This thread demonstrates that there is no shortage of participants in the REPUBLICANS "culture of corruption".

The REPUBLICAN "culture of corruption" could not continue to get away with as much corruption as they do if it were not enabled by the DLC faux-Democrats [REPUBLICANS LITE/NEW FAUX-LIBERALS]. The Democratic Party is riddled with moles, REPUBLICAN MOLES, a situation that must be remedied in the 2008 PRIMARY AND 2008 GENERAL ELECTION.

For the United States to be able to get out of the REPUBLICAN Bush War in Iraq, the REPUBLICAN LITE NEW FAUX-LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP COUNCIL, DLC, that COOPERATES to keep the United States in the war, must be unmasked for the REPUBLICAN RIGHT WING EXTREME ORGANIZATION that it is:

UNMASKING THE Democratic Leadership Council, DLC:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stan-goff/unmasking-the-dlc_b_39287.html

Democratic Leadership "Weaselship" Council, DLC Information
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1463

THE REPUBLICAN/DLC PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY:
http://www.newamericancentury.org/

Official Website for the DLC - NEW DEMOCRAT/REPUBLICAN LITE NEW LIBERAL MOVEMENT:
http://www.ndol.org This IS the DLC's website. Be sure and open this site because Hilary Clinton and Bill Clinton are front and center with their REPUBLICAN LITE NEW FAUX-LIBERAL PROPAGANDA that is against the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION.

The following is an alphabetical list of some members of the DLC, if you are unsure as to whether your Senator, Representative, Governor or Mayor, is of the DLC, then use their names and SEARCH this site to find out if they are members of the DLC. There are only a few democratic members in Congress who haven't been led to the autocratic RIGHT against the best interest of the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION:

