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HOUSE COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE MCDERMOTT
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| 12/28/04
Posted on 12/28/2004 9:01:31 AM PST by areafiftyone
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To: areafiftyone
Why not just wait and do the investigation posthumiously?
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posted on
12/28/2004 9:04:13 AM PST
by
marlon
To: marlon
And the sooner the better. :-)
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posted on
12/28/2004 9:06:59 AM PST
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all things that need to be done need to be done by the government.)
To: areafiftyone
. . . to investigate the 1997 incident.
Oh, please!!! It was 7 years ago. Leave it alone. Statute of limitations and all that rubbish.
If this is all our politicians have to do with our money is to play political sniping games, then let them stay home and get real jobs.
This is ludicrous!!!
And, NO, I'm NOT a big Jim McDermott fan. I just think this is a stupid waste of tax dollars.
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posted on
12/28/2004 9:09:03 AM PST
by
DustyMoment
(Repeal CFR NOW!!)
To: areafiftyone
Jim Mc Dermott went to Baghdad together with Sean Pen to meet with Saddam Hussein.
He criticized President Bush from Baghdad in front of wide open TV cameras.
Jim Mc Dermott convincingly earned himself the name of
"Baghdad Jim."
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posted on
12/28/2004 9:09:04 AM PST
by
hermgem
To: areafiftyone; OXENinFLA
Gee .. it only took what ... 7 years to get around to doing this??
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posted on
12/28/2004 9:09:33 AM PST
by
Mo1
(Should be called Oil for Fraud and not Oil for Food)
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To: areafiftyone
This'll go nowhere. Only 7 years after the fact? Wow, the US Congresscritters are really moving on it, aren't they?
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posted on
12/28/2004 9:10:54 AM PST
by
7.62 x 51mm
(• veni • vidi • vino • visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
To: areafiftyone
This is one more example of the fact that "House Ethics Committee" is an oxymoron. This event happened SEVEN years ago in 1997. What McDermott did was plainly a violation of the criminal law.
House Ethics did nothing at the time. Why has it stuck its head up so late in the game? Because the law suit has succeeded against McDermott in civil court at the appeals level. In short, the real world has rubbed the nose of House Ethics in the mess it has made on the carpet.
They are setting up to do something, anything, now to try to sweep under the rug a situation of one Member recovering serious damages from another Member for what the latter did in violation of criminal and civil law. House Ethics? BFD.
Congressman Billybob
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To: Mo1
It took 7 years to go through the courts.
Now that the decision is made, it is the time to bring the needed consequences to McDermott's career.
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posted on
12/28/2004 9:12:30 AM PST
by
shubi
(Peace through superior firepower.)
To: marlon
Isn't McDermott about due for another trip to Iraq? Saddam may need a visit from his friend. Maybe he and Scott Ritter can grab the same flight - they share the same money bag!
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posted on
12/28/2004 9:12:31 AM PST
by
malia
(a cherished constitutional right -- the right to vote!)
To: 7.62 x 51mm
--if they could only wait seven years before passing any more legislation.
Maybe they'd even get around to reading it before they pass it--
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posted on
12/28/2004 9:14:14 AM PST
by
rellimpank
(urban dwellers don' t understand the cultural deprivation of not being raised on a farm)
To: areafiftyone
to investigate the 1997 incident
A tad late, don't ya think? Why not investigate some more recent ethics violations? I'm sure, if you look, you can come up with a few ----- dozen.
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posted on
12/28/2004 9:16:07 AM PST
by
TomGuy
(America: Best friend or worst enemy. Choose wisely.)
To: 7.62 x 51mm
Only 7 years after the fact? Wow, the US Congresscritters are really moving on it, aren't they?They plan on censuring him on June 14, 2419.
Hang on to your hats!
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posted on
12/28/2004 9:16:25 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
("Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown" -- harpseal)
To: DustyMoment
I just think this is a stupid waste of tax dollars.How? The House members and their staff are paid salaries, not by the hour.
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posted on
12/28/2004 9:18:03 AM PST
by
NeoCaveman
(If you can't be a good example, at least be a billboard of what not to do)
To: shubi
It took 7 years to go through the courts. I'm sorry .. but if the ethic committee had problems with what McDermott did ... it should have been addressed years ago
At this rate .. how long will it take them to deal with what that traitor did in going to Iraq like he did??
20 years??
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posted on
12/28/2004 9:18:09 AM PST
by
Mo1
(Should be called Oil for Fraud and not Oil for Food)
To: Mo1
I know. Kinda mute now isn't it? Jeeze the House is real quick - I can feel the wind when they go by. Woooosh!
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posted on
12/28/2004 9:31:49 AM PST
by
areafiftyone
(Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
To: areafiftyone
Why just McDermott? What not 90% of the democratic party caucus? Is it ethical to be a communist and anti-American?
Oh, I know, Free Speech! Anti-American activists do not belong in Congress!
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posted on
12/28/2004 9:33:48 AM PST
by
Prost1
(Why isn't Berger in Jail?)
To: areafiftyone
Gee, the House "Ethics" Committee doesn't have a 7-year statute of limitations? Well, at least this silly "investigation" of scumbag McDermott might keep some of the House members out of other mischief. Like spending, spending, spending....
To: areafiftyone
I'm perfectly happy to take what I can get. If they nail Baghdad Jim with a seven-year-old offense, that's just fine with me. It's like what they used to say to us as kids when we were punished for something we didn't do: "Well, if you didn't do it, just consider it as punishment for something you DID do!" McDermott has done more than enough other things to deserve any punishment he gets.
They do have the excuse that what was once an allegation is now a proven crime, although I think even that angle could have been dealt with some time ago.
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posted on
12/28/2004 9:36:08 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
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