Challenge: My eighth-grade son's History teacher has challenged him

to come up with dirt on Tom DeLay or any other Republican leader after dissing Ted Kennedy (and bringing up the thirty-six year old Chappaquiddick story).

This teacher is always singing the praises of Fox News to his students and seems to be unaware of the excesses of Republican Leaders.

I want my kid to give so much information regarding the personal and political shenanigans of the GOP leaders that the teacher's brain explodes. (I know, I'm :evilgrin:.

Anyone with any dirt please post. Links to articles are very much appreciated.

Peace.

here to get away from the RW Fundies and NeoFascists. The Supervisor of Elections told the seniors at the local high school when he was registering them to vote that they need to register Republican or they wouldn't get to vote.

with what sounds like blatant RW propaganda exactly???

line.

The 5th richest man in the World, Prince Alwaleed owns a chunk of News Corporation and during the Muslim riots, he called Rupert and had him change the Fox Headlines to Civil riots. Watching an enemy that had vowed the destruction of the Western culture.

original news source:

frontpagemagazine.com
Saudi Prince al-Waleed bin Talal boasted in Dubai earlier this week about his ability to change the news content that viewers around the world see on television.

In early September 2005, Bin Talal bought 5.46% of voting shares in News Corp. This made the Fifth richest man on the Forbes World's Richest People, the fourth largest voting shareholder in News Corp., the parent of Fox News. News Corp. is the world's leading newspaper publisher in English. It operates more than 175 newspapers, in the UK, Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and the US, and distributes more than 40 million papers per week. In addition, News Corp. owns and operates an international collection of TV outlets, radio stations, magazines, book publishers and film studios.

After bin Talal purchased his voting shares in News Corp., on September 23, 2005, he stated in an advertising supplement to the New York Times, “When I invest in a group like CITICROUP, the Four Seasons, the News Corp. or Time Warner, my objective is not to manage those companies.” But this is not quite accurate, considering the Prince’s December 5, 2005 statement given to Middle East Online regarding his ability to change what viewers see on Fox News. Covering the riots in Paris last November, Fox ran a banner saying: "Muslim riots." Bin Talal was not happy. "I picked up the phone and called Murdoch... (and told him) these are not Muslim riots, these are riots out of poverty," he said. "Within 30 minutes, the title was changed from Muslim riots to civil riots."

http://www.atsnn.com/story/186566.html

You claim that your 14-year-old son is being politically harrassed by his teacher, you solicit responses from DU and yet you don't want to go into any more details? I think that is a very strange statement from a parent.

A complete cynic would think that you have concocted this story merely to solicit genuine arguments against Delay from DU posters for some reason. Since I am an incomplete cynic, please give some explanation for your cryptic answer.

MY job. If that's not a good enough for you, tough. And, just as a by-the-way, in the school wide election last year, Bush won over Kerry with 78% over 22%.

edit: corrected a typo on the percentage number.

WHAT I KNOW OF THE DEPRAVITIES OF THIS SLIME-BALL, DEGENERATE SON-OFA-BITCH. See my other responses, regarding using HOmeland security to track Texas Dems. \

I 'll try to find something on his involvement with Abramoff in that purchase of CAsinos in Florida.

He Has been indictcted for campaign contributions violations of TExas law and for laundering of those contributions recieved by the Texas Republican party.

it was, perhaps, inappropriate to bring up Kennedy's past (hard to tell for sure without context), but, it sounds like he is allowing criticism of republicans as well. And, for the challenge, he picked one covered with dirt.

If the OP's son does even a half assed job on this assignment, any attempt to spread RW propaganda is going to end up failing.

up in my estimation.

That and Newt Gingrich having divorce papers filed on his wife while she was in the hospital receiving cancer treatments.

on the phone to say he was filing for divorce. He was having an affair with his young assistant while he was trying to get Clinton impeached for his office indiscretion.

him 3 months before that she had MS.

And he got an annulment from the Catholic Church to marry #3 in the Church.

bleating about Bill and Monica. Yep, he was screwing this other dame at the same time. Talk about hypocrisy!

Iran- contra, contra drug running
Lying us into the Iraq war
Watergate

Laura, who I can't stand, was 17 yrs old - never charged with anything.

I can't believe at that level any teacher would espouse any kind of political beliefs--most of that stuff would go over their heads. He must be a real shit.

of govt. studied alito so he would be prepared. 8th grade, good brain exercise here and teacher gave a wonderful opporunity for student. haev fun with it. tons of info that is factual, dont even have to go to things that are jsut believed to have happened.

driving record as Teddy Kennedy.

That should make some heads spin.

I'd go for the Marianas/Saipan story, wherein Tom championed an employer who forced his female employees to have abortions. That ought to make the freeper's head explode.

"Truth, with jokes" some good info in there.

and look for documentation of that "I am the Government" quote when he was asked to put out a cigar at a restaurant

1. Cheney's secret Energy Task Force

2. Ashcroft's illegal campaign contributions in 2000

3. Boeing I - the $23 billion tanker lease deal

4. Boeing II - the $1.3 billion surveillance aircraft boondoggle

5. Bush-Cheney 2000's failure to report $14 million spent on "recount" activities

6. Haliburton in Iraq

7. Haliburton in Nigeria

8. The Valerie Plame outing

9. Withholding information about the Medicare bill costs

10. Daniel Montgomery, Director of the ATSB, accepting illegal gifts from airlines.

11. John Korsmo, FHFB chair and his wife Michelle, a DOL official, involved in illegal political fundraising.

12. The suspension of Parks Police Chief Teresa Chambers in violation of Title 5 whistleblower protections.

13. The Iraqi National Congress' use of government funds to lobby for war.

14. Misuse of the Secret Service and other security to shield the President and Vice President from dissent on the campaign trail.

15. Abuse of the Presidential Records Act, to shield Reagan, Bush I and Bush II from scrutiny, and leaking information about Clinton pardons.

16. DOJ and Interior blocking the investigation of oil leases that cheated American Indian nations.

17. Charges by John Dean that Bush knowingly violated the terms of the Iraq war resolution.

18. Diversion of $700 million in Afghan war funds to preparations for Iraq invasion.

19. Failure to account for $40 billion in 9/11 emergency response funds.

20. Use of IRS web site to disseminate political messages from RNC press releases.

21. Administration appointees with fraudulent academic credentials, including an Assistant and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and a member of the National Commission on Presidential Scholars.

22. HHS ethics investigations, including Thomas Scully negotiating a new job representing companies that directly benefit from his work as Medicare chief.

23. The non-partisan General Accounting Office (GAO) found that the administration engaged in illegal propaganda with its fake news segments about the new Medicare law.

24. Rumsfeld's phony list of Iraqi contractors, provided to Rep. Ike Skelton, that doesn't include key Abu Ghraib players Titan and CACI, or Vinnell, MPRI Int., SAIC, Eagle Group, etc.

25. The Defense Department failure to submit the required quarterly reports on how supplemental authorizations have been spent since May 9, 2003, a report that covered spending through February 28, 2003.

26. A dozen current and former truckers say they risked their lives driving across Iraq in empty trucks more than 100 times while "dodging bullets, bricks and homemade bombs" -- trips their employer, a Halliburton subsidiary, billed to the U.S. government.

