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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 11:18 AM
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White House Orchestrated Taxpayer-Funded Trips to Help Republican Candidates
Source: House Oversight Committee - Waxman

A draft Committee report circulated by Chairman Waxman finds that in the months before the 2006 elections, the White House Office of Political Affairs “enlisted agency heads across government in a coordinated effort to elect Republican candidates to Congress,” directing them “to make hundreds of trips – most at taxpayer expense – for the purpose of increasing the electability of Republicans.”

Read more: http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=2222


Many docs @ link
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 11:31 AM
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1. And why aren't these people in jail?
Why is there no impeachment in process?

Is there any rule of law the Bush Administration HASN'T VIOLATED? :shrug:

:wtf:
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1monster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 12:09 PM
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6. They're working on violating them all, but, darn, give them a break. There are so many laws and
they've only had just under eight years to do the job. They're trying to get through them all just as fast as they can...

Is there any rule of law the Bush Administration HASN'T VIOLATED?
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barbtries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 07:52 PM
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38. really!
lock the bastards up! forcing me to pay to campaign against myself?! no fucking way. jeezus.

i'm just barely hanging on until obama takes over the white house and the democrats gain a comfortable majority...and if i don't see some SERIOUS JUSTICE i will die a bitter woman.
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Believing Is Art Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 11:33 AM
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2. Ugh,
Am I the only person in the country that thinks we need an amendment that deals with situations when all other systems of checks and balances fail?
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 02:53 PM
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24. I think that's what
..the 2nd amendment was supposed to be for. ;)
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 11:37 AM
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3. We have one. Turn off the "Biggest Loser", and listen to Jefferson,
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure.

Thomas Jefferson
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Best_man23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 04:02 PM
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36. Amen to that
Mr Jefferson's writing is still relevant, and one of my favourite presidents.
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seafan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 11:46 AM
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4. Reminds me of Ms. Lurita Doan asking how to help 'our candidates.'
GSA Chief Is Accused of Playing Politics

Doan Denies 'Improper' Use of Agency for GOP

By Scott Higham and Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, March 26, 2007; A01



Former GSA chief, Lurita Doan


Witnesses have told congressional investigators that the chief of the General Services Administration and a deputy in Karl Rove's political affairs office at the White House joined in a videoconference earlier this year with top GSA political appointees, who discussed ways to help Republican candidates.

With GSA Administrator Lurita Alexis Doan and up to 40 regional administrators on hand, J. Scott Jennings, the White House's deputy director of political affairs, gave a PowerPoint presentation on Jan. 26 of polling data about the 2006 elections.

When Jennings concluded his presentation to the GSA political appointees, Doan allegedly asked them how they could "help 'our candidates' in the next elections," according to a March 6 letter to Doan from Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Waxman said in the letter that one method suggested was using "targeted public events, such as the opening of federal facilities around the country."

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White House Orchestrated Taxpayer-Funded Trips to Help Republican Candidates, October 15, 2008



Old thread on Doan



There won't be enough jail cells for all of these people.
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 03:53 PM
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31. another name never to forget
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Winterblues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 11:46 AM
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5. "IMPEACHMENT IS OFF THE TABLE"
That really pisses me off.
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desktop Donating Member (263 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 01:52 PM
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12. Pelosi should go.
Why the Democratic party thinks Pelosi should be the leader is beyond me.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 03:48 PM
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29. Pelosi needs to be taken off the table
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 02:01 PM
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13. And what would impeachment get us?
A hand slap and alot of pardons.

