Democrat Party Ethics

“DAILY KOS CO-AUTHOR FINED $30K FOR UNETHICAL STOCK TOUT
Wed Aug 08 2007 19:12:23 ET

Prominent liberal blogger Jerome Armstrong has agreed to pay nearly $30,000 in fines in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over allegations that Armstrong touted the stock of a software company, without disclosing that he was being paid to do so, the NY TIMES reports.

Armstrong is the co-author of _Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics,_ with Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos. He is also the founder of the Democratic activist site MyDD.com.

Under the agreement, Armstrong neither denies nor admits to the allegations.

"It's good to see the matter finally end," Armstrong said in an e-mail message to the TIMES.

Developing...
http://www.drudgereport.com/”

“AP: Hillary Ruled Out Nuke Response to Iran Threat in April '06 Interview...
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8QTL9H00&show_article=1

Clinton Slammed Obama's Nuke Veto Last Week...
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/03/1995796.htm?section=justin”

“Poor little bubba bear doesn't want to talk about this subject. LOL”

“http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070808/NEWS02/708081185

uh oh”

“Hi violin!”

“3678.”

“Tiltypoo is so silly. He can never seem to stick to a subject. [VBG]
last edited: 8/09/07 1:51:57 PM”

“LOL..San F*sicso....where the libbies are living up to the good old (I disagree with that you say but will fight to the death for your right to say it.) at least when they were in the minority.

http://www.sfgov.org/site/bdsupvrs_index.asp?id=65727


which is WRONG....(LOL)

LOL apparently David Horowitz sees this as nothing more that Hitler or Chavez (he uses the references correctly)

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57130”

“My comment was...What ethics.

While I'm visiting I guess I should play a bit!”

“WOW...so it is now a RIGHT to be an American Citizen....?

http://boortz.com/more/video/082007_oreilly.html”

“Why is nobody from the church being dealt with? What a statement , when she's grabbed as soon as she leaves the church .Come on gov. , get your act together.”

“Agreed, throw the Pope in jail. Not often I agree with O'Reilly, but on this one he's right.”

“Hillary sealed all of her records at the Clinton library earlier this year. I guess the change and open government she preaches does not apply to her.”

“Do as I say, not as I do, is the Democrat way.”

“Actually it is the WAY of Big Government Socialists.”

“Don't worry. The MSM will drill her about it soon enough.







... not!”

“LOL..they will investigate like they did the 93 US Dist Attorneys Slick Fired in his first Administration.....”

“New Right....the RIGHT TO HAVE YOUR MORTGAGE PAID...

http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_6683739

WOW so I wonder how you pay for this...ofcourse you TAX people who have worked their way up, have a reasonable house and pay their mortgages. Or you set the law where Banks and Lenders CAN'T foreclose....yeah that will get banking moving in California. Specifically OUT of California”

“It really is just like the war in Iraq. You do the thinking before you get involved and these problems just don't happen.”

“LOL...no the war in Iraq was necessary to take the fight to the Islamo Fascists...free give aways come from the desire to "help" without considering the effect of Government Control.

The War Against Islamic Fascisim is covered in the Constitution where we must defend our interests abroad (UM....think the Med Pirates in the 1800's) there is NOTHING in the Constitution that says the government has the right to steal at "gunpoint" one iota of my private property to GIVE it to another person.”

“Why then not Iran?”

“I think it is because libbies are under delusion that BAD stuff never happens...HECK you had a man who ADMITTED supporting the enemy in Vietnam (Christmas trip to supply the Khymer Rouge) this is a man who Admitted committing WAR CRIMES and he was Your presidential candidate.

I think it is because libbies have felt for so long that if they say it it is so.....

LOL Here is Lurch denying Reeducation Camps in Vietnam. http://www.breitbart.tv/html/3274.html

WHICH Is a bit in difference to this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_abuses_in_Vietnam_after_the_fall_of_Saigon

Or the memories of those of us who had friends who escaped.”

“Soros-linked group hit with huge fine

By: Kenneth P. Vogel
Aug 29, 2007 12:58 PM EST

The Federal Election Commission has fined one of the biggest liberal political action committees $775,000 for using unregulated cash to boost Democratic candidates during the 2004 elections.

America Coming Together (ACT) raised $137 million for its get-out-the-vote effort in 17 states in the 2004 elections, but the FEC found most of that cash came through contributions that violated federal limits or were otherwise barred by campaign rules.

The group’s big donors included George Soros and the Service Employees International Union.