27. Deputy AG James Comey's attempt to improperly influence the Supreme Court deliberations and/or poison any potential jury pool in the Jose Padilla 'unlawful combatant' case.

28. The DoD/DoJ coverup of the chain of command responsibility for Abu Ghraib tortures. As of 6/9/04, no commissioned officer is facing Court Martial charges for the events at the prison.
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29. Attorney General John Ashcroft's obstruction of Congressional investigators by refusing to provide an unclassified memorandum reported to instruct Administration officials on methods to avoid culpability for torture and other war crime violations against prisoners.

30. Using Doug Feith, a political employee, to award no-bid contracts, coordinated with the Vice President's Chief of Staff, to the Vice President's former firm, Haliburton.

31. Bush's putting ideology above science in policy development, resulting in, among other things, allowing a Cabinet Secretary to withhold evidence in a Congressional Hearing and permitting idustry lobbyists to write mercury pollution legislation according to their profit desires instead of sound science.

32. Attorney General John Ashcroft giving false evidence under oath, according to the testimony of two FBI agents.

33. The Justice Department release without trial of terror suspect Nabil al-Marabh for deportation to Syria.

34. The Department of Homeland security awarding a high-level security clearance to Faisal Gill despite his submitting an application that concealed his association with indicted terrorist Abdurahman Alamoudi.

35. John A. Shaw, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for International Technology Security, conducting "...unauthorized investigations of Iraq reconstruction efforts," and using the results "...to push for lucrative contracts for friends and their business clients."

36. Bush officials editing the EPA report on NYC air quality after 9/11 in a way that "added reassuring statements and deleted cautionary statements."

37. Misuse of a technology contract with Affiliated Contract Services to employ interrogators at Gitmo.

38. Leaking the identity of Muhammed Naeem Noor Khan, the al Qaida double agent in Pakistan.

39. The EPA delivered an advance copy of a rule for commercial laundries to industry representatives for editing, letting the industry define the regulation.

40. A GAO audit finds the Defense Department has an error rate of 95% in payroll accounting for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

41. The neo-con cabal operating out of Doug Feith's DoD office, ranging from the espionage investigation of Larry Franklin through the House and Senate investigations of a broader pattern of misbehavior surrounding Feith's operation.

42. The GAO reports that corporations are permitted to bid for US government contracts while using subsidiaries in foreign tax havens to gain a competetive bidding advantage.

43. HHS deleting a chart from its annual report that revealed the cost increases for Medicare recipients until Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) noticed its absence and demanded disclosure.

44. John Ashcroft's publicity tours to support passage of the PATRIOT, which, as Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) points out, apparently violate laws that prohibit lobbying by executive branch officials.

45. Conditions in the prisons operated by the BIA, which Interior officials report have produced at least 11 fatalities, 236 suicide attempts and 632 escapes since the Bush administration took office.

46. Department of Interior mismanagement of the Indian land trusts, and their legal battles against tribal efforts to gain compensation, despite repeated judical sanctions for misconduct and malfeasance.

47. The GAO found the Bush administration vioalted the law by allowing the insurance industry to impose illegal limits on Medicare recipients under a managed care trial program.

48. A serious breach of homeland security reponsiblities has occured as the Bush administration has sent an aging fleet of Coast Guard vessels into an expanded mission with an understaffed, inexperienced corps of Coasties.

Congress:


49. The NRCC's illegal transfer of $500,000 in soft money to ineligible recipients during the 1999 primary season.

50. The House leadership censored the C-SPAN cameras in the chamber during the three hours the they were harassing members to switch their votes, locking the cameras on the Democratic side of the chamber.

51. DeLay selling influence to Westar Energy.

52. DeLay using the FAA to chase the Texas "Killer D's."

53. Rep. Tom Davis using his chairmanship of the House Government Reform Committee to block the Haliburton investigations.

54. Rep. Joe Barton using his franking privelege to contact voters outside the District he was elected to represent.

55. DeLay's PAC contributions to House Ethics investigators.

56. DeLay directing Texas Republican Peter Cloeren to channel contributions to out of state PACs in order to evade FEC contribution limits in a Texas Congressional race.

57. The Republican Congress not only failed to tighten of the rules requiring pensions to set aside enough money to meet their obligations, but actually loosened them, giving the biggest flexibility was given to the most troubled industries.

58. Senate Judiciary Committee computer theft.

59. The Nick Smith bribe.

60. Tom DeLay's illegal Texas legislative contributions.

61. Tom DeLay's bogus “Celebrations for Children” charity, used as a front for political receptions.

62. Tom DeLay's abuse of Treasury Department personnel for political puposes by ordering a a partisan analysis of John Kerry’s tax plan.

63. Bill Frist's financial stake in a medical malpractice insurer, while pushing malpractice "reform" in the Senate.

64. Rep. Henry Bonilla's American Dream PAC, which has contributed less than 9% of its funds to the minority candidates it was chartered to assist.

My kids go through this stuff all of the time, we have to stick together.

Cheers!

that Sen. Kennedy was never indicted for anything. The whole thing was judged an accidental death. (whether or not the wingnuts agree...their the ones who first yell the claim of vindication or guilt based on court findings) Tom Delay is an indicted person. A grand jury has found that he can be held for trial for money laundering and campaign funding violations.

and go with the 60 or so scandals the poster listed above.

Senator Kennedy's conduct way back then was inexcusable and he's agreed with that too. I don't think saying a 17 year old high school senior behaved almost as badly as a 40 year old senator gets you anywhere.

Why defend the indefensible when there are so many fertile veins of Republican scandal to mine.

And ONLY Fox news, if he hasn't heard any of it yet.

Here is one of the juicier ones. This thing with the Mariana Islands is really nasty. Raw Story recently had an excellent post on it, which I can't seem to find now, but here are two other sources.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/09/real.delay/

http://freeinternetpress.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5378

bribery, corruption, etc. do pail a bit in comparison to the pass EK got way back then.

How about Bob Packwood ......
Trent Lott's motor mouth ......

Tell 'em your son's teacher is advocating that he watch FOX News. And that you object to the FOX news obsession with sexuality. They talk about homosexual movies and Gay Pride Parades, etc. It seems pervy to you! You don't trust the teacher's motivations.

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

if you feel that you're being "threatened!"

:headbang:
rocknation

and school board for shilling propaganda.

is disappointing. If I were your son, I would not even take the bait. That teacher sounds like a dick.

going to have to be able to understand the information that he will be giving the teacher.

While I'm not thrilled with the teacher's ultra GOP adherence, my son is showing some interest in any school work (even if this is not for a grade or even part of the period which they are studying) for the first time this year.

If it gets him involved, I'm all for it.

How about attaching a note to your son's paper expressing thanks for providing your son such a valuable learning experience; thanks to the teacher's challenge, your son has learned a lot about the effect media has on educating the people.

(or something to that effect, just to get your dig in. :evilgrin: )

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from his raiding a children's charity to give a lavish alcohol party during the RNC in 2004 to his involvelment with Abramoff to his quid pro quo legislation, to his outright blackmail of fellow GOPs in Congress.