I would hope, and I could be wrong, that if we're going to do criminal charges against Bush, do it after he's gone. We're going to have a much friendlier government with hopefully Obama as president.
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bjobotts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 02:21 PM
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18. Can't issue pardons if under impeachment.Justice, defends the constitution against future abuse
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bjobotts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 02:22 PM
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19. Those indicted would never be able to get government jobs again
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bjobotts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 02:24 PM
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20. Justice=confiscate holdings and properties of Paulson and Wall strt CEOs
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bjobotts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 02:26 PM
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21. Take back the $34billion in bonuses over last 7yrs to Wall strt.
confiscate their yachts, jets, properties including malls and foreign properties and holdings and give it back to the treasury.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 02:53 PM
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25. And we'd still get handslaps across the board
we don't have 67 senators to actually kick him out of office. Right now the best thing to do is just block anything else Bush tries to do and clean up the mess when he's gone PLUS further the investigations and prosecute when needed.
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barbtries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 07:56 PM
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39. and what did congress do?
bush said boo! and voila! the taxpayers are in for another 700 billion.
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wryter2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 03:03 PM
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26. And a Department of Justice that does its job
The current DOJ won't even enforce subpenas. How would we get anyone to testify in impeachment hearings?

OTOH, Obama had better not say we should forgive and move on. We need to turn over all the Republican rocks and prosecute the vermin that crawl out.
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 12:47 PM
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7. The Republicans will be so grateful that we gave them so many breaks,they will NEVER impeach a Dem
:eyes:
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 02:41 PM
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23. The first chance they get, whether justified or NOT!
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Overseas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 12:55 PM
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8. K&R for more info on blatant Republican hypocrisy. //nt
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 01:39 PM
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9. Rove involved? Who'd have thought?
Nah, couldn't be. :sarcasm:
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bobd0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 01:40 PM
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10. HEY, NANCY, HERE'S ANOTHER CRIME FOR YOU!
Edited on Wed Oct-15-08 01:41 PM by bobd0
Or doesn't this one count either, Nancy?

Check out Nancy's ridiculous near Palin-like bullshit at the six minute mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxYaSnUqIV4

"If somebody had a crime that the president had committed that would be a different story." -- Nancy Pelosi

So, is it a different story now, Nancy?

CAN YOU SAY "HATCH ACT" NANCY?
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 01:47 PM
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11. i beleive president obama will uncover a veritable shitstorm of criminality once he's in office
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 02:02 PM
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14. Yep - that's when we'll go full force after Bush
and tie his hands so we can't get all his cohorts pardoned.

Anything done now will simply end up as a pardon list for Bush when he leaves office.
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47of74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 02:03 PM
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15. Yes but all the scum will probably run for places they can't be extradited from.
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pleah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 02:04 PM
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16. So, how many crimes does that make now?
John Turley said that bushco broke about 30 last year. Has anyone been keeping a record?
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 02:13 PM
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17. YAWN ....powder... dry... impeachment... table...
Fuckers. They should toss pelosi and reid in prison right next to bush-cheney.

At least Kucinich is TRYING, but the bend over and grab their ankles twins are undermining and destroying any effort he tries to put in to bring a little justice to the country.
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 03:53 PM
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32. concise. to the point. HORR-FUCKIN-RIFIC.
When did congress lose its collective spine? You KNOW the GOP will be on every rule, on every move that we make, even if they broke them all. bastards.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 02:40 PM
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22. "Absolute immunity corrupts absolutely"
Evidence aplenty of that, isn't there?



And who is granting them absolute immunity?
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 03:09 PM
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27. Indict. Arrest. Imprison.
:think:
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Poseidan Donating Member (630 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 03:45 PM
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28. Bush is a natural-born tyrant
Edited on Wed Oct-15-08 03:46 PM by Poseidan
Conservatives, who are anti-tyranny, think if government has no power, it cannot abuse power. The problem is, government must use power. This is why conservatism is bullshit.

Liberalism is also bullshit, because while government must use power, it must never abuse power.

Bush is a prime example of the abuse of power, resulting from not enough 'liberalism'.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 03:53 PM
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30. Hatch Act, perhaps?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act_of_1939

But what the heck do I know? I'm just a kitty fixer.
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sellitman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 03:57 PM
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33. So many crimes it's hard to keep up.
Heck of a job Nancy!
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benld74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 03:57 PM
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34. WHOCUDANODEIT? Bet yur last dollar,,
every trip was disguised by having the agency head performing some type of official duty.
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benld74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 03:59 PM
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35. THIS ALSO HAS Roves prints all over it as well!
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 07:29 PM
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37. As always, just the one remark; imagine if a DEM had done this.
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