Senior Bush official linked to escort service resigns.
Senior Bush official linked to escort service resigns.
Earlier, ThinkProgress reported that the Bush administration’s senior foreign aid coordinator had stepped down. The Blotter has the reason:
Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias submitted his resignation Friday, one day after confirming to ABC News that he had been a customer of a Washington, D.C. escort service whose owner has been charged by federal prosecutors with running a prostitution operation. Tobias, 65, Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), had previously served as the Ambassador for the President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief.
A State Department press release late Friday afternoon said only he was leaving for “personal reasons.” On Thursday, Tobias told ABC News he had several times called the “Pamela Martin and Associates” escort service “to have gals come over to the condo to give me a massage.” Tobias, who is married, said there had been “no sex,” and that recently he had been using another service “with Central Americans” to provide massages.
UPDATE: Tobias was a strong proponent of the Bush administration’s abstinence-only policies. Before touring African countries for an AIDS program 2004, he said, “The message to young people in the schools is not either ‘Be abstinent or here are condoms, take your pick.’ It is a message of ‘Be abstinent.’ Delaying sexual activity is a means of eliminating the risk of infection.”
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is there ANYthing that’s “sacred” with these people anymore? Maybe this is the freedom and democracy that Bush talks about spreading!
April 27th, 2007 at 9:20 pmAnother Bush offical bites the dust! Man, will the good news ever stop???
April 27th, 2007 at 9:22 pmAh yes, “do as I say not as I do” Tobias resigns to “spend more time with his family” — if he still has one.
AF
April 27th, 2007 at 9:24 pmLOL. I’m so behind everyone being named. Not that I care about their personal life, but these fools will provide us with a long, hysterical drama on TV swearing they regret their actions and promising never to do it again.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:25 pmHe looks like he’d have to pay someone to massage him…….
April 27th, 2007 at 9:26 pm“Bringin’ in th’ thieves…
…Bringin’ in th’ thieves…
…We are all rejoicing…
…Bringin’ in th’ thieves…”
April 27th, 2007 at 9:26 pmi didn’t inhale…
And, yes, I DO take it personally
April 27th, 2007 at 9:27 pmROFLMAO, I need some pop corn to go long with this comedy / tragedy play this administration has been putting on for over 6 year’s..Sadly it has cost us and Iraq nearly 700,000 lives and the tune of nearly 8 trillion dollar’s….Let’s hope we can get them out of office before more die and the fat lady in china sing’s she want’s her money back……..Blessings
April 27th, 2007 at 9:29 pmWell hope they dig a bit more on his history, maybe Libby can give him some massages from prison.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:30 pmTobias told ABC News he had several times called the “Pamela Martin and Associates†escort service “to have gals come over to the condo to give me a massage.â€
…massage WHAT?
PS: TP – STILL HAVE TO ENTER FORMAT!!!!!
AND NO ANSWER ALTHOUGH I ASKED YOU TO…
April 27th, 2007 at 9:32 pmClinton did it too.
Why does Pamela Martin & Assoc. hate America?
April 27th, 2007 at 9:33 pmThe new docudump seems to be padded out with ungainly masses of transcript already in the public domain verbatim from a previous hearing on the subject. Most of the rest of the documents portray a DOJ obsessed with justifying its actions under investigation, and spending yet even more of our tax money to do so. Also of intense interest is the chart thoughtfully provided of documents still not yet disclosed, one of which refers to an email discussing a voicemail left in response to an inquiry regarding the dismissal of Lam, and another discussing none other than the topic of the email regarding the voicemail itself. Most quotidian. All very proper it seems, quite legitimate, nothing to see here, move along shall we? 120 days may not be enough for transitional purposes, but it could conceivably be enough to structure certain diversions, all of the foregoing, possibly, among them.
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April 27th, 2007 at 9:34 pmgoddamn! these rePUKES are dropping like flies!
this is what last throes look like mr cheney…. learn it, live it, love it!
April 27th, 2007 at 9:35 pmThe new docudump seems to be padded out with ungainly masses of transcript already in the public domain verbatim from a previous hearing on the subject. Most of the rest of the documents portray a DOJ obsessed with justifying its actions under investigation, and spending yet even more of our tax money to do so. Also of intense interest is the chart thoughtfully provided of documents still not yet disclosed, one of which refers to an email discussing a voicemail left in response to an inquiry regarding the dismissal of Lam, and another discussing none other than the topic of the email regarding the voicemail itself. Most quotidian. All very proper it seems, quite legitimate, nothing to see here, move along shall we? 120 days may not be enough for transitional purposes, but it could conceivably be enough to structure certain diversions, all of the foregoing, possibly, among them.
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April 27th, 2007 at 9:35 pmGals? Can’t a man be a massage therapist nowadays?
April 27th, 2007 at 9:36 pmHow interesting… inadvertently admitting the obvious…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u2ITs4yIAE&mode=related&search=
April 27th, 2007 at 9:37 pmWhat we’re seeing, if you will, are the last throes of the republican party.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:37 pmThe Republican Party has sure changed the morals of leadership. They are lying, cheating, cowardly, hypocritical pedophiles. They have broken every rule and some. Think what we would find if there truly was an investigation witha Ken Starr type Special Investigator. These guys should be fired. They qualify for impeachment more than Clinton ever did. The 28% making excused for them should be in Iraq under fire.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:39 pmAnd the beat goes on.
Hypocrites, one and all.
Can you imagine how scandals like this would have been handled in the Clinton Administration? OMG!
Yet, with the Bush crime family, scandals are too numerous to list and the Bushies continue as if their sh*t don’t stink.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:40 pmCan you imagine how this would have been handled if scandals in this number had occurred in the Clinton administration? OMG.
Hypocrites.
Yet, Bush crime family continue as if their sh*t don’t stink.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:42 pmTo self righteous Repubs, there’s always a “Happy Ending” to every story.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:42 pmI dare say im pleased by the dems at this point, but ya know what i really like about them, every time they make their case regarding iraq, they keep saying its what americans want and voted for, bush on the other hand thinks the voters were sending a message to congress and not that clueless “cowboy”…..
are there more than 100 repukes that still have a job?
April 27th, 2007 at 9:44 pmI loved the movie DICK with Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams. If there is one hope to come out of this current national nightmare, it’s that Hollywood will have some great material to maker comedies, farces and satires. You can’t make this stuff up. (Well, not unless you’re Fox, but then they’re making it up about Democrats.)
April 27th, 2007 at 9:44 pmAnother wretched hypocrite in the Bush crime gang.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:45 pmtobias may be the first but i’m sure they’ll be many more conservative republican’s to cum…
(my money’s on rove btw)
April 27th, 2007 at 9:47 pmDepends on the meaning of massage, I guess. I knew we’d get to the sex eventually. Hypocrites!
April 27th, 2007 at 9:47 pmGee whiz, the irony. Well, at least Tobias did resign. Otherwise, we would have to hear Bush proclaim how much confidence he has in him.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:48 pmWell, you know it’s all Clinton’s fault…
April 27th, 2007 at 9:51 pmit’s just a safer to assume that every republican is a lying perverted coward. If, one can prove otherwise, ok, but prove it or shut up.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:52 pmIt’s just par for the course for someone (who has such deep dark secrets to hide) to seek out an organization with a seemingly clean-cut reputation to hide in. This is getting so repetitive lately: it would behoove the Republicans, if they want to salvage ANYTHING of their hijacked party, to clean house!!! The party of individuality, separation of church & state, and laissez faire government has been corrupted. Get thee gone!!! Impeach!
April 27th, 2007 at 9:54 pmre # 28
April 27th, 2007 at 9:54 pmi guess you’re right, he made sex safe for old white guys. too bad the repubs haven’t figured out he made decent governance safe for old white guys too.
What Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias does not realize that when hiring a Central American masseuses is that crabs are in season for 12 months of the year.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:01 pmOnce again,
These are the Republican family values.
