[Jim Robinson]

"We are required to forget the White House coffees, the confidential FBI files in the basement, Billy Dale and the travel office, John Huang, Charlie Trie, James Riady, Webster Hubbell, et al. It was the Clinton White House that people like Johnny Chung viewed "like a subway — you have to put in coins to open the gates."

Now, what was Howard Dean saying about Karl Rove and Tom DeLay?"

[Lazamataz]

Cool headline.

Someday I want to post an article that consists of a single exclamation point as the headline, and a question mark in the body.

I wonder if it would become one of those 'classic threads'.

[Lazamataz]

Per the actual subject of the article: I love Howard Dean. He says the most ridiculous things, and only fires us up. Imagine how many people he's gonna piss off, calling the Bush admin corrupt, when the entire reason we elected Bush was to give the Whitehouse a good Lysol-and-Scrub-Brush cleaning.

Bush isn't the conservative I had hoped for, and I have mostly left the reservation because of that -- but I will NOT accuse the man and the administration of ethical lapses!

[DustyMoment]

Howard Dean reminds us that, as much as many conservatives may disagree with the policies of President Bush, the ethics lapses of the previous Oval Office's occupant have largely disappeared - political witch hunts notwithstanding.

Speaking of political witch hunts, given the nature of the "crimes" each is pursuing, one can't help but wonder if Ronnie Earle and Patrick Fitzgerald are related. Each seems to share the same disrespect for the law and the same zeal for political witch hunts. Hopefully, those characteristics will lead each to the same ignominious end.

[Budge]

But it may not be the wisest strategy seeing that the leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination is one Hillary Rodham Clinton, the "two-for-one" spouse of one William Jefferson Clinton, one of the "co-presidents" for whom ethics and fundraising were words not often found in the same sentence.

Truer words were never written.

[SMARTY]

"to have ethics come back to Washington again"

Wow! What a thing to say coming from a man whose party's last man (and First Lady) in the WH house were the most ill bred, coarse and venal two people in American public life. That whole theatrical atmosphere surrounding the administrations of Mr. No-Pants President and his tuna is still nauseating to think about.

[G.Mason]

Here is but one example of the Bill Clinton [reads - Democrat Party] we all have grown to love.

"President-elect Bill Clinton, at a news conference in Little Rock, Ark., to announce his remaining Cabinet selections, said he wanted to learn more about the pardons, adding, "I am concerned by any action that sends a signal that if you work for the Government, you're beyond the law, or that not telling the truth to Congress under oath is somehow less serious than not telling the truth to some other body under oath.""

From ...http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/29/reviews/iran-pardon.html

Why the man is the epitamy of righteousness!

[RoadTest]

Here is what The Bible says about Howard Dean: "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" Is. 5:20

We're not the only ones looking askance at Dean.

[csvset]

[Saundra Duffy]

Whatever happened to Connie Chung?

[Piquaboy]

We will have ethics back in Washington when he and all the rest of the Rats leave.

[Samwise]

projection

 

Psychology.

The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or suppositions to others: “Even trained anthropologists have been guilty of unconscious projection—of clothing the subjects of their research in theories brought with them into the field” (Alex Shoumatoff).

The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or desires to someone or something as a naive or unconsciouspolitical and conscious defense against anxiety or guilt or Republicans.

 

 

[popdonnelly]

Howard Dean is a liar. The Democrats do their damnedest to create fake "scandals", then complain about the lack of ethics. They would be funny if they weren't so unscrupulous and dangerous.

[lepton]

Jane Sherburne had a meeting in December of 1994 in which the Clinton White House made up a list of all of the scandals IT thought it might be liable for, and assigned people to cover each one. This was among documents turned over to Congress in (early 1996, I think). Note that a fair number of the scandals were not known outside the White House at the time of the task list.

[jw777]

Howard Dean. Smoking the funny tomato plant again, while hiding his Gubernatorial files from the public.