[NormsRevenge]

Nothing to see here,,, There is no Culture of Corruption in the Democratic party, altho dems have been and are jailed today for transgressions along side their compadres on the other side of the aisle..


Baghdad Pelosi
and
Baghdad Reid

[Jack Wilson]

This all happened in 1996? Why are they rushing this thing?

[Psycho_Bunny]

Not only am I happy to have McDermott as my Congressman, I've had to deal with him on a business level several times.

Can't say I'm really fond of him.

[Inwoodian]

This took ten years? What a joke.

[nuconvert]

"McDermott's lawyer, Christopher Landau, disputed Carvin's assertion that the committee's report showed McDermott had violated House rules, saying the committee found McDermott violated only the spirit of its rules."

No ethics breach there, move along.

[river rat]

And folks wonder why the "restless natives" out here are leaning on the "old way" to deal with lawless scalawags...

Can we be far from vigilantee justice?
Hell, it took "vigilantees" to bring public attention to our ignored borders.

It's either that, or legalize dueling...
Nothing else will get the Congress critters and other "public servants" back in line with the LAW.

Semper Fi

[penowa]

The "ethics" committee is a joke. Has been, continues to be, and will continue to be. No doubt there is another deal in the works to overlook some minor Republican "sin" in exchange for McDermott having his hand smacked.

[Freee-dame]

Gingrich, who was heard on the call telling Boehner and others how to react to allegations, was later fined $300,000 and reprimanded by the House.

IIRC, Newt voluntarily paid the "fine" for the time spent by the House on this issue. He was being investigated for making history tapes for use by college students. He was a college professor, prior to being in the House; not a phony one like pols who get teaching jobs after politics, but a credentialed prof. I think that his courses were just too patriotic. The DBM was also out to get him for every word that he said.

He proposed orphanages for kids living in crack houses and was reviled for it. Too bad he didn't call them boarding schools. Many from another lost generation could have been saved. Instead, they stayed growing up in a crack house. The libs are for-the-children dontcha know.

[piasa]

If this was a Republican the press wouldn't miss juicy details like this but would be sure to include them in every article on the guy :

McDermott was one of three Congressmen who went on Saddam’s propaganda tour of Iraq in Fall 2002. The trip was funded by Life for Relief and Development (LRD), a “charity” which laundered money to terrorist group Hamas’ Jordanian operation. LRD is funded in part by Shakir Al-Khafaji, a man who did about $70 million in business with Saddam [Hussein] through his Falcon Trading Group company (based in South Africa). LRD’s Iraqi offices were raided by US troops last week, and the Detroit-area “charity” is suspected of funding uprisings, such as the one in Fallujah. Its officials bragged of doing so at a recent private US fundraiser.
Mr. Alkhafaji, one of two Americans named in Iraqi newspapers as a participant in Saddam’s “Oil for Food” scam, gave Congressman McDermott $5,000 in October 2002 for McDermott’s legal defense fund in a lawsuit against him…. http://www.bowlingfortruth.com/fahrenheit911/terrorists.htm

The legal defense fund to which this agent of Saddam gave money was to defend McDermott from charges relating to his disclosure of the illegally taped conversation between Gingrich and Boehner. In the mind of a liberal, eavesdropping is bad if the NSA does it to terrorists, but perfectly OK if Democrat operatives do it to their political opponents.