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Gaffetastic:
Vice President Joe Biden had his “oops” moment Wednesday speaking in a 49er-crazed SF when he told a crowd at a city political fundraiser that “the Giants are on their way to the Super Bowl.” - SF Chronicle, 1-18-12
Senior Democrat leaves House Ethics panel
Via AP:
The top Democrat on the House ethics committee, Alan Mollohan, will leave the panel _ at least temporarily _ while he defends his own financial conduct, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Friday.
Mollohan’s decision comes in an election year when his party is accusing majority Republicans of allowing a “culture of corruption” in Congress.
Mollohan, of West Virginia, will be replaced by Rep. Howard Berman of California, a former ranking Democrat on the panel. Mollohan has denied any wrongdoing.
The only evenly divided panel in the House, the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct has been divided along partisan lines for the past 16 months and unable to launch any major new investigations. If Mollohan had stayed while under his own ethics cloud, the chances for the stalemate to end would have been almost impossible.
The Wall Street Journal reported two weeks ago that Mollohan steered millions of dollars to nonprofit groups in his district _ with much of the money going to organizations run by people who contribute to the lawmaker’s campaigns.
Also, a conservative group filed a complaint with federal prosecutors this year questioning whether Mollohan correctly reported his assets on financial disclosure forms.
While Mollohan’s troubles threaten to become a major campaign problem for Democrats, Pelosi, of California, said in a statement that Mollohan decided on his own to step down and that she accepted his decision.
“The allegations against Congressman Mollohan originate from the National Legal and Policy Center, which engages in highly partisan attacks on Democrats,” Pelosi said.
“The attacks are an attempt to deflect attention from the long list of Republican criminal investigations, indictments, plea agreements and resignations which have resulted from the reported long-term and extensive criminal enterprise run out of House Republican leadership offices,” she said.
Wah. Would someone pass Pelosi a Kleenex? Does this woman EVER think Democratic wrongdoing is, well, wrong? This is the same gal who initially told us not to make a “big deal” out of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney’s alleged physical assault of a Capitol Hill police officer.
(Hat tip: ST reader Severian)
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PCD. I backed up my statement with an example about Duke Cunningham. No response to that example followed. I thought it was a great example. And you don’t use hyperbole?
The Democrats have practiced the culture of corruption to the point they can’t see how very corrupt they are.
you would be correct about Daschle stealing the government.
tom, Duke Cunningham didn’t steal the government. Yes, Duke was corrupt, but no less so than Harry Reid, Rep. William Jefferson, the ward boss in NO who stole Katrina relief supplies and hid them in his garage, than Rep. Jim Trafficant, than Hillary Clinton not reimbursing the government for an armored minivan for her to campaign from, than Cynthia McKenney using taxpayer funds to fly and put up Isaac Hayes in Atlanta.
You use the moonbat’s cry about Bush staling government. The truth is Gore got caught trying to do just that, steal the election, and “sore losermen” like you can’t accept that Bush was elected fairly according to the laws in effect when the election was held.
I also don’t hear a peep of condemnation from you for Bob Beckel and CA DNC member Bob Mulholland for trying to blackmail the College of Electors into voting for Gore instead of Bush to steal the election.
You are to believe that we don’t have a working majority of conservatives. Not ever Republican is conservative and additionally, there aren’t 60 conservatives in the senate.
10.7 Billion is less than 1% of the 2.5+ Trillion dollar budget. What you don’t know is earning you points for talking in the dark I suppose. I used to be a liberal until 1991 when I converted to conservativism after visiting the library 3 times a week for a full year. I had a complete change in view in every subject.
Liberalism is a disease in my opinion. It is a disease of laziness and negligence. It replaces common sense and facts for “feelings” and “rhetoric”. It has nothing to do with Democrat. Though many Democrats and Republicans have the disease.
You will continue to see accusations by leftists and the lazy drive by legacy media concerning alleged “cuts” in government spending but there hasn’t been for any topic in the last 6 decades. The American people deserve the government they vote for and they will continue to get more speding therefore deficits, and therefore more arguments about the “rich” when the top 50% of income earners pay 96.04% of the income tax. You can’t get an income tax system more progressive and yet the leftists want more from the income earners to give to those who don’t earn as much to gain MORE VOTERS. Legacy drive by media perpetuate that message.
I believe I may be a Liberal and I want No government and only 11 laws. How does that square-up with how you Rightwing freakshows define a Liberal? Peace
Baklava, Is it laziness or negligence that that discounts $10 bil in waste? That’s still allot of money, espescially for a government that is growing. You want smaller government? Start with shutting down the military-industrial complex we’ve created. At $450 bil + we spend nearly as much as the rest of the world combined! Insane. We could cut our Defense spending in half and still be spending over 3 times as much as the next biggest spender: China. How’s that for an idea?
tom, here’s an idea for you, end all entitlements. That will save a lot of money.
Good idea PCD! Let’s make the US a third-world country!
