Who’s next?
By on Jul 5th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
Who’s next?
Duke Cunningham “is now in jail, but his case exposed a world of bribery, booze, and broads that reaches into the Pentagon, the C.I.A., and Congress.” Vanity Fair takes a look at who might be the next Washington power-player to go down.
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Jefferson? Or is he off the hook since Bush ordered his office offlimits or whatever it was he did?
July 5th, 2006 at 12:03 pmARRGH. Just the thought of a Republican “going down’ seems kinda icky.
Goper’s Lament (Hard To Be A Republican)
July 5th, 2006 at 12:14 pmNext is Big Dick Cheney.
With Ken Lay saving the taxpayers millions by dying, it will be revealed shortly that at the secret meetings held in Cheneys offices, the energy meetings, Enron and Cheney conspired to bankrupt the State of California by making the cost of electricity unaffordable.
Cheney has got to go directly to prison, do not pass go, do not collect any more money, directly to prison. This man, and this administration, are the terrist best recruiting material.
July 5th, 2006 at 12:31 pmWe can all hope that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld might be the next to fall > I can dream anyways that takes place soon! Who killed Kenny Boy Lay today? He died of a suspicious heart attack > dead men tell no tales!
July 5th, 2006 at 12:36 pmFor more on the ethical woes of a laundry list of Republican wrongdoers, see:
July 5th, 2006 at 12:42 pm“The Republican Rap Sheet.”
dead men tell no tales!
Forensically speaking, that is not true. his dying at home – means there will be an autopsy!
July 5th, 2006 at 12:44 pmLieberman. All the hallmarks of corruption are there.
July 5th, 2006 at 12:57 pmPost 6 > the coroner will NOT be allowed to test for any toxins in Ken Lay’s body! It will be listed as a massive heart attack and nothing more! Very convenient it happened on Bush’s birthday > best present he could ever receive to have Kenny Boy drop dead, or was he eliminated so he would not blab on Dubya?
July 5th, 2006 at 1:03 pmWhy take turns? Hang all the guilty bastards at once with one massive circle jerk.
July 5th, 2006 at 1:04 pmMy vote goes to Karl Rove.
July 5th, 2006 at 1:06 pmGeorge W Bush — Date of Birth: 6 July 1946
July 5th, 2006 at 1:13 pmGood posts Jay and Clyde……Chuckles from here to there….Where’s the rope.? Can I help pull…?????Blessings
July 5th, 2006 at 1:16 pm#11
July 5th, 2006 at 1:18 pmso that would make him 60 years old going on 12(mentally).
that was not my “who’s next” guess -
July 5th, 2006 at 1:19 pmthat was a correction for jay…
Post 11 > the press is reporting Bush’s birthday as today the fifth of July, but even if they reported it wrong and it’s tomorrow, then still Lay’s death seems like a morbid present to him!
July 5th, 2006 at 1:21 pmSo many crooks, so few shackles…
July 5th, 2006 at 1:34 pmMurtha?
July 5th, 2006 at 1:40 pmMurtha?
Comment by Randy
Stick it up your randy, Randy.
July 5th, 2006 at 1:43 pmmurtha. the unindicted co-conspirator od abscam. and traitor to the marines
July 5th, 2006 at 1:47 pmMurtha
1: Not really a power player. His own party tends to stab him in the back.
2: He has been historically against the ruling party for quite a while. If there was anything there, they would have found and used it.
3: His votes have in fact been highly consistent with his views.
4: dale; unindicted, means he hasn’t even really been accused. Further, how has he betrayed the marines? By demanding their lives not be put in danger in the name of a Republican president’s bid for re-election?
July 5th, 2006 at 1:51 pmmurtha. the unindicted co-conspirator od abscam. and traitor to the marines
Comment by dale
It takes at least three huge turds who never served to attack a decorated US Marine. Randy and dale are here. Still need one more before I can flush the toilet.
July 5th, 2006 at 1:54 pm1
July 5th, 2006 at 1:54 pmIt certainly looks like Jefferson should be indicted and convicted. OK, now that we’ve got that one Democrat out of the way – Ney, Noe, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rove, and a host of other Republican operatives should go. Would you agree Squegeboo or do you only want left leaning corruption to end?
I must have missed something. What crimes has Murtha committed?
July 5th, 2006 at 1:57 pmLily
BAWL (Being Alive While Liberal) so far as I can see.
July 5th, 2006 at 1:59 pm23 Lily
July 5th, 2006 at 2:02 pmbeing “against us” instead of “for us”, I presume
What crimes has Murtha committed?
Comment by Lily
He no longer bows and scrapes before the king, Lily. And even questions him. Kind of like Ben Franklin did.
