Oliver Willis

Like Kryptonite To Stupid

A Republican Scandal

January 13th, 2006 Politics 29 Comments

('’)

Share

Posted in Politics |

« The Circle Of Life

No Joy In DCVille »

Both comments and pings are currently closed.

29 Responses to “A Republican Scandal”

1. Semanticleo says:

   January 13, 2006 at 7:01 pm

   There is nothing wrong with being wealthy.

   HOW you got the wealth makes all the difference in the world
2. Frank_D says:

   January 14, 2006 at 10:01 am

   Again? Oy gevult!
3. drpedro says:

   January 14, 2006 at 11:01 am

   So this guy is sitting next to a girl in a bar and asks her “would you sleep with me for a million dollars?” She thinks about it and says, “sure”!

   He then turns back to her again and says “how about for ten dollars?’ She gets very indignant and says “absolutely not! What do you think I am ?”

   The man says” I think we have determined what you are, now we are just haggling over the price….”
4. Semanticleo says:

   January 14, 2006 at 1:01 pm

   shittern mogn!
5. drpedro says:

   January 14, 2006 at 1:01 pm

   Democratic Culture of Corruption

   As part of a plea agreement, Brett Pfeffer, 37, admitted Wednesday to bribing a congressman in exchange for help in brokering deals in Nigeria and Ghana for a small U.S. telecommunications company. The congressman was identified only as “Representative A (D,LA),” but court documents said that Pfeffer worked for Representative A in the 1990s, the same years that Pfeffer was a legislative aide in Jefferson’s office. Jefferson also has traveled in the past two years to Nigeria and Ghana on economic development missions

   http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1137223798280310.xml

   But,but, but…..only the republicans are corrupt!

   People in glass houses…….well, you know the rest..
6. Zappa says:

   January 14, 2006 at 1:01 pm

   You are so right – we should praise the Republicans for be so crafty with their money grubbing schemes! We should reward them for their creativity in setting up a corrupt process to remain in power! You are on the wrong side of History here Dr. Pedro…
7. johnnyprogressive says:

   January 14, 2006 at 2:01 pm

   wow pedro, you flawlessly exemplified the cartoon above with that post.

   “HEY A DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVE FROM LOUISIANA MAY OR MAY NOT BE GUILTY OF WRONGDOING! HA!”

   Why didnt you include the first paragraph in your excerpt in which the man in question categorically denies any wrongdoing. Not saying that this makes him innocent, but all you really have here is some guy that indirectly named him as part of a plea.
8. drpedro says:

   January 14, 2006 at 3:01 pm

   give me a break johnny…

   My whole point is exactly that. NO republican lawmaker has been convicted of anything, and they all deny it too.

   I wouldn’t care if you leftists made consistent arguments, it is the playing by two different sets of rules that I don’t like.
9. Sundown says:

   January 14, 2006 at 4:01 pm

   Actually a Republican lawmaker has been convicted- Randy Cunningham.

   As to Representative Jefferson, I personally have no problem saying that the guy is very likely responsible for some serious crimes, and most people would as well. I sure wouldn’t vote for him if I lived in his district.
   I think that all of our government officials need to be held accountable. Regardless of party.
10. frameone says:

    January 14, 2006 at 4:01 pm

    I think Kevin Drum sums it up:

    “Today’s Republican entanglement with corporate lobbyists like Jack Abramoff is not an accident. It’s not a matter of a few bad apples. And it’s not something that happened gradually as Republicans got overly accustomed to power and lost their revolutionary zeal. It was a deliberate strategy, conceived by the leaders of the 1994 revolution as part of their fundamental governing strategy, and pursued relentlessly ever since.”

    You can pick out individual democrats who are corrupt or who have taken money illegally but Abramoff was part of a machine designed and built specifically to launder and funnel money into Republican hands. That’s the biggest difference — the organized nature of it all — and why this is a Republican scandal.

    http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_01/008002.php
11. drpedro says:

    January 14, 2006 at 5:01 pm

    Let me sum up Kevin Drum

    Bullsh*t

    And my opinion is backed by as much fact as Kevin’s

    sundown, he plead guilty….but I was referring more to the current Jack A. scandal.

    Jefferson is a good example though of the difference between a republican and democrat. The republican pleads guilty when confronted with the evidence, the democrat stonewalls.
12. Frank_D says:

    January 14, 2006 at 6:01 pm

    DrP: “You’re an idiot” = “I really don’t know what else to say”
13. frameone says:

    January 14, 2006 at 6:01 pm

    “The republican pleads guilty when confronted with the evidence, the democrat stonewalls.”

    You’re an idiot.
14. drpedro says:

    January 14, 2006 at 7:01 pm

    If that is in fact the case….good. And it speaks even BETTER for Duke’s character…..

    And the democrats…? Continue to argue over the meaning of “is”.

    Quite a contrast…
15. Dave M. says:

    January 14, 2006 at 7:01 pm

    I think it’s more like when confronted with the evidence a republican cuts a deal to rat off all his republican confederates hiding out from prosecution.
16. Semanticleo says:

    January 14, 2006 at 8:01 pm

    DaveM;

    Pedro is actually deep-cover DNC. Oops! I outed him.
17. drpedro says:

    January 14, 2006 at 8:01 pm

    Democratic Culture of Corruption

    “A federal jury on Wednesday found five East St. Louis Democrats guilty of vote fraud.

    The defendants were found guilty on all counts following a four-week trial in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis.

    Four of the defendants — Jessie Lewis, Sheila Thomas, Yvette Johnson and former city official Kelvin Ellis — were found guilty of conspiracy to commit election fraud and election fraud.

