Q: What does Rove need to make corruption a bipartisan issue?

Deep13

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Mon May-22-06 03:19 PM
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Q: What does Rove need to make corruption a bipartisan issue?

A: One asshole Democrat from Louisianna who is also on the take.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/21/jefferson.search/

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havocmom

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Mon May-22-06 03:22 PM
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1. Yep. When did the investigation start? They held it for spin

Rove-

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LSparkle

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Mon May-22-06 03:23 PM
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2. He's getting an awful lot of coverage today ...

Edited on Mon May-22-06 03:23 PM by LSparkle

Whatever happened to Abramoff and DeLay and Ney?

I agree with Joe Conason (as reported on Franken's show this a.m.): do an ad featuring a crawl with our "bad guys" on one side and theirs on the other. Our crawl would include only two names -- then nothing -- while theirs would roll on and on and on ...

Bipartisan "technically" but in reality, this is mostly a RETHUG problem.

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yellowcanine

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Mon May-22-06 03:29 PM
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7. Yep, Jefferson or no, it is a REPUKE scandal. Remember the House

Post Office scandal. There were Republicans involved in that as well but that didn't stope the Republicans from hanging it on the Democrats and using it to help take control in 1994. The Republicans are in charge. It is their scandal and mostly it is Republicans that are caught up in it. Deal with it, Republicans.

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Vickers

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Mon May-22-06 04:49 PM
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17. That's an awesome idea. DNC, you listenin'?

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Deep13

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Mon May-22-06 03:25 PM
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3. And none of the coddling the Rs gave DeLay, Libby etc.

Congressional Ds should expel him from the House to show they are serious.

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SteppingRazor

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Mon May-22-06 03:27 PM
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5. To be fair...

DeLay and Libby didn't have stacks of cash in their freezers. And, yes, he should be expelled from Congress immediately.

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yellowcanine

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Mon May-22-06 03:37 PM
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10. No, DeLay was smart enough to take his bribes in golf trips to Scotland.

Edited on Mon May-22-06 03:38 PM by yellowcanine

For me, I honestly don't see the difference. Cash, free trips, fancy dinners, "loans" that never get paid back, "buying" my boat but somehow I still own it, etc....it is still a bribe.

On edit: Oh I forgot - putting my wife on the payroll but somehow she never has to actually do anything.....

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SteppingRazor

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Mon May-22-06 03:40 PM
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13. I completely agree. However...

a trip taken to Scotland some time ago, or someone buying a boat for you, doesn't have the same oomph as stacks of cash in a freezer. I'm only pointing out that, rather than this revealing the media's alleged conservative bias, this points out the media's far more pervasive bias -- the slant toward sensationalism

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yellowcanine

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Mon May-22-06 04:00 PM
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15. Yeah, well a BJ in the White House has a lot of "oomph" also but that

doesn't mean it is grounds for impeachment, does it? It is the stories without a lot of "oomph" where the real theft is taking place. Things like slipping billion dollar earmarks into conference reports in exchange for one of those golfing trips, for example. Not a lot of "oomph" in that, just another billion dollars our grandkids are going to have to pay back. Yes, that is what is wrong with the media - they are looking at broken picture window on the front of the house and they miss all the furniture and the kitchen sink going out the back door.

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SteppingRazor

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Mon May-22-06 04:09 PM
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16. Again, I completely agree with you...

I think these other stories are important -- a lot more important, in fact, than $90k in a freezer. But cash in a freezer's almost as catchy as snakes on a plane. It's just the media being the media.

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Deep13

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Mon May-22-06 03:38 PM
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11. Cold, hard cash, I guess.

We can be fair talking among ourselves, as long as we don't do it to the mass media or on the campaign trail.

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MallRat

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Mon May-22-06 03:26 PM
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4. I'm not worried about this.

The 1994 GOP takeover of Congress rode on a wave of general anti-incumbent sentiment, not specifically an anti-Democratic one.

The same thing is happening here. The GOP has much, much more to lose that we do. The collateral damage we suffer in a couple of House races here and there will be insignificant compared to the gains we'll make across the board.

-MR

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AndyTiedye

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Mon May-22-06 03:29 PM
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8. They Had the Media Working for them in '94. They Still Do

All that anti-incumbent sentiment was stirred up by the Repiglican media.

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AndyTiedye

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Mon May-22-06 03:27 PM
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6. They're Probably Running Sting Operations Against Every Dem in Congress

and they caught some boll weevil in Louisiana, which they'll play up 24x7.

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Doctor_J

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Mon May-22-06 03:32 PM
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9. A GOP-controlled media

oh, wait.

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flamin lib

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Mon May-22-06 03:40 PM
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12. Better question: What does it take to spin it back to the massive

Republican failure?

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Deep13

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Mon May-22-06 03:51 PM
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14. Don't know. One would think this and the lies about the war...

...would be page one above the fold and top story every day in the msm.

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