http://www.nndb.com/group/269/000093987/

Name-Occupation - Birth - Position
Brian Baird-Politician 7-Mar-1956 Congressman, Washington 3rd
Max Baucus-Politician 11-Dec-1941 US Senator, Montana
Evan Bayh-Politician 26-Dec-1955 US Senator, Indiana
Shelley Berkley-Politician 20-Jan-1951 Congresswoman, Nevada 1st
David L. Boren-Politician 21-Apr-1941 Governor & Senator, Oklahoma
John Breaux-Politician 1-Mar-1944 US Senator, Louisiana,1987-2005
Maria Cantwell-Politician 13-Oct-1958 US Senator, Washington
Lois Capps-Politician 10-Jan-1938 Congresswoman, California 23rd
Russ Carnahan-Politician 10-Jul-1958 Congressman, Missouri 3rd
Thomas Carper-Politician 23-Jan-1947 US Senator, Delaware
Ed Case-Politician 27-Sep-1952 Congressman, Hawaii 2nd
Ben Chandler-Politician 12-Sep-1959 Congressman, Kentucky 6th
Bill Clinton-Head of State 19-Aug-1946 42nd US President,1993-2001
Hillary Clinton-First Lady 26-Oct-1947 US Senator, New York
Kent Conrad-Politician 12-Mar-1948 US Senator, North Dakota
Bud Cramer-Politician 22-Aug-1947 Congressman, Alabama 5th
Joseph Crowley-Politician 16-Mar-1962 Congressman, New York 7th
Artur Davis-Politician 9-Apr-1967 Congressman, Alabama 7th
Jim Davis-Politician 11-Oct-1957 Congressman, Florida 11th
Susan Davis-Politician 13-Apr-1944 Congresswoman, California 53rd
Cal Dooley-Politician 11-Jan-1954 Congressman,California,1991-2005
Byron Dorgan-Politician 14-May-1942 US Senator, North Dakota
John Edwards-Politician 10-Jun-1953 2004 Vice Presidential candidate
Rahm Emanuel-Politician 29-Nov-1959 Congressman, Illinois 5th
Eliot Engel-Politician 18-Feb-1947 Congressman, New York 17th
Bob Etheridge-Politician 7-Aug-1941 Congressman, North Carolina 2nd
Dianne Feinstein-Politician 22-Jun-1933 US Senator, California
Harold Ford-Politician 11-May-1970 Congressman,Tennessee,1997-07
Dick Gephardt-Politician 31-Jan-1941 Congressman, Missouri, 1977-2005
Al Gore-Politician 31-Mar-1948 US Vice President under Clinton
Bob Graham-Politician 9-Nov-1936 US Senator, Florida
Jane Harman-Politician 28-Jun-1945 Congresswoman, California 36th
Brian Higgins-Politician 6-Oct-1959 Congressman, New York 27th
Rush Holt-Politician 15-Oct-1948 Congressman, New Jersey 12th
Darlene Hooley-Politician 4-Apr-1939 Congresswoman, Oregon 5th
Jay Inslee-Politician 9-Feb-1951 Congressman, Washington 1st
Steve Israel-Politician 30-May-1958 Congressman, New York 2nd
Tim Johnson-Politician 28-Dec-1946 US Senator, South Dakota
Bob Kerrey-Politician 27-Aug-1943 Governor and Senator, Nebraska
John Kerry-Politician 11-Dec-1943 US Senator, Massachusetts
Ron Kind-Politician 16-Mar-1963 Congressman, Wisconsin 3rd
Herb Kohl-Politician 7-Feb-1935 US Senator, Wisconsin
Mary Landrieu-Politician 23-Nov-1955 US Senator, Louisiana
Rick Larsen-Politician 15-Jun-1965 Congressman, Washington 2nd
John Larson-Politician 22-Jul-1948 Congressman, Connecticut 1st
Joseph Lieberman-Politician 24-Feb-1942 US Senator, Connecticut
Blanche Lincoln-Politician 30-Sep-1960 US Senator, Arkansas
Zoe Lofgren-Politician 21-Dec-1947 Congresswoman,California 16th 1995-
Terry McAuliffe-Politician 1957 Clinton's Chairman of the DNC
Carolyn McCarthy-Politician 5-Jan-1944 Congresswoman, New York 4th
Mike McIntyre-Politician 6-Aug-1956 Congressman, North Carolina 7th
Mack McLarty-Government 1946 Clinton's Chief of Staff
Gregory Meeks-Politician 25-Sep-1953 Congressman, New York 6th
Juanita Millender-McDonald 7-Sep-1938 Congresswoman, California, 1996-2007
Dennis Moore-Politician 8-Nov-1945 Congressman, Kansas 3rd
Jim Moran-Politician 16-May-1945 Congressman, Virginia 8th
Ben Nelson-Politician 17-May-1941 US Senator, Nebraska
Bill Nelson-Politician 29-Sep-1942 US Senator, Florida
Gavin Newsom-Politician 10-Oct-1967 Mayor of San Francisco
Sam Nunn-Politician 8-Sep-1938 US Senator, Georgia, 1972-97
Nancy Pelosi-Politician 26-Mar-1940 Speaker of House of Representatives
David Price-Politician 17-Aug-1940 Congressman, North Carolina 4th
Mark Pryor-Politician 10-Jan-1963 US Senator, Arkansas
Harry Reid-Politician 02-Dec-1939 US Senate Majority Leader
Chuck Robb-Politician 26-Jun-1939 US Senator, Virginia, 1989-2001
Timothy J. Roemer-Politician 30-Oct-1956 9-11 Commission member
Loretta Sanchez-Politician 7-Jan-1960 Congresswoman, California 47th
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin-Politician3-Dec-1970 Congresswoman, South Dakota
Adam Schiff-Politician 22-Jun-1960 Congressman, California 29th
Allyson Schwartz-Politician 3-Oct-1948 Congresswoman, Pennsylvania 13th
David Scott-Politician 27-Jun-1946 Congressman, Georgia 13th
Adam Smith-Politician 15-Jun-1965 Congressman, Washington 9th
Debbie Stabenow-Politician 29-Apr-1950 US Senator, Michigan
John Tanner-Politician 22-Sep-1944 Congressman, Tennessee 8th
Ellen Tauscher-Politician 15-Nov-1951 Congresswoman, California 10th
Tom Udall-Politician 18-May-1948 Congressman, New Mexico 3rd
Anthony A. Williams-Politician 28-Jul-1951 Mayor of Washington, DC 1999-
David Wu-Politician 8-Apr-1955 Congressman, Oregon 1st

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I keep hearing this song in my head:
"Another one bites the dust!
Another one bites the dust!
And another one's gone, and another one's gone,
And another one bites the dust!!!"
Keep them dropping!
Drop the big ones!
IMPEACH BUSH/CHENEY NOW!!!!

