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SCOTUS TO Rep. Jim McDermott: "Bad Boy, Leaker!"
Leibowitz's Canticle ^ | December 3, 2007 | Leibowitz

Posted on 12/03/2007 1:39:31 PM PST by Bob Leibowitz

Ten years ago Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA7), known in more recent years as Baghdad Jim for his unqualified support of that city's former tyrant, was serving on the House Ethics Committee. Two Democratic Party activists, who had illegally recorded a telephone conversation between Representative John Boehner and then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, delivered the hot tape to McDermott.

McDermott made a the first of a series of truly bad choices. Rather than pursuing his passion for Gingrich through the channels of the Ethics Committee, he delivered the tape to a reporter in what the trial judge ruled was a malicious attempt to politically harm his colleagues through an invasion of their privacy.

Rep. Boehner offered to settle the case years ago for $10,000 and an apology. McDermott, caught up in what might in later years be called Gingrich Derangement Syndrome, refused.

Today's decision by the Supreme Court not to hear Jim's arguments means that McDermott will be paying Boehner something in the neighborhood of $1 million, money that McDermott doesn't have.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: 110th; baghdadjim; bigbrother; boehner; cultureofcorruption; democratscandals; illegalwiretapping; mcdermott; politics; scotus
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SCOTUS to Rep. Jim McDermott: "Bad Boy, Leaker!"

1 posted on 12/03/2007 1:39:32 PM PST by Bob Leibowitz
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To: Bob Leibowitz

About time. The Ethics committee is a joke.


2 posted on 12/03/2007 1:42:13 PM PST by golfisnr1 (Democrats are like roaches - hard to get rid of.)
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To: Bob Leibowitz

“McDermott will be paying Boehner something in the neighborhood of $1 million, money that McDermott doesn’t have.”

Then he won’t be paying it, will he?


3 posted on 12/03/2007 1:42:25 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Bob Leibowitz

It is a shame,maybe Bin Laden will pay it for him now that his real pal saddam is dead,unfortunately.


4 posted on 12/03/2007 1:45:18 PM PST by chrismich2610 (Where are the true Conservatives,before it is too late?)
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To: Bob Leibowitz

Boehner can garnish 25% of McDermott’s pay.


5 posted on 12/03/2007 1:45:26 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: Brilliant

McDermott is one of the truly vile pieces of trash polluting the U.S. House. Boehner should hound him to his grave until he collects the $1 million.


6 posted on 12/03/2007 1:45:39 PM PST by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: Brilliant
“Money that McDermott doesn’t have.”

Anybody know his swiss bank account code?

7 posted on 12/03/2007 1:46:01 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Rudy,Romney,McCain, Huckabee will send a self-abused stomped elephant to the DRNC.)
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To: Brilliant

Does this guy own any homes or condos? If he owns one in Washington I would bet it’s worth that..........start digging....perhaps Ron Goldman’s dad would have some useful advice. ;^)


8 posted on 12/03/2007 1:46:11 PM PST by tioga (Dear Santa..........I can explain....)
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To: SeaHawkFan
Boehner can garnish 25% of McDermott’s pay.

I'd do it in a heartbeat.

9 posted on 12/03/2007 1:46:28 PM PST by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: Brilliant
"Then he won’t be paying it, will he?"

He'll be paying on the installment plan. Please, Please, Please Congressman Boehner - garnish McDermott's congressional paychecks.

10 posted on 12/03/2007 1:46:52 PM PST by joebuck
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To: Bob Leibowitz

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION or something


11 posted on 12/03/2007 1:47:37 PM PST by Squidpup ("Fight the Good Fight")
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To: Bob Leibowitz

Goodness! Democrats eavesdropping on Americans! Why, next they’ll be criticizing the Patriot Act!


12 posted on 12/03/2007 1:47:56 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: joebuck

I say he hit the pension payments as well.


13 posted on 12/03/2007 1:48:42 PM PST by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: KC Burke

Can’t garnish pensions.


14 posted on 12/03/2007 1:49:56 PM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: tioga

Fred Goldman would tell him to get the watch!


15 posted on 12/03/2007 1:51:43 PM PST by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: Bob Leibowitz

Well it couldn’t have happened to a “nicer guy.”


16 posted on 12/03/2007 1:55:08 PM PST by Nextrush (Uncommitted in 2008 but no John McCain or Ron Paul please)
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To: Bob Leibowitz
Today's decision by the Supreme Court not to hear Jim's arguments means that McDermott will be paying Boehner something in the neighborhood of $1 million, money that McDermott doesn't have.

FINALLY! This POS gets his just due! Maybe he can pass the hat around all those idiot communists in Seattle who keep voting him back in. There might even be 1 or 2 street corners yet unclaimed that he could use.

17 posted on 12/03/2007 1:56:16 PM PST by Just Lori (There is nothing democrat-"ic" about democrats.)
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To: Southack
Goodness! Democrats eavesdropping on Americans! Why, next they’ll be criticizing the Patriot Act!

SURELY NOT!

I know..... you don't want me to call you Shirley. =)

18 posted on 12/03/2007 1:58:53 PM PST by Just Lori (There is nothing democrat-"ic" about democrats.)
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To: Bob Leibowitz

Bump, Bookmark


19 posted on 12/03/2007 1:59:19 PM PST by JWinNC (www.anailinhisplace.net)
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To: Bob Leibowitz
I didn't believe the explanation when it happened, that is that two folks happened to overhear a cell phone conversation and record it in their car. A more likely explanation is that an illegal tap was on Newt's land line phone and they couldn't admit it.

I'm not technical enough to know how that is done.

20 posted on 12/03/2007 2:05:35 PM PST by OldEagle
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