Joe Sestak lets loose GOP impeachment fantasies

Political fantasia is all.

Gotta love the Gop for their gall…

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So I’m hearing “politics as usual” as an excuse, yet that is just the opposite of what came out of the campaign trail. Hmmm……….

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“But it’s laughable, ”

No ….it is not.

Americans aren’t laughing.

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I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

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Here Jay, you left this one out but I found it for you:

Axelrod acknowledged that if White House officials dangled a job in front of Rep. Joe Sestak’s face to keep him away from challenging incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter, that would “constitute a serious breach of the law.”

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Lets see…… A political canidate says an adminstration offered him a job so he would not challenge a Republican turned Democrat vs. lying about intellegence and reasons to go to war and outing an active CIA agent AND using terror alerts to win re-election, etc.,etc.,

Which ones are impeachable and which ones aren’t .

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If you don’t think the “folks back home” will fall for it then you should have at least one more sentence in your last paragraph.

I’m heading to the forest now, but I’ll see what the “folks” have to say while I’m out. Last time I checked they were still pretty PO’ed at the Hope peddler in the White House.

See y’all later

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This is like the deal Reagan once offered Gerald Ford to be VP on the Reagan Ticket in 1980.

No it’s not.

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What is some Democrat lawyer actually had a chance to beat Isackson in November but,,,,

Isackson owed a favor to Obama (cap and tax vote) so,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Obama offered the democrat lawyer a job up in Washington to ensure Isackson’s win.

The howling would be deafening.

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And who really was the Valerie Plame mole?

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Jay,
Richard Painter, chief ethics officer under the last (I hope) President Bush should be a reliable source, having witnessed plenty of ethics violations.
Should we file this latest scheme (Wiley Coyote would be proud) under “Death Panels?”

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When it comes to character, nearly all politicians are impeachable.

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There is nothing to this story without a confession, documentation or a tape recording. MOST Politicians aren’t stupid. They didn’t get where by making stupid mistakes. I am sure the deal was implied, but there will never be hard evidence.

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Lastly, it goes both ways. If it were a Republican in the White House, then the Democrats would be screaming and making a stink. The only difference is that the Dems would have more media support. This will fizzle out.

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“What you’re seeing is the national GOP playacting — and playacting pretty poorly, with no heart in the performance — just to get the folks back home stirred up and full of hope.”

You mean the like the Dems and the national; media including Bookman do too?

Yes, Jay there are intellectually dishonest partisan hacks out there who will use any excuse to attack those who don’t agree with them, regardless of how lame. You are one of them, Mr. “Uppity”.

Physician, heal thyself. Or stop whining about the sickness. In either case, spare us your incessant hypocrisy.

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I know that the Dems can compile a long list against Bush. Heck, I will probably agree to some of them, but Obama’s list is getting pretty big already. The biggest is transparency which does not exist. He has some pretty shady connections and has made some pretty shady deals. I personally hope that one of them will stick and come back to bite him in the end.

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Last I heard, the WH attorneys “looked into” waterboarding as well. We all know how that turned out.

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Jay, it is funny that you say that about the Bush admin. I met one of Reagan’s national security advisors at a Christian camp a few years ago. Off the record he told me that Bush was the most honest politician he had seen in his time with the government.

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Oh yeah, let us focus on this created crisis while the Gulf still fills with oil.

Obowo the Fool can prattle on about anything that lets him escape his culpability in what may be the greatest ecological disaster in history, and his faithful moron troupe will still slobber and swoon over his greatness. Idiots.

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Well, I had my hopes up and could just about imagine us folks at Billy Bob’s whooping and hollering about this Kenyan getting impeached and throwed out of office, but it looks like it’s going to fizzle out. Heck, it ain’t even intrusting. There was no stained blue dress or cigar or nothing like that. Much less a big report we could all read and slobber about on the innernet tubes.

So I reckon we’re stuck with him till Newt and Sarah take over in January 2013. At least we got something to look forward to. Newt can’t get alone with nobody, so it ought to be real intrusting when him and Sarah start cutting loose at each other after their first falling out. That is, if Sarah makes it till then. I read someplace this muckraking reporter moved in right next to her and can even see into one of her windows. Hard to tell what he’ll write about about the first time Sarah and her man have a falling out or one of her girls forgets to close the blinds when a boyfriend comes over.

So it’s back to the boring for me. More lugging and stocking and waiting for Scout or somebody to come up with the next big rumor.

Have a good day everybody.

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Jimmy Carter ran a race baiting campaign for governor. Hardly ethical.

I’ll admit to having only a marginal understanding of how JC actually got elected Gov. back in the day, but I want to use this as a platform to ask a deeper question.