Their tangled weaves are really unraveling now.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:03 pmIt gets better and better – I love that the guy in charge of promoting abstinence education is hiring hookers. Do you think he rode bareback? The whole Bush administration has become Porky’s VII.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:08 pmDecember 1, 2004
April 27th, 2007 at 10:08 pmAmbassador Randall L. Tobias: The U.S. is also partnering with communities to find solutions to such issues as sexual coercion and exploitation of women and girls, as well as fighting sex trafficking and prostitution, while still serving victims of these activities.
How many want to bet money that those Central American “masseuses” are/were living in the US illegally?
Republicans: All for racism and xenophobia, unless it’s a cute escort.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:11 pmDavid – yes, Dick is a great movie – badly marketed – I only saw it because my kids thought it was a teen comedy – they were bored silly, I laughed my butt off.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:12 pmAll for racism and xenophobia, unless it’s a cute escort.
Comment by Gregor Samsa — April 27, 2007 @ 10:11 pm
Or 7 years kids.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:15 pmTobias, who is married, said there had been “no sex,†[...]
I seem to recall a forceful denial made along the same lines by another one of these self-appointed gatekeepers of public morality.
Who was it?
Oh yeah! Rev. Haggard!
I didn’t believe him either.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:16 pm“WASHINGTON – Randall Tobias, head of the Bush administration’s foreign aid programs, abruptly resigned Friday after his name surfaced in an investigation into a high-priced call-girl ring, said two people in a position to know the circumstances of his departure.
It was Tobias’ own decision to resign, according to one of the people, who said the issue came up only in the past day or so.”
I like how it appears he had no plans to do anything until he gets caught with his pants down, literally.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:16 pmThis guy – he’s not the first prominent guy in either party to use hookers. Dems, Republicans – they’re all guilty of stuff like this – we only hear what’s reported. The guy’s 65, fer chrissakes, maybe he needed something extra to get himself off (there are back-stories to everything as to why) – and also, wait till you’re 65 and then make a judgement. Is he a hypocrit? Yes, no doubt. (Like that’s unknown in politics — duh!) Who got hurt here in what he said and did? Can anyone name anybody specific?
My point – you REALLY want to nail Bush? Nail him for the stuff he’s done that’s rotten to the core, that’s hurt your amazing and incredible country and the people who live there – nail Rove and nail Gonzales for their lies and their deceit that’s bringing your country to the edge of a precipice you may never recover from, should you go over. Do it straight, do it good and nail them solid for legit reasons. PLEASE GAWD, NAIL THESE BUGGERS.
This other stuff – the sex shit — it’s shit stuff. Why do Yanks always get their shirts in a knot about sex? I’ll never understand it.
Keep your eye on the prize. Nail Bush on constitutional issues – he’s wide open to attack if you do the research — keep the sex out of it, otherwise, you’re all down at the same level the Republicans were when they went after Clinton for sex. Silly, stupid and inane that was — and meantime, all the legit reasons for criticizing him (and there were a few) went out the window.
Forget the little fish, Tobias is a relatively little fish – get the big ones — get them legitimately on solid reasons, work hard at it, you can do it. You got a war going on, your guys are dying (so are Canucks in Afghanistan) — this sex stuff is … well, it’s friggin’ silly and stupid — and embarrassing. IMO.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:23 pmWhy do Yanks always get their shirts in a knot about sex? I’ll never understand it.
It all goes back to the Puritans.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:27 pmHe did not have sexual relations with that woman.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:31 pmAnacher Forester wrote exactly what I was going to say.
How much more can we take?
This latest scandal sure RUBS me the wrong way.
I would highly suspect that people are being paid not to talk. One or two isolated scandals are one thing, but 25 scandals are quite another. There is so much filth and dirt, within the Bush inner circle, that money has to be exchanging hands. And no doubt people are being blackmailed not to talk.
Why aren’t people talking? Maybe they’re too busy having massages, sex, and screwing people. That’s their night activities. During the day who knows what’s going on? Lying is a good bet, and Swiss bank accounts is probably a good bet, too.
John
April 27th, 2007 at 10:32 pmYes, Canuck but it’s not enough to nail Bush. The hypocrisy and corruption of the Republican Party must be clearly proven to the American public. There will be many more Republican candidates for higher office after Bush.
AF
April 27th, 2007 at 10:34 pmYou just can’t make this stuff up.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:34 pmGeez, at least all he got caught doing was spending govt money on handjobs. That’d make him one of the more benign criminals in this crowd, that is, if that’s all he was doing.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:35 pmWho got hurt here in what he said and did? Can anyone name anybody specific?
Comment by Canuck observer — April 27, 2007 @ 10:23 pm
By this standard, the war in Iraq is a-ok because I cannot name a specific Iraqi person by name.
Duh.
The point is that the Abstinence Only program is deeply flawed, and does not help in the fight against the spread of the disease.
That is where the harm happens, when the misinformed have unprotected sex. Those are the people that Tobias, and others like him, are harming by not giving them information about the many ways to avoid infection.
This other stuff – the sex shit — it’s shit stuff. Why do Yanks always get their shirts in a knot about sex? I’ll never understand it.
In case you missed it, the point is that Tobias is an example of the hypocrisy of the Bush administration’s officials, who try to inject a morality spin into government programs, while failing to live up to the standards they set for everyone else and/or make into law.
With whom Tobias chooses to have sex is not my concern. At all.
Forget the little fish, Tobias is a relatively little fish – get the big ones — get them legitimately on solid reasons, work hard at it, you can do it.
First, Tobias is a Deputy Secretary of State. That is not a small fish.
Second, with Tobias the Bush administration critics score two birds with one stone. It highlights how unrealistic the Abstinence Only programs really are, and exposes the Bush administration for the lying weasels that they are -trying to get everyone else to do things they are not willing to get involved with. Like fighting the war in Iraq.
this sex stuff is … well, it’s friggin’ silly and stupid — and embarrassing. IMO.
AIDS is not silly and stupid.
Oh, and prostitution is illegal in the US. So, that is another reason to expose these people.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:39 pmLet’s have Randy submit to a panoply of comparative STD tests to see if “abstinence only” worked for that “massage.”
April 27th, 2007 at 10:39 pmBenign except for that fact that as “global abstinence-only man” Tobias was charged with an area that deals with world-wide prostitution and child exploitation.
AF
April 27th, 2007 at 10:40 pmI would have thought liberals would LOOOOVE this guy….
April 27th, 2007 at 10:41 pmComment by valiant venus — April 27, 2007 @ 10:41 pm
Varmint Genus/Mitey Coprolite,
How about you share your deep, deep thoughts on this matter, in that clear, concise prose that is so characteristic of you?
/sarcasm off
April 27th, 2007 at 10:44 pmIt just keeps getting better and better. They only gave him a massage eh? Well what exactly did they massage? Was their a happy ending?
April 27th, 2007 at 10:46 pm[ Family Values]….
April 27th, 2007 at 10:47 pmThe irony is…he’s probably quite at ease saying he didn’t screw any of those hookers…he’ll just claim that “technically” a hand-job isn’t sex…
I piss on all republicans and everything they “stand” for.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:52 pmI would have thought liberals would LOOOOVE this guy….
Comment by valiant venus — April 27, 2007 @ 10:41 pm
Why?
April 27th, 2007 at 10:53 pmOh, and prostitution is illegal in the US. So, that is another reason to expose these people.
Comment by Gregor Samsa
It is legal in Nevada, everywhere else it is illegal.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:59 pmBut he wasn’t in Nevada…..
On the other hand….
http://www.bangedup.com/bu_posts/boybeheadingwow.wmv
These kids will fit in just fine in the New USA
April 27th, 2007 at 11:02 pmfrom : http://apnews.myway.com//article/20070428/D8OPBAU80.html
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hehehe, funny chit, ABC News has the list, so the feds cannot let any official on that list slide.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:07 pmDeputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias and the Very Reverend Ted Haggard are most surely the only two people ever to hire hookers and claim “no sex.” Unless snorting meth from a gay hooker’s dick is not considered “sex.”
