[wallcrawlr]

“Forget Osama bin Laden,” grumbles one House Republican. “The real enemy is sitting in a fancy corner office in some corporation, figuring out new ways to cook the books.”

I want this person named. Get a backbone yourself and put a name behind your words.

[#3Fan]

“Republicans have been sleeping with big business for a long time,” says Democratic strategist Jonathan Block. “If they get a case of corporate clap from these whores, then all the better for us.”

99% of America has a job in some kind of business. Dems think that all of America are whores?

[Digger]

How about starting with ROBERT RUBIN! (plan on being stuck by a meteorite first)

[jasonalvarez]

“Forget Osama bin Laden,” grumbles one House Republican. “The real enemy is sitting in a fancy corner office in some corporation government bureaucracy, figuring out new ways to cook the books.”

[sphinx]

I do not know where Doug Thompson gets his figures, but on campaign finance he does not know what he is talking about, and has not bothered to check. This is from the FEC website (sorry, I still have not bothered to figure out those link thingies):

PAC contributions to all federal candidates for the 1999-2000 election cycle reached $245.4 million, up 19% from the 1997-98 cycle of $206.8 million. PACs gave $127.9 million to Republicans, $116.8 to Democrats, and $630,955 to candidates from other parties. Contributions to incumbents far outpaced monies given to other types of candidates. Incumbents received $184 million, while challengers received $27 million and open-seat races, $34.3 million. PACs contributed more substantially to House races, where PAC receipts of $193.4 million represented 32% of receipts compared to Senate races, where $52 million in PAC money accounted for only 12% of monies raised.

In general, Democrats are somewhat more PAC dependant than Republicans. Big business PACs give mostly to incumbents and lean towards the party in power on the Hill; on balance, they are marginally Republican, while labor PACs give 95%+ to Democrats. Republicans have a significant edge in small contributions from individuals.

[timestax]

bttt

[secretagent]

Frustrated Republicans are urging the Bush Administration to engage in a “bold move, any bold move” to move the country beyond the current stock market crisis that threatens the party’s chances in the November elections.

O.K., massively cut government spending, taxing, and regulating. That should improve the economy...

[Dixie Mom]

“We might have trouble tying the corporate scandals to the Republicans if one of our own is selling his vote to big business lobbyists,” a Gephardt aide admitted this week.

IF? ONE? Oh, that's rich--LMAO.

[TADSLOS]

“The real enemy is sitting in a fancy corner office in some corporation, figuring out new ways to cook the books.”

This fits the description of almost every member of Congress.

[MissAmericanPie]

If Republicans had any back bone, they would have been sticking pins in Dashole about not releasing his financial and tax reports. There's a story there.

[parsifal]

"Republicans find they have been sleeping with the enemy"

I TOLD YOU SO! I BEEN TELLING YOU PUBBIES THAT YOU NNEDED TO START LOOKING AT SOME OF YOUR PRO BUSINESS BIAS! parsy the vindicated.

[cynicom]

I suppose Senator Corzine, by definition, is a republican partner? Subtle propaganda.

[Brilliant]

Fire Greenspan. He's watching as the economy is headed for doom. He says it's strong, but he's looking at month old data, which predates the stock market decline.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

This is BULL these scandles started years ago and theres nothing that can be done until it runs its course .....The Republicans are real good at sitting when they should stand and standing when they should sit sheesh.

Thats of course if any of this is true to begin with.

[dalebert]

This is bunk. Congressmen probably made quite a load off the market themselves. Why not speak the truth and tell everyone that during the Clinton administration anything was game and no one said a word about insider trading and funny books. Now that he is gone everyone has become a saint. The Dems would rather bring this country down than loose in November. Just as they would rather see criminals go free rather than approve good judges.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

The press sure knows our #. Pick one "unnamed source" saying the one thing you KNOW will rile Republicans and watch 'em get angry at....Republicans! Every Freeper should be giving the author of this "article" both barrels, not eating your own.

Tom Delay, not a man to make excuses or lie, says that the press is freezing out Republicans...refusing to print their factual rebuttals against the daily Dem. smears. It isn't bias anymore from the press...it is slander...and propaganda.

The press doesn't care what we think, they are working to destroy the President. Rush, comfy in his kingdom seldom slams his fellow journalists anymore, and Foxnews more often than not simply follows the daily DNC PR news train. It has to stop. When we react in a knee-jerk way to a press piece...it's time to stop, and aim our anger at the messenger-accomplice. (imho)

[AntiDemocrat]

Why is it then that the Democrat CEOs are the ones who are currently "cooking the books"!

Martha Stewart...Queen of Soft Money to the DNC...John Sidgmore of WorldCom...Paul Allaire formerly of Xerox...Richard Notebaert of Qwest...Samuel Waksahl of Imclone...and last but surely NOT least---Terry McAuliffe, Chairman of the DNC.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

“I expect to get screwed by the Democrats,” an angry House Speaker Dennis J. Hastert told fellow Republicans on Monday, “but I didn’t expect to get screwed by our friends

Now, he knows how conservative Republicans feel after every election when they are sold out by their own party leadership.

[Destructor]

"Frustrated Republicans are urging the Bush Administration to engage in a “bold move, any bold move” to move the country beyond the current stock market crisis that threatens the party’s chances in the November elections."

I have a radical proposal that has never been thought of in Washington D.C., before now! Why don't we try PUNISHING the crooked CEOs as opposed to playing golf with them!?!