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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve dietrich who wrote (736686)	4/13/2006 6:32:51 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

are you really as stupid as that post sounded?

To: steve dietrich who wrote (736686)	4/13/2006 6:45:30 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

House Democrat accused of post-Katrina misconduct By Amy Fagan THE WASHINGTON TIMES April 13, 2006 Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington released an ethics complaint yesterday against a congressman from Louisiana, charging that he played a role in a conspiracy and bribery scheme and misused federal resources in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Rep. William J. Jefferson, Louisiana Democrat, is one of a few congressional Democrats who have come under fire lately from misconduct charges. Former aides to John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, have said they were treated like personal gofers and valets and had to baby-sit his children and work on political campaigns among other chores, the Detroit Free Press and the weekly newspaper the Hill reported last month. Federal investigators are looking into the finances of Rep. Alan B. Mollohan, West Virginia Democrat, the Wall Street Journal reported last week. The story said Mr. Mollohan helped steer $178 million in federal money to nonprofit groups in his district run by people who are regular contributors to his political campaigns. Republicans promptly called for Mr. Mollohan to step down from his post as the top Democrat on the House ethics panel. Mr. Jefferson is the subject of an ongoing investigation in which his former aide, Brett Pfeffer, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official and aiding an abetting such bribery, states the complaint released yesterday. A U.S. District Court issued subpoenas to six Jefferson aides, the Associated Press reported earlier this month. washingtontimes.com

To: steve dietrich who wrote (736686)	4/13/2006 10:36:28 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

Lauer Lays Low as Carville Claims US Military "Almost in a State of Rebellion" Imagine you're a news show host, and a former presidential adviser just claimed that the United States military is near to "a state of rebellion" against civilian authorities. Do you think you might have asked a follow-up question or two? Apparently not, at least if you're Matt Lauer interviewing James Carville, who made just such an inflammatory allegation on this morning's Today show. The topic was the source of the leak of the alleged plans for an attack on Iran to destroy its nuclear capabilities, such plans said to extend to the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons to destroy hardened, underground facilities. Carville was adamant that the military were behind the leak. His theory was that the military "thought by leaking this, it would lessen the chances that they would do something foolish in Iran which is always a possibility with this administration." Carville prefaced that remark with a stunning claim that "people in the military are almost in a state of rebellion against civilian authorities, particularly Secretary Rumsfeld, over what happened in Iraq." Civilian control of the military is a hallmark of democracy. It's hard to make an allegation that cuts deeper to the heart of our entire constitutional system than Carville's. He virtually suggested that we are on the brink of some kind of military coup d'etat. Under the circumstances, any self-respecting journalist would have have halted any other line of questioning he had in mind, grilled Carville on his explosive allegation, and demanded he produce his evidence in substantiation. Matt Lauer never did a thing. Didn't bat an eye. To the contrary, apparently unfazed, he pursued his prepared questioning by seeking to put talk-show host Michael Smerconish, and by extension the Bush administration, on the spot with this question: "Given the failure of pre-war intelligence and the president's current approval ratings of 37%, does the president even have the political capital to consider a military strike against Iran?" He mockingly continued: "I can only imagine how that speech to the nation goes when he says our intelligence detected that Iran is an imminent threat and people across the country are going 'here we go again.'" Lauer's only possible defense for his fundamental lapse of journalistic instincts would be that he considers Carville such an outlandish figure that his wild allegations are not even worthy of examination. But if that is so, why have him on as a guest? On a day when the fulminating Carville imitated a Paul Shankland parody on the Rush Limbaugh show, Lauer's failure to have asked him to substantiate his breathtaking allegation was unforgivable. newsbusters.org