Posted on 05/12/2009 8:24:28 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – House Democrats on Tuesday stopped a Republican plan to force a campaign finance inquiry that likely would have investigated several influential Democrats. It was the eighth time since late February that the Republican move was halted.
One of the biggest recipients has been the chairman of the defense appropriations subcommittee, Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania.
The vote was 215-182 to stop consideration of a GOP resolution to initiate a House ethics committee inquiry. It called for an investigation into campaign contributions to House lawmakers by recipients of pet project money and their lobbyists.
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Someone on talk radio last week said we need term limits on everyone. He said he felt that people get into politics for all the right reasons but then they sit there for years with the power and the corruption offered. They see others getting wealthy and they in turn become corrupt just like their peers.
I agree with that. No more sitting in the same position for decades raking in the dough and forgetting they work for the people.
Except for a few that I think did get into politics for all the wrong reasons. I think obama specifically got into politics for revenge. He never had any good thoughts for America.
Personally I like money but I make it on my own. And I could not sleep at night knowing I had ruined my country or taken food out of the mouths of the poor to give earmarks to my supporters or with Murtha his family. There will be a time they will answer for their crimes. What goes around comes around and I will not have one bit of concern for this thugocracy group.
I suspect that all of that money was carefully laundered to be untraceable. That, or it will be like the @$$hole from Emory University who did the "scholarly research" regarding the ownership of guns in the Colonial era - when someone challenges it, the dog will have eaten their homework (all the evidence will be "lost").
additional:
House Democrats Block Republican Effort to Force Ethics Inquiries
Fox News (AP article on Fox News) | Tuesday May 12, 2009
Posted on 05/12/2009 10:10:22 PM PDT by topher
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