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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+44I'm confused, which scandal is this?
Is this the Abramoff bribery scandal or Tom DeLay's money laundering scandal?
It could be the Cunningham bribery scandal...
Or is it the illegal wiretapping scandal?
The GOP pedophilia coverup?
The 9 billion missing in Iraq scandal?
Or is it the Vermont vote tampering scandal?
The Kentucky hiring scandal?
Or the Ohio embezzeling state funds scandal?
No, wait, Ohio is another vote tampering scandal... or is that Florida?
If this is about the CIA, it could be the intel fixing scandal.
Although it could be the attempted murder of a CIA agent to get back at her husband scandal.
How about the four years worth of e-mails missing from Rove scandal?
But it could be an entirely new scandal...
Can I get some help here? - talywackerflash, on 10/12/2007, -13/+49Thanks Mr Waxman, for starting to actually drain the swamp. If you or Mr. Kucinich have something that will stick, please for pete's sake, let's get this thing done so this country can begin the healing process......and pay some bills, and get people insured.....and all those other wacko liberal ideas that i have bouncing around in my empty liberal head......
- EntropyMan, on 10/12/2007, -12/+43Bbbbbbut Clinton!
Tell you what, if and when everyone who is CURRENTLY in power is tried and convicted for whatever various crimes they are STILL committing, I'd be more than happy to go back and prosecute previous administrations for every little thing you can dream up.
I hear Andrew Jackson did some stuff we should look into. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+35""i wonder if that includes sandy bergler's hilarious misadventures in the children's book "National State Secrets In The Pants!", or if it's just exclusively applicable to anyone who votes conservative.""
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Who re-elected these Terrorists?!! Complete retards you Bush psychos are!!
Bush is a border-line retard corporate puppet. Never forget who supported this failure, don't let them distance themselves from him. Whining about Libs and Dems and Clinton and Kerry and gay sex, while offering nothing of substance - and most notably - no defense for the lying little sack of ***** from Texas they shackled us with!
America's enemy is the idiot who IGNORES that Bush lied to us about Iraq, IGNORES that Bush defends treason, IGNORES that Bush was asleep at the wheel on 9/11, IGNORES that Bush had already blundered our war effort in Iraq, IGNORES that Bush still tries to link Iraq and 911, IGNORES that Bush was going to run amok with our Constitution and still voted to re-elect this miserable failure.
The enemy from within has perpetuated this death and devastation. Don't forget it.
It is because of a bush voter that the country is in the atrocious position it is in today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWhy-hhoBkA - Ecowarrior, on 10/12/2007, -7/+26@Little: I believe that he is criminal and treasonous supersede the fact that he’s stupid and a failure.
- Loonacy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Guess what? Sandy was tried AND convicted for his crimes. But yeah, let's let these other guys get away with it.
- EntropyMan, on 10/12/2007, -11/+28I know all about it, fool. I said CURRENTLY IN POWER. Are you claiming Berger is part of the Bush administration? You're dumber than I thought.
- littlebylittle, on 10/12/2007, -10/+24Doesn't this just confirm what we already knew? The President is Stupid, and he's a Failure.
So maybe he did OK at Yale and Harvard. As we know, that doesn't always translate into real world smart.
Daddy got him through those places anyway. - Aidenag, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12here is the Full Letter in PDF that was sent this article talks about for those intersted:
http://www.ft.com/cms/305196a8-f1e8-11db-b5b6-000b5df10621.html - knomevol, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11regarding ohio voter fraud:
Did the most powerful Republicans in America have the computer capacity, software skills and electronic infrastructure in place on Election Night 2004 to tamper with the Ohio results to ensure George W. Bush's re-election?
The answer appears to be yes. There is more than ample documentation to show that on Election Night 2004, Ohio's "official" Secretary of State website – which gave the world the presidential election results – was redirected from an Ohio government server to a group of servers that contain scores of Republican web sites, including the secret White House e-mail accounts that have emerged in the scandal surrounding Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s firing of eight federal prosecutors.
Recent revelations have documented that the Republican National Committee (RNC) ran a secret White House e-mail system for Karl Rove and dozens of White House staffers. This high-tech system used to count and report the 2004 presidential vote– from server-hosting contracts, to software-writing services, to remote-access capability, to the actual server usage logs themselves – must be added to the growing congressional investigations.
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2007/2553 - tpodr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11seen on a bumper sticker this morning:
"Bush: Like a Rock, Only Dumber" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10No amount of belittling Americans who are unhappy with the incompetence, mismanagement and blatant criminality of the Bush administration is going to save the right wing in November of 2008. Please feel free to spew insults and call us names, however. That only helps us by exposing the hate filled agenda of the right wing.
Have a nice day! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8STATE BY STATE GOP SCANDAL SCORECARD
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/statebystate.htm - Luigi30, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Don't blame me, I voted for Robo-Hitler.
- hikaruzero, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Reminds me of that guy who went around with a list of scandals by the current administration, and offered $100 cash to anyone who could say all of them in a single breath.
(Nobody even got halfway through.) - avasol, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Message to *****.
Go ***** yourselves you dim-witted, half-brained, moronic, titsucking, warmongering, beligerent, uneducated, asslicking, cocksucking retards.