When you mislead voters about how you’ll do something bad, in order to actually do something good, is that really all that unethical?

The world is a messy place. IMHO means do sometimes justify ends.

I know that’s kinda hard for many throughout the ideological spectrum to process, but we are talking politics here.

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or translated

“Baaaaa. Baaaaaa. Baaaaaa.”

or translated

“Waaaa. Waaaaa. Waaaaa.”

Wow. That was fun. Let’s do it again.

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War has always been a turn-on, its thrill as old as mankind itself. It is intense; it is raw; it is primal. It reaches into every nerve, so carnal it borders on the sexually erotic. And many who cannot participate want to watch.

It’s called war porn.

This may be the most disturbing you will ever read. Take a few minutes and read this article.

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Jay –

LOL. While I find it amusing that you seem to feel that you and I are operating under the same rules. Let me point out a few facts that seemed to have escaped your notice.

1) You are a highyly visible public figure at the only newspaper in town. You have been so for years, including being a member of the AJC editorial board. You represent a public institution. As a result, commenting our your brand of “journalism” which has hastened the demise of our local paper is pretty expected. Folks spending their time commenting on an occasional poster does not.

2) You get paid to put out writings the enlighten your reader or at the least interest them. Your brand of undifferentiated partisan twaddle do neither. It is not my job to do this, despite your admonishments that I start a blog or criticize conservatives. Again, I am just a poster. You are the paid “journalist”.

Like most pundits, you are incredibly thin-skinned. Not surprising. Most bullies are.

Any time you want to actually address my comment, feel free. I am more than ready to defend my claim that Mr,”Uppity” is as dishonest as any you claim to be. Unfortunately, in addition to being thin skinned, bullies are cowards, so I doubt you will.

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Let’s see…the Democrats control Congress and the White House and there is talk of impeachment? Yeah, that will happen.

I’ve been meaning to post something that, I hope, won’t come off as too terribly patronizing but here goes.

I kinda know how it feels, GOP voters. Really I do. Back in the dark days for progressives, between Bush’s re-election and the run-up to the Nov. 2006 mid-terms, we kept hope alive with talk of “Chimpeachment.” It was insane; there was no way in hell that was going to happen, even if video emerged of George and Dick meeting with Osama Bin Laden discussing how they were going to make this weird gang of fundamentalist nutballs the fall gay for 9/11. Na gone duit.

But we clung to guns and religion, so to speak, because it was kind of felt good to reach out to others who were similarly unhappy about being out of power.

It’s what people do. Perspective is hard to come by; it’s something that happens at its own pace, and you only recognize what how silly some of the talk might have been with that benefit of hindsight, much later.

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I’m still struggling to figure out just what “family values” means to some folks. Then again, who knows what they teach in some of those Republican academies of pious yearning.

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TaxPayer, I think it is quite hypocritical for a liberal to pick on conservatives for whining.

You think

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The clinton impeachment was a joke and history records it as such. Marriage infidelity by consenting adults, what did it have to do with governing? Nothing. Starr went overboard and a sexual peccadillo consumed the media. I actually don’t know anyone who is worshipping obama these days but you can count me as one who hopes he is successful in repairing the mess left.

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federal code: 18 USC 600 says that a federal official cannot promise employment, a job in the federal government, in return for a political act.

“Section 18 USC 211 says you cannot accept anything of value in return for hiring somebody. Well, arguably, providing a clear path to the nomination for a fellow Democrat is something of value.”

“18 USC 595, which prohibits a federal official from interfering with the nomination or election for office. … ‘If you’ll get out, we’ll appoint you to a federal office,’ – that’s a violation of the law.”

The Section 600 statute states:
Whoever, directly or indirectly, promises any employment, position, compensation, contract, appointment, or other benefit, provided for or made possible in whole or in part by any Act of Congress, or any special consideration in obtaining any such benefit, to any person as consideration, favor, or reward for any political activity or for the support of or opposition to any candidate or any political party in connection with any general or special election to any political office, or in connection with any primary election or political convention or caucus held to select candidates for any political office, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=158617

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Slestak should seek refuge in a pylon.

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What’s important here is this: this illegal alien freak of a president and his worthless criminal administration DESERVE to be harrassed and bullied every second of the day.

Uh. Oh. Ugh. Don’t tell me. I know this one… Is it “How do you know when you’ve won?” Is that it!

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Bosch

May 27th, 2010
9:20 am
OMG, Willie Nelson cut his hair. The world has gone to hell in a hand basket.

Bosch, I know! It’s truly a sign the end is near. OH THE RAPTURE IS COMING!!!

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“TeaTard”

My new favorite word.

