police your program.
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