Congratulations, House Republicans!

pinky pants is still with us??

Yea, isn't it amazing that such an infantile jerk can remain active on a2k? He makes all kinds of assumptions and charges without one iota of evidence, and when he's proven wrong by all accounts, he continues with his bull shyt.

Some people are just dense and stupid, and continue to prove themselves with every post. All should put him on Ignore. Maybe, he'll take the hint and leave.

Pinky pants reminds me of WaterBoy.

Now that you mention it....sounds about right.

The military doesn't take orders from the CIA or the state department. You really do have **** for brains, don't you?

Pinkie has never been in the military, and doesn't understand the chain of command - or anything else.

If he had **** for brains, at least he would smell like it, but he's brain dead.

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Louisiana Rep. McAllister Won't Seek Re-Election
BATON ROUGE, La. April 28, 2014 (AP)
By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press
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Louisiana GOP Rep. Vance McAllister, caught on camera kissing a married female aide, said Monday he's failed his family, let down his district and doesn't intend to run for re-election this fall.

In a statement, McAllister apologized for conduct he called a "personal failure," and said he spent the Easter congressional recess reconciling with his family.

"I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them," the freshman lawmaker said.

Though he won't be on the November ballot, McAllister said he'll serve out the remainder of his term, and he returned to Washington on Monday to resume work. The married father of five children has been in office fewer than six months.

"The people of the 5th District of Louisiana need and deserve a voice in Washington. Today, I am announcing that I will not seek re-election, but I will continue to be that voice and will uphold the office to which I was elected to serve for the remainder of my term," he said.

Top Republicans in the state, who had called the 40-year-old McAllister's behavior embarrassing and hypocritical, welcomed the news.

"While we still believe the best course of action would have been for Congressman McAllister to resign so he can focus on his family, we are pleased Congressman McAllister and constituents in the district can begin the process of putting this unfortunate situation behind them," GOP Gov. Bobby Jindal said in a statement.

Likewise, state Republican Party Chairman Roger Villere said that while he would have liked to see McAllister "close this chapter sooner, I was happy to hear of his decision to do what is best for his family and his constituents."

A grainy security tape released earlier this month by a north Louisiana newspaper showed McAllister kissing Melissa Peacock, an aide and family friend, in the congressman's district headquarters.

McAllister apologized and Peacock resigned, along with the congressman's district director who was suspected of releasing the video. Top Republican officials in the state, including Jindal, called on the congressman to step down.

McAllister had stayed out of public sight since the scandal erupted, canceling events for therapy sessions and spending time with his family during Congress' Easter recess.

"I have taken this time to reconcile with my wife and kids, and I'm forever grateful for their support and forgiveness," he said.

McAllister returned to Washington late Monday and voted on a minor bill related to the height of buildings in Washington. He smiled and winked at a House clerk as he cast his vote on the measure, before taking a seat in the front row next to House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of California, who chatted with him. Several lawmakers greeted McAllister warmly.

A businessman with no political experience, McAllister won a special election in November 2013 to represent the district centered in the state's northeast and central parishes, surprising the GOP by handily defeating the Republican establishment candidate.

He put his family and his faith at the center of his campaign for Congress, appearing with his wife and their children in one commercial and vowing to "defend our Christian way of life" if elected.

To win the seat, McAllister largely self-financed his election bid and got a boost from endorsements by his most famous constituents, the bearded Robertson men of the cable television hit "Duck Dynasty."

But he had few allies within his party to whom he could turn once the scandal broke.

A spokeswoman for former Rep. Rodney Alexander, whose resignation for a seat in Jindal's cabinet forced the 2013 special election won by McAllister, said Monday that he will not seek election to Congress.

State Rep. Robert Johnson, a Democrat who unsuccessfully ran for the seat against McAllister, continued Monday to call for the congressman to resign, saying he has been neglecting his office's responsibilities during the scandal.

"He's not doing his job. He isn't communicating with other elected officials. He isn't communicating with his constituents. For all practical purposes, the people of our district are without representation in the United States Congress," Johnson said in a statement.

Johnson said he's considering running again for the 5th District seat. Republican attorney Ed Tarpley, a former district attorney for Grant Parish, already has announced he's running for the position.

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Associated Press writer Matthew Daly contributed to this report from Washington.

GOP Stuck With Michael Grimm, State Republicans Say Timing Political
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AP michael grimm jef 140428 16x9 608 GOP Stuck With Michael Grimm, State Republicans Say Timing Political

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There is little, if anything, Republicans can do to get New York Rep. Michael Grimm off the November ballot despite his arrest today on fraud charges.

“We are essentially handcuffed with him as a candidate,” a state GOP aide told ABC News. “This is no accident that it was just after the petitioning period.”

Grimm’s legal woes are welcome news to Democrats hoping to win the seat with a former city councilman, but Republicans can’t even replace Grimm with a more formidable challenger. They are essentially stuck and some state Republicans say the timing of the indictment is politics at work.

The petitioning process ended two weeks ago and there is some debate about the possible options the party has for getting him off the ballot, with state GOP officials believing there are three possibilities and election law experts saying only one is legal. All are unlikely, if not impossible, and two of them would need Grimm’s support.

The New York state GOP cites three ways to get a nominee off the ballot in the state. One: a nominee needs to be convicted of a crime, but it’s unlikely that would happen before November. Two: the candidate would need to move out of his district. The third is the most eyebrow-raising option, with a nomination of Grimm to the state Supreme Court giving him a way off the ballot because no candidate can be on the ballot in two places in New York.