April 27th, 2007 at 11:09 pmOh brother this proves that GOPers are certified mentally ill. The guy is married but pays for prostitutes, believes in abstinance only programs, and runs AIDS funding too. Give me a barf bag please.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:12 pmI feel like laughing. Ha Ha Ha
April 27th, 2007 at 11:15 pmRidiculous Republicans
On second thought maybe everything is legitimate here. Family values and the Bush administration go hand-and-hand. This woman is no doubt a RMT–a registered massage therapist. That’s it! That’s it!
No doubt, too, she has poor eye sight and starting massaging points south when should should have been massaging points north.
He’s probably got a big wallet. Who wouldn’t want to rub their hands on $1000 dollar bills. Yes, for poor folks.
However, no one in the Bush administration would want to rub their hands on $1000 dollar bills. Are you kidding! Small change!
Try $1,000,000,000 bills.
John
April 27th, 2007 at 11:15 pmBush’s bad luck with Tobias began the day he nominated him.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:15 pmJust wait till HookerGate explodes….there’s going to be administration folks heading for the hills!
April 27th, 2007 at 11:17 pmAbstinence makes the foldle grow harder!
April 27th, 2007 at 11:17 pmno sex? $500 (I guess) per hour and he didn’t get laid? shame on him! I guess he has money to burn…
“I didn’t ejac…”
April 27th, 2007 at 11:18 pmTobias got his dong massaged, but then tries to deny it. I bet he claims the oral was massage too > lol.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:23 pmWow! We know they’re corrupt, and most of us here know that Republican supporters are victims of one of the largest propaganda campaigns in history, but sooner or later even the loyal must wonder if there are any Bush appointees that aren’t conflicted amoral hypocrites. Bush knows what he’s there for and who paid for it: his job is to inflict as much damage to the middle class for maximum profit – his series of F you appointments seems to be unending. Who got hurt here? About as many as the Lewinsky scandal. Still want to follow that path?
April 27th, 2007 at 11:26 pmFeces does not fall far from the sphincter.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:27 pmWhen Bush claims he has created jobs in America he means in the prostitution and porn industries.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:28 pmWhat I am shocked about is it was with women???!!!!! Go figure.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:28 pmMost of the GOPers in the Bush Regime are using the male escort services, in DC, so they are safe from exposure for the moment. Jeff Gannon and Matt Sanchez need to release their client lists. That would be the end for Bush himself.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:33 pmComment by Wayne — April 27, 2007 @ 10:59 pm
Thanks. Yes, you are correct.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:35 pmJay,
You live in Atlanta. I bet WSB-TV fires Pam Martin. I like her and she is an excellent anchor person.
I wonder how she looks so nice during the noon broadcast, when she up at all hours of the night massaging clients. She must doze during TV commercials.
John
April 27th, 2007 at 11:45 pmWell, I disagree with Canuck Observer. (Was that you Mark Steyn???) And I do so as a fellow Canuck. Canadians love a good sex scandal. Sex between a Soviet spy/prostitute and a one-legged Defence Minister brought down one of our governments.
The fact is that this story is GOOD. And it’s good because it shows up the fallacy of Republican Family Values. A man lectures teens about sexual abstinence, but he’s busy with hookers. He claims to be working to stop sexual slavery, but seems like he’s doing a lot of after hours research on the topic.
Republicans like to talk about San Francisco values. And yet what is it that liberal Democrats embrace? Tolerance. The right to privacy. The right of two consenting adults to love each other in their own way. And the right of women to have control of their bodies. Republicans have some goofy idea that the State has a vested interest in these things. And so they meddled in the bedrooms of the nation trying to stop unmarried peoples from having sex and really freak if the couple are of the same sex.
Well, It’s really not their business. And when sex is a business, liberal Democrats are of two minds. They embrace sexual freedom, but they know that, when cold hard cash is added to the equation, freedom flies out the window. Liberal Democrats know that it’s only by raising the minimum wage, guaranteeing equal pay for equal work, and protected the young and the homeless from sexual exploitation that any semblance of an ‘honest’ sex trade can happen. And since those conditions are a long way off, it is not likely that you’ll find a Democrat approving of prostitution, but the Democrat is more likely to be critical of the johns than the hookers. Republicans, on the other hand, seem to think the Jezebels are to blame for their sinful and uncontrolable lust.
What I find most amusing is that Republicans have to pay for it. That’s what I think really annoyed Republicans about Clinton: they hated that women genuinely were attracted to him. Republicans want their sin to be sordid. They want it to be something that needs to be hidden and something to feel guilty about. It’s their guilty pleasure. But an old friend of mine once said, “If you must sin, sin joyfully.” Clinton sinned joyfully. And most of us could see him as being human because of that. Whereas these old farts see women as servants, maids, hookers, and scarlet women. Their attitude is fundamentally sexist.
This is a good scandal. There’s nothing particularly American about it. And we’ve seen just as good up here in Canada. And the hypocrisy of the Right remains a constant. This has been so since Judah propositioned Tamar by the wayside in Genesis 38.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:46 pmYes John I live just outside of Atlanta, next to Stone Mountain park. Lots of the DC scandals have ties to Georgia.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:49 pmGregor Samsa #48 responds:
I asked: Who got hurt here in what he said and did? Can anyone name anybody specific?
Comment by Canuck observer — April 27, 2007 @ 10:23 pm
To which Samsa responded:
By this standard, the war in Iraq is a-ok because I cannot name a specific Iraqi person by name.
A very weak comparison you’ve come up with. The Iraqis are dying in battle, every day, and their deaths are instant and bloddy — as are the deaths of Americans (and Brits and Canucks and … well you name the allies) — Bush brought this on, no question about it.
Tobias was appointed as “Global AIDS coordinator” by Pres. Bush. The people Tobias told to *refrain* from sex (stupid thing of him to even consider saying) are not NOW going to go out, full force and do otherwise, just because Tobias got caught having “massages” from hookers. Most of them won’t even know about it, since they’re out of the country. They’re not gonna read the papers so they can make a judgement, and god knows, most of them don’t have access to computers to tune into the news. This bit of news will have little or no effect on their behaviour, one way or the other. Count on it.
You also wrote: ‘Tobias is a Deputy Secretary of State. That is not a small fish.”
Fact is: Tobias’ title is/was “director of U.S. foreign assistance and administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development. His rank was equivalent to deputy secretary of state.”
http://www.star-telegram.com/464/story/83680.html
It may have been “equivalent” to Deputy Secretary of State — but it sure as heck wasn’t the “same as” Deputy Secretary of State. So, he’s still a ’small fish’. IMO
I’m not knocking the war against AIDS – no way I’d do that. Nor do I thumb my nose at it. Stephen Lewis is a beloved Canuck hero for HIS work in the field of AIDS prevention.
It’s just that, in this effort to get Pres. Bush and his lousy Administration, you all are heading down a small, nowhere branch on the road to accomplishing it — lead by what most folks in the world outside US borders consistently get astounded by — and that’s Yanks basic fascination and abhorrence of all things “sexual”. Somebody called “Bob’s yer Uncle” up above said it had to do with Puritans. I agree. You’ve had over 200 years now. Get over it. Tobias is a cog in a massive wheel – a tiny one at that. Get the Big Guy — get Bush. We’re all, (outside US borders) counting on that, rooting for ou. But use the good BIG solid stuff. This Tobias stuff with it’s attachments to hookers – it’s just so …. eye-rollingly minor.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:54 pmJay,
I think swampy Disneyworld land parcels have ties to Atlanta. I don’t know if Sonny has ties to DC.
