DEMOCRATIC SLEAZE FEST (character assassination---Reid Democrats' stock-in-trade)

NY Post ^ | May 14, 2005 | EDITORIAL

[Liz]

Character assassination apparently has become the Democrats' stock-in-trade these days on Capitol Hill.

Witness Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, who departed from his prepared text to denounce one of President Bush's judicial nominees — a victim of Democratic filibustering — by saying the judge has "a problem" based on "his confidential report from the FBI."

Reid wasn't offering up any details — which his office seems to think lets him off the hook.

Because the problem is that those FBI background reports, as Reid himself conceded, are "confidential." ....Senate rules prohibit a member from publicly disclosing confidential information — on pain of possible expulsion from the Senate.

.....access to them is supposed to be limited to members of the Judiciary Committee, and the two senators from the nominee's home state.

The nominee, Henry Saad, is from Michigan; Harry Reid is from Nevada. And Reid is not a member of the Judiciary Committee.

Does the word "unethical" come to mind?

Saad, a Michigan Court of Appeals judge up for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, isn't being filibustered because of any political complaints — even the Democrats can't find a blemish on his judicial record or any suggestion of what they consider extremism.

No, Saad is on hold because Michigan's two Democratic senators — Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow — want some payback because two of Bill Clinton's nominees for the Sixth Circuit were held up by Republicans. Worse still, one of those nominees reportedly is the wife of Sen. Levin's cousin.

The senators also are angry because Saad mistakenly sent to Stabenow's office an angry e-mail complaining of his treatment by the Senate.

Given the way he's been publicly smeared by the Senate's Democratic leader, it looks like Judge Saad has just cause for a whole volume of e-mails.

[gaspar]

Reid uses guilt by allegation, which Democrats once considered the worst sort of "McCarthyism". The Democrats are a party that is daily sinking deeper into the sewer slime (e.g., Howard Dean's slander of Tom DeLay, an attack so vile it was opposed by Barney Frank!).

[whereasandsoforth]

"Senate rules prohibit a member from publicly disclosing confidential information — on pain of possible expulsion from the Senate."

I see some senate rules are more important than others. This senate rule can be ignored without so much as a nod towards protocol, but the senate filibuster rule is the Holy Grail and must be worshiped on bended knee.

Are senate rules subject to the caste system?

[zerosix]

I'd say that it's very high time to call out Reid on his own "ethical" problems that are known and documented by LA Times, for one, into his very sleazy family deals.

Rush read some of the materials written about by the LA Times on one show. Let's get this out and repeat and repeat it until many people know about just whom is standing in the way of good people.

[Liz]

Reid uses guilt by allegation, which Democrats once considered the worst sort of "McCarthyism."

(Sniffle) Gosh, let's face it. The rest of us can never be as "perfect"----in thought, word and deed---- as the Democrats (sob).

[Liz]

In Nevada, Reid Is the Name to Know; Members of one lawmaker's family represent nearly every major industry in their home state. And their clients rely on his goodwill.

By Chuck Neubauer and Richard T. Cooper, Times Staff Writers June 23, 2003


WASHINGTON — It was the kind of legislation that slips under the radar here. The name alone made the eyes glaze over: "The Clark County Conservation of Public Land and Natural Resources Act of 2002." In a welter of technical jargon, it dealt with boundary shifts, land trades and other arcane matters — all in Nevada. As he introduced it, Nevada's senior U.S. senator, Democrat Harry Reid, assured colleagues that his bill was a bipartisan measure to protect the environment and help the economy in America's fastest-growing state. What Reid did not explain was that the bill promised a cavalcade of benefits to real estate developers, corporations and local institutions that were paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in lobbying fees to his sons' and son-in-law's firms, federal lobbyist reports show.

REST HERE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1383921/posts

[Lazamataz]

Character assassination apparently has become the Democrats' stock-in-trade these days on Capitol Hill.

It was ever thus.

[Liz]

EXCERPT: The name alone made the eyes glaze over: "The Clark County Conservation of Public Land and Natural Resources Act of 2002." In a welter of technical jargon, it dealt with boundary shifts, land trades and other arcane matters — all in Nevada. ....... What Reid did not explain was that the bill promised a cavalcade of benefits to real estate developers, corporations and local institutions that were paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in lobbying fees to his sons' and son-in-law's firms, federal lobbyist reports show.

The IRS is looking into these phony trusts.

They need to nail Reid's collusion with businesses ---particularly officers of publicly-held companies---- in the scheme that might include corporations' misusing corporate reserve accounts, concealing losses, inflating asset values and improperly accounting for transactions, as well as deferring profits into reserve accounts, improperly shifting capital funding to other projects to hide illegal payments to Reid, and might have employed money laundering schemes to siphon money into Reid's campaign accounts, in order to evade the IRS, SEC, FEC and US banking laws.

Anyone with concerns should contact the SEC here: enforcement @SEC.gov

The "trust" itself should be looked at for excessive "legal fees" and "admin fees" which are classic money laundering schemes.

[Commander Salamander]

Yesteraday's thread here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1403102/posts

[OldFriend]

These are the people who exchanged the punk, McAwful, for the screaming madman Dean to be their leader.

We were expecting class and dignity?

[harpo11]

Reid's voice sounds as like a mealy mouthed puff cake in the order of Pelosi, Daschle, Boxer. But, no matter how they deliver their message, they are mean, ruthless, hateful, vindictive obstructors and prevaricators.