Normal,

I hope so – then we can get rid of the creeper fundies and then we’ll be able to enjoy ourselves without them judging us all the time.

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The Tea Party! A movement by the American people to subordinate progressvie liberal socialists and give the government back to the people. A smaller smarter government with business minds in control instead of ideology and community organizers using public funds.

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Pay attention here. Jay Bookman is actually defending a possible attempt by the White House to use a bribe (in the form of a job offer) to manipulate a congressional election. He’s got the audacity to tell us, that “there’s no problem with this”. WHAT?!?!? Bookman is an example of all liberals: hypocrisy, ommission, distortion, corruption—it’s all okay if there’s a Leftist intention behind it.

And don’t you know, that if a GOP White House did this, Bookman (and Tucker) would be right out front screaming for immediate impeachment! Hey Jay, BP gave Obama more campaign money than any candidate in 20 years…and in return, they got all kinds of environmental exemptions to drill in the gulf. Is there a peep out of you expressing any concern there might have been a quid pro quo? Of course not. I can cite topic by topic where Bookman is going to play spin-master for the Democrat Party. Shouldn’t his column count as an ongoing campign contribution? Today, he says….”aw shucks…felony (for that’s what a bribe would be) intrusion into a Federal election is just dandy as long as Obama does it.” Jay, go “blank” yourself!

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I don’t understand why this is such a big deal, they already have 3 other “impeachable offenses” to tar and feather Obama with, Why don’t don’t they act on one of of those three concrete “impeachable offenses”?

They do have 3 “impeachable offenses”, don’t they?… Andy?…

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What the hell?

In 2008, some proto-TeaTards found out that scary looking colored guys were photographed outside of a polling place. Caught in the act of looking scary.

They spread this photo far and wide.

It is nearly as popular among the TeaTards as is that youtube video of a naive colored lady claiming that she’d likely have an easier time of it paying for her house and car if Obama is elected. (boy do they love to reference that one!)

Anyhoo, these scary looking colored fellaz have has become a rallying cry for the flying-monkey right about how the 2008 election was stolen.

Aren’t you glad you know?

(I’ve provided no linkees because I have no desire to see this racist crap again, myself.)

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Bosch

May 27th, 2010
9:38 am
Oh and now we have the ACLU lawyers giving out names and pictures of US interrogators to Islamic extremists. Wow, those progressive liberals need more degrees because they sure are coming up “stupid”.

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“And don’t you know, that if a GOP White House did this, Bookman (and Tucker) would be right out front screaming for immediate impeachment!”

Ahhh another teatard prognisticator…

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Zedd – thanks for posting that. The section that Rove and Hannity keep referring to is 18 USC 211, which says “Whoever solicits or receives, either as a political contribution, or for personal emolument, any money or thing of value, in consideration of the promise of support or use of influence in obtaining for any person any appointive office or place under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.” The more I read that section, the more I cannot figure out exactly how it would apply to the person who allegedly made the job offer – I interpret it to only apply to someone who either accepts a job offer or asks for a job (both in return for political favor). But Section 600 seems definitely applicable here. The problem with both statues is that neither one requires jail time – even if someone were to be found guilty, they could get out of it with nothing more than a fine.

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“Obama has raped the Constitution! ”

Cite examples please? Examples of all the new czars please?

3 impeachable offenses? Higher taxes? Anything?

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Seepage?

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In DC the coverup always makes a non issue a full blown crime. If there is nothing to hide just lay ALL of the facts of the bribe or non bribe on the table.

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‘Top kill’ effort stops flow of oil into Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard admiral says

Thad Allen, who is coordinating the government response, says the well still has low pressure, but cement will be used to cap the well permanently as soon as the pressure hits zero.

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Today, President Obama will have his first formal, solo press conference since July 22, 2009. By my calculation, that means the champion of transparency and openness in government will have gone 309 days (more than 44 weeks) without going toe to toe with the White House press corps

Let’s see how he answers these simple questions.

1. Mr. President, since it has been more than 10 months since your last solo press conference, can you tell us why you’ve been avoiding us? Are you afraid of the scrutiny from a free press? What message does this send to countries like China or Russia, both nations which we continually urge to create greater press freedoms?

2. At the signing of the Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act on May 18, you invited the pool of reporters into the Oval Office to watch you sign the bill, but you refused to answer any questions. Were you trying to be ironic?

3. About a month ago, historic floods ravaged Nashville and other parts of Tennessee. The waters caused more than a billion dollars in damage and killed more than 30 Americans. Have you ever considered visiting the state to see the damage for yourself and to console the victims of this disaster? If yes, what prevented you from going? If no, don’t you think they deserve your attention?