If Teacher Moron wants to dredge up the Teddy Kennedy accident, perhaps your son would do well to dredge up the Laura Welch accident from nearly the same time period. She ran a stop sign when she killed someone. The inquest found that Kennedy hadn't broken any of the laws at the time and cited a strong possibility that Kopechne, not Kennedy, was driving. That bridge was hard to hit in broad daylight on a clear day when you knew where you were going. I've been there. A comparison on the two cases might be a lot of fun.

However, since he asked for officials, I'd suggest going to the top and Bush's nonservice in the TANG, his insider trading at Harken, his screwing the taxpayers to get a new stadium for his ball team, his history of bankrupting everything he touched, his inability to find oil in Texas, and the general culture of corruption he's headed in Washington since he got there. If Moron objects, then go into the lies leading up to the Iraq war, the outing of Plame and subsequent stonewalling of that investigaion; the stonewalling of the 9/11 investigation; and all the dozens of other scandals Pox News isn't telling poor blinkered Moron.

You might also write a note to the principal telling him/her that you don't appreciate the constant barrage of right wing propaganda in that classroom, that school should be a place for kids to learn all viewpoints so they can make their own minds up when they have all the facts.

Yes. Mention the propagandizing to the principal. Probably nothing will happen, but the teacher may get the idea that people are keeping an eye on him, and holding him accountable.

...that even the House Ethics committee, controlled by DeLay's own party, censured him, and bring up the details of each violation. That would immunize this from the charge of "partisan witch-hunt."

(state, county and national) elected and appointed officials who have been accused and/or convicted of sexual abuse in some form. The numbers are shocking.

the teacher, that's for sure. It's something every teacher lives in fear of in today's world.

:D In fact, I'm going to have to go out and buy a new ink cartridge at this rate.

Pull those names out and you'll have pages and pages of rebuttal.

Also, Laura Bush killed her boyfriend when she "accidently" rammed his car after he went to see another girl. Only 5 years before Teddy ran off the bridge with Mary Jo.

I did when my son was a senior in HS in 2004 and his PE teacher was bringing in military recruiters to discuss their future "options." It generated the opt out forms in my community which are used today.

Don't bend over for this BS. This is propaganda, pure and simple.

Sharpen your elbows and raise a holy shit storm. Don't back down.

Best of luck and do report back on your progress.

who are being indoctrinated and the parents are not paying attention. Or whatthefuckever. Teachers like the ones we are talking about are training a whole 'nother generation of unquestioning freepers.

Google Funeralgate

http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue45/pols.sci.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush082399.htm

in the Guard . . . not just showed up for free dental work on the taxpayers' dime . . .

his "secret" energy task force . . . in a similar vein, Hillary Clinton was forced to turn over the names of everyone on her "Health Care Task Force" meetings . . . and this was within 2 months . . . Cheney's task forces met in Feb 2001 . . . and he has yet to name the participants . . . I thought that failure to comply with a court order was considered contempt of court . . .

Go to the website www.workingforchange.com/blog , which is David Sirota's blog. He has a large amount of good information about Newt Gingrich's involvment in the Jack Abramoff/K Street Project Scandal. You could say that Sirota also point out Gingrich's hypocrisy on the issue of corruption. When you go to the blog look for the post on February 1, 2006. Then scroll all the way down to the end of the page and click on culture of corruption. Next look for the post from January 5, 2006 and January 12, 2006. In order to go directly to the January 5, 2006 post try the link www.thenation.com/doc/20060130/sirota .

Delay's troubles are just beginning and is an open case.

Please tell your child to take particular care and NOT BLAME NATIVES! You'll find the politically correct approach toward Natives in my area.

HERE'S THE LINK: http://www.tuscaloosademocrats.org/news.html

CORRUPTION CAFÉ: a trendy place for Republican feasting,
an editorial by Patrick Lancaster, 17 January 2006

Perhaps the ever-unraveling Jack Abramoff scandal will scare or disgust Congress so badly that elected leaders will clamor for complete openness and finally report all sources of campaign funding. The sordid story unfolds like a dirty napkin, as freewheeling lobbyists spread tainted Abramoff money around Washington DC thicker than bar-b-que sauce on a pork sandwich from a greasy-spoon diner.

Like hungry restaurant customers, Republicans at all levels of government never even bothered to consider if taking funds extracted using threats and other intimidation tactics was ethical or just. They just bellied up to the bar and put on feedbags under a “No Refunds” sign. According to CNN online, the most recent customer to leave the feeding-trough in shame is Bob Ney who gave up his prime chair position on the House Administration Committee on Sunday January 15, 2006. Like other Republican leaders, Ney gave the cash to “charity” instead of returning it to defrauded tribes.

Even Republican Governor Riley, while claiming to have never actually met Abramoff, will donate his share of the loot to a favorite charity instead of returning the funds to original contributors but you can bet the southern meat truck does not stop with him. US Senator Richard Shelby (R-Tuscaloosa) also admits to a contribution that began with Abramoff in 2003. Tracing a rump-roast from hog parlor to lunch counter is easier than following the hidden political money trails slithering through pork-barrel politics, unless you catch them with napkins in place ready to munch.

Is it the fault of Congress? In many cases representatives may not want to know where funds come from, which brings the phrase ignorance is bliss to new depths. Certainly, when elected officials have plenty to hide, it is necessary to keep the public from knowing sources of dirty money: but can we blame Republicans who deliberately remain ignorant?

It is certainly not fair to blame tribes, since primarily non-Native casino investors or developers made most of the original donations. These same investors have been gambling mainstays in Las Vegas, Atlantic City and Biloxi for a very long time and do not represent the views of tribal councils. In many cases, these gambling cohorts were the very culprits that threatened or otherwise coerced their Native partners in the first place.

Gov. Bob Riley claims he was in the dark about the exact manner in which lobbyists, under the cover of U.S. Family Network received gambling money to finance him and others in elections. It is now important to be as fair to him and other Republicans as they are to Native Americans.

As a congressional representative in the late 1990s, Gov. Bob Riley signed a fund-raising letter for a nonprofit group closely tied to clients of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to a recent report in The Washington Post. The letter, written on behalf of the U.S. Family Network, announces a petition to block the Atmore Poarch Band of Creeks from building a casino in Alabama.

In all fairness to the governor, no one will call Riley totally ignorant of Native needs, after he wrote a letter that also hints at near local connection to the Choctaw Band of Abramoff victims. Is it fair for non-Native Casino partners to threaten tribes in Mississippi and Louisiana with big economic losses, while promising their participation will reduce competition and keep Alabama money flowing into their casinos?

With some contributions as small as $1,000, it seems unfair that Alabama Republicans got such slim slices of pork from the Mississippi Choctaw gambling partners, since the casino gave $250,000 to the U.S. Family Network. Instead of tricking him into taking a piece of poisonous pie, this network should thank Bob Riley for his kind letter and welcome him into the “family.”

It also seems unfair to keep the governor ignorant about this bitter buffet of bribery and extortion because Michael Scanlon was press secretary for Riley during his first term in Congress. Old friends should be more considerate and give the guy some warning before feeding him tainted cash. After leaving the Riley post, Scanlon moved on to the meat market of recently resigned House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) and then finally joined the lobbying operation of Jack Abramoff. Headwaiter Scanlon of this fast-cash café also recently pled guilty to bribing public officials (including congressional representatives) and defrauding tribes under the guise of lobbying.