From the Bayou to Baghdad: Mission Accomplished?
by Amy Goodman

During the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, several dozen public-housing residents and activists marched to the headquarters of the Housing Authority of New Orleans. The marchers occupied the offices for hours. As the military and police surrounded the building, Sharon Sears Jasper, a displaced resident of the St. Bernard housing project, spoke: “We are not going to stop. We refuse to let you tear our homes down and destroy our lives. The government, the president of the United States, you all have failed us. Our people have been displaced too long. Our people are dying of stress, depression and broken families. We demand that you open all public housing. Bring our families home now.”

In contrast, the day before, I had asked Mayor Ray Nagin if he made any demands of President Bush as they dined together the previous night. Bush had just spoken at a school named for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose issues of race and poverty are starkly laid bare in New Orleans. Unlike those who had lost their homes, the mayor replied, “It wasn’t a time for demands.”

Tracie Washington is the president of The Louisiana Justice Institute and a lifelong resident of New Orleans. She says only a quarter of the more than 5,000 affordable housing units in New Orleans are filled. “There is a feeling by our government that public housing of old needs to be dismantled, buildings shut. We have litigation going right now to change that, but it’s horribly slow, and it’s tragic.”

She describes the plan by which public housing will be converted to “mixed-income” developments: “Some of these developments that are closed down took in no water. But the decision was made to take advantage of an opportunity. Hurricane Katrina came. ‘Look what we can do. We can keep these people away from here, bring in the bulldozers, tear down this housing.’ ”

It is not just renters. Private housing is being demolished as well. Washington described how the city instituted a stunning policy to allow the legal demolition of homes. Whereas once homeowners would have at least 120 days and several layers of appeals to prevent their homes from being demolished, Nagin instituted an “Imminent Health Threat Demolition”ordinance. He now gives residents only 30 days to stop demolition.

To the tens of thousands of New Orleanians scattered across the country, the city’s scant notice-a sticker attached to the property plus mentions on a city website and in The Times-Picayune newspaper-is clearly insufficient. According to The Times-Picayune, in addition to homes being destroyed, liens are placed on properties for the cost of the demolition, setting the stage for the displaced owners to lose their property to the city.

That is why groups like Common Ground Collective, The Louisiana Justice Institute and People’s Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition are taking action, on the streets and in the courts.

According to Common Ground’s founder, Malik Rahim, of the more than 12,000 people previously in the lower 9th Ward, only about 400 live there now. Where once there was a dense, vibrant African-American neighborhood, I walked with Rahim through tall marsh grass, vacant lots and destroyed churches and schools. A few isolated, damaged brick homes remain.

Curtis Muhammad, a longtime resident of New Orleans and a member of People’s Organizing Committee, believes the economic interests driving the failing reconstruction must be investigated. “People see [Donald] Trump down here trying to buy real estate, the big tycoons. The gated communities are growing faster and faster. Look at public housing. They could have knocked that out in a week if they wanted to, cleaned it up. That’s a lot of people that they could have just brought home. You can’t explain that.”

Two years after Katrina, as Bush flew from the bayou to Baghdad, a People’s Hurricane tribunal-putting every level of government on trial-was wrapping up in New Orleans. A group was selling T-shirts there that reads: “Don’t believe the hype. Gulf Coast recovery is not ‘slow’-it is a privatization scheme that takes away our homes, schools, hospitals and human rights.” Mission accomplished?

Amy Goodman is the host of “Democracy Now!,” a daily international TV/radio news hour airing on 500 stations in North America.

Kristol: Another Dishonorable Chicken-hawk
by Cindy Sheehan

I know just a little bit about Mr. William Kristol:

He is the son of one of the founders of the “neo-conservative” movement, Irving Kristol .

He is a commentator on Fox News.

He was Chief of Staff for one of the political “geniuses” of our time: VP Dan Quayle.

He is editor of another Rupert Murdoch war-propaganda rag, “The Weekly Standard.”

He is a member, and signer, of the Project for the New American Century[http://www.newamericancentury.org/], which is a game plan for US global hegemony based on military strength and one of its goals and objectives was the over-throw of the Hussein Regime in Iraq with a next stop in Iran and Syria (because the PNAC plan is going so well, so far).

