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Is Larry Craig The Face Of The US Senate? (Dems Inouye, Cantwell, Frank, Robb, Etc Also Discussed
Human Events ^ | 8/29/07 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 08/29/2007 4:33:58 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist

On Monday, August 27, news services broke the story that Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, pleaded guilty in early August to lewd conduct in an airport restroom...

Craig is hardly the only member of the Senate with a propensity for dropping his pants at inopportune moments...

Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, has allegedly sexually harrased or abused at least 10 women. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., reportedly engaged in a sexual affair with an engagd lobbyist, Ron Dotzauer,then gave him a personal loan to help him with his subsequent divorce and threw cash his way...

Gerry Studds (re-elected six times after having sex with a male congressional page), Barney Frank (re-elected eight times after his gay lover ran a male escort ring out of his apartment), Mel Reynolds (re-elected despite facing an indictment for sexual assault and criminal sexual abuse of a 16-year-old campaign worker), Sen. Charles Robb (re-elected despite credible sex scandal allegations), and Gus Savage (re-elected despite fondling a Peace Corps volunteer).

(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Hawaii; US: Nevada; US: New York; US: Washington
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To: VxH
political influence was ultimately supposed to be in the hands

It is...that's what elections are for.

You seem to have trouble with the difference between pure democracy and a Republic.

We have the latter. We vote for representatives on our behalf. If you don't like an Ambassador, that's tough.

Your leader might for a reason you may not see.

If you consistently don't like the choices, vote differently or get more active at the grass roots level.

101 posted on 08/30/2007 5:42:57 PM PDT by what's up
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To: VxH
handful of oligarchs

Handful? LOL.

We have thousands of lobbyists, PACS, political media centers, politicians, etc. etc.

Handful? You are quite uneducated about the political process.

102 posted on 08/30/2007 5:46:39 PM PDT by what's up
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To: Williams

Why isn’t voting for, and/or otherwise supporting representatives who act in immoral ways immoral also?


103 posted on 08/31/2007 10:48:39 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

I haven’t voted for an immoral republican, but democrat policies are immoral and unwise.


104 posted on 08/31/2007 11:08:48 AM PDT by Williams
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To: Williams

Sorry, I interpreted an earlier post from you as saying you did vote for Republicans.

Are the rest of us committing an immoral act by voting Republican?


105 posted on 08/31/2007 11:24:53 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Yes, Balding Eagle I vote republican. I won’t vote for an immoral republican and I haven’t if one happens to run where I vote. But I am complaining that republican leaders will chastise their own, but will not chastise a democrat to the same degree. In the end we are all Americans so they should demand that a bad democrat resign as well. It isn’t all about party. No, I don’t believe any of us are wrong to vote republican.


106 posted on 08/31/2007 12:54:45 PM PDT by Williams
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To: servantboy777

LOL, you nailed it!

thanks for the laugh


107 posted on 08/31/2007 4:15:45 PM PDT by AprilfromTexas
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