Republican Party Ethics

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Scarborough: When you're in Washington DC, hanging out with the Republicans, are they on their best behaviour?

Carey: I actually get hit on more in Washington DC, by Republicans that are drunk than I do by porno fans in Vegas.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/03/17.html#a7561”

“I like her work.”

“Howard Kaloogian, a Republican candidate for Randy "Duke" Cunningham's seat in Congress posted this photo on his website purporting to show how peaceful it was in Baghdad on his recent trip there.



Some people thought the absence of Arabic script and the scantily clad woman seen holding hands in public didn't seem quite right.

It turns out the photo is actually of the Istanbul suburb of Bakirkoy in Turkey pictured below.



Lying just seems to come so naturally to the GOP.


http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/3/29/13339/2816”

“Maybe the acid was just kicking in and he thought he was in Baghdad. Give the guy a break, V!”

“DailyKos.com


LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL”

“We took this photo of dowtown Baghdad while we were in Iraq. Iraq (including Baghdad) is much more calm and stable than what many people believe it to be. But, each day the news media finds any violence occurring in the country and screams and shouts about it - in part because many journalists are opposed to the U.S. effort to fight terrorism.
- Howard "Full-of-#&%!$" Kaloogian”

“But you don't understand Vio - it's ok to lie if god tells you to.”

“At least he had the strength of character to take responsibility for his lie. – He blamed the webmaster.”

“This Hooligan guy would make a nice cell mate for The Duke.”

“Do you actually care about this, violin?”

“Kaloogian has pulled the photo from his site.

Looks kinda funny:

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last edited: 3/29/06 2:08:02 PM”

“Telling the truth gets harder and harder.....

What ever happened to integrity, in BOTH PARTY'S.”

“I find it amazing that the candidate has the time to maintain his own website.”

“He may not handle his own website, but he or someone in his group took pictures, he claimed "We took this photo of dowtown Baghdad while we were in Iraq." Unless his webmaster was there in Baghdad, someone gave the webmaster the pic.


Here is what he says on his site:

"Downtown Baghdad
We originally posted a photograph not of Baghdad, Iraq but from Istanbul, Turkey where our delegation traveled on the way home to the United States. We apologize for this mistake. We have corrected it with a photograph we took from Baghdad."

DailyKos got it right Stove!”

“Looks like a baby food factory to me ,what about you bill?”

“That new photo of downtown Baghdad doesn't look anything like the earlier (Istanbul) photo. His excuse is a load of BS.

From that distance, it's really impossible to say if it's calm and peaceful or there is a raging gun battle going on.”

“The truth? The whole truth? Always? Depends on what your definition of always is.



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“And one day I looked and those billing records were right there! Right in my living room!


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“FBI Raid Hits a Constitutional Nerve

By Dana Milbank
Wednesday, May 31, 2006; Page A02

When asked to hold hearings on the rendition and torture of terrorism suspects, House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.) respectfully declined.

Invited repeatedly to probe the Bush administration's leaking of a CIA operative's identity, the chairman sent his regrets.

Urged to have hearings dedicated to the administration's warrantless eavesdropping, Sensenbrenner demurred once more.

But when FBI agents searched a congressional office 11 days ago, Sensenbrenner went up to the attic and found his gavel.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/30/AR2006053001102.html?sub=AR”

“BM, I agree the duplicity of the Congress is disgusting (ON BOTH SIDES)..but lets get the story straight Mr. Rather.

THERE WAS NO CIA Operative identified by the Administration. OKAY I have placed numerous links on here that show that 1. The twit (Val the pal)was not an operative in the five year period before her name was released. 2. There is a REAL possibility that she was actually outed by her HUBBY. 3. Even her neighbors knew she was an employee of the CIA (hell her name was on a who's who list three years earlier).

So that is a non issue. The very fact that it is off the radar shows it is another quick wad which the media thought they would get...another shot that turned out to be fog in the morning. (LOL) Liberal Socialists...you are so funny”

“So the CIA, the Justice Dept., US Attorney Fitzpatrick, several federal judges and two grand juries have just been wasting everybody's time?

Wow! What a bunch of idiots.

Thanks for clearing that all up XL. Maybe you should let someone in charge know.”

“Its those conservative socialists who are really muckin' things up.”

“XL - maybe you should write the Post?”

“WASHINGTON - San Bernardino County, Calif., has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury for records connected to House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis and a lobbying firm with strong ties to Lewis, a county official said.

The subpoena asked for all records of the county's correspondence with Lewis, R-Calif., and his staff and with the lobbying firm, Copeland, Lowery, Jacquez, Denton, & White, which employs former California Republican Congressman Bill Lowery, said San Bernardino County's chief deputy counsel, Daniel B. Haueter.

Haueter said that the county, which hired Copeland, Lowery in 2002, was complying.

The subpoena was first reported Thursday by The Sun of San Bernardino.