Steve if you want no government you are an anarchist. That is to the right of conservatives and even to the right of libertarians.
BTW, Nice name calling again. My sense is you get closer and closer to being banned because you can’t be civil and provoke fighting. I’ll be glad the day you get banned. You offer NOTHING but hate, bigotry, lies, misery and solutions for more death and bloodshed and then call others names.
Tom, I didn’t say it isn’t a lot of money. The problem is that you don’t understand the nature of the spending problem. You focused on something that is a problem as if it IS the problem. I’m with you on the earmarks as are most conservatives. But then where do we go from there? Are you PREPARED to understand the problem?
BTW, Over the course of 40 years the department of defense has gone from 50% of the federal budget to about 20%. What has taken up the 30%? Social spending. Anti-poverty programs. Medicare. Federal Education spending, etc. Again, you focus on the wrong thing as being the problem. Especially since national security is the one thing that the constitutions tasks the federal government with doing…
Take this for example. Where in the constitution does it say the federal government should spend money on stem cell research? It doesn’t. President Bush was the FIRST president to offer up federal spending for embyonic and umbilical cord and adult stem cells. Yet the legacy drive by media calls it a ban on stem cell research. THE POINT is that the private industry (yes corporations) have done a lot of research trying to make a supply for a cure due to the demand for a cure for whatever ailment there is including alzheimers and parkinsons and a whole host of other uses. Private companies found a whole lot of uses for umbilical cord stem cells and none for embryonic stem cells (they are too immmature) yet the federal government has to act like it cares (politicians have to act this way) because we have a disease in america called liberalism. If you don’t vote for funding for stem cells you are called names and people act like you don’t care and inject the religious right card. The debate in this country has centered around how much the X politican cares or doesn’t care.
BTW, If we already have cut defense in half in the last 40 years. We could do it again so that isntead of 20% it would be 10%. What will that buy us? Not much. You Tom, must be honest with yourself and be able to see the problem for what it is. Liberalism is the problem.
Education is the solution.
Here is the problem Tom in graph form for you.
It comes from this article
tom, no. It is people like you who insist on making the US a third world country like Cuba and Russia. Venezuala is headed in that direction. Zimbabwe is a fourth world nation thanks to that great Socialist, Robert Mugabe, but tom, you only want to share the wealth here, don’t you. You think you should be able to take what you want and the hell with how you got it and who you hurt getting it.
Here’s an idea, triple defense spending and make up the difference by cutting social “entitlement” programs. The military/defense is, after all, about the ONLY thing the govt spends money on that is required by the Constitution. You know, the Constitution, that document that is the foundation of our country and system of government…not that most liberals are all that familiar with it.
Although I think the left has a bunch of crazies, I don’t think your career will go anywhere in politics without campaign contributions. So, in order to be a politician, we must assume you have recieve your money from somewhere, and they are giving you money for some reason.
What I find ridiculous are the finger pointers. Especially the dems/dums. They walk around all holy, and accuse the other side of a culture of corruption. Most times the loudest finger pointers are guilty of alot worse than what they are pointing out.
You want to start curbing the amount of money going out…start with pork.
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Check the link out, it is a break down by Pork per State.
That is over 23 BILLION dollars in pork spending that senators include in bills to help benefit and pay for things that shouldn’t be getting government money.
Added to Bills that need to be passed, so they can little riders (leeches or ticks) that suck the blood off the Bill to benefit themselves.
Couple of quotes, instead of answering the questions and saying how THEY will do something or what they have a plan to reduce spedning…they instead ignore hte question and use it as a platform to attack the president:
Wow, I am not suprised he doesn’t want anything cut, pork barrel spending in his state is 1 BILLION dollars more than in California!
Now Nancy Pelosi doesn’t give a canned response as some of the others do, and gets specific and has a positive response to some of the pork:
I only identified a few of the more well knowns, but in all what incentive does senators and congressman have in reducing the spedning when it benefits them?
In a way, I do think the President should have line item veto power just for pork barrel add-ons, but it also worries me that line item veto power could be misused also.
Bak is right though (believe it was Baklava) that every time there a program the government is funding gets a little less than normal, so it doesn’t get it’s normal 17 percent increase, it only gets 10 percent increase this time, the Democrats scream and whine that we are cutting such and such program…like medicare, and then run to the streets and media whining that the President is trying to kill the elderly by taking away their medications….ect.
I will agree spending has gotten out of hand, but we are in a war still, and we have had 2 major hurricanes recently. Katrina is for a different subject, but to suffice it to say, that has pork barrel spending all over it to benefit not the poor, not the homeless, not those who need it, but to state officials and what they divert the money for. But that is the norm for that area, its been years on the government dole, money for hte levees getting diverted to other projects, ect.
Until we let our Government know, and this means both sides, that we do not want an out of control spending government. Just because you SERVE our states as OUR representatives, does not mean you have the right and power to play with OUR money however you see fit.
There needs to be standards and accountability on both sides.