The southern take-out counter is indeed small potatoes, compared to the all-you-can grab buffet Native gambling concerns served up under duress across America. The Senate Indian Affairs Committee reports that in 2004, Mr. Abramoff and Michael Scanlon charged 6 tribes at least $66 million. There are, however, no refunds at the Republican buffet, as most officials opt, like Riley to give these ill-gotten gains to their favorite charities. Do political campaigns of other Republicans represent “charities?”

Maybe the most unfair aspect of all is allowing Scanlon, Abramoff and DeLay to pick up the tab, since so many enjoyed stuffing their coffers, at political take-out windows during the Republican feeding frenzy.

DeLay either lied under oath to escape liability in a civil case or lied in his sworn financial statements to Congress.

The New Republic and/or Salon ran articles about this during the Clinton impeachment mess. I couldn't find those articles but did find a nice article from the New York Times. Excerpts:

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The House majority whip, Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, a driving force behind the effort to impeach President Clinton on charges of lying under oath, himself gave a deposition five years ago that is being challenged as untruthful.

At the time, DeLay was being sued by a former business partner who maintained that the congressman and a third man had conspired to cut him out of his ownership share in a Texas company, Albo Pest Control. In the deposition, DeLay swore that he was no longer an officer of the company and had not been for two or three years.

But DeLay had filed congressional financial disclosure forms saying that he was actually the company's chairman during those years.

**snip**

The lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed sum in 1994. Any perjury charge in the case could not be brought now, given a three-year statute of limitations in Texas. DeNisco said that had he known of the discrepancy at the time, he would have referred the matter to the Harris County district attorney.

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Source:
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/politics/020699impeach-delay.html

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

In theory it's about his career, but it's basically a laundry list of all the things he's done.

I found it when I was looking for a link about how DeLay's family took his dad off life support. Nothing immoral about that, just wildly hypocritical considering his vile behavior during the Schiavo case. Anyway, it's covered here too, along with juicier morsels.

along with the principal and the superintendent, if necessary. Write the local paper, call the local TV news...whatever it takes. It is COMPLETELY inappropriate for a teacher in school to 'sell' one party over the other. You need to raise holy hell.

We had a similar situation with my son last year and I went down and talked to everybody who would stand still long enough. I stayed calm, but I was relentless. The social studies teacher in question was making religious comments and would spend the first part of each class every day reading emails she thought were 'funny'. They were not funny to me. When she started in on how the Ten Commandments belonged in every courthouse in America and my son told her that violated the seperation of church and state, she ridiculed him and told him he was wrong. I did not take that very well and expressed my unhappiness loud and long.

She decided to retire over the summer.

All positions were filled, mostly by minorities. Poor Tom.


As the Houston Press reported in 1999: (Go to: http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/1999-01-07/columns2.html/1/index.html).


"In 1988, a little-known Texas congressman gathered a crowd of reporters in the lobby of a downtown New Orleans hotel housing several state delegates to the Republican National Convention. Clutching a pole topped by a drooping American flag, 22nd District two-termer Tom DeLay launched into a rather implausible defense of Dan Quayle, an Indiana senator freshly picked by George Bush as his presidential ticket partner.

Bill Clinton's draft-dodging efforts would become an issue in his successful campaign against Bush four years later, but now Quayle's own past manipulation of family ties to get into a national guard unit was touching off a classic feeding frenzy among the convention press corps.

DeLay seemed to feel the issue applied personally to him, and perhaps it did. He had graduated from the University of Houston at the height of the Vietnam conflict in 1970, but chose to enlist in the war on cockroaches, fleas and termites as the owner of an exterminator business, rather than going off to battle against the Vietcong.

He and Quayle, DeLay explained to the assembled media in New Orleans, were victims of an unusual phenomenon back in the days of the undeclared Southeast Asian war. So many minority youths had volunteered for the well-paying military positions to escape poverty and the ghetto that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like himself. Satisfied with the pronouncement, which dumbfounded more than a few of his listeners who had lived the sixties, DeLay marched off to the convention.

"Who was that idiot?" asked a TV reporter who arrived at the end of the media show. When he was told the name, it drew a blank. DeLay at that time was a national nobody, and his claim that blacks and browns crowded him and other good conservatives out of Vietnam seemed so outlandish and self-serving that no one bothered to file a news report on the congressman's remarks."

Edison Misla Aldarondo, Republican legislator, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempted rape of a juvenile.

Randal David Ankeney, Republican activist, arrested for trying to have sex with a 13 year old girl he met online.

Dick Armey (R-Texas), former professor, has been accused by The Dallas Observer of sexually harassing female students.

Jim Bakker, televangelist with Pat Robertson at Robertson's Christian Broadcasting network. Committed adultery with Jessica Hahn. Indicted on federal charges of fraud, tax evasion, and racketeering.

Bob Barr, Republican Congressman from Georgia. Sponsored the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act, saying "The flames of hedonism, the flames of narcissism, the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very foundation of our society, the family unit." Was married three times. Paid for his second wife's abortion. Failed to pay child support to the children of his first two wives and while married to his third and present wife was photographed licking whipped cream off of strippers at his inaugural party.

Merrill Robert Barter, Republican County Commissioner, pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.

Robert Bauman, Republican congressman and anti-gay activist, was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.

Parker J. Bena, Republican activist and Bush Elector, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.

William Bennett, Drug Czar under George H. W. Bush, compulsive gambler who has had to wire as much as $1.4 million to cover gambling losses in a 2 month period.

Howard L. Brooks, Republican legislative aide and advisor to a California assemblyman, was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.

Andrew Buhr, Republican politician, former committeeman for Hadley Township Missouri, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

Jeffrey Buley (http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/36931.htm), New York Republican Party's top lawyer, and senior political adviser to Gov. Pataki (R), arrested for assaulting his wife in a drunken rage. They have two young children.

John Allen Burt, Republican anti-abortion activist, convicted of sexually molesting a 15 year old girl at the home for troubled girls that he ran.

Dan Burton, Republican Congressman who, while married, fathered a child by another woman.

George W. Bush, Republican president, accused in a criminal complaint and lawsuit of raping Margie Schoedinger, who was later suicided. Accused by Tammy Phillips, a former stripper quoted in the National Enquirer in 2000 saying she had an affair with Bush that had ended in 1999.

John Butler, Republican activist, was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.

Ken Calvert, Congressman (R-Ca), champion of the Christian Coalition and its "family values." Sued as an alimony deadbeat by his ex-wife. Said "We can't forgive what occurred between the President and Lewinsky." In 1993 he was caught by police receiving oral sex from a prostitute and attempted to flee the scene.

Charles Canady, Congressman (R-Florida), Judiciary Committee member. Lied to his constituents about his adulterous affair with Sharon Becker, which caused her divorce.

Lincoln Chafee, Republican Senator, admitted former cocaine user.

Helen Chenoweth, Congresswoman (R-Id.). Admitted to a six-year adulterous affair with a married associate. In 1995, Chenoweth had denied the affair when asked about it by The Spokane Spokesman-Review, but now she claims a pardon from a higher authority: "I've asked for God's forgiveness, and I've received it," she revealed.

Keola Childs, Republican County Councilman, pleaded guilty to molesting a child.

Kevin Coan, Republican St. Louis Election Board official, arrested and charged with trying to buy sex from a 14-year-old girl whom he met on the Internet.

