Sorry, can't help it. My security code is "sticky". Just too ironic to let pass.

Cunningham ordering his usual filet mignon -- very well done

Does his depravity know no bounds?!

You oughta get thirty years for ordering a Filet Mignon very well done.

Yuck. I haven't had breakfast yet.

Did this bozo think he was so powerful he was immune to pollution as well?

You want your meats thoroughly cooked these days it seems... you know, there are all sorts of bugs you could get from tainted meat.

dc

code: snake; no further comment.

Well done Filet Mignon and Iceburg Lettuce, how daring, and it really does show the character of the man. Parochial, closed minded, repressed.

When I go out to dinner, we often go to the same place, but i never order the same thing over and over, what's the point of that? You eat out to try somebody elses menu, otherwise you might as well just put everything into a blender and drink it down since it's all going to the same place.

Obviously taste is not a concern, since shoe leather and water aren't the most robust of flavors.

10am...delia..have a bowl of cereal for chrissakes

code = waste, What a waste of polluted water.

I understand that the dirty water plays as a rhetorical allegory, and not to take away from the disgusting mental picture that is Cunningham naked in filth, but the water in the Potomac has actually been cleaned up over the years. Sure, some 70% of Potomac river catfish caught have liver-tumors (the sediment is essentially a brownfield), but the water above G'Town is not that bad, really. People swim in it everyday.

SC= Brain, as in you have one of your own, so use it.

Actually, this puts the Duke in a more favorable light, I think. I tend to think well of those who swim in mildly polluted water of rivers that most people shun--the Hudson is one of my favorite swimming destinations.

That said, getting in naked with guests is slightly off. As is not changing the water.

Does the book contain any pics of the bimbos?

This is great stuff. Washington eats these juicy tidbits like...filet mingon.

Mr Yuck says,

Yuck!

Were they drinking red wine on the white leather sofas? Was the carpet white as well? I guess he thought "I'm rich now, I can run around nekkid on the boat if I want to".

He probably had white wine with that ruined filet, troglodyte that he is.

Jon Stewart, are you reading this? Could be good for a laugh

People burn in hell for all eternity for doing stuff like that to a filet mignon.

Meet and greet with your elected officials now includes tubbing in dirty river water? Ah, the class displayed boggles the mind.

My security code for this was "right" - the tech must be using ESP today.

OK. This is childish. But the security code now is "boat", and it's simply too precious to pass up. Please forgive me!

OK ... My security code is, I swear, "meat".

Burnt fillet mignon on iceberg lettuce ... Class act.

Leta, frankly ordering a $180 bottle of wine to wash down your well done filet mignon is so beyond tacky. And I thought Navy pilots had class. My bad.

Well Paul, your next assignment is to determine whether or not there were any floaters in there. The American people have a right to know!

Security code: goat as in "this is grosser than goatse"

Cunningham's behavior is simply a trailer-trash perspective on what the trappings of 'success' and 'livin' big' could be.

It's an image of a person without class, taste or sensibility -- only "appetites".

This isn't to say that if Cunningham had possessed more 'refinement', his corruption would have been excusable. But it's a logical extension of the "YAAA-hoo!" Bush world -- lowlifes who live in mansions. It's a wonder Duke didn't sport 'Bling' jewelry.

Maybe Duke can get some Elvis-On-Velvet paintings for the wall of his cell. Or a fuzzy seat cover for the right-out-in-front-of-God-and-man toilet.

Pathetic.

how the right wing exists to "do good."

Well, they've done pretty well for themselves, haven't they?

Who cares how he likes his meat ?
Who cares if he used river water in his hot tub ?

What I can't can't get out of my mind is the Duke butt ass naked. The guy is hard enough to look at clothed and a stewardess ?? Is that code for hooker ??

Liberty and Justice have been fired.

He stole all that money to buy tacky expensive furniture and to ruin expensive cuts of meat? And let's not even go into iceberg lettuce.

What a cheap, cheezy little man!

Why put a tub in a river and then put the river in a smaller tub? Did he float a boat in his tub?

Couldn't get in the river nekkid I guess ... nevermind.

Security code: shame

um.
I really didn't need to read this.

ew. just. ew.

Who paid off the flight attendant? She wasn't sleeping with the Dukester for free.

"Why a Duke? Why-a no chickenhawk?"

I feel kind of funny sticking up for someone who would do such unspeakable things to a filet mignon, but he served in Vietnam, yes? Sorry, but any military service, especially in combat, disqualifies one forever from chickenhawk status.

Pretty good review of the book here:

http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2007/05/16/congressional-earmarks-and-duke-cunningham/

Not to steal the thunder from Marcus Stern et al who originally exposed Duke's shady dealings with Mitchell Wade, but there is another book due out in July re the Cunningham caper called "Feasting on the Spoils." I was really intrigued by this blurb on Cunningham making nice with Barney Frank:

"Look, I want to apologize," Cunningham told Frank, according to Feasting on the Spoils, by investigative reporter Seth Hettena. "I may have said things to you in the past that were harsh. I shouldn't have said those, and I'm not going to say those again." (Among other things, Cunningham had baited Frank into a fight by referring, in a congressional session, to "homos in the military.")

Whence the remorse? According to Hettena, Cunningham renounced his lifelong homophobia after purchasing a yacht, the Buoy Toy, in August 2002 from Scott Schramm. Cunningham later told Schramm, "You know, I used to be very antiwomen, antigay, and a lot of things in my life have changed. And one of those big things was 9/11. That was a big part of my life. I now vote pro-gay, and it's because of you and Lee [Marcum, Schramm's then-partner]."

Cunningham continued, "I'm sure I've met lots of gay people, but I've never met two guys that, you know, were outwardly gay and ... that I would consider drinking buddies and friends and boating buddies and people I want to spend time with ... that also said, 'Oh, by the way, I just happened to be gay.'"

Cunningham was a self indulgent jerk from day 1 in office. He is the poster adult for something endemic in much of the country's populace- those folks who are proud of their racism, sexism, homophobia, immigrant hate, etc, etc. So if Cunningham could turn it around, maybe, just maybe, there is some hope for these folks too.

Security code Soap not to be missed.

Enjoy.

Security code: clean
Okay, now they're just messin' with us.

Just the mental picture of the Dukester's leather nutsack emerging from the stank-nasty cesspool made me retch.

brrrrr.