The settlement, which the FEC approved unanimously, is the third-largest enforcement penalty in the commission’s 33-year history.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0807/5555.html

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Isn't that bubba bear's Union? (LOL)”

“WHAHAHA...if it was a Republican organization they would be calling for heads of the candidates.”

“WELL LOOKY HERE

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295031,00.html

A Democratic fundraiser who has raised $1 million for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton says he has done nothing wrong and has asked no favors in return, but Norman Hsu didn't mention that he's a wanted man.

A California prosecutor says Hsu pleaded no contest to grand theft, was sentenced to three years in prison and then disappeared, The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.”

“McCain-Feingold - did anybody NOT think that was a joke from those 2 liberal democrats?

(one in disguise)”

“Can you guess the party affiliation of the following Beltway Bigshots? All of them behaved badly, and none of them had significant members of their own party demanding they resign!

Score yourself one point for getting the party affiliation correct...score yourself TWO points for identifying the person described.

Answers below...

Parties of:

1-a senator who drove off a bridge, killing a young woman not his wife.

2-a senator who used the term "white n-word" twice in a nationally televised interview.

3-a senator who praised a former Klan member, saying he would have made a fine President.

4-a member of the House of Representatives who had an ongoing affair with an intern of the same sex--who refused to step down and was later made a committee chairman.

5-a member of the House who shoved a Capitol Hill police officer when the officer was on duty.

6-a member of the House who was driving under the influence and ran into barricades set up in Washington, D.C.



ANSWERS!

1. Democrat Ted Kennedy

2. Democrat Robert Byrd

3. Democrat Chris Dodd

4. Democrat Gerry Studds

5. Democrat Cynthia McKinney

6. Democrat Patrick Kennedy”

“WOW...and correct me if I am wrong but they are all stellar accepted members of the left wing heirarchy.”

“But they're not hypocrits because they don't believe in morality.”

“AH...SO thats how it is...since the Islamo Fascists don't believe in Human Rights we really can't hold the responsible for not complying with the Geneva Conventions in treatement of our wounded or captured...That explains a lot./”

“The libbies are not being to active on this thread.
Wonder why?
LOLOLOLOL!!!”

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“WHAHAHAHAHAH”

“DemoRats really have no ethics.
Win at any cost is their ethic.”

“http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295929,00.html

11 Public Officials Arrested in Corruption Probe”

“Republicans demand resignation of Rep. Briley after DUI arrest

Report: Briley finished drink at gunpoint after 100 mph chase

By Jim Balloch (Contact), Tom Humphrey (Contact)
Originally published 11:21 a.m., September 10, 2007
Updated 03:54 p.m., September 10, 2007

Republican leaders are calling for state Rep. Rob Briley to resign after his arrest for drunken driving over the weekend, a move House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh called “pretty lowlife.”

A heavily intoxicated State Rep. Rob Briley, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, fled the scene of an accident in DeKalb County on Saturday afternoon, then led police in Wilson County on a 100-mile-an-hour chase before finally stopping, according to police reports and court documents.

The Nashville Democrat was arrested at gunpoint after stopping his SUV in the middle of the road and is alleged to have kicked the window of a patrol car while in custody.

Briley, 40, a lawyer, was booked at the Wilson County jail shortly before 6 p.m. on charges of DUI, evading arrest and violation of the implied consent law.

Naifeh said today that Briley suffers from alcoholism, was in treatment last fall and is preparing to enter treatment again. “I will do everything I possibly can to help Rob Briley down the road to recovery,” he said.

House rules require that a legislator indicted on felony charges be removed from leadership positions. Briley is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, but the charges he faces are misdemeanors.

In cases of misdemeanors, it is up to Naifeh to decide whether Briley will lose a leadership position. Naifeh, speaking to reporters this afternoon, said he will wait until more information is available — and until he has talked with Briley following rehabilitation treatment — to make any decision on the Nashville lawmaker’s status.

House Republican Caucus Chairman Glen Casada, meanwhile, issued a statement saying that Briley should resign from the Legislature. A similar statement was issued by state Republican Chairman Robin Smith.

Says Casada: “As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, I submit that Rep. Briley is held to an even higher standard as his committee is directly responsible for preventing this type of crime. As an attorney, he knows full well that his actions were a blatant violation of the law and were not fitting for a state representative. His district deserves better. Tennessee deserves better.”

Naifeh said he was aware of “naysayers” who were attempting to turn Briley’s situation to partisan advantage.