John
April 28th, 2007 at 12:06 amStill better to get Tobias out of there. I would have thought FBI background checks would catch this sort of thing.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:07 amThis Tobias stuff with it’s attachments to hookers – it’s just so …. eye-rollingly minor.
Comment by Canuck observer
Obviously you miss the irony.
Fact: prostitution is illegal in every state, except for Nevada.
Fact: prostitution is also illegal in the District of Columbia, Washington, DC.
Fact: Tobias got caught.
Fact: Tobias was a strong proponent of the Bush administration’s abstinence-only policies.
Fact: Tobias got caught.
Fact: Tobias is a hypocrite who broke the law and got caught.
I say bring them down on any law they break, especially the laws they push on everyone else, with their holier than thou bullsh*t.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:10 amThat is Ironic Justice.
Only 9,999 to go.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:12 amPost #78. Hey, Canuck (Mark Steyn) Observer, go laugh up your smug Canadian sleeve somewhere else. And why should this sex scandal upset you so much? And it does. Pretty long posts for a “small fish”. Unless you’re a Mark Steyn or a David Frum and are really a closet neo-con from Canuckistan. (Canuckistan always cracks me up.)
I’m sorry. But this is not ‘eye-rollingly minor’. It’s true that outside the USA there is often confusion as to why Americans are obsessed with the private lives of their politicians. I’ve read some rather snarky things in conservative US blogs about Segolene Royal’s private life. But sex scandals involving lawbreaking and hypocrisy and sexist ideology are wonderfully major news. (Pastor Ted Haggard is a case in point.) Lecturing Africans to abstain from sex was simply stupid and cruel; and to learn that this boneheaded advice came from someone who couldn’t even practise what he preached… Well. It makes my day.
Indeed, it’s similar to the sex scandal of a certain World Bank prez who seems to think everyone should be transparent and uncorrupt –except him. So, laugh up your smug Canadian sleeve and tell it to the folks at Tims. But I’m one Canadian who thinks this is important and symptomatic of an imploding administration.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:14 amJohn > before Diebold voting machines were installed in Georgia this State was progressive in voting for Democrats. After 2002 we got GOPer Sonny Perdue as Gov., Chambliss the red-neck creep as Senator, and a slew of crazy Repub Representatives. If and when Diebold machines are removed, then Georgia will be a Democrat State again.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:15 amI’m sure there are more than a few registered Democrats on the “Pamela Martin and Associates†escort service list too. Release ALL the names, I say.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:19 amThree Letters… OMG
Do these “christians” (little c) have NO SHAME?
UNBELIEVABLE!!!!! TOTALLY!!!! I CAN’T QUIT TYPING! I’M SO PISSED AT THESE HIPPOCRITS! YEAH, I KNOW THE SPELLING IS WRONG, BUT THESE IDIOTS ARE SO HUGE, THEY DESERVE TO BE CALLED “HIPPOCRITS”, Geesh!
Peace, and most of all LOVE!
PEEJ
Colossians 3:23
April 28th, 2007 at 12:23 amYeah, Jake, but we won’t find YOUR name on that list unless “Pamela Martin and Associates” has some underage boys or willing livestock on the payroll, will we?
April 28th, 2007 at 12:25 amhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6720374854549743402
April 28th, 2007 at 12:26 amI’m sure there are more than a few registered Democrats on the “Pamela Martin and Associates†escort service list too. Release ALL the names, I say.
Comment by Jake
The law should apply to all equally or not at all.
If a democrat is caught breaking the law, they should pay the price. The same goes for Republicans.
As I have said many times, Rule of Law has to be re-established, especially to stop the corruption in Washington.
That includes prosecuting Rove’s violations of the Hatch Act and the Presidential Records Act.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:28 amAnd Gonzales’s firings of USAs to stop criminal investigations of corrupt congressmen and Senators.
He said there was no sex, who is gonna believe that??? And then he said he now uses the Rush Limpballs Central American Escort Service, I’II bet that give out Viagra like Halloween candy!
April 28th, 2007 at 12:30 am> I would have thought liberals would LOOOOVE this guy
we do love him… hes shows what hipocrites you f#ckwits are.
you understand the the concept of irony or hipocracy at all mighty methhead meagan?
you figured out what a purple heart is for yet? how about an electric shaver for your arms? hahahha
April 28th, 2007 at 12:37 amThe Iraqis are dying in battle, every day, and their deaths are instant and bloddy — as are the deaths of Americans (and Brits and Canucks and … well you name the allies)
Comment by Canuck observer — April 27, 2007 @ 11:54 pm
AIDS kills too. I don’t care if the death is instantaneous, or long and painful.
Those dying certainly wouldn’t be inclined to stop and discuss the fine points of which way of dying is preferable .
This bit of news will have little or no effect on their behaviour, one way or the other. Count on it.
You are all over the place. My point was simple: People like Tobias kept accurate information on AIDS, and how to prevent infections, from reaching people who need it.
What these people may or may not do after the Tobias situation became public is pure speculation, and it takes nothing away fromthe fact that they would be better off with the information this White House kept from them.
Fact is: Tobias’ title is/was “director of U.S. foreign assistance and administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development. His rank was equivalent to deputy secretary of state.â€
True.
And we will have to agree to disagree as to whether or not that is a small fish.
It’s just that, in this effort to get Pres. Bush and his lousy Administration, you all are heading down a small, nowhere branch on the road to accomplishing it
I am not trying to “get” Pres Bush.
Your minimising this yet another instance of corruption in the Bush administration is what bothers me. What we are looking at is a pattern. Of deception. Of hypocrisy. Of misleading. Of withholding information that would allow people to make informed opinions.
The war in Iraq is only the most visible (and worst) of Pres Bush’s many blunders. But the rest, put together, paint as bleak a picture of this administration and its incompetence as Iraq.
This Tobias stuff with it’s attachments to hookers – it’s just so …. eye-rollingly minor.
It would be minor if these weren’t the very same people who have been trying to legislate everyone else’s sex life.
That is the part you don’t seem to understand.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:42 amThis guy doesn’t know he can hire a masseuse for less than $500 an hour? No sex…..uh huh….
Hey, anything happening on TP today? Heh.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:43 amJay,
Chambliss is a creep. I don’t how he sleeps at night knowing he ran a dirty, dirty, campaign against Max Cleland claiming he was soft on national security issues.
Chambliss didn’t serve a day in the military because of a bad knee. I knew it was a bad something, and I just looked it up on the net. I couldn’t recall. I guess I had a Alberto Gonzales moment.
He didn’t claim a BAD BRAIN but a BAD KNEE. I guess a bad knee precludes any service to your country–typing, sitting at a desk, etc.
Max Cleland is missing two legs and an arm as he fought for his country–something Chambliss didn’t do. He’s perfectly okay with others shedding blood, but not himself.
John
April 28th, 2007 at 12:45 amHi Zooey =)
April 28th, 2007 at 12:45 amComment by Wayne – Fact: Tobias was a strong proponent of the Bush administration’s abstinence-only policies.
You missed one irony. USAID requires its grantees and contractors to sign a pledge affirming that they oppose prostitution and trafficking in all forms. It’s a Congressional mandate, but one that must be enforced by USAID. This has caused problems for many NGOs that work in AIDS prevention and reproductive health and often provide awareness education and health services to prostitutes. It causes a legitimacy problem when you have to go into a slum in South Asia or Latin America and hand out condom use pamphlets to working women, when your public statements are about how strongly you oppose the evils of prostitution and that you pledge to eliminate it in all forms.
It’s even more difficult when the head of your funding agency has gotten such firsthand knowledge on the subject.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:48 am> I’m sure there are more than a few registered Democrats
> on the “Pamela Martin and Associates†escort
> service list too. Release ALL the names, I say.
