Why are most of the crooks Democrats, and why do so many people look the other way and excuse them! Is bad behavior expected and forgiven so easily?

Charlie

why is the horse wearing a suit and carrying a garbage can?

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I tend to vote Dem., but I was so looking forward to him getting trounced next Tuesday.

Most crooks that get the notoriety are Dem's ,as most of the media is owned by Rep's. X

X,Thats Funny! What is with the democrats and election laws anyways these days and why do they always seem to want to rewrite them as they go along?

Reps seem to follow the law and Democrats, seem to look for the loophole and the opportunity to bend or change the law! If I needed a criminal defense lawyer, I would most likely pick a Democrat!

Charlie

In the words of Huey Long: There are two parties in congress,the Low Papa Hirams and the High Papa Lowrams. The difference between the two is,one skins the bark off a tree from the bottom up and the other skins the bark from top down. X

Honest/Politician- does the word "oxymoron" mean anything to you. LOL JonR

When you think of Enron, Qwest, Worldnet, and Adelphia do you think Republican or Democrat?? I doubt you think Dem considering all of these companies gave 90% of their contributions to the Republicans, and the 10% was just hedging their bets! And all of them are facing legal implications for fraud and other illegal acts. Smell what you're shoveling, it stinks...

Yes, and you are full of it! Do you honestly think that those companies, just sprung up from the ground in the GWB Administration, no, they were exposed during this adminstration, which is much more than your honorable pickpocket, Billy Boy Clinton would have done. Janet Reno would not have even looked at any of them! Yes, both sides have their share of crooks, but Democrats seem to have a few more! The list is long! Global Crossing happened to be a Democrat stronghold, Terry McAuliff (spelling) made mega millions dumping his shares of Global Crossing stock! Enron contributed both ways and owned California Governor Gray Davis-D!

Charlie

CJBully,

It's not a horse, it is a jackass. A fitting symbol of the DemocRATS.

Charlie -

I wasn't trying to say that all crooks are republicans either, just humored by all of the fingerpointing and name calling while turning a blind eye to the biggest debacles as of late. And I wasn't saying that democrats are foolproof either, I think their just as worthless as republicans.

I could give a $hit whoose administration the problems started in or whoose cleaned them up, the principles were still the same people regardless of the Presidential party, and their still dirty. If Enron wouldn't have gone bankrupt no one would have been the wiser, but give GWB all the credit you want for "uncovering" the details.

Crooks are crooks regardless of their party affiliation, but most crooks don't vote either.

Re-read your and JJs first post in an Andy Rooney voice, I almost fell over.LOL

Even if I reread it in a George Will voice (he is more to my liking than Andy Rooney) it is hilarious as well! Sometimes we get a little carried away in our gusto.

As far as crooks, I agree, dump them and jail them, no matter their affilitation! We in California are stuck with one of the biggest crooks (Governor Gray Davis)around and what do we do? We select a guy to run against him (Bill Simon) who has a background that looks pretty poor when it comes to financial responsiblity!

I do tire of the acusations against GWB every time a fat cat gets his tail caught in the door while running with his Golden Parachute! It seems that Bush is at least going after these Corporate Criminals while others have not!

Read this in a George Will accent or Andy Rooney depending on your political leanings!

Charlie

I think this is our first political agreements!!! I wonder if it will be the last?? 😉

I don't know why I thought of Rooney, but his whiney voice just popped in my head and I started rolling (no reference to you and JJ being whiney, just a testament to how weird my mind is!!)

Watching Fox today and they had Congressmen Rangall(D) and Congressman Duke Cunningham (R) on discussing "if we have to go to War with Iraq"! Both are veterans and before you knew it Rangall in all of his splendor had the entire war issue bumped into a "racial" thing! He was whinning away and Cunningham was sort of chuckling at him! Funny!

Keep to the subject at hand, Charles R, and quit deflecting to a race issue! This doesn't have a lot to do with Crooked politicians, except that Rangall was one of the Clinton's biggest backers! Speaking of folks that will have to screwed into the ground when they die, they are so crooked!

