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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:47 AM
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GOP Threatens To Extend E-Mail Probe Back To Clinton Era

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/bulletin/bulletin_070424.htm

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GOP Threatens To Extend E-Mail Probe Back To Clinton Era Meanwhile, Roll Call reports, "As Democrats gear up for a broad investigation of Republican e-mail accounts, GOP staff warn that the issue could come back to haunt Democrats, as the minority is looking for ways to extend the issue into Democratic e-mails as well. The revelation that top White House officials, including Karl Rove, may have conducted official government business over Republican National Committee e-mail accounts has launched a broad series of inquiries among Democrats trying to get their hands on some of these messages." Brian McNicoll, a spokesman for Oversight and Government Reform Committee Republicans, "warned that if Democrats want to broadly investigate the use of party e-mail accounts by administration officials, Republicans could extend this investigation back to the end of the Clinton administration as well.



:rofl:
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:47 AM
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1. Bring it on!
:rofl:
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 10:16 AM
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24. I double dare them to bring it on!!
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:48 AM
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2. Yawn
they won't find anything, and it will infuriate them.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 10:07 AM
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20. Not exactly - what will happen is
they'll find one email from the Clinton era that is somewhat questionable, and it will be held as equal to the millions of outright criminal emails under the Bush White House and will allow the media to label it as a "bipartisan" scandal.

And, 10 years from now, Sean Hannity will be whining about how the person that sent that one email should have been hung for treason...
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:50 AM
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3. And just exactly how are they going to do that?
Not even counting the relevance or lack thereof, they're in no position to start anything.
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:50 AM
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4. I got yer email right here toots!
:rofl:

They sure to get all big-mouthed when backed into a corner, huh? :sarcasm:
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:50 AM
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5. Now they are acting like a bunch of yappy little dogs. I say also, "bring it on." What the hell
could they investigate about Clinton that they haven't already investigated? This is such an empty threat.
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MUAD_DIB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:52 AM
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9. Excellent point. If they could have investigated it then they already would have.
Does anybody smell toast?
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 10:21 AM
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26. Well I did see that old Terminex Tom was blathering about the VT shootings and how more guns was the
answer. Like we care what HE has to say.
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:50 AM
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6. Ha! Like we're all concerned about e-mails from 8 or more years
ago, from an admin that is not in power anymore. Fucking losers will try anything to divert attention from their corruption.
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Jeff In Milwaukee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:51 AM
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7. Clinton Did It Too!
How many times are they going to pull that one?

Bring it on, fucktards. Bring it on.
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:52 AM
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8. Question--if GOPers can find 8-year-old Clinton emails, why can't they
seem to find recent WH emails?
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:54 AM
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10. spot on!
:thumbsup:
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:57 AM
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13. Exactly - and it's fine by me if ALL the books are opened from the last 40 years.
so how would the GOP feel about that?
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 10:30 AM
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27. because all the Clinton email copies are being stored in
daddy Bush's basement. lol.

Who the f*ck knows. This is just a way to make it seem bipartisan and to try to scare the Dems away.
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w4rma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:55 AM
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11. Fine with me. (nt)
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:56 AM
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12. I love the smell of Republican desperation in the morning . . .
Anyone want to google Brian McNicoll and see if there might not be something in his past that he's not anxious to talk about?
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mrcheerful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:58 AM
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14. Like I said, the right wing and their republican masters all belong in state mental hospitals.
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earthside Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:59 AM
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15. Yes, Rather Pathetic ...
... if this is the best threat they can come up with, then they must be pretty scared.
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magellan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 10:00 AM
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16. They're spoiled children
Blame others, and if that deflection doesn't work they start digging for excuses in the actions of others.

"Who broke my lamp?"
"Not me! Tommy did it! And Jimmy next door did something way worse last year!"

GOP - the party of personal responsibility: personally pinning responsibility on others since at least the 1970s.

:rofl:
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 10:00 AM
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17. Clinton is not the President
His administration is not relevant to this bullshit.

Will they ever stop blaming Clinton?
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Mist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 10:04 AM
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18. It's part of Rethug worldview that they're "only doing what Dems have done." This is
pathetic. Amazing the Rethugs think this'll fly. Whatever happened years ago has precisely nothing to do with what's going on with Rethug e-mails NOW. What goddamned bozos.
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EST Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 10:09 AM
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21. At the Nuremberg trials, post WWII,
there were two defense strategies that were totally disallowed:
1)That of "I was only following orders," and
2)"They did it too-we did nothing worse than our opponents did."

I want trials for these bastards that have the same stipulation.
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EST Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 10:05 AM
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19. I hope they do.
If there were any "smoking gun" here, which I doubt, it damn well should be uncovered. There is no longer any room, if ever there were, for lies, "spin," cover ups, bullshit and distortion. If it's there, dig it out.
But don't lie to me; I'm sick of it.

Republickers are the champion liars and always have been.
I am fully aware that some democrats are guilty of pretending that lies and distortions are preferable to the cold truth, but they are not nearly so endemic as are those on the other side. Even the very ground of their being, their notion of how government and business are supposed to work and for whom, is a huge attempt at distorting reality and concocting a structure of lies to support it.

If justice is to be done, I am convinced that fully half the republicker mob will wind up in prison and I hope it's soon.
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mrcheerful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 10:19 AM
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25. You should hear the latest spin on Cho and the courts failure to stop his gun buying
Edited on Tue Apr-24-07 10:20 AM by mrcheerful
it's not the courts fault, its all about Cho's personal responsibility. Besides theres to much government in thier lives. Yet here they are, its not our fault Clinton did it first.

From here to hear edit
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Zywiec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 10:10 AM
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22. I can't believe there is a requirement to have emails from Clinton's White House
What is the time requirement?
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Missy M Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 10:15 AM
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23. That's fine and how about revealing all memos and faxes.....
generated in the Reagan and GHW Bush era.
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