>
> Comment by Jake
jake, those meds the doc put you on to remind you that not really a 75 year old korean war veteran must be making your mind all fuzzy….a politician (or anyone else) using a prostitute isnt really important. even though its illegal, its ridiculous if the girl is of age and consenting. pornography is legal, so basically somehow its ok to take money for sex, as long as its being filmed… also, its ok to have sex in exchange for dinner and a movie but just taking the cash somehow makes it wrong? who care…
the point, which you right wingers seem utterly incapeable of understanding, is HIPOCRACY. democrats aren’t constantly trying to legislate and preach thier arbitrary moral/religious beleifs. we dont shove “god says you shouldnt do this” crap down people throats. we don’t push our values in the world. no ones forcing you to go to a gay wedding.
so this is an example not of the wrongs of prostitution, but of the utter hipocracy of an administration that says “we have a monopoly on morality, and we will tell everyone else what is right”, and then turning around and doing the exact opposite. “sex outside marriage is wrong, except for the hookers I buy”…. again, i know the right wing brain is essentially programmed to ignore hipocracy, but do you understand what im trying to say jake-O?
April 28th, 2007 at 12:49 amHi Zooey =)
Comment by Wayne
Hi Wayne. :)
April 28th, 2007 at 12:50 amWell said, Knappy Headed Ho (er, no offense). Heh.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:53 amHookergate. LOL!
Repukes LOSE!!
LOL!!
April 28th, 2007 at 12:55 amFor the record, I could care less about any purported hypocrisy. As someone pointed out, illegal is illegal. Throw the prostitutes AND johns in jail. All 20,000, not just this one Republican.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:59 amYou missed one irony. USAID requires its grantees and contractors to sign a pledge affirming that they oppose prostitution and trafficking in all forms
— toasterhead
I knew about that as well.
Just omitted it from my list somehow while adding extra “He got caughts” hehe
And you are right, That is all part of the Irony =)
April 28th, 2007 at 1:00 amFor the record, I could care less about any purported hypocrisy. As someone pointed out, illegal is illegal. Throw the prostitutes AND johns in jail. All 20,000, not just this one Republican.
Comment by Jake
So you’re ok with the jails and prisons having to let actual criminals out early, in order to make room for all the hookers and johns?
That’s mighty thoughty of ya, Jake.
**eyes rolling**
April 28th, 2007 at 1:02 amAnymore of these repuke morals and ethics and accountability being brought up and I will just puke…Hey Jake A$$ hows your repukes doing now a days?
Hating the Repuke Mafia daily
April 28th, 2007 at 1:02 amNow all we need to find out is how this ties in with the Brent Wilkes/Dusty Foggo story. Did this madame service those now infamous parties at the Watergate?
April 28th, 2007 at 1:03 amdid someone say ‘abstinence’? a creepy blast from the recent past:
“Anyone NOT on the “Ignore List†wants to discuss the specifics of how an OB/GYN can examine the hymen on females, or any other possible options, let me know.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:12 amComment by Jake — April 13, 2007 @ 11:05 pmâ€
The war in Iraq is only the most visible (and worst) of Pres Bush’s many blunders. But the rest, put together, paint as bleak a picture of this administration and its incompetence as Iraq.
— Gregor Samsa
I am so glad all this crap is starting to come out.
Add this thought:
This administration claims more privacy rights than it allows We the People.
Cheney can keep who was in his Energy Council secret, Yet every phone call we make, every email you send, every book you buy with a credit card, every book you borrow from the library, what you do in your own bedroom, is George Bush’s business.
That folks, you/we who are WE The People, is a fscked up mess.
They have taken away our rights and thumbed their noses at us.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:12 amPelosi, if she keeps impeachment off the table is alsothumbingher nose at us, IMHO.
There I go ranting again…..
the one really positive thing coming out with this week of repuke criminals being taken out, IF THE SO CALLED LIBERAL MEDIA WOULD COVER IT, is the absolute lack of morals, ethics or anything else that us normal people would call good and honest. And it also shows how scum like jake a$$ and patti 1″, valiantdouchebag, exlax and the rest of them support these immoral criminals, like I said it is a huge MAFIA, they are all criminals and I do me the likes of Jake a$$ and the rest, they are ciminials for supporting their crimes.
Hating the Repuke Mafia daily
April 28th, 2007 at 1:12 amIf she did service those parties, this could be big. As we all know, the CIA has clandestine spooks in all foreign aid programs. This could lead a possible exposure of where some of that missing $7 billion went, which is as yet unaccounted for.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:14 am…I do mean* the like of…sorry typing fast and watching the old sci-fi movies on dvd…multi tasking not so good
April 28th, 2007 at 1:15 amComment by Jake
Jake, Jake, Jake….
Think about it. Who leads the FBI?
If there was a high up Democrat involved in this scandle, he would have been outed before Tobias.
So it is likely there are none involved.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:16 amI would have thought liberals would LOOOOVE this guy….
Comment by vile venus —
I recall that you wrote the exact same thing when the previous GOP sex scandal broke. You never learn, do you, Mighty Hypocrite? And yet you accused Shane of being redundant on another blog!
April 28th, 2007 at 1:19 amdid someone say ‘abstinence’? a creepy blast from the recent past:
“Anyone NOT on the “Ignore List†wants to discuss the specifics of how an OB/GYN can examine the hymen on females, or any other possible options, let me know.
Comment by Jake — April 13, 2007 @ 11:05 pmâ€
Comment by pgw
Creepy gross.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:20 amChambliss didn’t serve a day in the military because of a bad knee.
Comment by John Gilpins
Yet despite the bad knee that got him out of serving in the military, Chambliss manages to be an avid jogger.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:20 amAnd because progressives have a moral backbone which you don’t we would want the ones that did taken down too. that is the difference, we like rule of law and compasion and good, you like corruption, every man for himself, and power at any cost. Progressive = good, neocon = bad, simple.
You = bad, we = good.
Loving the fall of the repuke mafia daily
April 28th, 2007 at 1:22 amThey have taken away our rights and thumbed their noses at us.
Pelosi, if she keeps impeachment off the table is alsothumbingher nose at us, IMHO.
There I go ranting again…..
Comment by Wayne
I appreciate your rants.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:23 amYet despite the bad knee that got him out of serving in the military, Chambliss manages to be an avid jogger.
Comment by Lora
Maybe he meant to say he had a naughty knee. :D
April 28th, 2007 at 1:24 amWell I must say this was an interesting Friday…And the beat goes on….La de dah…Blessing sll….
April 28th, 2007 at 1:25 amThey have taken away our rights and thumbed their noses at us.
Comment by Wayne — April 28, 2007 @ 1:12 am
This administration claims rights and privileges it is not willing to grant the people, and it refuses to live up to the standards it expects everyone to abide by.
“Do as I say, not as I do” is a good description of the Bush II presidency. What an utter disgrace.
To make matters worse, there are people out there paying this administration’s incompetence and recklessness with their lives.
Pelosi, if she keeps impeachment off the table is alsothumbingher nose at us, IMHO.
Not to defend Pelosi, but the Democrats have a very thin margin. I don’t know that calling for impeachment would produce any results at all.
Not that GW Bush doesn’t deserve to be impeached, tarred, feathered, and then kicked out of town.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:26 amLady Z, was that his left knee, right knee or his weenie….Me bad…LOL…nite all…Blessings
April 28th, 2007 at 1:28 amI leave for a few hours to do a gig and the Bush Admin. melts down in a cesspool of perversion and corruption.
Please for the love of God, these people have to be run out of town and into the woods or the desert for the next 30 years.
-GSD
April 28th, 2007 at 1:29 amGood point Gregor, we can only hope that more of america wakes up to these crimes and ppl like Jake a$$ and the like are driven to the low teens, or single digits like they deserve.