“I think that’s pretty lowlife. I have absolutely no use for those people,” said Naifeh.

According to warrants filed in Wilson County Sessions Court, Briley was clocked at 72 mph in a 45-mph zone of Sparta Pike.

Watertown Police Department Officer Ricky Lucy fell in behind the speeding Nissan SUV and turned on his blue lights and siren.

Briley glanced back, then sped up, reaching speeds of more than 100 miles per hour, according to the arrest report filed by Lucy.

When Briley finally stopped in the middle of the road, Lucy and another officer approached the vehicle with guns drawn.

Briley got out of the vehicle with his hands raised, but then went back to the SUV and drank from a blue plastic cup, Lucy’s report stated.

Briley “had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage … also had red watery eyes,” failed a field sobriety test and appeared to be in a “high level of intoxication,” according to the warrants signed by Lucy.

Briley complained to the arresting officers of injuries to his hand and elbow and said he had been taking anti-depressant medicine that occasionally made him dizzy.

Lucy said in his report that he began to give Briley field sobriety tests but that Briley was so unstable on his feet that “I felt any further (testing) would be dangerous.”

An empty bottle of Maker’s Mark and bottles of medication were found inside the vehicle, according to the report.

In connection with a traffic accident that occurred earlier in DeKalb County, Briley has been cited by the Tennessee Highway Patrol for leaving the scene of an accident, following too closely and failure to give notice of an accident, THP spokesman Mike Browning confirmed today.

In that accident, a 2005 Nissan SUV hit the rear end of a pickup truck on Highway 70 in Dowell Town.

Witnesses in the pickup truck told troopers that the SUV then made a U-turn and left the scene, Browning said.

There were no injuries. The final report of that accident was not immediately available.

Briley was released to the custody of his mother, GeAnne Briley, shortly after 11 p.m. on Saturday. He did not have to post bond. A court date is set for Oct. 31 at 9 a.m. in Wilson County Sessions Court.

He was rearrested today on a charge of vandalism in connection with an estimated $1,500 damage caused when he allegedly kicked the patrol car window.

Briley, grandson of the late Nashville Mayor Beverly Briley, is one of the Legislature’s most powerful members. Besides chairing the Judiciary Committee, which deals with all bills involving the criminal justice system, he is a member of the House Ethics Committee and played a central role in shaping ethics legislation that was enacted by the General Assembly last year.

The judiciary committee is scheduled to review a proposal to overhaul of the state’s drunken-driving laws next year. Briley has asked the sponsors of several DUI-related proposals to delay their bills in lieu of a comprehensive DUI bill.

Briley is also a member of the powerful House Finance Committee, which rules on all bills that involve spending or taxes. This year, he sponsored 67 bills — 10 of which became law.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2007/sep/10/state-judiciary-committee-chairman-arrested-dui-ov/”

“....he is a member of the Ethics Committee and played a central role in shaping ethics legislation that was enacted by the General Assembly last year.

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Figures.
Democrat Culture of Corruption, anyone????
Are there any Dims that aren't Hypocrites???”

“OH Stovie...you know the MAN set him up...(LOL)”

“Maker's Mark! A fine choice”

“Lot of discussion from the libs. /sarc
Ha Ha Ha Ha”

“WHAHAHAHHA...remember the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska...well Diane FEINSTEIN...beat the republicans on this one....


4 BILLION...(that a 4, and then count'em 9 meaning 000,000,000 dollars)

for

Dianne Feinstein's $4 billion earmark for Beverly Hills comes at the expense of America's veterans.

Move over Bridge to Nowhere. Congress is back in town, and clearly back to business even uglier than usual.
It takes hard work to come up with an earmark more egregious than that infamous Alaskan bridge, but California's Dianne Feinstein is an industrious gal. Her latest pork -- let's call it Rambo's View -- deserves to be the poster child for everything wrong with today's greedy earmark process.

The senator's $4 billion handout (yes, you read that right) to wealthy West L.A. (yes, you read that right, too) is the ultimate example of how powerful members use earmarks to put their own parochial interests above national ones -- in this case the needs of veterans. It's a case study in how Congress uses the appropriations process to substitute its petty wants for the considered judgments of agency professionals. And it's just the latest proof that, no matter how much outrage the American public might display over these deals -- and no matter how often Congress promises to clean up its act -- the elected have no intention of reforming the process.

