More Bad News For The GOP

Another fine example of how elected officials continue to screw the people. No embarrasement, no prision term is too long for this scumbag.

A message must be sent to these politicians that they are expected to rise to the highest of standards of conduct.

Thanks for posting it.,

I'd say something, but just don't have the heart.

Ok. I do.

That tearful bit just disgusts me. I mean, you cry, when, if, you go into some sort of rage and then, whoops!, you hurt someone.

You don't cry when you calmly, knowingly, receive money for getting someone a contract, then calmly, knowingly buy a million-dollar estate, and get rugs and furnishings.

He says he can't undo it, but he can atone.

I dunno, sounds like huey to me.

It's good to see politicians that break the rules, face the music.

I do believe he probably is genuinely sorry now that he is facing jail time.

$2.4 million dollars, including over half a million at one shot, is really a lot to skim though.

He's been a Congressman what-fifteen years? I could almost feel bad for the guy if he found some minor little scam that gave him two or three thousand a month for many years. I think a person can talk himself into believing that is not such a big deal, after going many months and nobody saying anything. You know, "Everybody does a little something", etc. After 15 years, $3,000 a month can add up to over half a million-but the Congressman might not quite grasp how bad that is, since the process is so gradual.

But that house sale deal was over half a million in one shot. No way it couldn't have been clear to him that he was ripping off the trust of his office.

Here, DeLay is in trouble for accepting a golfing trip from a supporter. How much could that be-a few thousand dollars? And Cunningham gets over half a million dollars on one deal. He must have been in a strange state of mind when he thought he could get away with that one.

Cunningham wasn't too cunning, was he?

This goober even lived on a yacht while congress was in session...flaunting his crooked deals. I hope he gets at least ten years.

Crocodile tears. The scumbag is crying because he got caught. Is there no end to Republican corruption?

http://boycottliberalism.com/Scandals.htm

These "scumbags" cross both party lines and no politician should think they are above the law.

To think these scandals only involve one party is simply naive.

No one other than you said anything about this being only one party.

I guess you did not read the post above mine.

However, it is irrelevant. All politician should be held to the highest standards.

The post above yours doesn't say that only the Republicans are corrupt.

Your website however sets standards that I bet you don't hold Republicans to. Can we really hold Republicans to the standards that boycottliberals does? Is an extramarital affair enough to demand that GOP politicians step down? How about if someone they know is murdered even though they are not a suspect? Does a fine of the party qualify as a scandal? Both parties get fined.

From my posts, you should have concluded that I DO NOT support ANY political party. I expect all politicians to act at the highest standard of ethical and moral behavior. I demand they respect the laws they create by FOLLOWING the law.

Any breach of ethical policies as well as disobedience of ANY LAW must be delt with in the most severe penalties and in a expeditious fashion.

If you want to play partisen politics and foolishly believe only one party has the "edge" in scandals, go ahead, be naive.

Why did you post a site that lists all kinds of "scandals" that had nothing to do with the law as your evidence that both sides do it?

This thread was about breaking the law until you posted your site woiyo. You are the one that first brought up the idea that one side did it more than the other then set a standard so low that it had nothing to do with breaking the law when it came to Dems. I am asking if you really have the same standard for both sides. Do you support everything on the site you posted as a scandal? If so do you consider similar actions by the GOP to also be scandal.

We are talking about corrupt Republicans because, duh, they are the ones who happen to be running the country right now.

The party in power is the most likely to have the hubris to decide they are above the law. The dems did it in the 80s and early 90s, the GOP is doing it now. Both parties are made up of people with human failings.

You have a problem with the english language.

NO POLITICIAN IS ABOVE THE LAW...PERIOD.

They are PUBLIC SERVANTS and should be treated as such. ANY VIOLATION of ethical codes and law must be dealt with quickly and harshly.

Which ethical codes?

illegal wars seem to be exempt from ethical codes.

Corruption will be a major election issue over the next three years. The main reason it will be is because it has become a very easy issue for Dems to hit the Republicans with. And that has come about because the corruption is real and extensive and it is the worst sort of government corruption - exchanging policy for money and filling one's own pockets.

The Abramoff investigation may well pick off some Dems too. Fine. But it will go mainly into the Repub machine's K Street project and much else.