4. Six months ago, Umar Abdulmutallab attempted to set off a bomb in order to kill passengers aboard a flight landing in Detroit. Instead of questioning him as an enemy combatant, your administration chose to question him for less than an hour and then read him his Miranda rights so he could obtain a lawyer. Was this your decision? If it wasn’t, should you have been in the loop? If it was, do you think this was enough time to obtain valuable information in order to prevent potential future attacks?

5. Shortly after the Christmas Day bomber incident, your Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said “the system worked” and indicated Abdulmutallab was likely a lone actor. Subsequently, it was discovered he had deep ties to terrorists and your Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair recently stepped down because of the critical intelligence lapses in the matter. Should Secretary Napolitano also step down?

6. It’s been more than a month since oil began spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, but since we haven’t had an opportunity to talk with you about it, why has it taken you so long to visit the Gulf Coast? You are going there on Friday of this week, but it seems your Administration has been slow to recognize the severity of the issue. Do you wish you had paid greater attention to the spill? And, is the federal government in charge of the response, as Carol Browner said this week? Or, is BP in charge, as Admiral Thad Allen said this week?

7. Way back in March, you signed a health care overhaul that only Democrats in Congress supported and 15 percent of House Democrats actually opposed. Is this what you meant when you talked about “changing the way Washington works” as a candidate?

8. Shortly after Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed the law to try to enforce federal immigration laws at the state level, members of your Administration questioned its constitutionality. However, weeks later Attorney General Eric Holder and DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano admitted they hadn’t even read the law. The law is less than 20 pages long. Isn’t it reasonable to ask members of your team to read laws before they criticize them?

9. In March, the North Koreans sunk a South Korean navy ship in an act of extreme provocation. Since we haven’t had a chance to talk to you in quite some time, do you still plan to “sit down without precondition” with Kim Jung Il, as you pledged you would during the presidential campaign? If you plan to keep that pledge, what will you say to the North Korean despot about this attack on South Korea?

10. Since it may be after Election Day before we are able to ask you questions again, will you state now, for the record, if you authorized members of your staff to offer Rep. Joe Sestak a job so he would drop his primary challenge to U.S. Senator Arlen Specter?

Those questions should get the ball rolling for a lively presidential press conference. Set your DVRs to save the fireworks, folks. Mr. Transparency may not make an appearance again for several hundred days

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“Senategate” ………….. hummmm ……… I kind of like the sound of that.

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kinda like Dems impeaching GW for war crimes

Well yeah. Kinda like that. See, this lady, might’ve heard of her, named Nancy Pelosi? Upon assuming the role of as Speaker of the House in early 2007 very clearly told the progressive wing of the Democratic party that impeachment was “off the table.”

Many people within this ideological band were very PO’d at her for it. But that was the strategery, and never again did any Democrat in the House seriously pursue impeachment (yes, I’m sure someone can Google a speech or a proposed non-binding resolution someone got into the record, but you know what I mean.)

Glad to be of service in your political education, Mr. D.

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“And this bum wants to leave responsibility for our security to foreign governments?”

Someone help me out here, my memory is a little fuzzy, but is zeke talking about Bush when he wanted to turn over security of our ports to the Saudis or something like that?

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Curiously, in a supposed anti-incumbent year, most of the departing are not retiring but seeking higher office. We may recycle more than we replace. The bad news is that a frustrating 114 seats still have but one contestant. Two of them aren’t even incumbents, meaning they will affect state policy without being vetted by voters. And I have to think that we’d be better off if many had run instead for the Legislature — and cut down on the number running unopposed. Georgia’s problems are numerous. They aren’t going away. There’s too much stale thinking at the Capitol, on both sides of the aisle. New voices would be welcome.

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Ooohhhhh, I see how this plays out now….it’s only AFTER the “FACT(S)” or lack thereof, that the status quo becomes justifiable/acceptable to dems?

“This isn’t “change”; it’s sanctification of the status quo.”–Barack Obama

Got it!

I will say this…if the administration is reluctant to come forth with the details, it’s because they know THE PEOPLE would not approve. Quid pro quo? Status quo? No difference! Some of us, at least, have grown a bit tired of it.

Obviously not you, jay. Both are NOW acceptable.

I do luv, Joe, though. He never changes.

Thanks to the $787 billion stimulus package, Biden said he and Melody Barnes, White House Domestic Policy Council director, have talked at length about ways to “generate new ideas about how to deal with future employment needs,” Biden said. “We have new ideas about how to spend government money wisely.”

First off, it’s not government’s money. Second? Politicians require $787 billion before they can come up with new ideas??? Do tell.

