Reid Aided Abramoff Clients, Records Show

[Xiahou]

Reid Aided Abramoff Clients, Records Show (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060209/ap_on_go_co/abramoff_reid)

Uh-oh, sounds like Senator Reid may have overplayed his hand with his "culture of corruption" rhetoric. Now it's come back to bite him.

[Proletariat]

Good company your keeping, Obama.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Huh. I have no doubt dems will continue to scream 'its a republican scandal!' Gah! It's all their fault! Them! *dean scream mode*

Crazed Rabbit

[solypsist]

Good company your keeping, Obama.

I don't recall anyone saying the Dems were squeaky clean.

But just for grins, let's have a little comparison of similar nature:

1. Reid - letters for casinos (no indictements, not currently being investigated)

vs.

1. Spencer Abraham - investigated* taxpayer funded trips, forced to resign
2. Robert G. Card - under investigation for energy dept's industry ties
3. Gale Norton - being investigated for lies about fish & wildlife dept data to tout anwar drilling
4. Theodore Olson - investigated for lying to judiciary committee re arkansas project
5. Harvey Pitt - forced to resign over conflict of interest allegations as head of the sec
6. Tommy Thompson - fined for ethics violations
7. Scooter Libby - indicted on 5 counts re plame game
8. Tom De Lay - indicted on charges re election laws, ethics
9. Nick Smith - investigated for bribery re bush's medicare plan
10. John Ashcroft - investigated re campaign finance laws
11. John Rowland - investigated re misuse of public funds (for his cottage)

there are so many others. i won't even go into those who have managed to evade investigation like fema's michael brown or really easy targets like no wmds, etc.

*some investigations are still ongoing

[Taffy_is_a_Taff]

there are a few more sleazy Dems that that:

Boxer, Barbara - nepotism ($$$$$10000s + to her son's company) and I don't have time to summarize all the other stuff

to be honest there's too much stuff on these people, I'm sorry to do a TRibesman but you need to look these people up yourselves.

Corzine, Jon
Dean, Howard
Durbin, Dick
Emanuel, Rahm
Kerry, John
McDermott, Jim
Pelosi, Nancy
Reid, Harry
Schumer, Chuck

for starters

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Taffy:

We have been assured by the leader of the Democrat Party, Governor Dean, as well as pulitzer winning columnists like Molly Ivins, that this is a Republican Party scandal and that we need look no further into the "culture of corruption" than this. Surely we should take such honorable people at their word?

:help:

[Tribesman]

Don't ya just love it when politicians go on about corruption , then it turns out that they are just as bad themselves .
Politicians , stuff 'em

[Spetulhu]

So there's a few Democrats in the mix too. Does this mean the problem is somehow less severe or less widespread? Perhaps the big Republican names should be let off easy since it's all clearly the Dem's fault anyway?

[Proletariat]

So there's a few Democrats in the mix too. Does this mean the problem is somehow less severe or less widespread? Perhaps the big Republican names should be let off easy since it's all clearly the Dem's fault anyway?

Right, cause that's exactly what everyone in this thread is saying. That all the Republicans should walk. I wonder why we even have threads, when someone like you can waltz in and so concisely sum up everyone's thoughts in just three lines.

:dizzy2:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=60894

Anyway, McCain is looking pretty smart right about now.

[Kralizec]

Democrats can be corrupt too?

My entire mental image of the world lies in ruins.

Here's a balloon :balloon2:

[Spetulhu]

Right, cause that's exactly what everyone in this thread is saying. That all the Republicans should walk. I wonder why we even have threads, when someone like you can waltz in and so concisely sum up everyone's thoughts in just three lines.

Do you think that thought is far off for some of the posters here? Whatever happens to go wrong is systematically blamed on the other party. If they didn't handle it when it exploded then at least it was them ten years ago! They're to blame! :furious3:

This latest scandal is no exception. Dems try to keep everyone of theirs out while Reps are desperate for someone else to blame.

[Xiahou]

It's preposterous to think that only one party has been taking lobbying money- they're both up to their necks in it. And as long as congressmen can slip earmarks into bills without having to put it to a vote, lobbyists will always be able to get good returns on their investments. One thing McCain has right is that earmarks need to stop.

My point with this thread was only to point out how hypocritical it is for Democrats, Reid in particular, to go on and on about Republicans and Abramoff when he was in bed with him too.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

My point with this thread was only to point out how hypocritical it is for Democrats, Reid in particular, to go on and on about Republicans and Abramoff when he was in bed with him too.

I REALLY could have done without that image X-man. I'm aleady considering therapy because of Pappy's Scorpion and Flower mating images in the GM Food thread....

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