By all accounts, Mr. Kristol is a brilliant man, who like his father before him, uses his brilliance for destruction. He is a shameless supporter of a failed, murderous, and miserable strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan and one of the “mushroom cloud” crowd.

One thing Mr. William Kristol is not, is a combat vet.

Although he was born in 1952, he never served during Vietnam. I am sure while at Harvard he was a staunch supporter of the American effort to enrich the war profiteers while ostensibly stopping that war’s “enemy” communism from spreading across Asia. Secure in his studies during that quagmire, Kristol joins a long line of neo-con chicken-hawks who are drenched in other people’s blood and love to send other people’s children to die for their lies.

I don’t know anything, or care to know anything about Mr. Kristol’s private life. I don’t care if he is another closeted gay Republican or is a happily married hetero with children. I do suspect, however, that if Mr. Kristol is married, his children are not serving in Iraq, being misused by the very same incompetent and cowardly Commander in Chief (who also did not serve in Vietnam) that Mr. Kristol shamelessly supports while the entire administration and Republican hypocrites are crumbling from corruption and scandal.

I do know one thing for sure about Mr. Kristol, he does not like to be bothered with those pesky little things called facts. On February 20, 2003, Mr. Kristol incredibly gushed: “If we free the people of Iraq, we will be respected in the Arab world.” This statement shows an amazing lack of knowledge of the Arab world or any kind of foreign policy sophistication (but does show a great use of Rovian-Foxian expolitation of emotion). No one in the Arab world (except maybe, Israel, which is geographically located in the “Arab world”) was calling for the US to “free” Iraqis. No one from Iraq except “Curveball” or the slimy and profit-motivated, Ahmad Chalabi, both Iraqis who weren’t even living in the country at the time of the invasion were calling on the USA to liberate them. In fact, after many years of murderous sanctions against Iraq, a fierce nationalism arose in opposition to the US-UN led sanctions. According to National Intelligence Estimates, since the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq, Islamic Jihadism has increased. Mr. Kristol is also incredibly ignorant of human nature and human history. No peoples like to be occupied. No child, brother or sister, or mother or father, who sees a loved one blown away by American or insurgent’s bombs will love the oppressor. In fact, violence only creates more violence and more life-long enemies.

Now Mr. Kristol is safe behind his desk and computer calling for another attack against Iran. I think he hears the non-existent cries of the Iranian people to be liberated from their regime. The Iranian people are directly next-door to Iraq and they see what US “liberation” brings. It comes with the awful price of high civilian casualties; hospitals bombed, Doctors killed; no electricity or clean water; and eternal occupation.

In a recent op-ed for The Weekly Standard, Mr. Kristol makes many more tactical and fundamental errors. The ANSWER coalition is calling for mass mobilizations begining the week (Sept. 15) that the White House authored Petraeus report on the surge is due. Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), who are leading the September 15th march, are calling for a “die-in” to end the march and begin the rally. The vets, unlike the chicken-hawk neocons, have actually served in war, particularly the one that Mr. Kristol imagines is such a success. IVAW is asking activists to represent a killed service-member and at an appropriate time lie down. Taps will be played and also a simulated 21-gun salute. It sounds respectful to me, being the mom of one of the soldiers, and I will proudly, yet sorrowfully, be lying down for my son that day. Many of the march/rally participants will be “dying” to represent the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have been killed for Mr. Kristol’s deceptions.

Mr. Kristol calls on the “honorable” members of the anti-war movement to denounce the die-in and lumps MoveOn.org with other organizers of the die-in. MoveOn is not associated with the die-in as they do not support non-violent, direct civil disobedience. What I find so amusing is that Mr. PNAC-Fox News-Chicken-hawk has made himself the judge of what is honorable.

Mr. Kristol has a problem with the anti-war movement using the names of the fallen without the permission of the families. No one got my permission when my sons portrait was used in the pro-war memorial at Arlington Cemetery. Casey’s name and likeness has been used by pro-war people all over the nation without my permission. Why is that okay, Mr. Kristol? I know for a fact such memorials as Arlington West, Eyes Wide Open and our memorial at Camp Casey would remove names of soldiers at the next of kin’s request. If any family member so requests, I am sure IVAW will do the same thing—but a word of caution:

Even though the members of IVAW (all my adopted sons and daughters) have a big problem with the occupation of Iraq and with the Bush crime family, they served their country honorably (unlike Mr. Kristol) and they all fought side-by-side with the fallen. They love their brothers and sisters and they would themselves have died to take the place of any one of them. Do not, never, ever, claim that we families, or the Iraq Vets are dishonoring our sons and daughters killed by the lies of The Weekly Standard , Fox News, BushCo., et al. That is the biggest lie of all, or maybe it’s this one that Mr. Kristol told on March 1, 2003:

“Very few wars in American history were prepared better or more thoroughly than this one by this president.”

