2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBribes, Bribes, Pay to play, I'll scratch your back you scratch mine, bought judgeship?
And none of this is illegal?
Okay, okay, everybody is all Damn Those Republicans! this morning when it became apparent that the GOP had bribed Virginia Democratic State Senator Phillip Puckett to resign and thereby give them the power to reject Obamacare in Virginia.
Hell, I am far madder at the damn Democrat for taking the bribe. We are supposed to be better than that.
The bribe is that his daughter gets a judgeship and Puckett gets the job of deputy director of the state tobacco commission. So now you have a guy sitting on the state tobacco commission, a job which involves awarding economic development grants funded by the national tobacco litigation settlement. So youre going to trust a guy who is bribable to sit on a commission in charge of millions of dollars?
And you want a judge who didnt get there on her own but through her fathers under the table dealings? You really want a George W Bush sitting on a court?
Terry Kilgore, a Republican who confirmed the deal, said, I would say that he wanted to make sure his daughter kept her judgeship. A fathers going do that.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/06/i-m-more-worried-about-guy-who-accepts
isn't it illegal to offer a bribe?
Loryn
(941 posts)CTyankee
(63,771 posts)everybody looks bad in this deal...
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)14 Mile Markers On The Road To Fascism (http://rense.com/general37/char.htm)
- Strong nationalism
- Disdain for human rights
- Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause
- Supremacy of the military
- Rampant sexism
- Control of the Media
- Obsession with national security
- Religion and government are intertwined
- Corporate power is shielded/protected
- Labor is suppressed
- Disdain for intellectuals and the arts
- Obsession with crime and punishment
- Rampant cronyism and corruption
- Fraudulent elections
imthevicar
(811 posts)Too Big To Fail!