Roy Cohn, continually condemned gays and gay rights. Was a closet gay who died of AIDS.

Dan Crane, Republican Congressman, married, father of six. Had sex with a minor working as a congressional page.

Richard A. Dasen Sr., Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, was charged with rape for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.

Richard A. Delgaudio, Republican fundraiser and Bush pioneer, was found guilty of child porn charges.

Peter Dibble, Republican legislator pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.

Nicholas Elizondo, Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.

Larry Dale Floyd, Republican Constable in Denton County, Texas Precinct Two. Arrested for allegedly crossing state lines to have sex with a child. Age 62 at time of arrest.

John Fund, of the Wall Street Journal, a prominent anti-abortion columnist and GOP fund raiser. He lost his position after it was revealed that he impregnated the daughter of an old girlfriend and then encouraged her to abort his child.

Jack W. Gardner, Republican Councilman and former Marine, was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.

Richard Gardner, a Nevada State Representative (R), admitted to molesting his two daughters.

Newt Gingrich, married three times. Gingrich campaign worker Anne Manning admitted that she gave Newt oral sex while he was still married to his first wife. Informed one wife he was filing for divorce while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer treatments.

Philip Giordano, former Republican mayor of Waterbury, CT, convicted of forcing two 8 and 10 year old girls to perform oral sex on him.

Rudy Giuliani, had an adulterous affair. Pocketed $80,000 for speaking at a charity benefit for tsunami aid which raised $60,000 for the victims themselves (Feb 2005).

Matthew Glavin, has been arrested multiple times for public indeceny.

Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), Republican activist, was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a juvenile and one count of delivering the drug LSD.

Mark A. Grethen, Republican activist, convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.

Jon Grunseth, Republican businessman and candidate for Minnesota governor, withdrew his candidacy after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.

Mark Harris, Republican city councilman who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

John Hathaway, Republican Senate candidate, was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.

Howard Scott Heldreth, anti-abortion activist, is a convicted child rapist.

Mike Hintz, a First Assembly of God youth pastor, introduced by Bush on the campaign trail, and promoted his policies. Says he supports Bush's values. Two months later, this married father of four turned himself into police, charged with the sexual exploitation of a child.

Neal Horsley, anti-abortion activist. Has called for the arrest of all homosexuals. Admitted on the Fox News Radio's The Alan Colmes Show, that he's had sex with mules. Put photographs on his Web site of naked men engaging in homosexual acts and a nude woman engaging in bestiality amid shots of grotesquely maimed fetuses. Drug dealer convicted of possession of hashish with intent to sell. He calls for "the establishment of a new government, one that can obey God's plan for government."

Tim Hutchinson, divorced his wife of 29 years to marry a congressional aide he was having an affair with.

Henry Hyde, prominent opponent of reproductive rights, who had an extramarital affair with a woman who was married and had three children, during the course of which she and her husband were divorced.

Paul Ingram, Republican Party leader of Thurston County, Washington, pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.

Bill Janklow, former S. Dakota Governor and Congressman, arrested for drunk driving, disorderly conduct, assaulting an officer, and indecent exposure in 1974. Pardoned his son-in-law for multiple drunk driving convictions in 2002. Resigned congressional seat due to a manslaughter conviction in a reckless driving incident in 2003.

Bernard Kerik, had two simultaneous adulterous affairs.

Earl "Butch" Kimmerling, sentenced to 40 years in prison after he confessed to molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.

Lawrence E. King, Jr., Republican Activist, organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

Rush Limbaugh, has been married numerous times, has illegally abused prescription drugs.

Bob Livingston, former Congressman (R-La.) resigned from the House in the wake of revelations about his past adultery.

Donald "Buz" Lukens, Republican Congressman, was found guilty of having sex with a minor - a girl he was accused of sleeping with since she was 13.

Jon Matthews, Republican talk show host in Houston, was indicted for indecency with a child, including exposing his genitals to a girl under the age of 17.

Jeff Miller, (R-Cleveland), Senate Republican Caucus Chairman in Tennessee and the sponsor of Tennessee’s Marriage Protection act, getting divorced (as of April 2005) because of an affair he was having with an office aid. Miller described the Tennessee Marriage Protection Act as a means of preserving the sanctity of marriage. He opposed an amendment, however, which stated that “Adultery is deemed to be a threat to the institution of marriage and contrary to public policy in Tennessee.”

Nicholas Morency, Republican anti-abortion activist, pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.

Sue Myrick, Congresswoman (R-NC), describes herself as a "devout Christian." Committed adultery with a married man.

Bill O'Reilly Right-wing conservative talk show host on Fox News, sued for sexual harrassment by his producer.

Bob Packwood, Senator (R-Ore.), resigned in 1995 under a threat of public senate hearings related to 10 female ex-staffers accusing him of sexual harassment.

Jeffrey Patti, Republican Committee Chairman, was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.

John Paulk, lied about prowling for gay sex while running a fundamentalist group to cure gays.

John Peterson, Congressman (R-Pa), accused of sexual harassment and creation of a hostile work environment by six women. Peterson has refused to admit a crime, saying only "I may have been an excessive hugger."

Harvey Pitt, SEC Chief under George W. Bush until he was forced to resign in 2002. Worked for New Frontier Media, a firm which distributed teen sex videos.

Mark Pazuhanich, Republican judge, pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

Ralph Reed Former Executive Director of the Christian Coalition. Has called gambling a "cancer on the American body politic." Recieved $3.8 million in payments from 2001-2002 from a former aide of Tom Delay, which specifically benefitted two tribal clients in their efforts to protect casino interests.

Steve Rice City Councilman and former Mayor of Sterling Heights, Republican. Charged with possession of cocaine, a felony. Crystal meth was found on his housemate, Jeremy Burns.

Rick Roach, West Texas Republican district attorney who was elected in 2000 after running a "strong anti-drug campaign." According to the Washington Times, he was "once publicly praised for his efforts to stamp out narcotics in his part of the Panhandle." 2205: FBI agents confiscated two handguns from Roach's briefcase, before raiding his home and discovering "35 more guns, along with a cache of cocaine, methamphetamines, marijuana, scales and syringes."

George Roche III, carried on a 19 year affair with his son's wife, while serving as president of Hillsdale College, which "emphasizes the importance of the common moral truths that bind all Americans, while recognizing the importance of religion for the maintenance of a free society."

Beverly Russell, County Chairman of the Christian Coalition, sexually molested his step-daughter, Susan Smith, who later drowned her two children.

Rick Santorum, used $100,000 of PA state funds earmarked for that state's school children to educate his own children, who were not residents of Pennsylvania. source (http://www.postgazette.com/pg/04323/413787.stm)

Joe Scarborough, former Republican Congressman, currently a conservative talk show host. Resigned his congressional seat abruptly to spend more time with his family, amidst allegations of an affair. His intern, Lori Klausutis, was soon after found dead in his office. The medical examiner, who had his license revoked in Missouri for falsifying information in an autopsy report, and suspended in florida for six years, ruled the case an accident, after giving conflicting information about her injuries. He said he lied about them because "The last thing we wanted was 40 questions about a head injury."

