Meanwhile BushCo. are dancing and smiling. The focus is off them.

Why is there always a double standard for Dems v Repubs, not just on this, but on every issue?

He should resign. And so should Larry Craig.

How about this oped in the Washington Post last month about the sub-prime crisis (wonder why the NY Times did not see fit to print this, guess him being Client 9 is more worthy of the ink).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021302783.html

“Not only did the Bush administration do nothing to protect consumers, it embarked on an aggressive and unprecedented campaign to prevent states from protecting their residents from the very problems to which the federal government was turning a blind eye.

Let me explain: The administration accomplished this feat through an obscure federal agency called the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The OCC has been in existence since the Civil War. Its mission is to ensure the fiscal soundness of national banks. For 140 years, the OCC examined the books of national banks to make sure they were balanced, an important but uncontroversial function. But a few years ago, for the first time in its history, the OCC was used as a tool against consumers.

In 2003, during the height of the predatory lending crisis, the OCC invoked a clause from the 1863 National Bank Act to issue formal opinions preempting all state predatory lending laws, thereby rendering them inoperative. The OCC also promulgated new rules that prevented states from enforcing any of their own consumer protection laws against national banks. The federal government’s actions were so egregious and so unprecedented that all 50 state attorneys general, and all 50 state banking superintendents, actively fought the new rules.

But the unanimous opposition of the 50 states did not deter, or even slow, the Bush administration in its goal of protecting the banks. In fact, when my office opened an investigation of possible discrimination in mortgage lending by a number of banks, the OCC filed a federal lawsuit to stop the investigation. ”

And you thought all the laws since 2001 were to prevent terrorism. No wonder everyone in Congress is terrorized, they got dirt on everyone.

Not condoning the behaviour, but many rich and powerful people have zipper issues, and at least he was not terrorizing the mens room.

-Elliot Spitzer

Libs will do anything to get ahead and lie to themselves. Look in the mirror at yourself in the morning and tell yourself you are not a fraud and a good person. Just try it it might make a difference. Then actually “CHANGE” or “HOPE” haaaa

ABC News

The federal investigation of a New York prostitution ring was triggered by Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s suspicious money transfers, initially leading agents to believe Spitzer was hiding bribes, according to federal officials.

It was only months later that the IRS and the FBI determined that Spitzer wasn’t hiding bribes but payments to a company called QAT, what prosecutors say is a prostitution operation operating under the name of the Emperors Club.

The suspicious financial activity was initially reported by a bank to the IRS which, under direction from the Justice Department, brought kin the FBI’s Public Corruption Squad.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4424507&page=1

Comment by drock234 — March 10, 2008 @ 11:19 pm

this is a setup. There was no suspicious movement of funds. That’s a lie, and a rightwing trope.

Comment by drock234 — March 10, 2008 @ 11:31 pm

Fine. don’t re-elect him.

Play by the same set of rules as the Republicans. Say Jesus has forgiven you and get on with the job. Nobody got hurt other than his wife and kids emotionally. Not exactly as bad as an illegal war killing over one million people, costing $3 Trillion, and making us less safe.

As soon as Larry Craig and David Vitter step down ; right all you brainless GOP/Chimpy leg humping sycophants ?

WE ARE PHUCKED PEOPLE!!! WE ARE PHUCKED!!!!!!

Comment by progresivo — March 10, 2008 @ 6:07 pm

Oh, progresivo, you forgot… Torture : Legal.