I would laugh if I weren’t crying so hard.

If Mr. Kristol gets his PNAC way, by this time next year, we will need a lot more people at a die-in.

www.CindyForCongress.org

i cant believe how dumb you guys are. youve spent the last 8 years bashing republicans and nothing to get a candidate into the white house.

Norman Hsu, where are you?

I was reading something before I came to this site. A book called the Aquariums of Pyongyang. And it was amazing. A really good book. The author at one time recalled his life in north Korea and mentioned his "education" in the north's school system and the constant propaganda that expounded the evils of America, Britain and the west in general and the lists of people who were against the regime and who were in political prisons. After reading this thread I realized something. Democrats are the same as the north Korean communists. Lists of people to be "purged" and the general indocrination of its followers. MarthaA sounds suspiciously like Kim Il Sung. Maybe there is something to it.....democrats and Stalinism. Man-sae!

RUSHBABIES,YOU READ? WOW, MABE YOUR A LIBERAL AFTER ALL. LOL.

RushBaby:

Get used to it. Rush Limbaugh, Ronald Reagan, Bush Daddy, Baby Bush and the rest of your REPUBLICAN ILK, started the REPUBLICAN propaganda campaign against the LEFT back in the 1970's, and have continued that REPUBLICAN PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN against the LEFT to this very day; so far the political LEFT, COMMON POPULATION DEMOCRATS ONLY, have engaged in a defensive action against the attack of the REPUBLICAN RIGHT, with regard to REPUBLICAN binary emotional rhetoric and REPUBLICAN dialectic, relative to the REPUBLICANS and their American aristocracy supporters.

The political LEFT, COMMON POPULATION DEMOCRATS, have not started a propaganda offensive against REPUBLICANS at this time. When COMMON POPULATION DEMOCRATS rid the Democratic Party of DLC REPUBLICAN MOLES in the Democratic Party, we will have time to concentrate on an offensive of binary emotional rhetoric and Democratic Party dialectic.

Since you are most probably a lumpen-proletariat REPUBLICAN, here is a definition of dialectic: dialectic is the art of reasoning and disputing to distinguish truth from error as well as the use of reasoning and disputing to make fallacies pass for truth.

"You people", REPUBLICANS, have engaged in a one-sided war of dialectic against COMMON POPULATION DEMOCRATS that started in the 1970's; that era is ending and a NEW ERA of Democratic Party dialectic for the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION is starting, GET USED TO IT.

RushBaby:

As far as propaganda goes, "you people" take care of your own REPUBLICAN QUEERS; the LEFT, the 70% COMMON POPULATION, will take care of theirs, REPUBLICAN services are not required. After all, Cheney's daughter is a queer. Most of the REPUBLICAN PARTY's "culture of corruption" is probably queers and steers of one form or another.

The 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION IS ENGAGING in the war declared by the REPUBLICAN PARTY. As Newt Gingrich once said shortly before you REPUBLICANS packed him off to the CIA, "GET USED TO IT".

RushBaby:

"You people" use propaganda against the LEFT, we use dialectic rhetoric. BIG DIFFERENCE!!!!

GOP:

WE THE PEOPLE, the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION, have been doing all we can to get a democratic candidate to represent the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION, but the autocratic DLC CANCER HAS SET ITS ROOTS into the LEFT and is in the process of metastasizing. Having another cancerous DLC REPUBLICAN LITE CANDIDATE to further the DLC metastasization of the LEFT is meaningless, as DLC REPUBLICAN LITE CANDIDATES will NOT represent the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION.

Right now the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATIONS BEST CHOICE IS TO "WRITE IN"

Mike Gravel for President [NOT DLC] and GRAVEL HAS GRIT

Dennis Kucinich for Vice President [NOT DLC] and KUCINICH HAS BACKBONE

NO REPUBLICAN EVER REPRESENTED THE 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION.