That’s a helluva a raise to support the status quo.

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“OFF TOPIC #1)

To my Conservative friends out there …….. research project:

“Supposedly (repeat supposedly) the West Point graduation ceremony last week was opened to the general public for the first time in 100 years. Obviously, is this is true it was because the Obama staff wanted to saturate the audience with people who would provide some “enthusiastic” as opposed to “tepid” applause during his remarks.

If any of you can help me verify that one way or the other I would most appreciate it.

In addition, I have the entire tape of the graduation event and by the weekend hope to review every cadet (1,010) who received a diploma to determine if “any” did not shake the president’s hand. That part takes about an hour.

Stay tuned.

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Just goes to show the intrinsic stupidity of the democrats. This isn’t about impeaching Obama, although who knows what might happen down the road with this fool in the office, it’s about defeating Joe Sestak. Sestak has been given a “poker call” even by members of his own party. He’s looking like an idiot for making accusations and then not having what it takes to back up his words.

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Thanks. Really?

I really wish I were making that up, Bosch. Really I do.

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Taxpayer you too are an idiot…”in the south” duh… South Boston. Short memory?

Big D,

I sense a resemblence between you and my message.

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Zedd: you are spot on with the legal citations, however the bigger question is who in this country determines what illegal things are “really important”. I am constantly amazed that there is someone obviously out there, who determines what illegalities are serious enough to be bothered with. We know illegal immigration has been determined to be ok, bribes given to congressman and Senators are not “really illegal”, illegal campaign contributions given by some groups are “ok”, whereas from other groups are serious violations. If we are not going to enforce these laws or repeal them, can we vote on who decides which one gets enforced.

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Well, use to be bribes was pretty simple. A guy offered you a pint of booze if you voted for a guy. So you went in an voted and picked up your pint on the way out. Then they kilt that off by making the liquor stores close on election day. So not only can’t you have a stiff gulp on Sunday after a boring sermon but you can’t have one on election day when you find out who’s going to be sticking it to you for the next two years.

And now the bribes got all fancy and you can’t hardly tell what’s a bribe and what’s not. Let’s just get back to booze as a bribe. It’ll never do you wrong. And you can even take a picture of it as proof.

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I got standards, too bad squish liberals like yourself don’t meet those standards. Hey look either you’re with us or agin’ us… What’s it gonna be bedwetter? I wouldn’t expect a libtard like yourself to understand…

The above just being an example of the discourse here on a daily basis from the “conservative” trolls who shake thier fists at everything contemporary. I am just doing what others have done unto me here. It’s in the bible right, do unto others? Well by that standard this is what they wish done to them correct?

In other words you don’t know squat about me MT, so please don’t presume to pass judgement about me and my standards. I’ve stated quite often here, those who feel compelled to make a point of thier moral compass and higher standards usually have neither…

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Obama won’t be impeached, he’ll be voted out of office as a one-termer the old fashioned way. Currently holding a forty-five per cent approval rating and falling. The economy, job losses…now the oil disaster; bet he wishes he was still the rock star running for President. It sucks when you have to work.

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I have been wondering how long it would take the repubs to start something like this. And if they ever reach a majority, you can bet this will become a reality. Repubs are obsessed with power, and that’s it. If they can’t win the votes, they’ll try anything to regain all the power there’s left to get. Just ask Bob Barr. He knows the truth since he is one of them.

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Obama will travel to Louisiana and walk out on the water and proclaim, “Leak! Heal thyself!” and the leak shall be healed and all Republicans will know the power of the one to be known as the healer. Let it be so. Let it be said. Let it be printed on sticker for later insertion into Texas Text.

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No, he won’t be impeached. Even if something happened that was impeachable the GOP hasn’t gut the guts to pursue it, but most importantly, if anything happens to this president, the entire country would be burned to the ground by rioting African-Americans.

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Oil Spill, what oil spill asked Obama?

Could this be Mr. Obama’s Katrina? It could be even worse. The federal response to Katrina was governed by the 1988 Stafford Act, which says that in natural disasters on-shore states are in charge, not Washington. The federal obligation is to “support . . . State and local assistance efforts” by providing whatever resources a governor requests and then writing big checks for the cleanup. Mr. Bush had to deal with a Louisiana governor and a New Orleans mayor who were, by federal law, in charge.

But BP’s well was drilled in federal waters. Washington, not Louisiana, is in charge. This is Mr. Obama’s responsibility. He says his administration has been prepared for the worst from the start. Mr. Obama’s failure to lead in cleaning up the spill could lead voters to echo his complaint in Katrina’s aftermath: “I wish that the federal government had been up to the task.”

