Posted on 02/10/2011 9:50:39 AM PST by shortstop
What a boneheaded moron. No match for Eliot Spitzer.
Now there's a shocker.
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I’m just glad he had enough decency or smarts to resign immediately. No matter how much pressure the House leadership could put on him, he didn’t have to resign if he didn’t want to. There would be no censure or investigation into Congresman Beefcakes. I’m also glad to know (from the article) that the governor does not appoint a vacancy in New York, but that there would be a special election for the open seat. It sounds like he was a self absorbed narcisiss. Hey, maybe he can get on Obama’s staff. Sounds like a pair made in heaven.
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How Americans can live with what they choose as their representatives is downright depressing.
Even more pathetic, it was a sex scandal without any sex.
When the congressional seat came open, a natural choice to fill it was a young Iraq war veteran – a bona fide hero – who was at the time a strong national voice for patriotism and veterans’ concerns. He was a grounded, conservative, Constitution-loving natural.
And the Republican county chairmen of the district pushed him aside to make way for Chris Lee’s checkbook.
Back in 2008, I was real excited when Battle of Fallujah hero, David Bellavia, decided to run for the NY 26th seat and was disappointed when the Republicans went with Chris Lee.
As it turned out, Republican county chairmen made a bad call.
We’re getting to the point where we should just pick 546 people out of the phone book to fill out Congress, the Supremes, Vice President and President.
Good thing my number is unlisted.
I have frequently supported that idea. The results would have to be better.
No Democrat would have.
Some people just have a really messed up sense of what they find to be exciting.
Thinking with the little head instead of the big one will mess you up every time.
Sounds as if his only skill was picking the right parents.
I knew it was a Republican when I heard that he had resigned.
No Democrat would have.
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Exactly.
The GOP gives lip service to family values and the Dems don’t even do that.
The difference between Republicans and democrats. The Republican feels a sense of shame and resigns. The democrat doesn’t give a danm. All the mediabots laugh it off and say it’s nothing. The democrat has no sense of shame. The democrat rises rapidly within the ranks of the democrat party.
Yeah, notice that ‘Rat crooks like Rangel still sit in congress with no thought of doing the honorable thing and resigning.
I listened to Bob today, good man
Well, there are two sides to this coin. In past generations, the activities of those in power were just as likely to be debauched. We just didn't have a multimedia apparatus (and its accomplices within the internet like Craigslist) to make them so easily exposed.
One could argue that we have no idea whether the current crop of politicians is better or worse than those in 1961. I am not trying to insult Kemp or Paxon, but who are we to declare their relative sainthood just because nothing surfaced?
The point being: maybe Rome is actually recovering, with the lowest of our politicians revealed more rapidly and completely than in any generation before.
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