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- SE4RINGTRUTH
It''s flattering to searingtruth that you chose a user-name so deceptively similar to his, at least to those who aren''t paying attention. Unfortunately the fascist propaganda is so out of character to the real SEARINGTRUTH that the "4" replacing the "A" shows up. The corruption we''ve seen under bush is just as obvious when people take a closer look. Only 13% of you still strongly agree that the emperor isn''t naked. Your attempted deception just serves to remind us to stay on our guard against sneaky attacks from those who believe that our Constitution is just a ******** old piece of paper. Thanks for the reminder.
Keep defending those who have gotten our troops killed for their own profit. Keep telling yourselves that buying a Chinese-made "Support the Troops" magnet is all the support our heroes deserve, if you can live with it. Otherwise look at what this country was built upon and what the bush gang has done to try to change the fabric of our nation. It isn''t pretty. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by IdlePugilist at 05:12 PM
I''m not claiming anything other than the fact that corruption runs deep in the Republican Party. - Reply to this comment
- Yet another B.S. story from CBS. We are really being brainwashed. OMG, now they will throw our military under the bus to get this guy elected (BHMO) God help us all.
Posted by chplraj at 04:25 PM
Look in the mirror!
This is only one in a long list of total failures on the part of Republican (leadership?)
Just Katrina alone should have given you a clue.
Then there''s the issue of torture.
How about the economy.
What about the fact that they outed a CIA Operative?
Karl Rove is 3 times in contempt of Congress!
Over 935 lies by the Republican Party led to the Iraq war.
Let me guess you listen to Rush, and FOX News?
Bottom line if you have to advertise that you "Fair and Balanced" then your not! - Reply to this comment
- Well, the corruption tie to Katherine Harris is circumstantial, and she hasn''t been instrumental in the extra loss of soldiers'' lives by IED''s like the more influential Republicans in DC. If it could be screwed up, they found the right ways to do it.
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- I Googled the person who bribed (R) Duke Cunningham, Mitchell Wade CEO of MZM corp.
"On February 24, 2006, Mitchell Wade pleaded guilty to multiple felony counts, including one count of ELECTION FRAUD by unlawfully making campaign contributions in the name of another."
"Mr. Wade used MZM corporate funds...for contributions to the campaign committees of Representatives Virgil Goode and KATHERINE HARRIS (of the 2000 Florida election debakle")
The Repubs. represent a culture of corruption.
Enough is enough! - Reply to this comment
- A fine example in a library of Republican corruption, favoring the big contributor over the citizen voter. With my son in the Army, considering the shoot-from-the-hip mentality of this Republican administration, followed by all the Secret deals that have wasted soldiers'' lives and billions of dollars, I will not say Obama is the answer - but Republican politicians have proven to be untrustworthy, with all due respect to my friends/neighbors who may lean Republican.
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- How anyone could spin the criminal activities of a republican rep. and his benefactor into a anti democrat rant with straight face is amazing.
Well, unless Karl Rove is lurking nearby. The smarm-master excels at lies and half-truths dripping with innuendo.
Shh! Think he''s whispering now. - Reply to this comment
- I am surprised that anyone expects a democratic administration to be any different than a republican administration. Both are composed of politiceans who''s sole ambition is to remain in power and get as much as possible for their rich friends and themselves.
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- Yet another B.S. story from CBS. We are really being brainwashed. OMG, now they will throw our military under the bus to get this guy elected (BHMO) God help us all.
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- Fact the Democrat Congress took just over one year to reduce earmarks by 1/4.
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- So what is the statute of limitation on murder or conspiracy to commit murder? Hell, manslaughter would even fit. Those *** should be fried for using their official positions to conspire with crooks to kill and injure our sons and daughters because of their greed and incompetence. I think it is time for the DOD-OIG and the DOJ/FBI to take another look at this case and try the guilty ones for some really serious charges. Bribery convictions are white-collar crimes and they will be out in no time.
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- "Could D.C. Bribery Have Cost Troop Lives?"
Uhhh, this is a new discovery? Especially with our current government? - Reply to this comment
- It will be up to the Democrats and enlightened Republicans to clean up the mess that Bush values and Bush cronies have left for Barack Obama. A new broom sweeps clean ... wait for it!
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- Fact Repulican run Congress under Bush set the record for most "earmark" spending in Congressional history.
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- quote from story
""""There, Egland did some digging and found MZM had gotten millions in Defense contracts - courtesy of Rep. Duke Cunningham, R-Calif., in the form of earmarks, grants of money without the normal public review. """"
Our government is a major problem, and is to blame for much of the mess this country is in. Thgis is the type of behavior that our government has been involved in for way too long.
Wen need a major major change in this country. We need to reduce the amount of government we have, and we need to start enforcing MAJOR CONSEQUENCES for this type of treason.
On top of this we need ot eliminate all the extra compensations government officials recieve. If most workers in this ocuntry do not have pension plans, and do not get full health care coverage for their families then no government official should either.
What''s good for the goose is good for the gander.. right Washington
and this goes beyond a republican thinkg or a demoicrat thing or a gren party thing or an independant thing, this is just another fact that capitalism has run amok and too many people are taking adavantage of it and helping themsleves whiel *** millions.
THIS IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF TREASON - Reply to this comment
- Treason is Treason is Republican.
First they out a CIA operative.
Then they Torture.
Now (R) Cunningham takes bribes and it gets our troops killed.
Yet another TREASON not to vote Republican! - Reply to this comment
- "Today, there''s nothing to stop members of Congress from making secret, classified earmarks to favored companies.
"Nothing that has changed would preclude this from happening again," he said.
Taxpayers bore the cost, but Egland says the price that soldiers paid was even higher."
And that, members of the jury, is the hallmark of the liberals in the Democrat party.
There are a lot of good muslims. There are a lot of good former muslims who have converted to christian faiths.
Good former muslims DO NOT HIDE THEIR ACTIONS! If you don''t learn the truth now, 9/11 will look like your sister''s wedding in comparison.
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- Gee, Chad - I''m a combat veteran and I''m not so stupid as to think Obama is a muslim. Get a brain.
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- Treason, murder, reckless endangerment, why aren''t the people responsible for the death of our troops being prosecuted for it. That''s easy, remember all the ado about bush firing Republican US Attorneys who didn''t cooperate with the Party on prosecutions. The US Attorney for Southern California was one of the USA''s replaced in that Soviet-style political purge. That USA happens to be the one who dared to prosecute Cunningham. This USA even had the audacity to continue to follow the money trail to prosecute even more corrupt officials if they committed crimes, including these allegations. He is now gone and the division investigating corruption was shut down. The DOJ had the audacity to say that those actions won''t effect the investigations and some people are capable of the mental gymnastics necessary to buy it. 13% still strongly approve of the job bush has done. Apparently this 13% can still convince themselves that the emperor is really wearing clothes, even though they can plainly see otherwise.
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- Yet another TREASON not to vote Republican.
List:
935 lies told by the Bush Admin. leading us into the Iraq War. (according to a non-partisan report)
Outing CIA Operative Plame. (Cheney, and Rove implicated by Bush''s own Press Secretary Mclellan
Former Congressmen (R) Mark Siljander (sent $130,000 to an al Qaeda and Taliban supporter)
Now, "To get the sweetheart deals, MZM owner Mitchell Wade had bribed (R) Congressman Cunningham..." Which cost our troops lives.
Enough is enough support or troops, our constitution, our country.
No more Republicans. - Reply to this comment
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