Where in the Constitution does it talk about a Defense Department? “We the people” can decide that we want only entitlements if that is what “we the people” vote to do. The budget for the Department of Defense has gone up 47% in the last 5 years. The Department should be renamed The Peace Department and it’s policy should be to create Peace, universal Peace. First, the Defense budget should be cut by 50% or $225 billion, for 2007, Peace
Steve that is the DUMBEST thing I have ever read. Right after your quote it says:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
PROVIDE FOR THE COMMON DEFENSE, what exactly does that say to you. Seems to me that provide for the common defense means to establish a military. The problem is some of the “We The People” are very dumb, thats D U M B, Dumb.
Good Lord Steve I would hope by now you would know something of the lines you sling around. You really need to quit cherry picking your facts. Pull your head out Man – Lorica
Suuuure Steve…. Peace…..Like all those “peaceful” words you toss around as you go about busily spreading hateful propaganda and lies about all those “Zionist” jews that are a total fabrication. Is that the sort of Peace you’re reffering too?
- Bang
Tom was surly over my comments on the brain dead steve. Too bad, Tom. Find me a comment of steve’s that really adds to any discussion. I’d be thrilled to finally see one.
I was turned onto this site by another big fan of steve’s who signed himself, Dave in CO (I believe). Well, I just hurried right over here and sure enough, steve is spewing his drivel for all to abhore. Every word from steve begs mockery. It’s just the way it is. I pray he comes to be truly enlightened rather than his John Lennon type blatherings, but I fear it’s a pipe dream. So should I find him as I surf the blogs, I’ll ask him the only question for which I care to hear an answer, if he’d only give it. That is: How would steve use his psuedo-philosophical give-peace-a-chance crapola to thwart the attack of a terrorist, gang-banger or other ne’er-do-well who is intent on doing him deadly harm? After months and months, I still await an answer. I don’t hold my breath.
Finally, aside from the wars, hurricanes and tsunamis that have wrung money from federal coffers, there has also been a rise in people applying for federal aid. But all in all, it’s hard to find a politician that won’t spend our money. That’s why it’s neccessary to watch local politics a little more to see how these guys act on the smaller stages. A little tougher with those who jump right into national politics, but if we as a people are more vocal on this issue, someone will rise to the challenge. Alas, ’tis another pipe dream perhaps?
Marshall, steve(FN) did answer that question here. steve(FN) said he’d stand by and do nothing.
steve(FN) in his bid to become steve(FS) proved he can’t comprehend the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. In the spirit of steve(FN)’s rantings I demand that steve(FN) put the local authorities on notice that no police, fire or National Guard be sent to steve(FN)’s abode for any reason as steve(FN) wants peace. I do require steve(FN) to provide proof he has done so or his designation will change to steve(HFNMB).
Lorica, I asked about the Defense Department in the Constitution, not “the common defense”. And what do you suspect the “general welfare” means: that we all get free health care? Under Washington it was called the Department of War and Henry Knox was it’s first Secretary. It was that way until Truman when it bacame the Defense Dept. Why was it renamed under Truman? Nowhere in the Constitution does it say anything about a Defense Department and it should be de-funded immediately. Bang, not “Zionist jews”, just Zionist, who like Delay may or may not be Jews. MA claims he follows me around the WEB and then claims I’m nutz??? PCD,PCD,PCD, so sad. Peace
What is so sad, steve(FSMB) is that people like you wander around causing trouble with your damned stupidity with impunity. Free Speech in the US means we have to suffer fools like you, steve(FSMB). You live in a demented surreality, but expect us to be enlightened by your deranged rantings. You are the person who desperately needs mental help. You are the sad waste here.
You are so wrong about every thing and interject yourself into every conversation with the most insane posts. You really belong in a rubber room, not in a chat room or on a blog.
Yes he did. He would let blood shed because he said he would do nothing much more than the Islamic woman who pleaded with the Islamic man to stop killing her children. It was the day after that happened that I posed the scenario (not hypothetical) to him and he answered.
PCD, Too many letters in the acronym. It’ll tire your fingers out.
What does that acronym stand for?
FSMB = Frustratingly Stupid Moon Bat
- Whatever that one stands for it should be just plain “Jew hater”, if that hasn’t already dawned on everyone. I explained the origins of the whole “Zionism” propaganda mill, so if someone insists on using it anyway, then they’re just plain haters. No other way you can pretty that up. the laugh of it all is even if there were “Zionists” that were somehow trying to fight all Extremist Muslims, who the hell could blame them. The Islamists state every day they want to wipe Isreal off the map. When did it become wrong to fight back against people that want to annihalate you as a people. Its all stupid and bald faced bigotry against innocent people you want to demonize. Thats Steves game. But he uses “code words” and covers it with phoney “Peace” closings because hes to cowardly to say it in plain words. Thats what every generation of Jew haters do. They’ve done it for decades and decades. Hes a fraud that loves to hijack threads with his hate filled rhetoric.
- Bang