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“the entire country would be burned to the ground by rioting African-Americans.”

Oh my freaking God.

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We need to get rid of all of the sludge that resides in Washington. We can start with the mid-term elections this year and finish it up 2 years later. Big Chicago politics at it’s best….corruption through and through.

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Hope and Change – NOT!

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FinnMcCool,

Do the math? A hundred million to save TRILLIONS! And Obama is still writing checks!

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“Third, Rep. Jim Matheson voted AGAINST the health-care reform bill, and his brother’s nomination remains in effect.”

Cover vote, Jay. He was allowed to vote against because San Fran Nan already had her votes after they paid off the Stupak bunch. If she hadn’t without him, he would have been pushing the “yes” button.

You do know how Washington works, don’t you?

And nice try using the “but there’s a Republican for this” argument, as usual. In that, you really are consistent when you cherry-pick one out of a hundred to try to make an invalid point valid.

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There is politics going on in Washington. Shock.

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He said CAP IT!!!

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and it was done.

ALL HAIL KING OBAMA!!!

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Scout: In addition, I have the entire tape of the graduation event and by the weekend hope to review every cadet (1,010) who received a diploma to determine if “any” did not shake the president’s hand.

This is the post of someone with way to much time on their hands and is rather sad and pathetic. Does anyone care about this besides a few whack-a-doodle right wingers who hate Obama with a passion bordering on the insane?

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Dave R. – Needless to say, there was no further hassle from the Senator and his aide.

Wow! You put that Congressional aide in their place. You are so cool and macho.

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Good morning everyone.

Impeachment???

Thanks for letting me start out the blogging day with a helluva laugh, Jay!

Last night one of the more courageous Barry haters here called Sestak a “candyass”.

Riiight! A three star admiral who commanded an entire battle group of tens of thousands of men and god knows how much weaponry.

Funny, coming for the crowd who never uttered a sheepish baaah when their REAL hero of the Texas ANG demonstrated to the republic that he was the most serially impeachable POTUS in American history.

Imagine that? Blind GOP obeisance from their parallel reality.

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Algonquin j. Calhoun:

If GOP wins control of the House in November, will the ‘will of the people’ have changed, in your view?

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saywhat, you obviously don’t know a thing about how Washington, D.C. works.

Or doesn’t.

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As each day passes I realize more and more what a great president Bush was.

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When you mislead voters about how you’ll do something bad, in order to actually do something good, is that really all that unethical?

In my view, it is. If a man (or woman) will lie to you about one thing, they’ll lie to you about anything. The number one thing I look for in a President is that they can be trusted. I’d rather have somebody honest that I disagree with than somebody I agree with that is dishonest. Although it varies a bit from one to another, I haven’t really trusted any of them in my lifetime.

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williebkind – As each day passes I realize more and more what a great president Bush was.

Alzheimer’s is a terrible disease. Someday there will be treatment and cure. Until then, I’m sorry for your delusions.

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mick- He has a good throwing arm though.

Unlike the scholar/athlete we have in the WH now who throws weaker than my 8yr old daughter and is stump by hard hitting questions like “name a White Sox player–past or present–that you respected and looked up to.”

7 “umms” later he deflected then mispronounced the name of the stadium his favorite team plays in.

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AMVet said:
“Funny, coming for the crowd who never uttered a sheepish baaah when their REAL hero of the Texas ANG demonstrated to the republic that he was the most serially impeachable POTUS in American history.”

I SECOND that! Great post!

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Jay, the Bush Admin was ethical? Wha? I don’t know about everything else, but the Iraq War thing seems to be one big ole lie. Powell believed much of it was BS, Col. Wilkerson was amazed anyone bought the UN speech Powell gave, Cheney said there were WMD’s in Iraq, the whisper campaign that Iraqi agents met al Quada, the illegal immigration blindness for the benefit of agri-biz donors, etc, etc, etc. I simply don’t see the W Admin as ethical.

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Del:

We both know that. I’m just trying to enlighten these liberal knuckleheads.

Mick:

I was at a similar event where V.P. Gore and his young son came out to the mound for Gore to throw the first pitch. He was booed unmercifully. I was embarrassed for the kid.

Rightwing Troll:

Seriously, on this “Senategate” thing I don’t think it has any legs. My only point was that if a Republican was in the White House, the MSM would be running with this for all it was worth. That’s the hypocrisy !

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Dave R., What I do or don’t know about how Washington works, has absolutely nothing to do with how frickin’ wrong you were, and how completely Jay owned you while proving it. But, if it helps you sleep better at night, keep thinking what you’re thinking…..

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HD, if you’re still around, I appreciate your answer to my ethical question.

