Posted on 08/30/2007 6:25:03 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Can you guess the party affiliation of the following Beltway Bigshots? All of them behaved badly, and none of them had significant members of their own party demanding they resign!
Score yourself one point for getting the party affiliation correct...score yourself TWO points for identifying the person described!
Answers below...
Parties of:
1-a senator who drove off a bridge, killing a young woman not his wife.
2-a senator who used the term "white n-word" twice in a nationally televised interview.
3-a senator who praised a former Klan member, saying he would have made a fine President.
4-a member of the House of Representatives who had an ongoing affair with an intern of the same sex--who refused to step down and was later made a committee chairman.
5-a member of the House who shoved a Capitol Hill police officer when the officer was on duty.
6-a member of the House who was driving under the influence and ran into barricades set up in Washington, D.C.
ANSWERS!
1. Democrat Ted Kennedy
2. Democrat Robert Byrd
3. Democrat Chris Dodd
4. Democrat Gerry Studds
5. Democrat Cynthia McKinney
6. Democrat Patrick Kennedy
A senator whose freezer had $90,000 in it.
Democrat William Jefferson
A man who got caught stuffing classifed documents down his socks.
Democrat Sandy Burglar
Every democrat in Congress has violated their Oath of Office (to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States. . .) from day one.
Nobody has demanded resignations based on that!
Barney Frank - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1981 to present. Admitted to having paid Stephen L. Gobie, a male prostitute, for sex and subsequently hiring Gobie as his personal assistant. Gobie used the congressman’s Washington apartment for prostitution.
Robert Torricelli - Democrat - Withdrew from the 2002 Senate race with less than 30 days before the election because of controversy over personal gifts he took from a major campaign donor and questions about campaign donations from 1996.
James McGreevey - Democrat - New Jersey Governor . Admitted to having a gay affair. Resigned after allegations of sexual harassment, rumors of being blackmailed on top of fundraising investigations and indictments.
Jesse Jackson - Democrat - Democratic candidate for President. Admitted to having an extramarital affair and fathering a illegitimate child.
Gary Condit - Democrat - US Democratic Congressman from California. Condit had an affair with an intern. Condit, covered up the affair and lied to police after she went missing.
I was 5 of 6 - mistook Studds for Barney Frank.
He had to be the only non-Moslem person in the USA who was happy about 9/11. Remember the DriveBys were on him all summer long until the WTC attack. Then he just slithered into the ground.
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla): As a Federal judge, he was impeached and removed from office for accepting bribes. Has been repeatedly re-elected since 1992, and was given a pardon by Clinton for the bribery conviction. Currently the Dem. House Whip.
Other than allowing his pimp boyfriend to run a prostitution ring out of his DC-area home, Barney’s done nothing wrong. :)
1. Democrat Barney Frank
2. Democrat Bill Clinton
3. Democrat Joe Kennedy
Answer
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Remembering Lauer’s question, I have to wonder.
Is the democrat party embroiled in scandal, or are there just several dozen bad apples?
1. illegally wiretapped his opponents(McDermott)
2. violated the Logan Act by going to Syria(do I really need to say who)
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