July 5th, 2006 at 2:02 pmbroads?
July 5th, 2006 at 2:02 pmbroads?
Comment by kmfg
omfg, itiat!
July 5th, 2006 at 2:12 pm#25, 26, and 27
July 5th, 2006 at 2:16 pmHanging’s too good for him, then!
#23 – Rep. Murtha has done the worst thing an elected Democrat could to the Republicans: served honorable in the US Marines and didn’t bow and scrape before the pernicious attacks of politicians that refused to serve their country in the armed services.
Res. Murtha has been faithful to his elected citizens, and has stood by his own word far more often than the hypocritical back-stabbers that currently run the House.
In short, Rep. Murtha has been a model American while those who hate him are the very embodiment of anti-Americanism.
July 5th, 2006 at 2:27 pmTsk, tsk, tsk,
Of all the places in the country where the “culture of corruption” should have worked for liberals was in CA-50, but the voters decided that they would rather have another Republican (since Reps police and jail their own), than a socialist / communist Democrat, who encourages illegal aliens to vote.
Is any part of that reality sinking in? Either way, Americans win, because either Democrats change their policies to be more in line with the mainstream, or they lose to Republicans who already have.
Bwah, hah, hah, hah, hah, haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
July 5th, 2006 at 2:46 pmJason M. Hendler
What are you talking about? Oh, sorry, I kind of expected you to actually be rational for once.
July 5th, 2006 at 2:53 pmWhat a fantastic movie this would make!! Money! Power! Betrayal! Even Sex, if the hookers prove out….
Have your people call my people.
July 5th, 2006 at 2:57 pmTsk, tsk, tsk…..Bwah, hah, hah, hah, hah, haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Comment by Jason M. Hendler
You need your mama. You sound like a total dipshit, you know?
By the way, the socialist / communist Democrat crap is old hat. Why don’t you try to invent some new, intelligent dialog that might “sink in” as you put it. As for Reps policing and jailing their own, who was you refering to? Tom DeLay? You Republican shitheads can’t even catch the guys at the top who outed a CIA agent.
Get a clue, pal.
July 5th, 2006 at 2:57 pmEvery time I hear someone repeat the party line of “socialist / communist Democrat”, I’m reminded of the other side of that political coin:
Fascist / dictatorial Republican.
For every activist there is an equal an opposite reactionary!
July 5th, 2006 at 3:36 pm#32
What part of Jason’s post don’t you get? Its time to give up on the “culture of corruption” theme because its not working. Wait, better yet, keep squawking it because it is working for Republicans. See, Jason and I live in the real world. The rest of you live here, in fantasy liberal land, far far away where your ideas are accepted and you do win elections.
July 5th, 2006 at 4:21 pmRandy
The trouble with you is, you see win elections as being the only deciding factor as to whether a government is actually any good or not. Basically, if you were a German in 1939, you would be cheering the Chancellor, because he won the elections. It is all that seems to matter to you.
July 5th, 2006 at 4:31 pmWhy Conservatives Can’t Govern By Alan Wolfe
Search hard enough and you might find a pundit who believes what George W. Bush believes, which is that history will redeem his administration. But from just about everyone else, on the right as vehemently as on the left, the verdict has been rolling in: This administration, if not the worst in American history, will soon find itself in the final four. Even those who appeal to history’s ultimate judgment halfheartedly acknowledge as much. One seeks tomorrow’s vindication only in the context of today’s dismal performance.
July 5th, 2006 at 6:40 pmAbout the only failure more pronounced than the president’s has been the graft-filled plunder of GOP lawmakers–at least according to opinion polls, which in May gave the GOP-controlled Congress favorability ratings in the low 20s, about 10 points lower than the president’s. This does not necessarily translate into electoral Armageddon; redistricting and other incumbency-protection devices help protect against that. But even if many commentators think that Republicans may retain control over Congress, very few think they should.
Why are you hyping a dumb Vanity Fair article that was entirely culled from court transcripts? Not exactly news, don’t you think?
July 6th, 2006 at 3:27 amIf it’s in Vanity Fair, it’s Gospel.
July 6th, 2006 at 7:56 amsince Reps police and jail their own),
July 6th, 2006 at 12:26 pm===========================
As in Tom Delay?
Do you think just saying something so ridiculous makes it a reality?
Randy
The trouble with you is, you see win elections as being the only deciding factor as to whether a government is actually any good or not. Basically, if you were a German in 1939, you would be cheering the Chancellor, because he won the elections. It is all that seems to matter to you.
Comment by Bruce Gorton
July 6th, 2006 at 12:42 pm=====================
Bruce,I was going to respond–but no need.Your’s is better than mine would have been.