Posted on 09/04/2008 2:42:48 PM PDT by KantianBurke
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sentenced to four years in federal prison Thursday for his corrupt lobbying activities, which led to the downfalls of a congressman and several other Washington officials.
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Disgraced former president Clinton
Disgraced congressman Barny Frank
Disgraced seems to only get used on certain people.
Sorry but the Rats don’t hold a monopoly on criminal activity. Just ask former Rep. Cunnigham, Rep. Foley, Senator Vitter, or Senator Craig. Breaking the law is wrong regardless of party and should be condemned. Period.
He got off lightly.
Amen to that. We are right to hold Republicans to higher standards and take out our trash.
The former young reaganites like Abramoff and Reed, who threw away their idealism to “get paid”.
The congresscritters like Cunnigham and Foley who came to believe the rules no longer applied to them.
The RINOs and Old Bulls, (to numerous to name) who were either republicans of convenience or who never believed in conservative principles in order to play it safe and easy and who threw away the Gingrich Revolution, should all be made to pay.
It is true, and it should be, that republicans are held to different standards. Pandering to various constituencies, playing “democrat lite,” taking the easy, low road and grubbing shamelessly for money always lead people to ask themselves why they should bother. They always end up eventually voting for the upfront, unabashed crooks.
That’s part of what makes Palin such a breath of fresh air. She actually is a “maverick” worthy of the term, having broken the grip of the rotten Young/Stevens/Murkowski family dynasties that had held Alaska in their grip for thirty-five years.
And that’s the real reason the MSM and dems are flailing at her. They know she has the potential to lead a Republican Renaissance and bring a whole new, motivated, conservative movement into the party, become McCain’s heir apparent and banish the dems for another generation or more.
The only difference in the crimes committed by Republicans and Democrats are the number of posts they generate on Free Republic and DU.
I still am confused as to what nasty things he actually did. Of course costing us the House was bad enough.
Good. Clean ‘em out and ship ‘em out.
You’re right in principle, however, the media treatment of Democrat criminal activity is WWWAAAYYY different than Republican activity. For instance ... Foley was NEVER accused to criminal activity, merely inappropriate activity, whereas Rep Studds (D)from MA WAS guilty of having sex with an underage page. He was consequently reelected to numerous terms. Sen Vitter was not charged with any crime, from what I recall. His name merely appeared on a madam’s customer list. He confessed that he’d used prostitutes. What did I miss???
So because the media has a hankering for emphasizing GOP misdeeds we should therefore cover up and explain away those very crimes?
Coincidentally you “forget” to defend convicted felon Cunningham and Craig. What talking points should be used to explain their lawbreaking?
If you break the law, having an “R” or a “D” by your name should be irrelevent. You’re a criminal regardless and should be shunned.
America is broken. Lawyers, lobbyists, corrupt politicians, corrupt large corporations. Middle Class is being destroyed. I run a business, getting sued by employees I fired for THEM embezzling assets, femanazi state of NH allows it, fleeced and taxed from IRS. I could go on. But the bottom of is killing the middle and top is killing the middle. This has happened in history many times to empires. They go one of three ways:
1) Voter revolutions
2) Physical revolution
3) Empire destroyed
Clearly, you have much to learn, young Skywalker.
For instance, perjury is a really, really bad crime - unless you happen to be a politician ensconced in the right kind of crib.
Then, it's not so bad.
One is aided in escaping the true legal ramifications of perjury if your successor engages in “new tone” bs. Or a certain Alaskan Senator (now under inditement btw) refuses to assist in the impeachment proceedings thus allowing you to get off scot free.
You or I would be going to The Big House for at least 5 - or more.
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