[jackbill]

Torricelli's statement about reimbursing Chang for some items was first reported Monday by the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call.

Of course, Torricelli can prove that he reimbursed Chang, can't he? Cancelled checks?

Wanna bet that the "ethics" committee just takes the Torch's word and pulls out the bucket of whitewash. Nothing to see here, just move along.

[Ole Okie]

Looks like the Senate dims, aided and abetted by Notta Lott, have declared the Torch Innocent, Innocent, Innocent.

I mean, after all: Who could possibly think anything bad about Torch? Why, he once squired Bianca Jagger around town. He and dim Sin Chris Dodd, according to accounts.

[catpuppy]

Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott said Friday that "it doesn't look good" that the committee might not call any other witnesses, "but I just don't know the details."

Well Senator Lott, that is the problem. You and others who should be minding the store refuse to "know the details" and thus you let slide the corruption that passes for representation these days. Your Senate has become a club where collegiality is more important than doing the right thing.

[tall_tex]

Help me out here. Chang is in jail for making illegal contributions to Senator Tort.. and he, the Senator, says he has done nothing wrong and says there were no legal or illegal gifts. How can Chang be guilty and the Senator be innocent? Inquiring minds want to know.

[PISANO]

Chang, a New Jersey businessman now in prison for making illegal campaign donations to Torricelli, says he gave the lawmaker cash and gifts in exchange for the senator's help in business dealings overseas.

Can someone explain how Chang can get jail time for something that the Torch says NEVER happpened? Is there a distinction between illegal campaign contributions and GIFTS? Aren't they one in the same? Doesn't make sense to me, but then the NJ Senator is after all a gimmiecrap so it just stands to reason he will skate.

[Cable225]

Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott said Friday that "it doesn't look good" that the committee might not call any other witnesses, "but I just don't know the details."

Whoa! Easy there, big fella. Somebody hold Trent back! He sounds all KINDA worked up!

He's an animal I tell ya, an animal!

[Neets]

If there were NO gifts, legal or illegal..why is he paying this guy back in the first place?

[Wphile]

Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott... "but I just don't know the details."

Sheesh...Lott is so frickin' pathetic. Why the heck to you get paid the dollars you do if you don't know the details? Criminy, if the GOP takes back the Senate and allows Lott to be majority leader again, it will be all for not. Get LOTT OUTTA THERE!!

[Jonathon Spectre]

Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott said Friday that "it doesn't look good" that the committee might not call any other witnesses, "but I just don't know the details."

F**k Trent Lott. How can a human being so spineless still be able to walk? I despise him more than even most Democrats.

[Weimdog]

Tell Inouye what you think. It can't hurt...

http://www.senate.gov/~inouye/abtform.html

[Political Junkie Too]

"Nothing to see, move along..."

Does anyone think that, at some point, a critical mass must be reached when the American people say ENOUGH?

Exactly when did the "rule of politics" trump the "rule of law?" (A: Nov, 1992)

-PJ

[rwfromkansas]

bump

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Toricelli should be in jail next to Bill and Hillary. N.J. needs to vote him out.

[afz400]

No wonder Enron, etc engaged in massive fraud. They used the US Senate as a case study.

[gaspar]

Can we now knock-off the garbage about the "heroic" Senator Inouye? He is probably more corrupt than Toricelli and survives in a safe senate seat that receives the backing of a lapdog press in Hawaii.

[Diamond]

Chang also alleged he made more than a dozen deliveries of cash to Torricelli's home, each $8,000 to $9,000.

What am I doing wrong? Why doesn't anybody ever bring wads of cash to MY house?

Cordially,