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GOP Rep, Staffer Call Don Young a Crazy Liar
Usually you can pretty much take it for granted that Rep. Don Young (R-AK) is the most outspoken lawmaker around. After all, it's not every congressman who threatens to bite a member of his own party like a mink.
But perhaps Young has met his match. During his speech on the House floor Wednesday, Young did his best to distance himself from his infamous Coconut Road earmark in every way he could. He didn't make the change after the bill passed both houses of Congress -- somebody in some secluded office did. And he he'd only supported the earmark, he said, because the community and its representative had supported it. Young even devoted a page of his official web site to back up his story.
Well, that lawmaker is Rep. Connie Mack (R-FL). And Mack was none too happy and approached Young after the speech to tell him as much. Mack says that he did not initially support the earmark and only supported it after he discovered that the money could not be redirected. Or as Mack put it to Young on the floor, Young is a "liar." Young professed confusion as to how he could think such a thing: "I don't understand because I've got all the letters. Pull them up on the Web site. He's running away from an issue because he's got political heat."
Mack's chief of staff was no more restrained in his criticism:
Jeff Cohen, Mack's chief of staff, said Thursday that it was clear his boss was being singled out.Young's speech to the House was "absurd" and "inaccurate," Cohen said. "Perhaps we don't just need a committee on ethical standards, but one on psychological standards as well," he added.
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Don Young: Old fool, party of one. He's gotta go and he's the only one who doesn't care. Fire him now, Alaska, thank you.
May 2, 2008 5:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Republicans eating their own: it's not just for breakfast anymore.
May 2, 2008 5:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
lol. No kidding. More like the last supper, canibalism style. Reap what you sow an all.
May 2, 2008 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
how is that campaign for re-election going Rep.Minky Young?
I'm going to go check on AK newspapers, now.
May 2, 2008 5:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ah huh! Connie Mack IV, Republican U.S. Rep., from Florida ... let me savor this for a moment. Hmm, he must be fruit of the loins of Connie Mack, the former Republican U.S. Senator from Florida.
WTF is wrong with the Florida Repugs? Wasn't the Jeb Bush fiasco bad enough, with his evil seed causing all kinds of embarrassments? What's next on the ballot, Mark Foley's spawn?
There used to be the Adams's, the Kennedy's, Roosevelts and Rockefellers, and now we also have the Bushes, Murkowsky's, Chaffee's, Macks ... How many did I forget ?
Jesus, American politics have sure become a family business. So, what are we now, a hereditary Republic? a multi-family quazi-Monarchy?
It sure sounds hollow when our corporate MSM criticize the likes of Syria's Assad, Libya's Qaddafi or Egypt's Mubarak for trying to help their offspring inherit their daddy's jobs.
So, how old are The Governator's children? We may end up with a President Schwarzenegger after all... Blech! Perish the thought.
May 2, 2008 6:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
File the headline of this story under 'No duh.'
May 2, 2008 6:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow.
Don, you must be one hell of a crazy fuckup to give a complete douche like Connie IV even the appearance of being ethical or principled.
May 2, 2008 7:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
We Alaskans are trying to get rid of the jerk.
May 2, 2008 7:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's not getting the fawning press back home that he's been used to, so maybe that's got him a bit more on edge than usual. Check out this Anchorage Daily News (May 2, 2008) cartoon.
May 2, 2008 7:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
In all fairness, Don has never gotten a break from the Anchorage Daily News.
(And in all fairness, he's never deserved one.)
Young sees the ADN as his sworn mortal enemy. His current crises with Veco and Coconut Road, he said, were part of a conspiracy by ADN's owners, McClatchy, and environmentalists.
May 2, 2008 10:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Senator Craig swore his local rag was out to get him, too.
May 3, 2008 1:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
Young is the rule NOT the exception. When you scratch the surface of ANY Republican you see the insanity below. There may be a handful that are not nuts but again: Lunacy is the rule.
May 3, 2008 8:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Damn, is it exception or acception? Well you know what I mean, they're all nuts.
May 3, 2008 8:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
Just another example of why we need an estate tax. If someone can't "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" with 2million in tax free dollars, then they don't deserve their parents estate. I say give em their 2mil and tax the rest at 90%. The last thing this country needs is more trust fund babies like George AWOL Bush making policy for the rest of us. Just a male version of Paris Hilton.
May 3, 2008 12:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Representative Young lied. Why am I not surprised?
May 3, 2008 2:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
It is exception.
May 3, 2008 5:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, seeing that they are both goopers, it definitely applies to both.
I am sure this clown is as big of an embarrassment to Alaska as Tappy McWideStance is to Idaho.
But I do have to say, there is nothing quite as delightful as watching the goop implode. Here's hoping it's forever and that they go the way of the Whigs.
May 3, 2008 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Implode is right.
In the workplace of a corrupt state you get the finger pointed at you for asking for action on
felony crime in the workplace. It is standard to give the whistleblower a cuckoo's nest rap. Unions work on that angle when they actually know they really should be skewering a manager or two.
Bur Finally, the finger is being pointed at the real nut-job power whackos from both partisan extremes in Alaska. The same FBI raids could have happened in 1999 asnd there would have been Democratic political appointees clogging the courts.
It's good to see former Governor Knowles on the 'suspect' list at Alaska Report. Hopefully some of Tony's crookie ex-commissioners and revolving door union hacks will end up in the can soon, too.
http://alaskareport.com/news/z49999_corrupt_bastards.htm
May 3, 2008 11:50 PM | Reply | Permalink