The pork here revolves around the West Los Angeles Medical Center, though this is no average veterans' facility. Donated to the government in 1888, the center is 387 sprawling, prime real-estate acres in the middle of tony West L.A. More than twice the size of the National Mall, it is surrounded by the mansions and playgrounds of the city's elite, including the Bel Air Country Club and the Beverly Hills estates of Sylvester Stallone, Barry Bonds and Tim McGraw (to name a few).

Huge portions of the facility are also a veritable ghost town. It isn't just that 387 acres is an enormous space, and far larger than any one veteran's community in today's America might ever need. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Los Angeles County also falls on the lowest end in terms of the percentage of veterans living in the area. Nationally, veterans make up about 12.7% of people over the age of 18; the county's average is below 8.5%. Of 91 buildings on campus, 21 are today partially or wholly vacant. Meanwhile, the number of enrolled veterans in that facility is expected to decline by nearly a quarter over the next 20 years.

Which is why, when the Department of Veteran's Affairs set up a process in 2002 to study its infrastructure and rationalize its facilities, it designated the West L.A. center as one of 18 sites that might be downsized, any extra land being used to produce more revenue for veterans' needs. Under law, 108 acres of the L.A. site can't be touched, but the remaining 200-plus acres sit in the middle of a highly desirable real estate area and could yield significant financial gain. The VA has yet to make any decisions, but according to government estimates, even a modest reuse of the property -- say leasing out excess acreage -- could result in an extraordinary $4 billion for better care for veterans everywhere.

Given the recent uproar over Walter Reed, and Congress's many calls that we do more for the men and women returning home wounded from Iraq and Afghanistan, you'd think no elected representative could possibly have the chutzpah to impede the VA's considered attempts to inject efficiency into its facilities and provide better care for its constituents. Think ever so much again. It turns out the well-to-do in West L.A. consider the veteran's center grounds their own little rolling, personal park, and they want it to stay that way -- thank you very much.

The area has in fact revved up a powerful lobby machine to ensure America's veterans don't get anything extra at the expense of their backyard. Ms. Feinstein, California Congressman Henry Waxman and other luminaries have united to publicly bash the VA's plans, and instead demand the "preservation" of the ground for local use. An overwrought Los Angeles Times weighed in, bemoaning that so few L.A. children live within "walking distance of a public place to play," and demanding this "treasured resource" not be ruined by "thoughtless" development. Word is that some Hollywood luminaries who live in Mr. Stallone's neck of the woods have also complained that any changes would impede views from their 15,000-square-foot manses.

Ms. Feinstein, who in the last election received some of her largest donations from the rich area, has been only too happy to come to its defense. She honed in on the military construction and veterans affairs bill -- a sensitive spending vehicle that few Republicans would dare vote against, and that President Bush would be loath to veto. She then slipped in an earmark provision that would bar the VA from disposing or leasing any of the ground. Thus a potential $4 billion worth of help and aid for our nation's veterans goes bye-bye in the name of preserving a view for those Hollywood actors who play veterans in the movies.

The indefatigable earmark warrior, South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, offered an amendment this week to strip Ms. Feinstein's earmark. California Sen. Barbara Boxer rose in righteous indignation on the Senate floor, and fizzed that she would never dream of leveling such a direct "attack" against South Carolina. The point of this speech was to remind her Senate colleagues that what's hers is hers, and that the penalty for voting against her and Ms. Feinstein's California pork would be the targeting of projects in their own states. They got the message. In the final vote, only 25 senators had the courage to put the nation's veterans above Ms. Feinstein's scenery, including just one Democrat (Sen. Russ Feingold).

Gory details aside, Ms. Feinstein has set a concerning new precedent. Up to now, Congress has had a healthy respect for the decisions of the VA's infrastructure review. That may well change, as more in Congress see Ms. Feinstein's success as an invitation to bring their own parochial concerns to the VA's decision-making process.

There is still one hope that some brave soul will take up this cause and attempt to get Rambo's View stripped from this bill during the House-Senate conference. Democrats have already reneged, and reneged again, on campaign pledges to clean up the earmark swamp, and in any event aren't likely to rally against a powerful member of their own party. But if Republicans had a collective IQ of even 70, they'd be making this particularly offensive pork item a rallying cry that they could use to demonstrate a renewed commitment to spending reform.

What is clear is that if this pork stands, no senator should again be allowed to bemoan a lack of veterans' funds without having this week's vote waved in his face. ”

“LOL! I think I recognize 1 or 2 of them from trailtalk.”

“True Dat'.”