Ed Schrock, two-term republican congressman, with a 92% approval rating from the Christian Coalition. Cosponsor of the Federal Marriage Amendment, consistently opposed gay rights. Married, with wife and kids. Withdrew his candidacy for a third term after tapes of him soliciting for gay sex were circulated.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, right wing conservative radio host. Promotes family values, estranged from her mother, opposes birth control, has had her tubes tied, espouses saving oneself for marriage, admits to having had sex before she was married, opposes adultery, has committed adultery while she was married, and has slept with a married man, opposes divorce, is divorced and remarried, has posed for nude photos which are available online.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican governor, had sex with a 16 year old when he was 28.

John Scmitz, right-wing republican congressman, who had had his committee chairship taken away from him in the California State Senate after issuing a press release attacking Jews, feminists and gays. Forced out of office in 1982 for having an adulterous affair and fathering two children out of wedlock with one of his students. His daughter, Mary Kay LeTourneau, was convicted of having an adulterous affair with one of her students, and giving birth to two of his children.

Larry Jack Schwarz, Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, fired after child pornography was found in his possession.

Jim Stelling, Seminole County Republican Party chairman who believes in "family values", as he told a judge. Filed a defamation lawsuit againt Nancy Goettman, a former county GOP executive committee member, for falsely claiming he had been married six times. Stelling has been married 5 times.

Don Sherwood, Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, married 33 years with three children; police in Washington, D.C. were called to his apartment by a 29-year-old woman who said he tried to choke her. He said he was giving her a back rub. <1> (http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/11530199.htm)

Tom Shortridge. Republican campaign consultant, was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.

Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr., Republican City Councilman, pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.

John Snow, Secretary of the Treasury, securities fraud class action lawsuit, sued by his ex-wife for child support, and has been arrested for DUI.

Craig J. Spence, Republican lobbyist, organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.

Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist, said during a sermon "I'm trying to find the correct name for it … this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men. … I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I'm gonna be blunt and plain; if one ever looks at me like that, I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died." Had an affair with a prostitute.

David Swartz, Republican County Commissioner, pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

Randall Terry, Right to Life activist, founder of Operation Rescue, involved in the Terri Schiavo protests. Once imprisoned for sending former President Bill Clinton an aborted fetus. His son Jamiel is gay; his daughter Tila had sex outside of marriage, became pregnant, had a miscarriage - she is no longer welcome in his home; his daughter Ebony had 2 children outside of wedlock and became Muslim. He has campaigned against infidelity and birth control, gays and unwed mothers. Terry himself was censured by his church after committing adultery.

Bill Thomas Republican congressman, had an affair with Deborah Steelman, a health care lobbyist who steered huge campaign gifts to Thomas' war chest.

Strom Thurmond, republican senator and racist, raped and impregnanted a 15-year old African American maid.

Robin Vanderwall, Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate, convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet.

Robert Waltrip, Bush campaign contributor. Runs a funeral company which had to settle a lawsuit because bodies were being dug up and dumped in the woods. George W. Bush, who had met with Waltrip, was subpoenaed but refused to testify in the case.

J.C. Watts, Representative (R-Oklahoma), loud champion of "moral values." Has out-of-wedlock children.

Jim Wesr, Spokane Mayor. Supported a bill, which failed, would have barred gay men and lesbians from working in schools, day-care centers and some state agencies. It called for screening prospective employees for sexual orientation and firing employees whose homosexuality became known. In 1986, West voted to bar the state from distributing pamphlets telling people how to protect themselves from AIDS during sex. He said such instruction “is something people go buy at dirty bookstores.” During a 1990 hearing on AIDS education, West proposed that teen sex be criminalized. The bill, written by the abstinence group Teen Aid, would have made sexual contact – not just sexual intercourse – a misdemeanor for unmarried teenagers 18 or younger. It defined sexual contact as “any touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a person.” source (http://www.spokesmanreview.com/jimwest/story.asp?ID=050505_west_politics). Had a sexual affair with an 18 year old boy.

Keith Westmoreland, a Tennessee state representative (R), was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to minors under 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).

Stephen White, Republican preacher. Was arrested after allegedly offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.

said he was giving a woman a back rub. Woman said he was trying to choke her.

Sounds like my wife and me.

bad press when compared to the minimum bad press of the GOP's scandals.

Oh. Yeah, that's right.

Thanks for the info.

Gonna have to buy two new ink cartridges.

What a list! Good job!

in the category "republican values" but then I got sidetracked - so this doesn't include the more recent ones.

... and a lot of access to the White House. He was a frequent visitor. He even visited when there were no press conferences.

Probably did a lot on background.

Not too flattering.

:rofl:

From Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_King

Lawrence E. "Larry" King Jr. ran the Franklin Community Credit Union of Omaha, Nebraska and was a prominent fundraiser for the GOP before pleading guilty to embezzlement. He was alleged to have been involved in, or the leader of, a child-sex group in Nebraska in the 1990s.

A television documentary on this topic, Conspiracy of Silence, was produced in 1994 but never aired, apparently due to concerns about liability for defamation. The Conspiracy of Silence article says that the reason it was never aired is that major legislation affecting the cable industry was on the drawing board and certain Congresspeople were threatening the cable industry with adverse consequences if it aired.

In February, 1999, a U.S. District Court awarded a plaintiff, Paul A. Bonacci, $800,000 in damages against King for various tort claims, including physical, mental, and sexual abuse. The award followed a default judgment.

The great bedrock of the history profession is objectivity--or it should be. This guy has NO PLACE teaching kids if he can't keep his personal views to himself.

Tell him about Henry Hyde paying for an abortion for his mistress.
Tell him about Bob Barr paying for an abortion for his wife.

Look at this website. It has a wealth of info:

http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Republican_Sex_Scandals

" President . . . is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation's armed forces about how long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy." ---Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)

"American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy." ---Rep. Tom Delay (R-TX)

"If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy." ---Karen Hughes, speaking on behalf of George W. Bush

"I had doubts about the bombing campaign from the beginning . . . I didn't think we had done enough in the diplomatic area." ---Senator Trent Lott (R-MS)

"Well, I just think it's a bad idea. What's going to happen is they're going to be over there for 10, 15, maybe 20 years." ---Joe Scarborough (R-FL)

"I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just learning that lesson right now. The President began this mission with very vague objectives and lots of unanswered questions. A month later, these questions are still unanswered. There are no clarified rules of engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition of victory. There is no contingency plan for mission creep. There is no clear funding program. There is no agenda to bolster our over-extended military. There is no explanation defining what vital national interests are at stake. There was no strategic plan for war when the President started this thing, and there still is no plan today"
-Rep. Tom Delay (R-TX)

"Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?" ---Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/6/99

"Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is."
-Governor George W. Bush (R-TX)

link:

http://dailydelay.blogspot.com/

It has massive amounts of info on tom going back the last couple of years in their archives.

also here are a couple of particularly good articles from Mother Jones:

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/11/10_403.html

http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2004/10/10_402.html

Rep. Terry Everett: "The Clinton Administration has failed in its duty to develop a policy to deal with our national energy supply and is therefore directly accountable for the higher prices Americans are now paying at the gas pumps."

Dennis Hastert: "House Speaker Dennis Hastert accused the Clinton administration Friday of misleading members of Congress about the causes of skyrocketing gas prices in the Midwest."