A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office declined to comment and Lewis' spokesman did not immediately return a call for comment. Lewis has previously denied any wrongdoing in his ties to Lowery.

Lowery and some of his clients have donated heavily to Lewis. The firm's clients have received millions of dollars in federal project money.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060602/ap_on_go_co/congressman_lobbyist”

“That's him!”

“Those crazy libbie so-called law experts called the American Bar Association just published a report that may put George and the SS behind bars.”

“BB...you know the ABA is a liberal Joke...right.”

“When U.S. Rep. Gary Miller (R-Diamond Bar) sold 165 acres to the city of Monrovia in 2002, he made a profit of more than $10 million, according to a financial disclosure form he filed in Congress. Ordinarily, he would have had to pay state and federal taxes of up to 31% on that profit.

Instead, Miller told the Internal Revenue Service and the state that Monrovia had forced him to sell the property under threat of eminent domain. That allowed him to shelter the profits from capital gains taxes for more than two years before he had to reinvest the money.

But there is a problem with Miller's claim: Monrovia officials say that Miller sold the land willingly and that they didn't threaten to force him to sell.

Miller, whose 42nd Congressional District includes chunks of Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties, claimed the same exemption in two subsequent Fontana property transactions, allowing him to continue sheltering his profits from the Monrovia sale. And in each of those cases, the purchasers say eminent domain, which allows a government agency to force a sale if it's in the public interest, was neither used nor threatened.

Internal Revenue Code Section 1033 was designed to protect people whose land is condemned by government agencies or destroyed in natural disasters. Other investors wishing to postpone capital gains taxes would have to follow complicated rules that include reinvesting the entire amount in other property within 180 days. For Miller, a millionaire land developer in the Inland Empire and a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, repeated use of the forced-sale exemption has enabled deferment of capital gains taxes through at least 2009.

Miller declined to comment on the sales after officials in Monrovia disputed his eminent domain contention.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-miller13aug13,0,2223572.story?coll=la-home-headlines”

“WOW...like turning one million in Cattle Futures, or sticking the American Taxpayers for MILLIONS for a failed S&L, or even Robert Redford who saw federal takings of land stop right at his property line out west.....SORRY for each minor snit you have we can find downright CORRUPTION on a biblical scale in the DemocratLiberalSocialist (DLS) party.”

“Hey, rich people should not have to pay taxes dammit, haven't you learned that yet violin!?”

“...unless they're in a union of course.”

“Funny stuff, Buddha!

Has the Greedy Oligarch Party got the election rigged this year?”

“Buddah bear is...Cynthia McKinney (LOL)”

“I'm not real fond of Strickland's tax voting record but I'll probably be voting for him. Not only is he a strong advocate for the second amendment and CCW rights but he ain't Blackwell.
last edited: 8/29/06 3:17:59 PM”

“Careful, I hear McKinney has a beyatch slap of uncommon power.”

“LOL...she came to Augusta during the Race Whorefest and managed to singlehandedly destroy everything positive from the week...(LOL)....”

“If only Corrine Brown could get railroaded like Cynthia did.”

“I don't know I am hoping for a couple of Republican Senators to bite it...think names that rhyme with McGrain, and Raham.....”

“The term "railroaded" implies that you are innocent.

Corrine Brown (D-Fl) is anything but innocent.”

“Anywho, we all have our own state Reprehensibles.

Good luck with disposing of yours.
last edited: 8/29/06 3:37:37 PM”

“But then again, ya never know...

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“Oh that is so true. I really have noticed that after about two terms they start to think they have a permenant job.”

“Rep. Bob Ney agreed Friday to plead guilty to two criminal charges in the congressional corruption probe spawned by disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Papers in the case said the Ohio Republican had accepted trips worth more than $170,000.

Justice Department officials said prosecutors would recommend the 52-year-old congressman serve 27 months in prison. A formal admission of guilt would make Ney the first lawmaker to confess to crimes in a Republican-heavy scandal that erupted at the dawn of the election year.

After months of stoutly denying wrongdoing, Ney signed a formal plea agreement that outlined charges of conspiracy and making false statements by not disclosing gifts he received from Abramoff on financial disclosure forms required by Congress.

His lawyer said Ney had begun treatment for alcohol dependency, and would likely make a formal admission of guilty in a court appearance on Oct. 13.

"People must have faith and confidence in their elected officials," Alice Fisher, head of the Justice Department's criminal division, said as the plea bargain was announced. She said Ney had "acted in his own interests, not in the interests of his constituents."

http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2006/09/15/ap3020345.html”

“Hang him high!
See, that's the difference between Dems and Repubs. We value truth over party and fairness.

Violin and all the rest of the lefties can't even admit they were wrong about Plame.”

“This Republican Party has ethics?”

“More than the Dems.
Check out the Democratic Party Ethics thread.
[VBG]”

“It was a one-time thing. Corrections have been made. It'll never happen again.”