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To: Clint N. Suhks

Actually. The power of a few in the federal government scares me. Ben is not being a loony here. Not that I am crying over Eliot Spitzer Swallows.


4 posted on 03/16/2008 10:28:04 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("...millions hate what they mistakenly think that the Catholic Church is." ~ Archbishop Fulton Sheen)
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To: big'ol_freeper; sono

It wasn’t just the IRS that thought Spitzer was taking bribes, they had to convince the judiciary of that too to get a wiretap didn’t they? That’s two branches of government stupid Ben ignores, not just a couple “nosy civil servants”.

And in the course of an investigation they find a different crime are they supposed to ignore it?


30 posted on 03/16/2008 10:39:20 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks (Who would you rather appoint lifetime judges, Rodham Hussein Obillary or McQueeg?©®™)
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To: big'ol_freeper
"Actually. The power of a few in the federal government scares me. Ben is not being a loony here."

The fedgov exceeded it's Constitutional authority a loooong time ago...to worry about it now, in the context of Smelliot Spinster is closing the barn door after the horse is in the next county.

In this case, I think the feds actually have legitimate concerns. Tens of thousands of men might use prostitutes every day, but few of them are in the position to be blackmailed over the security posture of a large state containing the world's financial hub. That the ex-governor got hoisted by his own petard is not only, IMHO a legitimate exercise of authority on the part of the feds, but also poetic justice in a very karmic way.

FWIW, as a Louisiana resident, and generally a supporter of him, I posted this about him last July...

"If there's enough evidence to charge him with solicitation, charge him under LA and DC law, and let the chips fall where they may."

...so at least, I can claim philosophical and intellectual consistency, even though my feelings towards the two men couldn't be more different.

31 posted on 03/16/2008 10:39:30 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: big'ol_freeper

Actually, I’m pretty sure it was Kristen who did the swallowing.


85 posted on 03/16/2008 11:37:33 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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