Rep. Wally Herger: "Congressman Wally Herger recently denounced the Clinton-Gore Administration's complacency during the current gas price crisis. 'Northern Californians are being held hostage at the gas pump,' Herger said. 'The Clinton-Gore Administration has demonstrated a complete and total lack of leadership in preventing this problem. It is a clear failure of domestic and foreign policy.'"

Larry Kudlow: "The Clinton-Gore administration’s hapless and incoherent management of foreign policy is nowhere as evident as in their bungling on OPEC’s oil-price hike. ... While crude oil prices could drop to $25 per barrel, they will stay well above the average $20 real price of oil registered over the past ten years. And way above the $10 worldwide average marginal cost of producing new oil. Meanwhile gas prices at the pump are likely to be upwards of $2 per gallon well into the summer."

Glenn Spencer: "In recent weeks, gas prices have surged to their highest level in a decade. Prices for home heating oil and natural gas are expected to rise by about 30 percent this winter. ... With the Clinton-Gore administration's policies largely to blame for the pain being felt by consumers, Vice President Gore's camp has pulled out all the stops to shift blame away from his own administration."

Various Repubs: "Representatives Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Menomonee Falls), Tom Petri (R-Fond du Lac), Paul Ryan (R-Janesville), and Mark Green (R-Green Bay) today blasted Energy Secretary Bill Richardson and the Clinton-Gore Administration for their failure to implement a comprehensive energy policy to deal with staggering gas prices Wisconsin consumers continue to face at the pumps."

United House votes to keep combat pay
Special allowances for dangerous duty set to lapse Sept. 30
Edward Epstein, Chronicle Washington Bureau
Friday, September 12, 2003


Washington -- The House has voted unanimously to demand that combat pay and family separation allowances for soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan be preserved when the new fiscal year starts Oct. 1.
The 406-0 vote late Wednesday night came almost a month after The Chronicle disclosed that the Bush administration wanted to cut such pay for the 136,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and the 9,000 in Afghanistan. The White House quickly backtracked after the story appeared, saying it would support extending the higher pay provisions.

The Pentagon wanted to roll back those special payments to their earlier level, saying the increase was costing $25 million a month.

THE PRESIDENT: Well, as I say, we haven't heard much from him. And I wouldn't necessarily say he's at the center of any command structure. And, again, I don't know where he is. I -- I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him. I know he is on the run. I was concerned about him, when he had taken over a country. I was concerned about the fact that he was basically running Afghanistan and calling the shots for the Taliban.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html

She also has a Republican Hypocrisy Archive... http://www.therandirhodesshow.com/live/hypocrisy

And remember that DeLay got into politics because he was in the exterminator busy and the government banned DDT. That DDT sure was good at killing bugs, who cares that it also caused birds, alligators, and other animals to be born with both sex organs. Who knows what it did to children. Anyway, DeLay got into politics to try and get DDT back into use.

and he was a true conservative republican! There were 20 kids in the class, and the class was always, teacher lectures, then gives his opinion, and me and this one chick used to debate with him. The rest of the class just kinda watched as the three of us would go at it.
And we would yell, interrupt, interrupt his lecture, stage protests, UNICEF fund drives (he hated the UN!)... etc.

This guy that I never agreed with helped to shape my life!

I don't have any data of GOP crimes, but I did want to reply to your thread. Peace and low stress!

as a substitute teacher, I was amazed at how many kids thought Saddam Hussein planned 9-11-01.

What do you think would happen if your kid stated, "I just don't think that Saddam Hussein caused 9-11-01." Then asked, "Classmates, raise your hand if you think Saddam Hussein was really responsible for 9-11?"

This won't work if the kids are smart. Each time that I did this, a dozen students would raise their hands. I always let the class debate whether Al-Quida or Saddam Hussein "blew up the towers".

Once, a 10th grader said, "Then why the fuck is my cousin's girlfriend in Iraq?" No one had an answer.

ps- Bush went to war with Iraq not because of WMD, but because Iraq did not live up to its agreement with the UN. Iraq complied with 96% of UN requirements. In the post 9-11 mindset, Bush felt that Iraq's 4% failure to comply was sufficient justification to invade / occupy Iraq. He thought it would be easy, that our troops would be universally well received...

THERE IS A BETTER WAY! <

Generally a conservative doesn't expect to be hit with:

This guy helped Chinese put "Made in USA" labels on their product.

(which is an oversimplification, but surely will throw any conservative for a loop.)

especially the chapter on Republican sex scandals. Great one about Helen Chenowith. Remember her? She was in her state senate before running for US Congress. Conason did some research and found that she had been indiscreet with so many men while she was in the state senate, and she was so incredibly stupid, that one staffer said that she was living proof that you CAN F*** your brains out. I laughed out loud when I read that!

A Donor Who Had Big Allies

By Richard A. Serrano and Stephen Braun
The Los Angeles Times



 Sunday 08 January 2006


DeLay and two others helped put the brakes on a federal probe of a businessman. Evidence was published in the Congressional Record.



    Washington - In a case that echoes the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal, two Northern California Republican congressmen used their official positions to try to stop a federal investigation of a wealthy Texas businessman who provided them with political contributions.



    Reps. John T. Doolittle and Richard W. Pombo joined forces with former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas to oppose an investigation by federal banking regulators into the affairs of Houston millionaire Charles Hurwitz, documents recently obtained by The Times show. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was seeking $300 million from Hurwitz for his role in the collapse of a Texas savings and loan that cost taxpayers $1.6 billion.



    The investigation was ultimately dropped.



    The effort to help Hurwitz began in 1999 when DeLay wrote a letter to the chairman of the FDIC denouncing the investigation of Hurwitz as a "form of harassment and deceit on the part of government employees." When the FDIC persisted, Doolittle and Pombo - both considered proteges of DeLay - used their power as members of the House Resources Committee to subpoena the agency's confidential records on the case, including details of the evidence FDIC investigators had compiled on Hurwitz.



    Then, in 2001, the two congressmen inserted many of the sensitive documents into the Congressional Record, making them public and accessible to Hurwitz's lawyers, a move that FDIC officials said damaged the government's ability to pursue the banker.

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010806Y.shtml

Go to http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/03/10/edi030005.html
to read all about it.

Giordano was the Republican mayor of Waterbury, CT who was the Republican candidate for Senate against Lieberman in 2000.

guess he's lucky he's a right-winger.

If in fact he's so concerned about bias in the classroom, he might be interested in this case.

As for Hot Tub Tom, he has been indicted by a grad jury, which means there is probable cause to believe that crimes were committed. A judge has upheld 2 out of 3 of the charges, and they will go to trial.

The House Ethics Committee also rebuked DeLay.

http://www.brazosriver.com/index.html

Ground Zero......everything you could need

If this were my kid's teacher, the only think that would be challenged would be him, by me. I'd be talking to principals, administrators, school board members...you name it until the RW blowhard learned how to keep his pie hole shut in the classroom.

teacher thrown out of teaching for his beliefs?

No. He doesn't grade on his political views.

Besides, I got my fingers slapped a few years ago because a student overheard me having a conversation with another student where I stated that I didn't like Bush and why. It was a long conversation and at the student's instigation. The student listening in complained, even though my main thrust was not taking my word or anyone elses word for it, but to look it up on their own.

