<p><a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061013/ap_on_go_co/ney_corruption[/url]”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061013/ap_on_go_co/ney_corruption</a></p>
<p>Yup. Won’t resign til January. Will represent his district from the slammer.</p>
<p>Hey, there may be many more to follow! </p>
<p>I’m looking forward to the hearings regarding Susan Ralston to be run by Speaker Pelosi.</p>
<p>It gets better: a leading Republican Congressmen says National Guard troops operated a “sex ring”:</p>
<p><a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061013/ap_on_el_ho/connecticut_shays;_ylt=Apwp7Y4j_S52nkIFSC.UKG.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OTB1amhuBHNlYwNtdHM-[/url]”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061013/ap_on_el_ho/connecticut_shays;_ylt=Apwp7Y4j_S52nkIFSC.UKG.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OTB1amhuBHNlYwNtdHM-</a></p>
<p>Should win him some votes.</p>
<p>Now we’ve got Ney
before was DeLay,
they can’t blame Foley for everything just 'cause he’s gay.
Dumbya has lead the way and the rest of us have had to pay.
I wish they all would just go away.</p>
<p>As true today as it was a couple hundred years ago:</p>
<p>***A steady patriot of the world alone,
The friend of every country but his own.***</p>
<p>George Canning (1827)</p>
<p>“It is long past time for a new direction that restores integrity and civility to the House,” said Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader."</p>
<p>Is she resigning? She was talking about a return to integrity and civility, wasn’t she?</p>
<p>“As true today as it was a couple hundred years ago:”</p>
<p>Posted by a true member of the Hate America crowd. Why you hate America, and are okay about your government being sold to the highest bidder is beyond me, but if it floats your boat…</p>
<p>is someone here saying the republicans are beacons of intergrity and civiity,look at their campaign ads, pretty ugly stuf and lies to boot</p>
<p>Election season is like March in New England - mud season. To say that the mud slinging is uni-directional is either highly naive, extremely partisan or both.</p>
<p>The single most ugly campaign ad ever aired was the one in the 2000 election which tried to link Bush with the dragging death of an African American.</p>
<p>interesting that whenever FF sees a post that talks about nasty republicans, he has to go ba in time, and disregards what is going on now on the campaign trail, by a group that talks about honesty, and integrety as watchwords for their party, while yet another is going to jail, and more to come and while they have ads that are outright lies, yet claim to be paragons of virtue…and they claim they will be “better” than the other party, and gosh darn, they are reaching lower heights, not higher</p>
<p>FF: “single most ugly?” - Uglier than the Max Cleland one? Worse than Willie Horton? All I can say is that thanks to election timing Caliornia misses most of the presidential ads. Thank the lord!</p>
<p>if FF says it was, it must be so, because it was against Bush…it is only ugly to some if it against the republican party</p>
<p>kluge, absolutely. The Max Cleland ad, despite the myths associated with it did NOT show Cleland morph into bin Laden. It did show a picture of bin Laden as a reminder of who we are fighting against; it certainly did not say or imply that Cleland was the moral equivalent of bin Laden.</p>
<p>Willie Horton was an example of depicting the truth about Dukakis - he did furlough a convicted murder who subsequently raped a woman and assaulted her boyfriend. He specifically vetoed a law that would have prevented those convicted of first degree murder to be eligible for the furlough program. Hence he was directly related to the issue. This was an issue that originally had been brought up by Al Gore during the primary. The claim was that it was racist because Horton was black, but certainly had the mug shot been one of a mean looking white guy it would also have been used.</p>
<p>Bush had nothing to do with the dragging death and under his governorship the guilty parties were caught, tried and executed - yet the ad showed a partial re-enactment of the grisly scene with the tearful narration of the victim’s daughter and implied that Bush condoned or didn’t care about such attacks just because he did not think that special legislation was needed to deal with hate crimes.
<a href=“Umbrella Page for the Democracy in Action Websites on Presidential Campaigns: Linking to P2000.us, P2004.org, P2008.org, P2012.org, P2016.org, P2020.us and Campaign Literature Archive”>Umbrella Page for the Democracy in Action Websites on Presidential Campaigns: Linking to P2000.us, P2004.org, P2008.org, P2012.org, P2016.org, P2020.us and Campaign Literature Archive;
<p>Nothing wrong with Ney getting his pension from us taxpayers.</p>
<p>Shouldn’t we select and elect people who are/can be successful in their endeavors and who are smart enough to afigure out how to keep whatever rewards that they worked hard for? That is the American Way isn’t it? Further, we should honor those who also figure out how to get a 7 year all expense vacation as a bonus. </p>
<p>I think we shall see more of Ney’s type.</p>
<p>You’ve got it, ITM. It’s all about MEEEEEEE in America! Who cares whom I trample along the way?!</p>
<p>Remember “Dollar Bill” William Jefferson, Democrat Congressman from New Orleans? Not only is he a crook (not yet convicted) but he still gets his Democrat cronies to endorse him. At least the Republicans throw out their dead wood.</p>
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<a href=“http://www.bayoubuzz.com/articles.aspx?aid=8396[/url]”>http://www.bayoubuzz.com/articles.aspx?aid=8396</a></p>
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<a href=“http://www.harpers.org/sb-the-companies-they-keep-1150745126.html[/url]”>Page not found | Harper's Magazine;
<p>The Republicans threw out Ney? Before conviction?</p>
<p>First order of business.</p>
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<a href=“http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/101106/ney_1013.html[/url]”>http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/101106/ney_1013.html</a></p>
<p>Not before he plead guilty. Did I miss the point of your post about Jefferson?</p>
<p>I mean, whats wrong with taxpayers paying his pension. Afterall, its not worse than us paying for illegals that come across the border every day that the ACLU and like-minded liberal groups support.</p>
<p>From the link in post #1:</p>
<p>“I allowed myself to get too comfortable with the way things have been done in Washington, D.C., for too long,” Ney said in a written statement after his court appearance.</p>
<p>Hmm…why do I get the feeling there are a lot of others in DC, on both sides of the aisle, that are still very comfortable with “the way things have been done” in Washington.</p>