GOP:

We, the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION must do radiation therapy on the DLC REPUBLICAN LITE CANCER in order to save the political LEFT from destruction.

Remember, GOP, COMMON POPULATION DEMOCRATS don't use propaganda, unlike the GOP, COMMON POPULATION DEMOCRATS use dialectic rhetoric. We're Fair and Balanced as "you people" say.

GOPforlife:

First of all, we put up a decorated war hero who thinks about the issues against your candidate.
You know, the one who got his dad to get him out of Vietnam, who was snorting cocaine while our candidate was trying to make the country better.
We put up a man who was strong enough to admit he was wrong, and was willing to rethink when things didn't go to plan.
You put up your same guy, the one who wouldn't admit he was wrong if he mistakenly said 2+2=5.
Fool him once, shame, shame, on, fool him twice can't get fooled again...right?

You think the thought of campaigning against your candidate scared any of us? Think again...we thought that people couldn't possibly pick HIM again.

However, the special interests came out in droves.

There is a whole new category of political mud-slinging now. It's called swiftboating, where you can take a decorated war hero, and make him appear like a traitor.
Democrats didn't stoop so low, so we got knocked down. The problem is, this kind of malevolent politically motivated trash gives the side who uses it first the advantage, then brings the whole system down by its very use and nature.

Think about how much people hate politicians. Is it because they're "flip-floppers" or because they are willing to do ANYTHING to get elected?
These days the Republicans play off the Iraq war against the Democrats as a political tool, making our brave men and women die and suffer as pawns to their unwillingness to look at the realistic totality of the situation.
Military progress does not equal political progress, and hand-picked statistics can show the Iraq war as at its peak rather than in decline, as the Republicans want you to believe.

Americans shouldn't be dying for a government that cannot stand, and is not making progress in clearing the reasons for sectarian violence.
At best, the "surge" is holding back the inevitable civil war that will be the result of unachieved/unachievable political issues.
The problems in Iraq go far deeper than those the military faces, and until they are willing to make the first steps in solving the greater issues, our loved ones will be in the line of fire fighting for a long term peace that will not happen.

Military force is not the solution to every problem, and sometimes violence deferred becomes violence increased.

Wow...lots of writing, but nothing was actually said. What does Cheney's gay daughter have to do with the democratic party being a bunch of socialist pigs? I said that the propaganda the left spews out is equal to that being taught in Stalinist north Korea. And I get an answer like "Well, we use dialetic rhetoric, Mr. Rushbaby. There is a differance, you know." And judging from the volume of responses I recieved from that post, I am convinced that there is a link between Socialism and the democratic party. I think I struck a nerve. I guess you better get used it it, too. The Republicans will expose the truths of the democrats and the people will know the full truth of what this party is really about. Republicans have failed us, too don't get me wrong. But when iot comes right down to it, I would rather have a Republican in office than a democrat from the simple reason that after looking out for him or herself first, the Republican will bear the needs of the country next. I don't trust anyone who cares for other countries as much as they care for their own country. Teddy Roosevelt. Get used to that.

Oh and thank you peaceman. Yes, well maybe I, too have a liberal thread running in me somewhere. I like to read. :P

I also speak two foreign languages. I have to be liberal now.

RECENT DEMOCRATIC EMBARRASSMENTS

WHAT WILL IT TAKE...for Wimpocrats to actually do anything but name call, cave in and whine about how difficult it is to work with such a slim majority.! Baker-Hamilton ...just a foot note. Petraus report...most likely a crock but certain to be ignored if it's not.. Deadline for leaving Iraq....not even a voluntary deadline has a chance. Reid/Pelosi about to cave again. Illegal spying...we really disapprove but thought it would be a good idea to authorize it. Torture...no big deal anymore. Habeous Corpus ...shame on you Mr Decider but we'll go along if you really want to shitcan it. Kucinich resolution to impeach Cheney....no way. Feingold motion to censure...ditto.
Motion to prevent Bush from bombing Iran...we don't want to be obstructionists. Leave Iraq....we don't want to be responsible if things go poorly. Impeach....off the table.
Republican lite Democrats, the cockroaches Dean once talked about before he became a big tent guy, the DLC....firmly in control. Do what the American people elected us to do....forget that. The Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party...it's silence is deafening.
Anybody for impeaching PELOSI, OR REID, OR CLINTON?

rushbabies,i reluctantly must agree with you about the do nothing majority democrats,but they have to deal with the biblethumping bafoon of a president that will veto everything they try to do.mabe if we could get a few repubs to join us to overide him (they never will,blinders you know)than mabe we could right some the giant blunders he has made.mabe the way things are going with the repubs (seems they all are gay)then like you say,they have to worry about themselves right now not the future of this country.