    Democratic Party boss and former City Councilman Charlie Powell was found guilty of one county of conspiracy to commit election fraud.

    http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/12015710.htm

    Election fraud no less. Undermining the very system of government we live with.

    Have they no shame these democrats. It is nothing less than a culture of corruption…..
18. Dave M. says:

    January 14, 2006 at 8:01 pm

    dr.p. you really ought to go into standup. You missed your true calling. I mean comparing those 5 no name dems in East St. Louis to Abramoff, Delay and Cunningham et al, is truly hilarious. Seriously, it is truly hilarious. Keep up the good work. I know I for one can always use a good laugh.
19. drpedro says:

    January 14, 2006 at 9:01 pm

    I know dave….this just shows how DEEP the culture of corruption runs in the DNC, even the candidates for alderman have to buy votes!

    Embarrassing….
20. midderpidge says:

    January 14, 2006 at 9:01 pm

    Let’s see we have 5 no name democrats vs. the entire national Republican party structure, select republican state parties including Kentucky and Ohio, most of Bush’s Iraq appointees, and the movers and shakers of President Bush’s administration. Tough call.
21. rhys says:

    January 14, 2006 at 11:01 pm

    In other news: “Today, drpedro had to buy himself a Braille computer to continue smearing Democrats because it was getting difficult to see with the 40 foot wooden beam in his own eye”.

    Not one Democrat supporter here has defended the supposedly corrupt Dems that you list. We want the book thrown at them too if there is anything to the allegations. All corruption must be weeded out. Until you make the same committment for Republicans, kindly shut the hell up.
22. joy_disaster says:

    January 15, 2006 at 1:01 am

    I love it. It makes me cry, but I love it. The culture of glaring double standards.
23. frameone says:

    January 15, 2006 at 3:01 am

     You re an idiot =  I really don t know what else to say

    Exactly. I was rendered speechless. The good Dr. was saying that when they are charged with crimes Republicans are still better than Democrats charged with crimes. Could you think of a dumber, stupider, more “I wish I had my head up Tom Delay’s ass but I don’t have enough contribution money to make him bend over” comment? I couldn’t, until you responded with your comforting words for the good Dr.
24. Dkelsmith says:

    January 15, 2006 at 8:01 am

     The republican pleads guilty when confronted with the evidence, the democrat stonewalls.

    That is completely incorrect. When confronted with evidence the Democrat may stonewall, but the Republican gets out of it in themedia and the blogospherre by saying, “But Clinton lied about his relationship with Monica Lewinsy……”
25. drpedro says:

    January 15, 2006 at 10:01 am

    No actually not. As you may recall, Duke Cunningham just threw himself on the mercy of the court and has been assisting prosecutors.

    Clinton lawyered up and continued to lie everytime he move his mouth.
    Remember the country going through impeachment? Remember Clinton being the ONLY POTUS in history to be disbarred.

    Guilty, but stonewalled, vs standing up and doing the right thing. See even when republicans are crooks they have more honor in their little fingers than the rest of the democratic party combined
26. Semanticleo says:

    January 15, 2006 at 11:01 am

    Well, let’s see how many stalwart, upstanding republicans do the right
    thing in the coming months.
27. frameone says:

    January 15, 2006 at 12:01 pm

    “See even when republicans are crooks they have more honor in their little fingers than the rest of the democratic party combined.”

    You’ve always been a hack Dr. but this statement, well, it’s just too classic. “Our crooks are better than your crooks.” Brilliant.

    That explains why, during the long investigation into his misdealings, Cunningham repeatedly claimed he was innocent and let the investigation drag on. It was Cunningham’s inherently strong, Republican character that allowed him to say AFTER he was busted:

    “I publicly declared my innocence because I was not strong enough to face the truth,” he said Monday. “So I misled my family, friends, staff, colleagues, the public, and even myself.”
    http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/28/cunningham/

    Yup, no stonewaller he. Cunningham even wore a wire for the FBI, presumably to help nudge the good consciences of all his Republican colleagues who were no doubt already on their way to the courthouse to confess.

    I suppose that Bush, Rove, Libby, McClellan and Cheney were showing some of that stalwart character when they said nothing for over a year as Fizgerald looked into who leaked Valerie Plame’s name even though, as we know now, they all knew who leaked her name and could have cleared up the mystery at any point.

    And what of Jack Abramoff himself? Yup, as soon as an investigation opened inot is dealings his good Republican conscience compelled him to plead guily. Yup no need for a lengthy investigation there.

    Indeed, neither Cunnigham, Abramoff, Bush, Libby, McClellan or Cheney ever bothered to “lawyer up” during these investigations, good clean conservatives that they are.

    Damn Pedro you are a total hack moron.
28. Dave M. says:

    January 15, 2006 at 12:01 pm

    dr.p.  Stop! You re killing me! I m rolling on the floor and tears are streaming down my face. I m laughing so hard I can hardly see to type this. I mean honor and Duke Cunningham! The guy s in a position to take a deal for a 10-year prison top or else face life in prison for taking 2.4 million in bribes (as well as tax evasion) over a 10-year period or so. He takes the deal and he s a model of honorable behavior! My god you re a comic genius! Your work with irony and satire is positively Swiftian. I ve never seen such a cartoonish caricature of a right wing loon in print before. It s positively brilliant!
29. buma says:

    January 15, 2006 at 12:01 pm

    Watch Him Spin:

    drpedro Says:

    January 14th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
    If that is in fact the case& .good. And it speaks even BETTER for Duke s character& ..

    I suppose it’s all relative. After all, Duke is a Republican.