Comment by TCDon — October 29, 2007 @ 5:51 pm

Considering that he uses much of that money to beat GOOPers over the head, so to speak, yeah, I guess I’n okay w/ him making the money.

I don’t think Soros is a libertarian. I think that in spite of the fact he’s made hundreds of millions off of securities and monetary trading, he believes capitalism should be regulated.

TC, it’s understandable that being a Republican troll you would see nothing wrong with an aide to the President using his personal influence with the toady Attorney General to prosecute a politician from the Democratic party during a primary and accuse him and convict to 7 years in prison for doing the same thing that two Republicans who were not prosecuted did.

US Sen. Jeff Sessions and US Circuit Judge Bill Pryor, “both Republicans and former state attorneys” received illegal donations from lobbyist Lanny Young and WERE NOT PROSECUTED.

Now, what part of “ABUSE OF POWER” and POLITIZATION OF THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT” is it that you don’t understand? Or maybe, in the new country you Republicans WERE planning to build, that would not be a consideration?

I don’t think Don is interested in explanations, Colonel. You’re wasting your breath.

YAY!! Just like Scooter Libby got off scot-free for the same offenses. ;o)

That’s fair, don’t you think?

Isn’t it rich. The guy spent $100 million trying to convince America that Clinton is a sleazebag and he hangs out with prostitutes and can’t keep a marraige together even though he’s a billionaire. Priceless.

Comment by TCDon — October 29, 2007 @ 6:01 pm

Actua;;y, he’s ,ore bothered by your hypocritical take on its unimportance. It proves that you have no morals to uphold, and that you and your kind will do or say whatever it takes to hurt Americans.

What an obnoxious way to pose a legitimate question. Strange. Anyway, my guess is that he resigned to try to avoid federal prosecution for using the the justice department to influence a state election.

Comment by TCDon — October 29, 2007 @ 5:52 pm

Just too difficult for you to grasp?

How about: ” A study by University of Missouri professor emeritus Donald Shields presented at last week’s House Judiciary Committee hearings on selective prosecutions shows that Democrats have been investigated more than five times as often as Republicans since George W. Bush became president.”

Or this?:

Lanny Young, the main witness against Siegelman, also accused Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions and former Alabama Attorney General William Pryor Jr. of accepting gifts from him, according to FBI records obtained by Time magazine. Prosecutors took Young’s word on Siegelman but ignored him with regard to Sessions and Pryor, who are Republicans. Neither was investigated, much less prosecuted. They denied Young’s charges.

Alabama officials defend themselves by pointing out that the case was handled by career prosecutors.

The case was further undermined by a Republican lawyer, Jill Simpson. She gave the committee a sworn affidavit that the local U.S. attorney’s husband, Bill Canary, a top consultant to Alabama Republicans, said his “girls” — his wife and a colleague — would take care of Siegelman, all with the OK of his good friend and Bush adviser, Karl Rove.

Siegelman sits in prison awaiting an appeal. In an appeal of a similarly partisan case in Wisconsin that sent Georgia Thompson, a middle-aged, mid-level government procurement officer to jail, the judge was so appalled by the facts she ordered Thompson immediately released and acquitted without a new trial.

More here.