And, here's another member of the REPUBLICAN "Culture of Corruption:

Former GOP Power Currin Going to Prison
By Titan Barksdale
The News & Observer

Thursday 06 September 2007

As a federal prosecutor, Sam Currin spent six years prosecuting drug dealers, pornographers and other criminals. Now, he will spend nearly the same amount of time in prison himself.

Currin, 58, whose career included stints as a judge and as chairman of the state's Republican Party, became the latest North Carolina leader to be sent to jail when he was sentenced this week in federal court to 70 months behind bars on money laundering and obstruction charges.

His attorney, Mark Calloway, would not comment about the sentence.

Currin rose through the political and legal ranks as a protégé of then-Sen. Jesse Helms. He worked as an aide to Helms, a conservative Republican who eventually nominated him for the U.S. attorney position and later for a federal judgeship, which Democrats vehemently opposed. Critics of the nomination called Currin a religious and political zealot and accused him of lying in a 1982 personnel hearing over his firing of a paralegal.

Currin, 58, was never confirmed. But he served as a Superior Court judge before becoming the Republican Party chairman.

Though Currin hasn't had a leading role in politics since he was ousted as Republican Party chairman in 1999, his actions could contribute to a sense of mistrust of government. Voters have seen Meg Scott Phipps, a Democrat who was the state's agriculture secretary, former Democratic House Speaker Jim Black and state Rep. Michael Decker sentenced for illegal activities.

"It adds to this sort of feeling of scandal and corruption in politics at the moment," said Andy Taylor, the political science chairman at N.C. State University. "Perhaps its another thing that Democrats can say when they point to Republican corruption."

Advocates for ethics in politics say this shouldn't be used as political fodder.

"Currin was a player in politics in a big way, but, unlike some others, his wrongdoing wasn't connected to his political works," said Bob Phillips, the state's executive director of Common Cause, an ethics reform group.

"I think it reinforces attitudes that are pretty hardened about people who have been in public service, and that feeling is that they are prone to mistakes," Phillips said. "It's unfortunate because that's a perception and not reality."

Currin, who has about 90 days before he has to report to prison, has agreed to testify against his former business associates.

The crimes he was sentenced for Tuesday stem from Currin's work as a lawyer in private practice.

Currin pleaded guilty in November to federal charges that he conspired to launder about $1.3 million that a computer spam artist made by inundating e-mail inboxes with stock schemes.

Prosecutors say Currin's role netted him more than $240,000. He funneled money from the scheme into his law firm's trust account, and later lied about it to a grand jury.

Carter Wrenn, a veteran Republican consultant and former Helms strategist, said Wednesday that he remembers Currin as a competent, nice person.

"I knew Sam pretty well back in the Helms years, and I'm sorry for him and his family," Wrenn said. "I guess he made some pretty unfortunate and bad mistakes."

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If Sam Currin was a Democrat, criminal behavior wouldn't be called unfortunate bad mistakes. One doesn't go to prison for mistakes, one goes to prison for criminal behavior. Currin wasn't good enough at his criminal behavior to NOT get caught, which as far as REPUBLICANS are concerned was an unfortunate and bad mistake, as the "culture of corruption" is whatever the corruption market will bear.

It is an unfortunate mistake of the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION to have allowed the DLC COOPERATORS and FACILITATORS that made themselves a part of the "culture of corruption" to infest the government to begin with. So much corruption could never have happened without the DLC's faux-liberal/REPUBLICAN LITE democrats' facilitation and cooperation, because that is why all these REPUBLICANS thought they could get away with corruption, as they did not think anyone was standing in their way.

And, there wasn't anyone standing in their way until the GRASSROOTS, the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION, stood up in 2006. The GRASSROOTS BASE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION, MUST CONTINUE STANDING AGAINST THE DLC until the REPUBLICAN "culture of corruption" and their democratic facilitators and cooperators are out of the U.S. Government and out of the Democratic Party COMPLETELY.