There I've said it. I feel better now that I've spoken my TRUE opinion. - MacParrot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7avasol,
The problem ISN'T just the Republicans. The Problem ISN'T just the Democrats. The problem is the blind loyalty of American voters who walk into polling booths and meekly press whatever buttons have a "R" or a "D" next to name and walk out 30 seconds later. Usually knowing absolutely nothing about the candidates or issues. Both sides hand out flyers just outside polling stations with all the choices they want you to choose with a handy guide showing the Dem and Rep choices in BOLD and CAPITAL LETTERS just in case you have problems reading small type.
Reps and Dems...two sides of the same corrupt coin - avasol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The point is you can replace Bush with a sack of potatoes and it would still do a better job of governing the US and would probably raise IQ in the White House as a nice side effect.
- UrbanOne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"Waxman's letter noted criticism of James Knodell, the Director of the White House Security Office, and Ken Greeson, the Deputy Director, for their inexperience and poor management." (from the article.)
This is what really p*sses me off. There are some many QUALIFIED people (regardless of party affiliation) to fill jobs in the Executive Branch, but Bush & Co. only hired/appointed their friends. I guess because running a country is really kinda easy. And just because so-and-so went to school with someone, that makes them "qualified."
I would love to see a complete list of every f*uck up caused by this administration, and next to it the name of the person responsible, their "qualification" to hold that position, and then a chart showing who their friend in the White House is.
And while it's on my mind, whatever happened to Jeff Gannon/Guckert?
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/02/salon-covers-gannon-male-escort-story.html - diggerydood, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10We can't wait until 2008!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4No one blames Bush for the hurricane. We blame Bush for his administration's utter failure to respond to the hurricane.
But you already knew that, didn't you? - strictly, on 10/12/2007, -9/+13This is treason. The bad acts of this crime family need to be exposed.
- mrmdc, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9So the question remains.. have we learned our lesson about voting for presidents who are clearly mentally retarded?
Just because he seems chummy and a 'nice guy' does not make him a good president, by any means.. - MacParrot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Urban I agree that the hiring of friends as political appointees is abhorrent and generally a waste of taxpayer's money. However the Dems are just as guilty of this practice. Remember Hilliary having the entire travel office fired and replaced by dem friends? Of course this example isn't as extreme, but you can count on lots of homes going up for sale by previous appointees just after an election and many others being bought by the new crop. No matter what party is in charge, the same thing happens each time. Both sides direct hire friends and put them into cushy jobs. Many of which have no experience and the civil servants end up pulling the slack.
Dems and Reps should be ashamed of themselves for putting their party friends ahead of the business of running the govt. - riverside71, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Waxman should go investigate AIPAC first before going Sherlock on the White House.
- byronm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If porkbarrel budgets we're the largest of my concerns i would give a crap, but given the state of affairs and everything else going on its terribly short sighted, immature and ignorant to focus on pork barrel spending that even the republicans are terribly guilty of. GET OVER IT and get back to the REAL issues.
- byronm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Whats scary is people like you always assume its better to vote party line than to try something else. I would take a dem ANY DAY over a republican because for once we would start to care WTF happens in our own country for a change.
Believe me, its going to take a lot of work to undue the damage that the neo-cons and there wackjob PNAC idiots put into palce. - byronm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@greysun
More the reason for people to stand up against it and take the country back. Sad state of affairs when failure and incompetance is expected of our administration. - Caffeinate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I went through Katrina on the Gulf Coast at ground zero. Before you stand up and say something about it, get your facts straight. I live in Mississippi, not New Orleans - we didn't get air time because we didn't cry, we got busy and rebuilt our area.
Point blank truth: If it wasn't for Rep. Gene Taylor (D) and Sen. Trent Lott (R), we would have been screwed. Our Congressman, one a Republican and one a Democrat, were responsible for getting the National Guard here. We had to have National Guard presence for gas, and emergency medical treatment. They brought ice and MRE's - things you need when you don't have electricity or running water for nearly a month.
Where was Bush and friends? Nowhere around here. That is a fact from someone who lived through it. The hurricane was not so bad - it was the aftermath that was horrific. No water, no electricity from anything but a generator and very tight supplies of gas for a month. The NSA director was at a conference and couldn't be bothered. Bush couldn't be bothered, Dick Cheney couldn't be bothered.
Who bothered? Our congressman, one Republican and one Democrat. All Democrats and all Republicans cannot be lumped into a category of competent and incompetent.
Bush would still be incompetent and corrupt, as would Dick Cheney, no matter what party they hailed from. They dropped the ball completely during Katrina, and you only had to live here to know that. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3meh...America fared better under Clinton.
Scandal this scandal that, at the end of the day, who brought home the bacon?
Clinton. - michaelb1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Mr. Knodell and Mr. Greeson habitually violate this prohibition by bringing Blackberry devices and cell phones into the SCIF...and allowed others, such as visiting White House personnel, to do the same. They said that this practice continued even after security officers repeatedly informed Mr. Knodell and Mr. Greeson that the practice violates security rules and sets a poor example."