This teacher has challenged my son and others to find information which is a way of letting them make up their own minds. Personally, I think that can be a good teaching strategy, challenging the student to show up the teacher.

While I don't like his political views, they are shared by more than 75% of the student body, their parents, the administration of the school, by the school superintendent and all of the school board.

Just how far do you think I'd get with a complaint? Espescially when my job can and does often rely upon their good will?

some of Delay's antics:

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0514-07.htm

more on Delay here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x177445

kids are the only ones who will learn something in school?

to get the information, but it is all there and more. It'll take a little work.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/politics/04cn...

Let your son take any of the books about Watergate to school. Give him a summary of the whole Watergate thing. That'll do for starters. After all, Watergate was more recent than Chappaquiddick!

Don't forget that Nixon's VP, Spiro Agnew, went down in flames from a scandal of his own, even before Nixon was out.

Then there's Newt Gingrich and his House Ethics problems (about his book royalties.) That took Newt down!

DeLay--the material is endless. Duke Cunningham. Boehner and his handing out tobacco checks on the House floor. Doolittle, who had even more connections to the criminal arms dealer, Wilkes, than did Cunningham. Cornyn. NEY.

Frist and his hilariously lame excuses for his violations of Securities and Exchange Commission rules.

Michael Brown.

Bernard Kerik--remember when Bush wanted HIM to be head of Homeland Security, but Kerik was so dirty, even the Bush administration couldn't whitewash him?

SPECIAL BONUS SEX SCANDAL: During the Kerik-for-Homeland-Security-Director fiasco, it came out that Bernie Kerik (a married man at the time) and JUDITH REGAN, publisher of rightwing tripe, were meeting for steamy sex sessions in a ritzy Manhattan apartment. What's the big deal? The big deal was that THIS WAS A VERY EXPENSIVE APARTMENT WHICH WAS DONATED FOR THE SPECIAL USE OF WTC CLEAN-UP CREWS, AS A PLACE WHERE THE POOR WTC WRECKAGE CLEAN-UP PEOPLE COULD GO FOR A REST BETWEEN WORK SESSIONS. A place where the remaining NYC fire and police personnel could find respite during their agonizing task of digging through the horrible WTC remains. And Bernie and Judith used it to go and violate family values by committing adultery and committing fornication! Gasp!

Judith Regan is or was the head of Regnery Publishing. This is a wingnut welfare publishing company which published Rush Limbaugh's books, and which also regularly turns out wingnut tripe from the likes of Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, etc. Regan used to have a news-talk show on Fox News Channel.

Now let's get back to impeachment days. Remember when a vacancy opened up in the House republican leadership? Bob Livingston was named to become the House republican leader! But... alas, he had to abdicate this position literally within about an hour of taking it. Why? Because Larry Flynt came up with proof that Livingston had a adulterous affair going on, and after all the repukes were in the midst of impeaching a certain democratic president for adulterous blow jobs...

Then there was Henry Hyde's YOUTHFUL INDISCRETION, which took place when he was a callow youth of about 45. Remember the ex-husband of Hyde's fancy woman? The guy got on TV and told all about Hyde's affair.

STROM THURMOND. Ah, sonny, this here is fertile ground! The old segregationist had... SURPRISE! A bi-racial daughter! Illegitimate! He had her by a young black woman who worked as a maid in Strom's family's home. (The resulting daughter is a well-educated, seemingly decent and intelligent person. But... obviously her daddy never acknowledged her publicly.)

Swell article on JOHN TOWER, alcoholic... article includes special BONUS BOB PACKWOOD MENTION! Remember Republican Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon, the kisser/groper?

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/11/03/alcohol.politics/

This article includes enumeration of GEORGE W. BUSH'S AND DICK CHENEY'S DUI ARRESTS! Hey, you can't beat an article which talks about John Tower's alcoholic disgrace, Bush's and Cheney's DUI's, AND Bob Packwood's disgrace.

Article mentions scandals from both sides of the aisle. "Former Republican Rep. Bob Bauuman of Maryland embroiled in homosexual scandal...Sen. Bob Kasten, Republican of Wisconsin: Drunk driving scandal".

RUSH LIMBAUGH: Addicted to NARCOTICS. Addicted to OXYCONTIN. Sonny, Oxycontin is SYNTHETIC HEROIN. This makes Republican icon Rush Limbaugh a JUNKIE.

BOB BENNETT: Addicted to GAMBLING. Republican pundit and author who preaches to others about "Slouching Towards Gomorrah"--that's the name of Bennett's book--turns out to be high rolling gambler.

JEB BUSH'S FAMILY. Wife Columba caught smuggling goods into country w/o observing Customs or paying required duty. Daugher Noelle--DRUG ADDICT. CONVICTED OF FELONY OF FALSIFYING PRESCRIPTION. Son George P. Bush--accused of stalking ex-girlfriend and of breaking into ex-girlfriend's home. That's called BURGLARY, son.

JENNA AND BARBARA, presidential daughters. Much fertile ground here, but latest is: Jenna Bush, while drinking in a bar, "loses" wallet containing $1000. Wallet mysteriously turns up in the possession of a COCAINE DEALER. Girls previously caught drinking in bars while underage.

Neil Bush. Silverado Savings & Loan embezzlement.

Connections of Neil Bush and brother of Reagan assassin JOHN HINCKLEY. Don't have time to find those AP articles, but will provide later if you want. Or you can go to Google and google "Neil Bush Hinckley Reagan". That oughta bring up the articles.

Marvin Bush. I believe there was a problem once in the last few years when Marvin's maid got run over in the driveway of Marvin's home. Fishy. Not sure. Will look up if you wish.

Sen. Prescott Bush, president's granddaddy. Ties to NAZIS. Caught trading with the enemy.

Doug Feith. Caught passing classified info to Israel, I think. Can look up. Or was it Richard Perle? Anyway, both of these neocons are servants of the GOP. Here's an article that gives the dirt on them, and on Paul Wolfowitz:

http://www.counterpunch.org/green02282004.html

Don't let the reference to Israel put you off. This is an article full of the truth about various neocon republicans. It's got scandals listed.

JACK ABRAMOFF. Need I say more?

Larry Franklin and the AIPAC scandal. Republicans heavily involved.

Gotta go right now. There's more, son, much, much, more! Why, we haven't even touched Teapot Dome yet.

Thrills! Spills! Corruption! Smut!

Welcome to the GOP, son!

I guess the same kind of goon who watches FOX and "teaches" history

I challenged them to choose a significant issue facing the nation and write a persuasive essay proposing action on the issue.

I have one student writing about why the president should be impeached. I have another writing about how animals shouldn't have rights. :shrug:

If your son's teacher is so far gone that he worships fox news and passes on rw rhetoric to students in the classroom, it's doubtful that any actual evidence presented to him will make a difference. It will just become an excuse for him to spout off canned freeper responses. While it might be fun to see him flapping his gills while he scrambles to find those responses, I don't think this conversation should be happening at all. I think a conversation with the administrator about the need for political neutrality might be in order. Our job is not to recruit them to one pov or the other, but to teach them to think and support their own povs.

I had a very right government teacher in HS. She had a massive Buch Cheney 2000 sign in her room, and even went to the inaugural ball. Well, I voted Rep. that year and have since reformed. I am studying to be a govt teacher so that students don't get stuck with the right wing bullshit.