Opening Politics Up to More Corruption
by Mark Noonan on July 19th, 2008 at 03:56pm
Courtesy of the Democrats:
Congress has relaxed rules that would have required public disclosure of contributions and parties paid for by lobbyists, narrowing the scope of new ethics rules intended to draw back the veil on Washington’s influence game.
New guidance released by Congress late Wednesday exempts lobbyists from reporting their financing of an array of political and charitable contributions, events and parties at political conventions.
What? You expected something different? If you did, its because you still haven’t purchased Caucus of Corruption.
I know, I know - you liberals out there think Matt and I just wrote a book blaming corruption on Democrats, but that isn’t what we wrote at all. What we wrote is a book detailing how the Democrats are locked into corruption because no one ever holds them accountable - not the MSM, not rank-and-file Democrats and most certainly not other elected Democrats. People are people, and that means that a certain percentage of them will sin - and for a politician, the sin usually revolves around abuse of power by various means. We can’t get all corruption out of politics because we can’t get all people out of it. But we can lessen it greatly if we hold everyone accountable for their actions. By one means or another, Republicans are held accountable…so Cunningham goes to jail, while Jefferson is set to be re-elected, again. So Foley resigns, while Frank is a powerful member of the Democratic caucus. So Rowland is threatened with impeachment by his fellow GOPers to force him out, while Blagojevich is still in office even though he figures prominently in myriad corruption scandals. On and on it goes like that.
Look, Democrats, its not for us to tell you what you must do, but we will tell you what you should do - and what you should do is start to understand that good intentions don’t excuse crimes. It doesn’t matter that these are all good liberals who are reliably on your side on the issues - they are poisoning our politics and contributing to the contempt government is held in. They have to go - but only you, on your side, can actually make them go. Do you really want to be a party which is ok with corruption? Don’t you want to be honest as you can be?
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July 19th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Weren’t Pelosi and Reid going to have the most ethical Congress EVAH?
What happened?
Was it a hoax?
neocon
July 19th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
This doesn’t sound good. But to be honest, I’m not going to spend the money to read the article. I did find this though:
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=news-000002921137
CQ says the guidance was issued by the Clerk of the House and Secretary of the Senate, and it relaxed the rules for disclosure of lobbyist contributions to parties at this summer’s Democratic and Republican national conventions, among other changes.
I wonder what those “other changes” are. CQ also mentions, “Some experts criticized the changes as backsliding, but leaders of outside watchdog groups said Democratic leaders had “reached out” to vet the revisions in advance of their release.
It also appears Republican leaders weren’t consulted. So it sounds to me like the Dems have some ’splainin to do.
July 19th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
What ‘watchdog’ groups? Want to bet they are primarily Dem Party supporters?
July 20th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Ahhhhhhh……
More of the “We will give you the most ethical Congress in history” BS.
Pass the popcorn.
July 20th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Geesh, wonder why our liberal posters don’t want to comment on this one…only Ricorun shows up, the rest pretend it doesn’t exist.
July 20th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
when you give a thief the keys to the jail…he really doesnt feat punishment…
when you give congress control of election laws…they behave like a thief with the keys to the jail…
how can you tell the difference!!
July 20th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Custer-Battles turned a $500 investment into a $600 million company in two years? How’d that happen? Brilliant business plan I guess.
Halliburton was one of the smallest players in the Louisiana oil-field services industry in the 90s. Worth 10s of billions now. How’d that happen. Super brilliant business plan, I guess.
Democrats aren’t corrupt. They’re just nickel and dime players. Jefferson with $90k in his freezer. Rostenkowski stealing stamps. Goofballs. If you’re going to risk a custodial sentence, I say GO FOR IT.
July 20th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
its pretty easy to see that you have no comprehension of what reality is…
July 20th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
“Custer-Battles turned a $500 investment into a $600 million company in two years? How’d that happen? Brilliant business plan I guess.” Mr. V.
Nope, there just much better and smarter people than you Mr. V. They are one hell of a story.
http://www.custerbattles.com/press/news081304wsj.html
July 20th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
“Custer-Battles turned a $500 investment into a $600 million company in two years? How’d that happen? Brilliant business plan I guess”
Sounds like the $10,000 investment in cattle futures and turned it into over $100,000(?) in a very short time by the first lady of Arkansas.
Liberals saw nothing there, wonder why?
The liberals keep making up scandals for non-liberal types and look the other way for their own.
Pass more popcorn.
July 20th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Its not that the liberal lemmings that post here dont believe your post about lib’ocrat curruption Mark.
They simply dont care about corruption as long as it isnt an (R) next to the name.
That little (D) gets you a lifetime pass as long you make all the right noises when the microphone comes your way.
July 20th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Gentlemen: I don’t have a particular problem with Custer-Battles getting over. More power to them. I wish I WERE that smart!
I THINK that Clinton’s participation in that cattle trade scam was illegal. The right charges would be hidden ownership, conspiracy to conceal ownership and conspiracy to commit tax fraud. No argument whatsoever. I’m not getting into any tit-for-tat bullcrap. We could go around and around forever. Corruption and politics go together like macaroni and cheese.
If it makes you happy to think that Republicans are mostly clean and Democrats are mostly dirty, that doesn’t bother me one bit. Not at all. I have no desire to change anyone’s mind.
And it really is becoming less and less my fight this D vs R business. So long as the USA respect’s my country’s sovreignty, I really don’t care. I think McCain my present me more hassles in that area than Obama would, but it’s not for certain. And if Colin Powell is part of Obama’s team, that’s a big problem for me down here.
But even if McCain has all sorts of imperial designs or if Obama’s Secretary of Defense is Powell and either look to be taking a run at stuff down here, I know how to get legit papers for 50 countries. So, next year in Reykjavik or Vancouver or Melbourne. Who knows? Just another thing to adjust to. There are worse things in life.
July 21st, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Haliburton Haliburton Haliburton.
Do The Lib’s know any other work.
How about social programs
How about Jefferson
How about the Pervert
How about kicking our troups in the shinns all the time
How about the lies the MSM spread every day
How about the crooks Polosi and Reed. We pay them for absolutly nothing
How about MS Clinton We paid her while she looked for another job then paid her to rest up after she became a looser like Gore and Kerry