Posted on 05/23/2006 5:57:29 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Another misleading headline from the MSM.
Thanks for that article. Answered a lot of my questions.
Maybe they should raid Hastert's office next?
A new defense, the police call them rolling papers, I call them legislative papers.
Tell it to the judge who issued the warrant. They were probably looking for the missing $10,000.
The relevant language is in Article I, sections 5 and 6: "Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members... and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide. Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member....They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place".
It is clearly the intent of the Constitution that Members be sheltered from the actions of the Executive, and for good reason.
The fault that scumbags are in congress is the fault of the People, and the remedy is every two years.
Just when you think the Republicans cannot possibly do anything to top the last insanely stupid thing they did, they dig deep and show just how out of touch they really are.
Anybody know of viable third party that doesn't embarrass their base on a daily basis?
One more reason why W is the champ.
If this is Hastert's response, perhaps he does need to be demoted.
He's been just a little bit more effective than Frist, which is to say, not a lot.
The whole thing is worrisome. I posted on another thread, we only know about the corruptions we know about. How many other corruptions that we don't know about?
If I read this correctly, the guy was caught taking $400,000 in bribe money. But they only found $90k in his freezer. Where did the rest go?
$400,000 for a congressman's vote seems like a lot of money, which leads me to suspect he may have been a bag man, and redistributed that $400,000 to others in on his corruptions.
Someone check Denny's freezer.
Or that they could rent some space from a Congresscritter for their most incriminating files. Don't think it wouldn't happen if Congressional space is declared inviolate
I bet you are 100 percent correct, sir.
You're welcome- it answered many of mine too.
When I just listen to soundbites- I'm a basket-case! This "outrage" by Newt and Hastert etc got me really curious so I went digging:) Lo and behold- there's more to the story than at first appears.
It makes one wonder if we ought to just write off 2006. W won't let Congress do anything too nutty in his last two years.
Just start gearing up for 1994 part II in 2008.
I can't remember the last time I was so disgusted with OUR side of the aisle. The elitism shown by Congress is going to doom this country and I vowed today that the GOP will never, ever get another red cent from me.
1) He wasn't arrested in the House
2) I think the taking bribes would fall under the Felony part
They did such a good job investigating themselves in 1994. Remeber the House Post Office scandal?
http://www.heritage.org/Research/GovernmentReform/EM375.cfm
The feds have been bending over backward to get this guy...it appears that we have a double standard of law enforcement in this nation...full blown and scary as hell.
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