"After all, Bill Clinton hung his opponents up on meat hooks, tortured them with power drills and sent Democratic Party-affiliated armed bandits to steal oil revenue in order to finance their illicit activities."

Works for me.

What do you expect from a pol from Florida? Or Texas for that matter. Name one pol from Florida that votes rational?

John Mica: If you can't convince them, confuse them.

How could anyone trust some one with such a bad hairpiece?

I wonder: Does Representative Mica ever experience any physical pain or discomfort caused by his being such a consummate embodiment of an absolute, utterly unredeemable schmuck?

*sigh*

This is what political discourse is today. Republicans can always find a way to criticize Democrats, even if the issue at hand has nothing to do with party politics.

If you look at the comments sections of nearly any news story on the AOL homepage, it is flooded with conservative blather, whether the story they are commenting on is even a remotely political story or not (I saw a piece on Sputnik there the other day, and the comments were nothing but users with American flag icons equating liberals with communists).

How did we get here? I suspect the rise of Rush Limbaugh had a lot to do with it.

Clinton bad! Bad! Very bad!

How much longer are we going to have to hear this?

Americuh! Fuck yeah!

Another example of changing the subject to grandstand that "they did it, too". Another chance to bash Bill.
He probably thinks it helps muddy the waters for Hillary's candidacy, since she has the same last name as Bush's predecessor.

You can always count on John Mica to step up to defend the administration. I was amused when he recited Clinton's record and then jumped to Watergate to say Republicans do bad too. Why didn't he mention this administration's record to date?

When this committee investigated the toxic fumes in FEMA supplied house trailers Mica was no where to be seen, not that anyone in his district will ever need emergency housing in a FEMA trailer.

If there was a chapstick for asskissers, Mica would need it.

I live adjacent to his district and there are rational people there, just not many. With a lack of ideas they just go back to their old tried and true, even though Bubba's been out of office for 7 years.

Florida, it ain't the humidity it's the stupidity !!!!

Typical Repub Pol...rich, corrupt businessman who never served a day in the armed forces he is sending to die for him. Just another Bush cheerleader.

As much trouble as Florida (and the rest of the country) have had being represented by an actual elected official, to have this flippant asshole do the desperate, shows his age, I.Q. and his willingness to shirk responsibility to his constituency and vote in lock-step for the next Fuhrer. What a lousy piece of scrotal tissue. no wonder organized crime breeds like fruit flies in Florida. With Floley and the gang representing Florida with their bad comb-overs and desires for young boys it's really no wonder at all that Bush's mafia felt they could do whatever they want. No wonder also that Abramoff would think he could run the restaurant in D.C. and have another racketeer hit while he stole their pleasure boat company.

Could Mica and Issa have been seperated at birth???

Of course, he's from Florida!

pretend you're a characterless goob working as a waitress in a Alabama PX and Karl Rove walks in and says "Do you remember being this man's pin-cushion" and you answer "I wish". He hands you a envelope full of money and suddenly you remember all the good times you had and what specific dates you had them on. Never happened, but aint it great when you can restore empty times with stolen money.

Mica, Issa, Inhofe, Stevens, ..... whew those Republicans sure do know how to pick'em. Have they blamed Clinton for Notre Dame Football's abysmal season yet?

Man, oh, man where is Touchdown Jesus when you need him?

Wanna know what's on Numb-Nuts' head?

"This put a strange Whim in his Head; which was, to get the hairy circle of [a prostitute's] Merkin .... This he dry'd well, and comb'd out, and then return'd to the Cardinall, telling him, he had brought St. Peter's Beard." [Alexander Smith, "A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the most notorious Highwaymen," 1714]

Further Affiant citeth not.

He's an elected representative of the people. It's a shame he doesn't have more to offer his constituents than this loony right wing GOP drivel

::: snort, snort, guffaw, guffaw :::

He lost me when he said "Congress is one of the most respected institutions in the world."

Give me a pound of whatever he's smoking.

Ricardo wrote on October 4, 2007 2:49 PM:

This is Florida Ricardo, who says he was elected?

Ah, yes..."indictments", the standard Republican measure of corruption.

You know, despite the zillions spent on the eight hundred investigations of the Clinton administration, Starr and all the other attack dogs never actually won a conviction of any major member of Clinton's team.

What? Really?

Now, it is true that Henry Cisneros pled guilty in 1998 to a single misdemeanor count of lying to the FBI about exactly how much money he gave before 1991 to his (widely known) mistress, while the FBI was doing a background check prior to his appointment as Secretary of HUD. This took a investigation by a special prosecutor that ran 10+ years and spent $21 million, and didn't die with a whimper until 2006(!). Henry was ultimately fined $10,000. No jail time, not even parole.

Mike Espy was investigated for improperly accepting gifts while he was Clinton's ag secretary. That independent counsel investigation spent another $20 million, and ended spectacularly with acquittal on all 38 counts despite the defense having called no witnesses. Per Wikipedia, one of the jurors stated "This was the weakest, most bogus thing I ever saw. I can't believe Mr. Smaltz [the IC] ever brought this to trial."

Then there was another independent counsel investigation of Ron Brown, Clinton's Secretary of Commerce, who had the nerve to thwart it by dying in a plane crash before they could gin up anything against him. And finally, Clinton's Secretary of Labor, Alexis Herman, faced yet another independent counsel who abruptly called off the investigation after two years and who knows how many millions, after finding, well...bupkus (except, perhaps, at long last, sir, a sense of decency.) She later won reimbursement from the US for her attorney's fees.

Now, let's compare, shall we, to the last few years?

Scooter Libby - VP chief of staff - convicted of obstruction of justice

David Safavian- chief WH procurement officer- convicted of lying, obstructing investigation.

Claude Allen - WH advisor - pled guilty to theft

Tom Noe- Bush "Pioneer" and chairman of Bush's reelection campaign in Ohio - pled guilty

Bernard Kerik - nominee for DHS - pled guilty to "accepting gifts"

Duke Cunningham, Tom Delay, Jack Abramhoff, Dusty Foggo (I'm sure I'm probably missing others)... the truth is that this current administration and GOP is the most corrupt since Reagan's (138 indictments/investigations and - more importantly - 32 convictions.)

Mica hopes the public doesn't remember the facts. He should get accustomed to disappointment.

Who was the woman in pink at the end of the table holding her head in her hands?

So what's Mica saying? We should keep throwing billions at Iraq and hope some of it sticks?

Doesn't it seem odd that troll Mica is so desperate to change the subject? I wonder where all that Iraqi money that got stolen is going?

If Mica is sincere about every administration being corrupt he was derelict in his duty to investigate Bush when the 'Publican Party had control.