Holy crap! I have been in many military Ops spaces and this is a serious issue. There is usually even a bin or holding area where you drop off your wireless device before entering. Some even have red sirens on the ceiling that go off if one is detected.
What happened to leadership from the top down? - Loonacy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I completely agree. Let's let the fox put up more fences around the henhouse! That's effective government, that is.
- Rammsteined, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6If the leader can't even separate god from state, then you're *****. Now don't say "but it's his personal preference" or some such crap, it stopped being that when he invaded Iraq.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This just in...according to veersite....65% of America is gay....birthrate drops sharply...
- littlebylittle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ecowarrior
I agree. - SammyJr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow, so you think that everyone opposed to Bush is gay? Talk about delusional.
- Dweller99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dont get out much do you? Try googling and see what you come up with about Berger. you may be suprised to find he was TRIED and CONVICTED.
Now that we have that out of the way can we move ahead with the ISSUES AT HAND? Oh, and here is a "b-b-b-but Clinton..." just for you! - MacParrot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It's amazing that so many think that the Democratic party will save America in 2008. Take a good look. The Dems are no better than the Reps. They both feed at the same corporate trough. As long as it's so expensive to run a campaign, the same political hacks will get elected.
What's scary is that so many of you REALLY believe that Hilliary or Obama or McCain or Edwards or (name the Rep/Dem that's your personal favorite here) is going to do anything really different. As long as the Dems and Reps follow slash and burn politics, there will be no general consensus or true change. - MacParrot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bohica,
The Executive Branch has the power to declare war, but the Legislative Branch has the power to vote yea or nay. They also hold the purse strings.
As far as Iraq goes, maybe I'm wrong but can you point to when Bush actually declared war? Or is just another in a series of "Police Actions" that both the Dems and Reps have used to commit troops to battle and therefore skirting that whole pesky "War Powers Act" that was enacted after Vietnam?
Pelosi calling into question funding for the Iraq "adventure" isn't unconstitutional and considering the amount of resistance to it that is forming amongst Americans, is certainly not uncalled for.
For the record, I had no problem with taking out Saddam, but the follow-up has been a CF ever since. - astrocreep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Waxman was my representative for nearly a decade in West LA. That guy couldn't get a pot hole filled never mind get a president impeached. Only time you heard from him was when he was marching in the streets with Illegal Aliens.
- michaelb1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"As far as Iraq goes, maybe I'm wrong but can you point to when Bush actually declared war? Or is just another in a series of "Police Actions" that both the Dems and Reps have used to commit troops to battle and therefore skirting that whole pesky "War Powers Act" that was enacted after Vietnam?"
I don't think Prez. can declare war. He can deploy troops for something like 60 days without congressional approval. - fyredragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@tpodr
seen on a bumper sticker last week: Kerry: The Gay Parisian. [double entendre of 'gay' for the flamers] - Favre4Favre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Lets start with Sandy Berger.
- michaelb1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The problem with pork barrel politics is that no politician has used the opportunity costs in their campaign.
For example, candidate A should say:
"As President I would line item veto every single pork barrel project until America could pay off our huge ***** debt, rebuild/high-tech-upgrade every school in America, insure every kid in America, develop alt fuels that render the middle east obsolete, revamp tax code to eliminate waste and fraud"
Because that is the true opportunity costs of pork-barrel politics. Every bridge to nowhere could be schools, medical care and alt fuel etc. - moxley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I believe that if they did investiage AIPAC truly it would lead to a lot of interesting places - including the white house.
- inject, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1isnt henry waxman a retired cartoon character?
- MacParrot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1michael,
As Commander in Chief, the President can certainly declare war. The problem is that once they do so, it opens up a potential debate in the Legislative Branch over whether or not the declaration is valid or warranted. Since the keeper of the Presidential Office (Reagan, Bush da first, Clinton, Bush da sequel) typically doesn't want to open that for debate, they sneak around it. Then Congress which doesn't want to be seen as not being supportive of the troops usually plays along until it's too late to do anything other than follow the course - pawchikapawpaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yea because we can stop a hurricane from occurring.
oh that's right. the bombing of the levees to drown the black people could've been stopped. what was i thinking.
damn you bush. - michaelb1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"The problem is the blind loyalty of American voters who walk into polling booths and meekly press whatever buttons have a "R" or a "D" next to name and walk out 30 seconds later."
That's a good point. Most Americans have been conditioned to check and R or D. How cool is that for the established politicians? They have neatly divided the electorate into two manageable factions that they can manipulate efficiently.
A viable third party would immediately complicate things for the status quo and shift power back to voters (until 3rd party leaders sell out and mimic Dem and Repub strategies.)
Unfortunately Bush's incompetence has shifted America left which is going to give Dems the 08 presidency and increase their majority in congress. If Dems F'd up colossally it may help the third party cause bu not likely. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What third party though?
Green? No thank you.
Libertarian? I'd rather stick a fork up my ass.
Socialist? Maybe in 100 years.
I think people stick with the 2 major parties because there platforms are in line with their values. If you like America pretty much the way it is but think it should be shifted slightly to the left, you vote Democrat. Slightly to the right? Republican. -
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