The conundrum is, if you expect pols to be honest, you’ll always be heartbroken. Perhaps I’m just trying to insulate my heart.

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Saul- but he was certainly NO Dick Cheney or Bush for that matter.

The American apology tour has done nothing but make us a laughing stock of the countries that are trying to do us harm. Just wait until Iraq becomes the new Saigon when we pull out. Are you going to send the military back in, getting Soldiers killed, to clean up the mess or are you just going to let thousands die for helping us?

Chicago is asking to mobilize the National Guard to help protect its streets. I think you’ll find it’s currently more dangerous than Iraq.

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[...] by the previous President that–per the GOP–no one is supposed to mention any more. Joe Sestak is the latest tarball to be [...]

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You are as bad as Obama. A divider. Ever going to write about Van Jones ?

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The conundrum is, if you expect pols to be honest, you’ll always be heartbroken.

sfd

I didn’t say I expected it; I just said that’s the way it should be.

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Once again, I predict the “candyass” Sestak destroys whatever poor GOP schmuck runs against him in November.

Even Karl & the Swift Boaters can’t help on this one.

Too bad, cons. He’ll make a damn good US Senator…

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18 USC 600, 595, 211 – three felonies. I suppose people lie all the time about “sex” too under oath so its OK to lie in court – if and only if your a Democrat. Sestak brought this up because it is and was an outrage.

Tired of one law for Democrats, another law for everyone else.

Tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth – act and speak with integrity – or go to prison when you get caught playing fast and loose with the law.

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Tweedledee Party – Pelosi, Reid, Clinton, Obama et al “took impeachment off the table”

Why? because they knew they couldn’t.

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They tried this with Bill Clinton and failed and he actually did commit an impeachable act (lying under oath). Don’t they realize that attacking a popular president (and yes my fellow Georgians, outside the deep south he is quite well thought of) makes him even more popular?

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midtownguy…..Liberals HAVE NO PROBLEMs WITH CHEATING ON YOUR SPOUSE…THEY DO IT ALL THE TIME.

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Liberals hold cheaters in high regard…

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A CONSERVATIVE: You mean like Cheney and Scooter Libby….RIGHT?

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Nice thing about having Obama, our first black president, in office. Everyone else has done something similiar in the past so Obama isn’t really guilty of anything. Cool way to operate. Wish we could dig up Nixon from the grave and tell him it’s OK now. No ethics necessary. Sorry for the bum rap. No one’s going to bother Obama with anything while he’s got better things to do like taking American into Socialism.

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Show me where ANY of those you mentioned say they LOVE Obama.

And I guess your daughter would go live in another country…so sad… so sad that you believe so strongly in “man created borders” which were created to “limit” humans… no good has ever come of the human created borders… just like the religions and “gods” they “created” as well…

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will…YES… I 100% support the ACLU. I don’t hate white people…but I also don’t hate brown people, yellow people and people who don’t believe in the same “human created” god as you either. I just don’t like “haters” who judge people based upon their skin color or religious beliefs… how about YOU?

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It just amazes me at how stupid democraps are. If he would have just kept his mouth shut none of this would have ever come to light. As bad as I’m sure it pains you Jay there could have been laws broken here. Lets appoint a special prosecutor to find out. If there is nothing to it then ok. It just don’t pass the smell test though when you have so many people trying to cover it up. I guess this will be payback for all the Valerie Plame crap you libs tried to convince us was illegal…

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Anyone watching the Press Conference? Has anyone asked a tough question?

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JKL2 – I would probably report him to the authorities like any other ILLEGAL criminal I know.

Kind of a d*ck move.

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The DHS reports that the jihadists (oh wait, we can’t call them that anymore) have more plots planned against the US than ever before. I guess Obama’s bow down and apologize to the world didn’t mean much. Thoughts?

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But has anyone asked him a tough question? He came fully prepared for that one!

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hmm, hmm…just business as usual in the NObama white house. The fantasy is he’s still president. – He will go down as the WORST EVER!

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Serxtet – in your dreams.

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BMDPD

May 27th, 2010
1:09 pm
It is Bushe’s fault! All this happend because of Bush. Obama tried to be nice.

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Saul Good

May 27th, 2010
1:21 pm
Yepper, I am an American first. Human sounds like liberal cataloging. If they give you a number then they can erase it. Aint that right Sextet?

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saul- so sad… so sad that you believe so strongly in “man created borders” which were created to “limit” humans… no good has ever come of the human created borders… just like the religions and “gods” they “created” as well…

Yeah…that having freedom and owning property stuff just keeps the man down. I wish we could get rid of those evil things too.