Love the fall of the Repuke mafia daily
April 28th, 2007 at 1:30 amLady Z, was that his left knee, right knee or his weenie….Me bad…LOL…nite all…Blessings
Comment by Sharon
If Zooey doesn’t mind me answering for her, I think it was the weenie knee.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:34 amOh, Jake bailed, cause I have pointed out many times his lies, he claims to be 72, and a korean vet, ALL BS, note the hours he spends and the language he uses, BS, 26-32 year old with absolutly no life, switches names often, Jake is a Fake, when I log on now a days he logs off real soon. Good for us, the scum.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:35 amThank’s Lora, glad someone could clear that up for me…LOL…Blessings
April 28th, 2007 at 1:36 amwe can only hope [...] ppl like Jake a$$ and the like are driven to the low teens, or single digits like they deserve.
Comment by Buck Fush — April 28, 2007 @ 1:30 am
In other words, it would be nice to see support for Pres Bush drop low enough to match the IQ of his supporters.
;-)
I agree. It would be nice indeed.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:37 amIf Zooey doesn’t mind me answering for her, I think it was the weenie knee.
Comment by Lora
I like the sound of that! Heh.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:38 amI leave for a few hours to do a gig and the Bush Admin. melts down in a cesspool of perversion and corruption.
So all this is your fault? :D
Please for the love of God, these people have to be run out of town and into the woods or the desert for the next 30 years.
-GSD
Please…..oh please…
April 28th, 2007 at 1:40 amI appreciate your rants.
Comment by Zooey
Thanks.
off to bed, work tomorrow.
But will leave you with this quote I really like, from my collected quotes database. =)
“Now, when I heard George Bush was reading my e-mails, I probably had the same reaction you did–George Bush can read?
Yes he can, and this administration has read your phone records, credit card statements, mail, internet logs… I can’t tell if their fighting the War on Terror or producing the next season of Cheater.
I mail myself a copy of the Consitution every morning, just on the hope they’ll open it and see what it says!” — Bill Maher March 16th 2007
April 28th, 2007 at 1:41 am…Jake is a Fake, when I log on now a days he logs off real soon. Good for us, the scum.
Comment by Buck Fush
Please stay logged on all the time, because I’m sick of that prick. :P
April 28th, 2007 at 1:42 amI mail myself a copy of the Consitution every morning, just on the hope they’ll open it and see what it says!†— Bill Maher March 16th 2007
Comment by Wayne
Fantastic! Thanks, Wayne.
Goodnight.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:43 amCan you believe the audacity of these Bush Adminstration hacks. They are even outsourcing their hookers.
-GSD
April 28th, 2007 at 1:44 amJake is a Fake, when I log on now a days he logs off real soon. Good for us, the scum.
Comment by Buck Fush
Please stay logged on all the time, because I’m sick of that prick. :P
Comment by Zooey
Zooey, I can usually get your cyber-stalker michael to shut up by asking him what illustrious graduates his supposedly superior private (Catholic) high school education has produced. I originally asked him about two months ago–still no reply. However, he usually stops posting on a thread after being reminded of this question.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:48 amCan you believe the audacity of these Bush Adminstration hacks. They are even outsourcing their hookers.
-GSD
I can believe because the Busheviks have no shame at all.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:49 amZooey, I can usually get your cyber-stalker michael to shut up by asking him what illustrious graduates his supposedly superior private (Catholic) high school education has produced. I originally asked him about two months ago–still no reply. However, he usually stops posting on a thread after being reminded of this question.
Comment by Lora
Oy, I’ll give it a try. Faiz said he was trying to get rid of him, and I hope he was successful. Thanks!
April 28th, 2007 at 1:52 amLora,
I didn’t know Chambliss is a jogger. Thanks for that information.
Maybe he had MASSAGE therapy on his bad knee.
John
April 28th, 2007 at 1:53 amMaybe he had MASSAGE therapy on his bad knee.
John
I’ve heard the $500 per hour massage is really good for naughty knees. :D
April 28th, 2007 at 2:06 amI didn’t know Chambliss is a jogger. Thanks for that information.
Comment by John Gilpin
You’re welcome, John. That information comes from a cousin who was living in Washington DC until recently (now is in a larger house in the suburbs). I think she even witnessed him jogging sometimes.
April 28th, 2007 at 2:11 ampoor whittle zoo-zoo got her feewings hurt?
April 28th, 2007 at 2:17 amThis criticism of Tobias is totally misplaced. He was simply checking to see if AIDS could be transmitted via a massage.
April 28th, 2007 at 2:18 amtest
April 28th, 2007 at 2:19 amThis criticism of Tobias is totally misplaced. He was simply checking to see if AIDS could be transmitted via a massage.
Comment by John A. Broussard
Obviously Tobias is an unrecognized American hero, who is sacrificing himself to the cause of AIDS research. A truly great man.
April 28th, 2007 at 2:26 am/sarcasm
This is nothing. These are Republicans my friends and you know that once the call-boy investigations start, that’s when there’s going to be a mass exodus out of the White House.
April 28th, 2007 at 2:26 amOkay, michael, why don’t you answer my question from two months ago about what illustrious graduates were produced by your supposedly superior private high school? I’ve been waiting for two months since I told you that my “inferior public high school” produced one Nobel Prize winning-scientist, a former Secretary of State, a Newbery Medalist, at least one Pulitzer Prize winner, etc. Can’t answer the question like the grown-up man you claim to be, Mikey?
April 28th, 2007 at 2:27 amA court issued arrest warrants for Hollywood actor Richard Gere and Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty on Thursday, saying their kiss at a public function “transgressed all limits of vulgarity,” media reports said.
Judge Dinesh Gupta issued the warrants in the northwestern city of Jaipur after a local citizen filed a complaint charging that the public display of affection offended local sensibilities, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
Gupta earlier viewed television footage of the event, which he called “highly sexually erotic,” saying the pair violated India’s strict public obscenity laws.
April 28th, 2007 at 2:28 amLora,
The poor trollie seems to be having trouble commenting. Heh.
April 28th, 2007 at 2:34 amGupta earlier viewed television footage of the event, which he called “highly sexually erotic,†saying the pair violated India’s strict public obscenity laws.
Comment by Saywho
Ok….?
Too bad it’s Richard Gere. I really don’t see the attraction….
April 28th, 2007 at 2:40 amThe poor trollie seems to be having trouble commenting. Heh.
Comment by Zooey
He may have run off to the local massage parlor for a good cry.
April 28th, 2007 at 2:43 amHe may have run off to the local massage parlor for a good cry.
Comment by Lora
He’s probably banned there, too. :D
Goodnight!
April 28th, 2007 at 2:45 amSaywho > If I was Gere, who was just acting silly at that event, then I would inform the Indian government that I would never step foot in that cesspool nation of poverty ever again. I saw the tape of him kissing her and it was more of a joke and not passion.
April 28th, 2007 at 2:48 amI guess if Janet Jackson showed her exposed breast nipple in India, then she would be stoned to death. That nation has the 2nd highest population in the world, so they have sex like crazy and breed like rabbits. They better lighten up and enter the 21st century.
April 28th, 2007 at 2:55 amJust a note of interest on India: the Kama Sutra, a graphic book showing every sexual position imaginable was compiled in India. Until that book gets banned in India, then they need to shut up about silly kissing.
April 28th, 2007 at 3:07 amJay,
April 28th, 2007 at 3:28 amIndia also has a high rate of AIDs and prostitution. Sounds like a lot of them would make perfect Repubiscum.
> For the record, I could care less about any purported hypocrisy.
Wow, a rare moment of honesty from the pimply faced Jake.
Of course you arent concerned about hipocracy. You support bush. no one who has any concern about being logically consistent could possibly support that man.
oh… and “purported” hipocracy?…… why “purported”?
what part of “sex outside of marriage isnt acceptable, except for me having sex with hookers”… isnt ACTUALLY hipocritical , not just purportedly hipocratical?
Or are you trying to argue that he just get a 500$ an hour “massage”?
hahahah. go back to your internet dog porn you loser. … oh.. and speaking of “purported” that sounds alot like “purple”… maybe you can help your buddy mighty methead megan learn what a purple heart is.