In other words, Grimm, 44, would have to agree to work with the party in moving into another district or be willing to be nominated to a judgeship. He has sworn his innocence and has pledged to keep fighting, however, so without a change of heart, it’s likely he will remain the nominee.

Grimm, a former Marine and FBI agent, was indicted on charges of fraud, perjury and obstruction. He plead not guilty and was released on a $400,000 bond secured by his house.

Grimm has said he will keep fighting. “We are disappointed by the government’s decision, but hardly surprised,” a spokesman for the congressman said today. “From the beginning, the government has pursued a politically driven vendetta against Congressman Grimm and not an independent search for the truth. Congressman Grimm asserts his innocence of any wrongdoing.”

He’s due back in court May 19.

Republicans in the state see the timing of Grimm’s indictment and arrest as politically motivated because it took place days after the petitioning process ended.

“There is no other mechanism for anyone to remove him from the ballot, ” the state GOP aide told ABC News. “It’s naïve for anyone to think that this happened right when petitioning ended was a coincidence.”

The same aide said they are “leaving” the decision or negotiations with Grimm to the county party in Staten Island “where the decisions are made on the ground,” but “unless Grimm makes his own decision there’s nothing anyone can do.”

John Antoniello, the chairman of the Staten Island GOP, said the party is “absolutely not” looking to try to get Grimm off the ballot and will stand with him.

“There are no changes at all. We are still supporting him 100 percent,” Antoniello said.

And when asked whether he agreed with the state party’s belief that the timing was politically motivated in order to keep Grimm on the ballot, he said, “Of course.”

“Just think of who runs the Justice Department,” Antoniello said, referring to Attorney General Eric Holder. “It is politically motivated without a doubt.”

A DOJ official told ABC News that the Public Integrity Section and other offices in Washington were not actively involved in bringing these charges and instead the case was led by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Brooklyn. Officials at Justice Department headquarters did, however, have final sign-off on the case and, indeed, were given a detailed briefing on the plans before prosecutors notified Grimm’s lawyer that the congressman was to be indicted.

Prosecutors in Brooklyn were working under a self-imposed deadline of the first week of May, officials told ABC News. Because of the impending election, they decided they would delay moving forward with the case if they couldn’t announce it by this week out of fear their actions would be portrayed as political.

U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said in a news conference Monday, “We follow the evidence and we bring a case when it is ready.”

New York state election law experts disagreed with the party and believe that a judgeship is the only way to get Grimm off the ballot.

Laurence Laufer, New York City campaign finance and election law attorney at Genova, Burns, Giantomasi and Webster, told ABC News that nominating Grimm for a state Supreme Court judgeship is the sole way and there has been precedent of placeholder candidates on minor party lines being nominated to the court to get them off the ballot.

Jerry Goldfeder, an election law attorney with Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP in New York City, agreed, noting that even a resignation would not get Grimm off the ballot.

“He can resign, but it doesn’t have anything to do with the term starting in January. He is on the ballot,” Goldfeder said. “There is no other way around getting him off the ballot.”

Despite Grimm’s legal woes before today, there is no primary because no Republican challenger stepped forward.

ABC News’ Michael Levine, Josh Margolin, and Aaron Katersky contributed to this report.

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You don't have to talk to Parados about me you old fool. You can tell me directly.

Something is really strange in New York Republican politics: the GOP Rep is under indictment, and they're thinking of NOMINATING HIM TO THE NEW YORK SUPREME COURT, so they can legally get him off the ballot. Only the GOP. Nominate a likely crook to the state's highest court. What are they thinking? Are they thinking at all?

You're a chicken hawk, carpjunk. There, I said it.

Who cares? It does change one thing about the liar in chief and his thuggery and lawlessness. It doesn't change the lousy economy. It doesn't change that world leaders see an inept clown, not a leader.

And it doesn't change the desperation you show in every response by your name calling. You see my record is not in question. The jerk at the WH is.

Your record is in question since it raises questions about all your statements.

So far your record is the following:
You support criminal activity.
You support stealing from the US government.
You blame the President for not being able to do the impossible.
You blame the President for military not being able to do the possible.
You put your party above the country.
You make claims about the rest of the world that aren't true.
You repeatedly lie.
You repeatedly pretend your opinion is fact.

After this continued record of yours it is difficult to believe anything you say.

Kettle meet pot.

You felt the need to lie again? It seems to be all you can do, Pinkie.

Why would ice brain believe I will communicate with him when everything he posts are lies. That would make me a party to his idiocy!

No there not and you know it. But I don't expect any honesty from any Obama supporter. And you haven't let me down yet.

You felt the need to lie again? It seems to be all you can do,

And you feel the need, or should I say are paid, to cover up lies?

The whole legitimacy of the election was compromised.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-benghazi-documents-point-white-house-misleading-talking-points/

Nope. The legitimacy of the election has nothing to do with Benghazi. It has to do with whether or not the vote was fair and was fairly counted, and it was and the votes were.

Long as we're talking fair elections, remember how Reagan swore there was no deal with Iran to let the hostages free only after Carter was defeated. Carter lost, and Iran freed our hostages. Or remember Bush and Cheney feeding Colin Powell false information about Iraq for him to present to the UN? Which as far as I know, Powell still has not forgiven them for? Hell, for that matter, remember Watergate? Nixon's boys burglarizes the Democratic Offices to see if they could get something they could use on HHH? Or remember the big Republican supporters and Swift Boars for Truth, which turned out to be Swift Boats for Lies in reality?The GOP is the unquestioned monarch of sleazy machinations around elections.