And we really think that 50K was legitimate? Remember the scene in "Casablanca" where Bogart tells the young Bulgarian who needs money to bet 22 and it comes up -- twice? I'd bet the farm that Ney did Mr. al-Zayat a very special favor for those "winnings." And, like Claude Rains, Ney was probably "shocked" to find that money in his safe.

So what. Dems do this all the time.

Ethics in DC government means pretty much the same thing as "a quiet, intimate little frat party Friday night with 6 or 7 kegs and a live rock band" . . .
What is it with these people?
Doesn't the word "felon" mean anything at all anymore?!?!
MiGod!

I'm getting very confused whenever I read stories that detail what a big problem corruption is in places like Iraq or Russia or various parts of Africa. I find myself going "But . . . but . . . but . . . DeLay, Abramoff, Ney, Cunningham, etc., etc., etc., . . . ."

Is there something I'm missing?

By the way,
Where is Ney?

Did he chicken out of prison, turn on Rove and enter the witness protection program?
http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&LastName=ney&Middle=&FirstName=robert&Race=U&Sex=U&Age=&x=343&y=283
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Quentin try tinyurl.com to make an url we can use. You just go to the site paste that big ol thing in the slot and hit enter and voila you have a tunyurl you can post here without it scrolling off the page.

BTW Freedom what did Dems do when they found out about Jefferson? Pelosi stripped him of his senority. Then the DCCC and the netroots did everything they could to defeat him in the fall. What did Repubs do? Speaker Hastert screamed bloody murder about the Justice Dept daring to serve a warrant and search a congressman's office.
Makes you wonder just how many years Denny would be facing in the penitentiary if the feds could get alook at his files doesn't it?

Only a cynical nihilist would use an observation like "Dems do it all the time" as an excuse to say "so what" rather than "lock 'em all up."

He should get extra time tacked on for that dead weasel that's laying on his head. That's a crime no matter what party you belong to.

He doesn't have to report until March 1 to prison in WV.

"So what. Dems do this all the time."

I think 19 of the last 20 indictments have been aimed at Republicans. Roughly speaking.

Apparently you don't care about corruption, though, "Freedom".

It was the booze i tell !ya

Yo! Just-Another-Name-For-Nothing-Left-To-Lose:

Look to the playbook . . .

When it comes to scandals, it is the 3 R's for Republicans - Rolls Royces & Rolexes or kinky sex crap.

The vast majority of Democrats prefer either barely legal girls or the wives of friends. Jefferson is an abheration . . . AND we gotta wait until the courts finish dealling with FBI's SNAFU'd seizure of crap from his office. Jefferson will get his come-uppins.

ah,the real launderer is the state of israel.

it works this way....the congress finances israel.

the congress persons visit israel. where they learn that they have an account in an israeli bank[used to be zvi leumi]. if the congress person stayed aligned, the funds[a percentage of usg funding] remained alive and collecting interest.

however, if the congress person split, the account disappeared.

that is what israel really is, a launderer of amerikan tax dollars. never forget, without usg financing, israel sinks like the titanic.

Corruption comes in waves, and I suspect the tail end hit just before the election last year. What we're seeing now is just the after-effects. With all of the new anti-corruption lobbying passed by Speaker Pelosi (in combination with the wakeup call that every member heard when they started seeing colleagues being carted off to jail), I think that we'll be seeing fewer new corruption cases.

Democratic oversight of past Adminstration schemes is another story.

There are only two kinds of Republicans: criminals, and criminal enablers.

It really doesn't matter to me, however- in my book, they should all be wearing orange jumpsuits.

albertchampion,

Your post dated February 26, 2007 at 11:57 PM is offensive, immoral and, please forgive the bluntness, stupid.

It is offensive to those with anyone with more than a passing knowledge of Israel and geo-political situations to assert such spewing as information or imply that they are facts. It is immoral to incite hate against any nation for false or invented reasons. AND casting aspersions against any nation with a name beginning with the letter “I” whether that name ends with a “Q”, an “N” or an “L” is ludicrous when it comes to the discussion of money.

The vast majority of dollars associated with DC shenanigans are associated with another regional player . . . Saudi Arabia and a significant number of the Fortune 500 tied to the present Administration through prior bonds or familial relationships.

I request that you stop dumping garbage. There are a large number of sites that will happily and readily accept this sort of posted ‘material’ as truth. Please consider frequenting them.

Respectfully,
Richard L. Adlof

shannon,

No. Criticize Israel all you wish. Be factual. Be truthful. Understand your point and position then communicate it - just like any other item posted on this site.

Palestinans lost any claim of victimhood in Munich 1972. They are regularly the agressor. The two incidents from several years ago that echo in my mind are the much needed two desalination plants that Israel built for them at no cost to them . . . That were celebrated upon the opening of each one by Palestinians setting off explosives strapped to his chest in buses. Works of compassion met with heinous acts of true murder.

In this conversation, I request that as long as the Palestinians teach their children that genocide of all Jews and the wiping of Israel into the sea continues to be the reason for their existance. The very same U.N. Resolution that created Israel created Palastine - Look what each side in that human equation has done with that.

Sometimes knee-jerk support for the underdog is unwarranted.

Additionally, ablertchampiom brought into a conversation about a Syrian business person bribing an USAian Congress person in London . . . what could best be characterized as a rant about dollar washing through Israel. No information, facts or support other than that could be gleaned from from a hundred year old forgery.

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