Ethics war feared in wake of DeLay controversy (Tubbs-Pelosi Puerto Rico trip exposed)

South Bend Tribune ^ | 4/26/05

[Libloather]

House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., warned on Sean Hannity's radio show last week that there are "four or five cases out there dealing with top-level Democrats," whom he did not name.

Big Media will be breaking this story - any minute now...

[Libloather]

RATS with ethical problems? Say it ain't so...

[spokeshave]

Apply tag line....pop the popcorn and beer....sit back and watch the rats run....

[Bob]

As reports about DeLay's travel with lobbyists mount, Republican leaders are attempting to shift attention get equal attention paid to questionable activities of Democrats.

There. That's better.

[537cant be wrong]

actually i think Tom Delay will survive this becase the president is behind him.
in the long run i think it is great that both sides of the aisle are begining to see that their "elite" status isn't quite what they have flaunted for so long.
and some decorum of propriety is required.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"...trip a few hours after the newspaper's inquiry and sent a note to the ethics committee saying, "I did not know I was supposed to file these forms and I apologize for its lateness." said the House minority leader.

[randog]

"...pop the popcorn and beer....sit back and watch the rats run...."

Yup, let the games begin!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Britt Hume had a good piece on all of this on his News hour....the DemonicRats have opened a can of worms and now have a problem!!!

[smoothsailing]

For Pelosi, I think the Vieques trip is the most damning.

She and Tubbs Jones and a bunch of other Dems went there to protest the Navys bombing range.

Being anti military might play well with her district groupies,but flyover America aint gonna like it much.

[Burlem]

Mark Williams, one of the keep their feet to the fire crows in DC. has o his web site that he was told by three staffers that Tom DeLay is going to be thrown to the wolves...he said he was told it would get ugly??

For those that may not know Mark Williams is a radio host from Sacramento.
Im sure you all know about the rally in DC.

[smonk]

sauce for the goose . . . .

[tiki]

Abercrombie's aides said they have since determined that the lobbying firm's expenses were reimbursed by the nonprofit group

Isn't this just what happened in De Lays case?

[concerned about politics]

Politicalmoneyline.com. Check out who went where and spent what. Column on the right. Democrats have GOT to be taking little purple pills right now!

[SuziQ]

Members of Congress are rushing to amend their travel and campaign records, fearing that the controversy over House Majority Leader Tom DeLay will trigger an ethics war that will bring greater scrutiny to their own travel and official activities.

Just goes to show they ought to be careful what they ask for.

[cricket]

"Big Media will be breaking this story - any minute now..."

And when it does. . .watch for the 'blip on the screen'. . .you might see it. . .more likely not.

ITMT. . .the Repubs will still be shoveling the 'fertilizer' the Dems buried them in. . .

[Waco]

Have Hillary's chicom $$$$$$ arived yet?

[eyespysomething]

Britt Hume had a good piece on all of this on his News hour

I saw it, Grapevine wasn't it? Dang, it was just on again, too. The Dems are in much more deeper than the Repubs (which disappoints me that they (R's) are, damn all politicians). Perfect Rovian storm.

I'm going to look for a transcript.

[eyespysomething]

Bookmarked that link!

From it:

From 2000 to winter 2005, the Members taking the most privately-funded trips were

Congress Member # of Trips
1. BREAUX, JOHN B 61
2. FORD, HAROLD E JR 60
3. BIDEN, JOSEPH R JR 56
4. WATERS, MAXINE 52
5. BARNEY, FRANK 51
(Ford's count reduced by three on 4/26 pm)

[concerned about politics]

Have Hillary's chicom $$$$$$ arived yet?......CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM - Gifts of Private Travel" ($58,086.00)

[EagleUSA]

She and Tubbs Jones and a bunch of other Dems went there to protest the Navys bombing range.

Being anti military might play well with her district groupies,but flyover America aint gonna like it much.
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Pelosi is simply a flaming anti-American communist (reference her and ilk in the Progress Causcus) -- and she operates from OUR CONGRESS as do her ilk. This must all come to a head -- this country cannot go on with COMMUNISTS RUNNING OUTRIGHT ANTI-AMERICAN AGENDAS WITHIN OUR OWN GOVERNMENT!!!!! (and outside of it -- ACLU).