April 28th, 2007 at 4:57 amspeaking of.. hey Valiaunt Mighty Methead Megan Penus… care to tell us how your current batch of republican Executive Officers and Congressmen got THEIR MEDALS? I believe McCain got one for being bravely shot down, but what about the others?… your insisted for alot of details about Murtha’s medals, can you give us some info on your own people?
ps… is the assertion that you’ve seen a purple heart in real life as true as the assertion that you’re a lawyer?
April 28th, 2007 at 6:12 amZooey and John,
You would think Mr. Tobias would be offering himself as a guinea pig, for AIDS research, when he was chairman at Eli Lilly and Company.
AIDS research, via a message, sounds a little, little, little, little, little, little fishy to me. No doubt right-wingers will fall for this AIDS research story, via a message, hook, line, and sinker.
John
April 28th, 2007 at 6:17 amWe finally have an administration more corrupt than Ronald “Death Squad” Reagan’s.
April 28th, 2007 at 6:32 amOh!
I should have written HOOKER, line, and sinker.
His LINE of work in the White House is over. That’s for sure.
And, yeah, he’s SUNK all right. That’s for sure.
John
April 28th, 2007 at 6:36 amWhat a streak of luck! Just when you think one day will go by with no new Bush Abomination scandal, then someone kicks a rock and another scorpion darts out. We are expected, of course, to believe that this clown was calling escorts for on a massage only basis. How incredibly stupid to these jerks think we are? Of course he wanted a massage only. And, come to think of it the pope is mormon also.
We should all be thankful, of course, that Bush is living up to his 2000 campaign promise to “restore honor and dignity to the White House.” I just wish someone had caught Bush with Jeff Gannon so articles of impeachment could be more easily brought against him.
April 28th, 2007 at 6:42 amWhat a shame.
April 28th, 2007 at 6:43 amEveryone should have some fun outside of their job.
He could of been doing worse things – like Colimbine or going to Virginia Tech.
Limbaugh’s “Barack the Magic Negro,†on-air song has workers up in arms:
Take a listen:
April 28th, 2007 at 7:13 amhttp://www.crooksandliars.com/Media/Play/16705/
Reagan? Yes, yes, yes. And I thought Reagan was a bad president. Ha! Ha!
The Bush administration is in a state of free fall. It’s blowing up right before our eyes. Surely Bush is facing resignation before his term is up. I really don’t see how Bush will be able to govern. Republicans linking themselves with Bush will be voted out of office. Bush is sinking like the Titanic.
Seriously, I think there is a bit of good news with this sex scandal–at least to fundamentalist Christian right-wingers.
FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN RIGHT-WINGERS HAVE THEIR FIRST CONFIRMATION THAT ONE PLAYER ON THE BUSH TEAM IS INDEED H-E-T-E-R-O-S-E-X-U-A-L. Shocking!
John
April 28th, 2007 at 7:15 amFUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN RIGHT-WINGERS HAVE THEIR FIRST CONFIRMATION THAT ONE PLAYER ON THE BUSH TEAM IS INDEED H-E-T-E-R-O-S-E-X-U-A-L. Shocking!
John
Now it’s my turn to thank you, John. That one gave me my first chuckle of the day.
April 28th, 2007 at 7:22 amI am the People, the Mob by Carl Sandburg
I am the people–the mob–the crowd–the mass.
April 28th, 2007 at 7:30 amDo you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker of the world’s food and clothes.
I am the audience that witnesses history. The Napoleons come from me and the Lincolns. They die. And then I send forth more Napoleons and Lincolns.
I am the seed ground. I am a prairie that will stand for much plowing.
Terrible storms pass over me. I forget. The best of me is sucked out
and wasted. I forget. Everything but Death comes to me and makes me work and give up what I have. And I forget.
Sometimes I growl, shake myself and spatter a few red drops for history to remember. Then–I forget.
When I, the People, learn to remember, when I, the People, use the
lessons of yesterday and no longer forget who robbed me last year,
who played me for a fool–then there will be no speaker in all the
world say the name: “The People,” with any fleck of a sneer in his
voice or any far-off smile of derision.
The mob–the crowd–the mass–will arrive then.
Hi Lora,
That thought just occurred to me.
I don’t know about you but I have a hard time pinning these Bushies down. They seem play on boths sides of the fence on everything.
I wish they’d wear hats, name tags, anything:
BISEXUAL
HETEROSEXUAL
HOMOSEXUAL
COMPASSIONATE
CONSERVATIVE
LIAR
DECEIVER
PRETENDER
DOG
FAT CAT
CHRISTIAN
NON-CHRISTIAN
John
April 28th, 2007 at 7:41 am“Everyone should have some fun outside of their job.”
The fact that you typed that and actually posted it shows how utterly in denial the far right is… The man is married. The think you righties claim is being destroyed by gay marriage. Well, clearly, you’re using homsexual unions as smoke and mirrors to the fact that you’re destroying your own marriages because you can’t take care of them. It’s never about what YOU do… Sheesh.
“He could of been doing worse things – like Colimbine or going to Virginia Tech.
Comment by ace — April 28, 2007 @ 6:43 am”
You mean ‘could have’? Yes, he could have been doing worse things if you’re not willing to consider cheating on his wife as a life shattering thing for his family.
Evolutionary scientists need to divide our species again. There needs to be a division into homo sapiens sapiens (which means ‘wise’) for thinking people and homo vegrandis cranium (which means ’small brain’) for those who lack critical thought skills on any level.
April 28th, 2007 at 9:06 amjman_nyc @ 163 — thanks for the Sandburg poem.
That’s the Internet.
April 28th, 2007 at 9:10 am” Randall Tobias told ABC he had several times called the … escort service “to have gals come over to the condo to give me a massage”. …. As the Bush administration’s so-called “AIDS czar,” Tobias was criticized for emphasizing faithfulness and abstinence over condom use to prevent the spread of AIDS.”
Looks like he uses a condo but not a condom. And if this was a State Department residence would that make Condoleezza the condo leaser? Which raises another question.
Did the Condo-Man condemn condom and con dumb Condi ?
And all the girls would wonder.
Is he the Condo man, the condom man, or the Condi man?
This Randy Tobias, so randy to buy us.
And considering Randall “Duke” Cunningham, this is the second Randall Scandal of the year.
In tribute to the all of this:
“Randyman Candyman”
Who did take an escort
Sprinkled and withdrew?
Massaged a foggy bottom and a spherical or two
The Condo man, the Condi man can,
No Condom-man can ’cause he mixes it with faith
and thinks the whore’ll taste good…
The Condi Man fakes
Policy he makes
Stat defying and malicious.
It can really be pernicious
Making abstinence auspicious
Who can take Relief Funds
Use to disinform
Waste the money just to make regressive thought the norm
The Condo man, the Condi man can,
No Condom-man can ’cause he mixes it with faith
and makes the world chaste, good…
The Condi Man rejects
Latex for his sex.
Monogamy and faith for AIDS Czar,
Not as much a thrill as maids are,
n’ Condi knows what fun charades are.
Who can take pandemic
Modern science spite?
Squander all the funding to enrich the Christian right
The Condo man? The Condi man can, the conned dumb man can…
No Condom-man can ’cause he nixes it with faith
and makes the world chaste, good…
And the whore’ll taste good
April 28th, 2007 at 9:49 am’cause the condemned man thinks with wood …
Looks like Randall Tobias uses a condo but not a condom. And if this was a State Department residence would that make Condoleezza the condo leaser? Which raises another question.
Did the Condo-Man condemn condom and con dumb Condi ?
And all the girls would wonder.
Is he the Condo man, the condom man, or the Condi man?
This Randy Tobias, so randy to buy us.
And considering Randall “Duke” Cunningham, this is the second Randall Scandal of the year.
In tribute to the all of this:
“Randyman Candyman”
Who did take an escort
Sprinkled and withdrew?
