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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (49816)	8/6/2006 3:58:37 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 90947

LOL. When are you dopes going to give up your "party of corruption" mantra? Former Speaker Dan Rostenkowski: guilty plea - misuse of public funds, 2 felony counts. Former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell: convicted - tax evasion. Former Rep. from Ohio James Traficant: convicted - accepting bribes. Former HUD Sec'y Henry Cisneros: guilty plea - lying to FBI investigators. Former Rep. from Texas Albert Bustamante: convicted - bribery and racketeering. Former Arkansas James Guy Tucker, Jr.: convicted - Whitewater fraud. Former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards: convicted - racketeering. Current Rep. from Florida and former Federal Judge Alcee Hastings: impeached by Congress and convicted on bribery and perjury charges. Then, of course, you have 17 Democrat fundraisers and staffers convicted in connection to the 1996 Democratic campaign finance scandal - a.k.a. "Chinagate" - plus Commerce Sec'y Ron Brown under investigation until he died in a plane crash, NJ Senator Toricelli bailing from public service over his role, and the DNC itself fined by the FEC for its role. And that's just the fairly recent ones and doesn't even include any of the sex or drug related crimes numerous Dems have been convicted of over the last decade or so. And if you go back a little further, there's also Abscam, Koreagate and a host of individual corruption and other cases from the '70s and '80s. So give it up. The Dems have plenty of criminal pols. That doesn't make the Republicans you name clean, but it does demonstrate the ridiculousness of your "party of corruption" talking point.

To: tejek who wrote (49816)	8/6/2006 5:10:41 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

To: tejek who wrote (49816)	8/6/2006 6:50:03 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

I see the problem is a serious reading comprehension deficiency compounded by blindly zealous partisanship rendering you incapable of any semblance of objectivity. Like I already said, the GOP is 2nd only to the DNC when it comes to the "culture of corruption" in gov't. However, they are a distant 2nd. By any objective standard, that is an accurate statement as my previous reply factually established. Why don't you ask John Murtha. Isn't he a darling of the left who speaks "truth to power"?? Murtha was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Abscam investigation. There are public allegations that he was steering defense appropriations to companies represented by his brother's lobbying firm. No wonder you leftists love the guy. Message 22690762 betsyspage.blogspot.com powerlineblog.com astuteblogger.blogspot.com washtimes.com