Charlie

let's see
Richard Nixon-resigned
Spiro Agnew-resigned
U.S. Grant-incredibly corrupt administgration
Rutherford B. Hayes-known as rutherfraud
McKinley-controlled by Getty, Morgan & Rockefeller
Packwood-resigned
George W. Bush-His skeletons are well known if not talked about
Cheney-see above
Edwin Meese, Attorney General-convicted felon
Number of Reagan Administration Officials convicted of crimes while in office - 30

generalizations are generally very bad. no party is all bad...no party is all good. generalizations such as yours smack of fanaticism

Generally speaking, generalities are genuinely disingenious.

Danny, here then is the list of former Democratic members of Congress who were convicted or pleaded guilty to major offenses between 1992 and 1999:

Nick Mavroules, Massachusetts Democrat: tax evasion, accepting illegal gratuity (1992).

Albert Bustamante, Texas Democrat: racketeering (1993).

Carroll Hubbard, Kentucky Democrat: fraud and corruption (1994).

Carl Perkins, Kentucky Democrat: fraud (1994).

Charlie Rose, North Carolina Democrat: financial-disclosure irregularities (1994).

Larry Smith, Florida Democrat: tax evasion (1994).

Walter Fauntroy, District of Columbia Democrat: financial-disclosure misdemeanor (1995).

Gerald Kleczka, Wisconsin Democrat: arrested for DWI (1995 and 1990); convicted DWI (1987).

Mel Reynolds, Illinois Democrat: sexual misconduct (1995).

Walter Tucker, California Democrat: extortion (1995).

Charles Wilson, Texas Democrat: paid $90,000 fine to Federal Election Commission (1995).

Joe Kolter, Pennsylvania Democrat: fraud and conspiracy (1996).

Dan Rostenkowski, Illinois Democrat: mail fraud (1996).

Mary Rose Oakar, Ohio Democrat: financial-disclosure irregularities (1998).

Austin J. Murphy, Pennsylvania Democrat: vote fraud (1999).

Any questions? 😉

Keith

Here's some shining examples of the Clinton Administration Legacy:

--The only president ever impeached strictly on grounds of personal malfeasance

--Most convictions and guilty pleas

--Most Cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation

--Most witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify

--Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47

Number of these convictions during Clinton's presidency: 33

Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61

Number of congressional witnesses who have pled the Fifth Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122 (9/99)

Estimated number of witnesses quoted in FBI files misappropriated by the White House: 18,000

Number of witnesses who developed medical problems at critical points in Clinton scandals investigation (Tucker, Hale, both McDougals, Lindsey): 5

Problem areas listed in a memo by Clinton's own lawyer in preparation for the president's defense: 40

Number of witnesses and critics of Clinton subjected to IRS audit: 45

Number of names placed in a White House secret database without the knowledge of those named: c. 200,000

Number of women involved with Clinton who claim to have been physically threatened: 5 (Sally Perdue, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey, Linda Tripp, Elizabeth Ward Gracen)
Number of men involved in the Clinton scandals who have been beaten up or claimed to have been intimidated: 9

Number of times Hillary Clinton said "I don't recall" or its equivalent in a statement to a House investigating committee: 50 (amazingly enough, she, along with her crook husband are getting paid millions for their memoirs 😉

Number of times Bill Clinton said "I don't recall" or its equivalent in the released portions of the his testimony on Paula Jones: 271

Number of times John Huang took the Fifth Amendment in answer to questions during a Judicial Watch deposition: 1,000

Visits made to the White House by investigation subjects Johnny Chung, James Riady, John Huang, and Charlie Trie. 160

Number of campaign contributors who got overnights at the White House in the two years before the 1996 election: 577


Makes me wonder..BTW, Yes, I did copy and paste this info...I'm sure you can find similar info about Republicans...So called "skeletons" aren't the same as convictions

My favorite, and it's ALL true!

Another example of sleazy democrats in action.
Jesse Jackson has added former Chicago Democratic congressman Mel Reynolds to the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's payroll.

Reynolds was among the 176 criminals excused in President Clinton's last-minute forgiveness spree.

Reynolds received a commutation of his six-and- a-half-year federal sentence for 15 convictions of wire fraud, bank fraud & lies to the Federal Election Commission.

He is more notorious however, for concurrently serving five years for sleeping with an UNDERAGE campaign volunteer.

This is a first in American politics:
An ex-congressman (a democrat) who had sex with a subordinate won clemency from a president (a democrat) who had sex with a subordinate, then was hired by a clergyman (a democrat) who had sex with a subordinate.

His new job? Youth counselor. Is this a great country or what?