Rushbaby:

This all boils down to 'you take care of your queers and we will take care of ours', a metaphor. Your queers are in power now, and they are responsible. It is our responsibility to provide an alternative to your queers. As the reform of the Democratic Party progresses and the DLC REPUBLICANS are purged from the Democratic Party, solutions will start to take shape.

deaniacforever:

Both the answer to your post and the solution to the COMMON POPULATION Democrats problem is as follows:

*******PROACTIVE DIALECTIC FOR THE COMMON POPULATION*******

The LEFT, the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION, must develop a program of proactive dialectic and QUIT being reactive to the dialectic of the RIGHT.

The LEFT must learn to push its own dialectic program and QUIT being reactive to the dialectic of the RIGHT.

In the Dialectic War between the LEFT and the RIGHT, between Democrats and REPUBLICANS, those who respond in defense of opposing dialectic make themselves LOSERS; those who take the OFFENSIVE with proactive dialectic that forces the opposition to respond make themselves WINNERS by the assertion of their will and their willingness to struggle for what they believe in.

Those who are without a dialectic program to struggle for and are only concerned with reaction to the dialectic of the opposition are LOSERS from the beginning, because they are not struggling for a cause greater than their own self interest and greed in the moment; those who represent only their own greedy self interest without a dialectic program representing a struggle for the greater good of their constituents will not prevail and do not deserve to prevail politically; this is the position represented by DLC Democrats, and this is why COMMON POPULATION DEMOCRATS must develop dialectic for their political struggle, and have the will to execute their own dialectic in their own greater good in a proactive rather than a reactive manner.

Rushbaby:

Haven't you noticed the link between the REPUBLICAN PARTY and CORPORATE COMMUNISM??? Socialism is a mild form of Communism. The REPUBLICAN PARTY hangs together in walled and gated communes apart from the COMMON POPULATION preaching against communal benefit for the 70% MAJORITY COMMON POPULATION, while they are doing what they are preaching against.

How is it that communal benefit of Socialism, a mild form of COMMUNISM, is bad for the COMMON POPULATION, but is good for the communes of corporate industrial parks and the communes of walled and gated communities of the 10% minority of the American aristocracy and the 20% minority of the Professional Middle Class???

Rushbaby:

REPUBLICANS do not bear the need of this country, like Ruport Murdoch, their moving to China to avoid bearing the brunt of what they have done.

Rushbaby:

You have nothing to say other than low grade slop of irrelevant propaganda; you do seem to have gorged yourself at the propaganda trough.

It would be more entertaining talking to you if you could get your snout up a little higher out of the propaganda trough and upgrade a bit. Unless you can improve, future responses will be relegated to two words, "unworthy drivel".

Here's another one to add to the list -

James McLean of Dublin, Ohio (where Gilmor also had a home which was the source of much controversy since Dublin is not in the district that he serves and used his son's address during his campaign) was charged on Tues 9/4 (ahem - same day Gilmor found dead)for failing to report on his state-mandated ethics forms the gifts he received in 2004 from Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, a New York financial services firm.

McLean, a former chief investment officer of the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, this week became the 21st person charged in the scandal that has gripped the agency for more than two years.

Both McLean and Gilmor had deep ties to Noe "who is serving a 27-month federal prison sentence for illegally funneling money to President Bush's re-election campaign, was convicted separately last year on 29 state charges related to his management of the rare-coin fund. Mark Lay, the CEO of MDL Capital Management, is facing federal fraud and conspiracy charges related to the bureau's $216 million in losses."

Part of that money that was funneled to the bushistas came from the Ohio State Workmen's Compensation Fund.
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070...

This week I took the time to compile my own list of Republican corruption. (I went ahead and included the pedophiles.) I thought I'd finish in a couple of hours; it took me three days. Last time I counted I had around 200 names.

I thought you might enjoy a gander.

http://fluffer-union.blogspot.com/

Rupert Murdoch is an Australian Republican who only took on American Citizenship for the purpose of monopolizing our communications and press. Democratic positions are never reported unless they are unflattering and so much of the Republican misdeeds are quelled by his power. Murdoch is a threat to national security.