“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting” George Orwell

Just keep sitting on the couch, watching CNN, and waving your flag, Saul. I’ll do the heavy lifting for you.

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John Wayne, Saul et al..

If you’re all for anarchy then bring it on. I guarantee my gun loving a$$ will come out on top everytime.

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JKL2…thanks for your threat of violence. It’s been noted.

Sad you’re SO afraid of the world at large that you even would say such a thing. Really? You’re now going to KILL those of us who don’t subscribe to YOUR views and faulty logic values?!

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Saul Good

May 27th, 2010
2:04 pm
Yeah but you allow those who blow everybody up a free ticket to America.

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JKL2.. “we’re just better”…because we were BORN here as humans as opposed to being born someplace else as humans… WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I give up with you… I don’t even recommend medication. I actually recommend that you be kept away from the public at large. You are truly truly one to be watch…and I hope you’re one some list of individuals being watched. I mean that.

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Bumpersticker sighted over the weekend that is even more relevant today.

“YOUR WALLET. The only place Democrats want to drill.”

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Saul-

I’ll bet my security clearance alot higher than anything you could ever obtain. But if Obama can put people on his staff (Van Jones) that would not have been allowed to enter the white house in previous years, then anything could be possible.

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Typical LIB mentality… what dirty LIARS.

Impeach his sorry ass.

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Saul,

You sound like a very passionate guy/gal, yet you spend your time here being unproductive like the rest of us. Ever thought of channeling that energy into something like the Peace Corp?? They really do need people with your energy and passion – just a thought.

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And as usual, Jay misdirects into other areas in order to avoid the main topic.

Either someone in the White House is lying, or a current congressman and candidate for U.S. Senate is lying.

There is NO middle ground on this.

Sestek has painted himself and/or the White House into a corner. And the very fact that Hope & Change couldn’t answer the direct question to him today means that he is setting up someone to be the fall guy – he just hasn’t decided who (or how high up) it will be yet.

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You are the rube, bookman. When it all hits the fan, you will not be able to leave Atlanta soon enough. This nation has been so polarized and fractured by this regime that it will take many yeas to repair. I hate it for my Grandchildren & others.

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Saul – We are not held in higher regard by the world, only by our enemies in Venezuela and North Korea and Mexico who correctly preceive that O is weak. Try a public opinion poll in longtime friend Israel and see how O comes out. Most of the world regards us with some combination of fear, envy, and hatred. Unlike your childlike utopian vision it’s getting ever more dog eat dog out there as 7 billion people compete for ever scarcer energy, food, and water. It’s a very nice vision you have, but unfortunately it is very unrealistic and dangerous. Everyone’s lot in life is not determined solely by the accident of their birth, but also what they do with the life they are given. Some of us still believe in preserving what we were given at birth for our children and their children, rather than giving it away to the less fortunate Kenyans and Mexican illegal aliens.

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The only way this’d ever happen is to get the left onboard. And with the left so linked to Obama, either through outright worship or living vicariously through him much like Conservatives were with Bush, this is about as likely as the Pope denouncing Jesus and declaring war on China.

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Much ado about nothing. He most likely didn’t take the job offer because he knew Sen. Shelby or some other Republican obstructionist would have blocked his confirmation hearing via “secret hold” for no reason at all. You know, just because.

Running for Democratic nomination probably seemed the surer thing.

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People should take the initiative to read the laws that are being cited before rushing to judgment.

One of the most commonly cited laws, 18 USC 600, refers to offering jobs made possible by an act of congress. Note that the President offering a job in his administration has nothing to do with an act of congress.

18 USC 595 applies to individuals in “administrative” positions. It seems unclear to me whether the office of the President would qualify. The text of the law is fairly complex and you can judge for yourself if you look it up.

18 USC 211 says that an official can’t solicit “money or a thing of value.” This is in contrast to the laws above that specifically mention employment or use the much broader term of “consideration”

Basically, my point is that this is actually pretty complicated stuff and, like them or not, it is a matter to be settled by lawyers. The news media glosses over the details that I mentioned for this very reason. They don’t understand it, their audience doesn’t understand it, and to be honest, everyone loves a good scandal.

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PRAY for IMPEACHMENT …or worse.

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“Fantasies”?

Do you know why the AJC is losing subscribers? Because liberal idiots like you keep writing crap like this. The AJC needs to learn who their readers are.

Good luck with that job interview at Walmart.

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Judd Gregg…. I see NOBODY here on the right bringing up the position that Obama offered Judd Gregg? Was HE too up for an election? Was THAT an “Impeachable” offense as well??? NAH…. Where’s all the positions that Bush “offered” as well to those who were thinking about running? If anyone needs a list… I’ll gladly past it.

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