The True Reason the Democrats Won't Appoint W's Judges

5/22/02 | annonymous friend

[big bad easter bunny]

A friend wrote me a couple of months ago and told me the real reason democrats really won't appoint W's judges is because it is their friends who would be prosecuted and more likely convicted. Republicans are never willing to admit it in public, the fact that far more democrats go to jail than republicans. It isn't because democrats can't afford good attorneys, they just commit most of the crimes.

Stuff that democrats don't want you to know about.

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Here then is the list of former Democratic members of Congress who were convicted or pleaded guilty to major offenses between 1992 and 1999:

• Nick Mavroules, Massachusetts Democrat: tax evasion, accepting illegal gratuity (1992).
• Albert Bustamante, Texas Democrat: racketeering (1993).
• Carroll Hubbard, Kentucky Democrat: fraud and corruption (1994).
• Carl Perkins, Kentucky Democrat: fraud (1994).
• Charlie Rose, North Carolina Democrat: financial-disclosure irregularities (1994).
• Larry Smith, Florida Democrat: tax evasion (1994).
• Walter Fauntroy, District of Columbia Democrat: financial-disclosure misdemeanor (1995).
• Gerald Kleczka, Wisconsin Democrat: arrested for DWI (1995 and 1990); convicted DWI (1987).
• Mel Reynolds, Illinois Democrat: sexual misconduct (1995).
• Walter Tucker, California Democrat: extortion (1995).
• Charles Wilson, Texas Democrat: paid $90,000 fine to Federal Election Commission (1995).
• Joe Kolter, Pennsylvania Democrat: fraud and conspiracy (1996).
• Dan Rostenkowski, Illinois Democrat: mail fraud (1996).
• Mary Rose Oakar, Ohio Democrat: financial-disclosure irregularities (1998).
• Austin J. Murphy, Pennsylvania Democrat: vote fraud (1999).

As Mark Twain said, Congress is the American Criminal Class.

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Geoff Metcalf listed these shining examples of the Clinton Administration Legacy

• The only president ever impeached strictly on grounds of personal malfeasance

• Most convictions and guilty pleas

• Most Cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation

• Most witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify

• Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47

• Number of these convictions during Clinton's presidency: 33

• Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61

• Number of congressional witnesses who have pled the Fifth Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122 (9/99)

• Estimated number of witnesses quoted in FBI files misappropriated by the White House: 18,000

• Number of witnesses who developed medical problems at critical points in Clinton scandals investigation (Tucker, Hale, both McDougals, Lindsey): 5

• Problem areas listed in a memo by Clinton's own lawyer in preparation for the president's defense: 40

• Number of witnesses and critics of Clinton subjected to IRS audit: 45

• Number of names placed in a White House secret database without the knowledge of those named: c. 200,000

• Number of women involved with Clinton who claim to have been physically threatened: 5 (Sally Perdue, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey, Linda Tripp, Elizabeth Ward Gracen)

• Number of men involved in the Clinton scandals who have been beaten up or claimed to have been intimidated: 9

• Number of times Hillary Clinton said "I don't recall" or its equivalent in a statement to a House investigating committee: 50

• Number of times Bill Clinton said "I don't recall" or its equivalent in the released portions of the his testimony on Paula Jones: 271

• Number of times John Huang took the Fifth Amendment in answer to questions during a Judicial Watch deposition: 1,000 Larry corrected this figure and says it has grown to 1934 and with more testimony to come is expected to exceed 2000 and become "a new indoor world record".

• Visits made to the White House by investigation subjects Johnny Chung, James Riady, John Huang, and Charlie Trie. 160

• Number of campaign contributors who got overnights at the White House in the two years before the 1996 election: 577

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[big bad easter bunny]

Need I say more?

[NormsRevenge]

Republicans are never willing to admit it in public, the fact that far more democrats go to jail than republicans. It isn't because democrats can't afford good attorneys, they just commit most of the crimes.

No wonder DemoRats push Prison Reform. They know prisons inside and out. :-)

[Savage Beast]

LOL! When I first read the title, I intended to post: "Because they'll all wind up in jail." Then I read the article. Maybe I'm clairvoyant or something.

[elbucko]

I have often wondered about prisoners. That is, if persons in prison could register to vote (hypothetically) which party would they predominately belong to.

[w_over_w]

I have no problem believing the DemoRATS are crooks, liars and thieves (with the spineless media giving them a "pass"); however the fact is these judges have the votes to clear the full Senate. It's that Sen. "Leaky" Leahy from Vermont will not even give them a hearing! This despicable man has deteriorated into one of the worst examples of what a state can send to D.C.

There's a boycott for vacationing in Vermont underway in Calif. under the direction of national talk radio host Hugh Hewitt. So far up to 350 people have sent letters to the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, etc. canceling their vacations. Cool?

[elbucko]

Number of names placed in a White House secret database without the knowledge of those named: c. 200,000

And the democrats are worried about Ashcroft and their civil rights!