Jack Abramoff is reportedly accepted a plea bargain with the prosecutors. He’s expected to testify against other people involved in his dealings. Tom Delay may not be smiling too long after all.
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Tag Archive for 'republican'
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Jan
2006
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Dec
2005
The Federal Government is thinking of introducing a budget for the next fiscal year that would cut essential services from low income people across the country. The cuts are severe, and will hit the poorest the hardest.
Medicaid, food stamps, social services are all getting multi-billion dollar cuts in order to pay for the federal aid to Afghanistan, Iraq, the oil companies, Katrina relief efforts among other things.
What’s particularly ironic is that while victims of Katrina are getting emergency federal aid from one Governmental agency, the proposed budget cuts would cut other aid to the very same people. Give with one hand, take with the other? That’s flip-flopping with people’s lives, dear Republicans.
Meanwhile they’re still passing tax cut bills. Is there any sense to any of the Republican tax policies?
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Nov
2005
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Jul
2005
Honesty and integrity in the White House? Humbug!
Karl Rove’s defense to identifying Joseph Wilson’s wife as a CIA agent is: “I didn’t mention her by name, therefore I didn’t commit a felony”. What utter bullshit. That sort of defense works only for retards. You don’t become an advisor to the White House by being a retard, even under the Bush administration…I think.
Any reasonable person with a functioning brain will see Karl Rove’s word spinning as exactly that, word spinning. When you say Mr. Soandso’s wife is a CIA agent, I don’t think anyone is confused as to who was named as a CIA agent, unless Mr. Soandso has multiple wives. Joseph Wilson has only one wife.
Looks like when that defense didn’t work, he’s now saying that the media already knew she was a CIA agent, he was merely repeating information he’d heard from a reporter. This is, of course, the “if your brother jumped off a cliff, would you jump too?” defense. It usually doesn’t work for 5-year-olds either.
Step down Karl Rove. You’re about to face felony criminal charges, if there’s any justice in the White House.
I’m betting $1,000 he’ll get a presidential pardon on the same day he’s convicted though.
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23
Jun
2005
“Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.”
Fuck you Karl Rove.
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25
Apr
2005
Time Magazine is reporting The White House has excluded at least 4 of the two dozen US delegates for this week’s The Inter-American Telecommunication Commission meeting in Guatemala City, because they have made campaign donations to the Kerry Campaign. Individuals barred from entering the meeting by The White House include people from Nokia and Qualcomm, arguably the two most important companies in the telecommunications industry in the US.
It’s unclear from the article under which authority The White House has barred these people from entering the meeting. The White House spokesperson had the audacity to comment on the issue by saying The White House thinks people that made campaign donations to John Kerry “..would not represent the administration favorably”. I guess telecommunications industry innovation and standards are now a partisan effort as well. What next? The Republican GSM spec?
Looks like Nokia’s and Qualcomm’s competitors’ campaign donations to George W. Bush are REALLY paying off now.
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Apr
2005
Senator Bill Frist (R-TN) comments on the Democrats opposition of some of the judicial nominees by the Republicans with “…judges deserve respect, not retaliation…”.
The Republican House majority leader Tom Delay (R-TX), however, has been spewing hate against “liberal” judges for months, most recently against Judge Anthony Kennedy.
If you didn’t know better, you could take Mr. Frist’s comments as a swipe against Tom Delay. That would be most welcome, but that isn’t the case here. Instead Republicans are engaging in pandering of the most basic kind.
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15
Apr
2005
Senator Bill Frist (R-TN) is joining prominent Christian conservatives in an April 24th telecast and use the telecast to declare Democrats as acting “against people of faith” for their efforts to block some of the more conservative judicial nominees.
Given that the Pope also was a great friend of the Republicans and George W. Bush especially [1], well, according to the Republicans and George W. Bush, this political move is sure to guarantee God himself will vote for Republicans for now and forever.
We heathens will be doomed to eternal political minority, as well as an afterlife in hell. According to the Republicans.
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1. Apart from that little thing about the death penalty, of course
11
Apr
2005
1,806 people were arrested sometimes with distinct gestapo style tactics in New York City during the Republican party convention last year.
1,670 of those cases have so far been decided. In 91% of the cases the charges were dropped or the people were found not guilty of the charges filed against them.
The New York Times article also reports edited video tapes were sometimes being used to present the prosecutor’s case. Unedited tapes clearly showed people to be not guilty. The police, of course, is saying the editing was accidental. Sure…
But, hey, they were only protecting the President against grave threats. Surely their actions were justified.
-TPP
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Mar
2005
Makes more sense than all the “Culture of Life” bullshit spewed upon the masses by “well meaning” congress critters nearing the end of their current term, for sure.
Link via Kim.
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