Massaged a foggy bottom and a spherical or two
The Condo man, the Condi man can,
No Condom-man can ’cause he mixes it with faith
and thinks the whore’ll taste good…
The Condi Man fakes
Policy he makes
Stat defying and malicious.
It can really be pernicious
Making abstinence auspicious
Who can take Relief Funds
Use to disinform
Waste the money just to make regressive thought the norm
The Condo man, the Condi man can,
No Condom-man can ’cause he mixes it with faith
and makes the world chaste, good…
The Condi Man rejects
Latex for his sex.
Monogamy and faith for AIDS Czar,
Not as much a thrill as maids are,
n’ Condi knows what fun charades are.
Who can take pandemic
Modern science spite?
Squander all the funding to enrich the Christian right
The Condo man? The Condi man can, the conned dumb man can…
No Condom-man can ’cause he nixes it with faith
and makes the world chaste, good…
And the whore’ll taste good
April 28th, 2007 at 9:54 am’cause the condemned man thinks with wood …
It will be just a matter of days before the “gals” Tobias hired come clean and reveal all his kinky, Haggard-esque perversions. More Republican family values for the world to see.
April 28th, 2007 at 9:55 amSorry all, for the dupe of a lengthy post. My error.
April 28th, 2007 at 10:13 amHi Lora,
That thought just occurred to me.
I don’t know about you but I have a hard time pinning these Bushies down. They seem play on boths sides of the fence on everything.
I wish they’d wear hats, name tags, anything:
Comment by John Gilpins
John,
April 28th, 2007 at 10:57 amI myself am not so concerned about name tags, etc. I simply would like to see less hypocrisy and some of them practice what they preach. I already know that “compassionate conservatism” is an oxymoron. I think my late stepfather, who was registered Republican but was pro-choice, thought the government should stay out of consenting adults’ bedrooms, and was probably one of the few Caucasian GOPers with membership in the NAACP, must be turning over in his grave.
Some people believe that brains don’t belong iin the Wite House. What drivel!
April 28th, 2007 at 11:04 amFor anyone NOT on the “Ignore List” there’s a new Tobias thread up already.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:09 amHow do you know that you’re not on other people’s “Ignore List,” Jake?
April 28th, 2007 at 11:24 amFor anyone NOT on the “Ignore List†there’s a new Tobias thread up already.
Comment by Jake
Jake, are you still playing this tired game?
For TP readers: Jake’s ignore list is just his primadonna act.
He responds to those on his “list,” making it just another form of conservative hypocrisy. Here’s an example, from a short while ago. Notice how he answers my question, while seemingly not to:
The FIRST job of the government is to PROTECT the people. Jake
Um, I thought it was to uphold the Constitution? Or has that changed since 9/11?
Comment by barfly — April 13, 2007 @ 4:22 pm
For the record, if all the People are killed by terrorists with suitcase nukes, it matters no longer to uphold the Constitution.
Comment by Jake — April 13, 2007 @ 4:24 pm
And the “list†dies a well deserved death – or do you think I won’t follow you around from thread to thread, posting this? As you readers can see, the little dear is just too egotistical to to keep his fat mouth shut.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:39 amLet the guy get it on, we only live once you know, who are you to say otherwise, i say let the guy go, imagine, you are like 50 or 60, you are no longer young, you miss being young, and you KNOW there is NO CHANCE you can go out and get laid like you used to, now what would you do if you could afford it, i know what i would do.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:45 amYou know I’m not suprised that these right wingers are a bunch of hypocrites. After all it is a human trate. What is really suprising is that this kind of journalism is even that interesting to American people. Maybe it says something about ourselves?
April 28th, 2007 at 11:53 amIf you really want a massage, you call a massage therapist, not an escort service. If you believe this lame story, I have a bridge to sell you. These Republics make me sick. They are all a bunch of hypocrites and the sad thing is that they don’t see it.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:55 am[ . . .] you miss being young, and you KNOW there is NO CHANCE you can go out and get laid like you used to, now what would you do if you could afford it, i know what i would do.
Comment by Jihn
Hookers?
April 28th, 2007 at 12:19 pmNo surprise here. You can’t serve the current president without being a crook and a pervert. It would also be interesting to dig into Karl Rove’s dark secrets as well because – like everyone else in the current administration that serves the evil over lords – he’s totally anti-human, anti-nature, and he can’t stand being touched by a clean and beautiful woman like Sheryl Crow. Is there something about dirty hookers they know and we don’t?
April 28th, 2007 at 12:23 pmWe’re concerned about AIDS inside our White House — make no mistake about it.
April 28th, 2007 at 12:42 pm–Washington, D.C., Feb. 7, 2001 TOTH Dubyaspeak
Condi said she loves the man… Condi:”What happened here is his ‘message’ became ‘a massage’ “.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:03 pmClinton did it, too. So did Pelosi.
April 28th, 2007 at 1:05 pmNo sex? Can we put him under oath about that?
April 28th, 2007 at 1:28 pmI’m venturing to guess the reason there was no sex with these “massages,” because the poor guy probably fell asleep before he and his friend could seal the deal.
April 28th, 2007 at 4:00 pmFrom an insider’s point of view, I can tell you that the administration of the famous $15 billion being spent in the PEPFAR program started by Ambassador Tobias, and continued by Ambassador Dybil, is about as leaky into the pockets of contractors as the dough leaking out of the funds for the famous war on terrorism.
Both have no apparent end.
Praise Bush!
April 28th, 2007 at 4:58 pmWith a seeming deluge of Bush officials plagued with scandal, is it any wonder that we finally have one that involves a pro-abstinence aristocrat and some cheap hookers. Unfortunately for Tobias there will be no “happy endings” this time, but then again, this guy never had any sex right? He just paid the hookers to pray for the safety of our troops and the sanctity of American marriage.
You gotta love the Bush Administration, they said they’d bring back integrity to the White House and instead brought scandalous actions, bribes, illegal wars, sex scandals and a cap-bustin Vice Pres.
April 28th, 2007 at 6:09 pmTobias made his money as Eli Lilly CEO when their top seller Prozac was going strong.My issue is he was an unqualified hack for the job.
Daniel Haszard Eli Lilly whistle-blower
April 29th, 2007 at 5:16 pmThis one is from a real “company girl”, “International†for real.
This really hurts, really hurts… Randy I don’t know a lot of things but being a part of your regime indirectly was better days in my life and better days for my family, who took it real hard, became very disillusioned (literally) for losing the wonderful supportive management info-structure that allowed gals like me to balance family and work… yes, your leadership supported family values.
It all seemed to fall from the inside.
Since I have received regular beatings, obviously my marriage is over for a reason.
Without that type of support like putting the Moose on the Table. Women as I do not stand a chance additionally for the real reason God put us on this earth.
Worse is hearing that you were using the services of college girls.
Is that the only way girls, American women who go to college can make good money these days?
Want to believe this is a mistake.
The woman who runs Pamela Martin and Associates is a bad woman.
The duration that the media reports she has been doing this to Washington (from California), (now that is pretty messed up, too, how from one state they can really mess you up in another…) is the same duration I have missed the leadership I once knew, in leaders I looked up too, like you.
Why Randy? What happened?
I am sad…
You came forward, and they still ripped you apart… one life slip and everyone who really believes in family… family values is pegged fools… it only takes one… it’s a strange age we live in. Many people have given up on reaching for the higher goal.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:41 pmTherefore, thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest; for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemest thyself; for thou that judgest doeth the same things. But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them who commit such things. And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them who do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forebearence and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentence?
April 30th, 2007 at 10:14 pmHa ha, typical political hypocrite! Is this guy golfing buddies with Mark Foley?
Has anyone figured out yet that these Federal politicians are all a bunch of dirty old pervs?
May 1st, 2007 at 12:13 pmThe only scandal here is that somebody can legally be charged for running a prostitution operation.
May 5th, 2007 at 2:29 am