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Posted: **Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:13 pm**

I remember back during Reagan's administration how Reagan came to be called the teflon president because there were so many in his administration who were corrupt. I think Bushy has him beat. I imagine the Repuglycans are going to be furiously beating the bushes trying to find some Dem corruption. They'll have their work cut out for themselves if the Dem list is to come anywhere near the length of this one. <a href="http://leenrage.blogspot.com/2006/04/gop-culture-of-corruption-indeed.html">leenrage.blogspot.com/200...ndeed.html</a> GOP Culture of Corruption Indeed The ever-expanding list of Republicans mired in scandal, just in the past year. If the Democratic party did this much crap over a 10 year period it would be another 10 years before I'd even consider voting for anyone in the party again... The GOP List of Shame Abramoff and Rep. Tom Delay (R-TX) <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/30/AR2005123001480_pf.html">www.washingtonpost.com/wp...80_pf.html</a> <a href="http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000182.php">www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000182.php</a> Abramoff and Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) <a href="http://www.auburnjournal.com/articles/2005/12/26/news/top_stories/01doolittle.txt">www.auburnjournal.com/art...little.txt</a> <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.com/doolittle.php">tpmmuckraker.com/doolittle.php</a> Abramoff and Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.com/ney.php">tpmmuckraker.com/ney.php</a> <a href="http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/14263285.htm">www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/14263285.htm</a> Abramoff and Sen Conrad Burns (R-MT) <a href="http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060426/NEWS01/604260303/1002">www.greatfallstribune.com...60303/1002</a> <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.com/burns.php">tpmmuckraker.com/burns.php</a> Abramoff and Rep. Dana Rohrabaker (R-CA) <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/10/rohrabacher-abramoff/">thinkprogress.org/2006/01...-abramoff/</a> <a href="http://www.eritreadaily.net/News0306/article0306261.htm">www.eritreadaily.net/News...306261.htm</a> Abramoff and Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) <a href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/newsrelease.php?view=116">www.citizensforethics.org...p?view=116</a> Abramoff and DeLay, Doolittle, Ney, Rohrabacher <a href="http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/JoshMarshall/081705.html">www.hillnews.com/thehill/...81705.html</a> Sen Bill Frist (R-TN) <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/23/AR2005092301811.html">www.washingtonpost.com/wp...01811.html</a> <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/frist-stock-timeline/">thinkprogress.org/frist-stock-timeline/</a> Sen Conrad Burns (R-MT) <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/23/news/state/25-post.txt">www.billingsgazette.net/a...5-post.txt</a> <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.com/burns.php">tpmmuckraker.com/burns.php</a> Sen Rick Santorum (R-PA) <a href="http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=11174">www.prospect.org/web/page...leId=11174</a> <a href="http://www.citizensforethics.org/press/pressclip.php?view=1827">www.citizensforethics.org...?view=1827</a> Sen John Thune (R-SD) <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2005/07/08/news/local/news04.txt">www.rapidcityjournal.com/...news04.txt</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Thune">www.sourcewatch.org/index...John_Thune</a> Sen George Voinovich (R-OH) <a href="http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050403/NEWS24/504030349">www.toledoblade.com/apps/.../504030349</a> <a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_bob_fitr_050731_dramatic_new_charges.htm">www.opednews.com/articles...harges.htm</a> Gov Taft (R) and Ohio Coingate <a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_bob_fitr_050731_dramatic_new_charges.htm">www.opednews.com/articles...harges.htm</a> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5746148,00.html">www.guardian.co.uk/worldl...48,00.html</a> Ky. Gov Ernie Fletcher (R) <a href="http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050829/NEWS0103/508290327/1059/NEWS01">news.enquirer.com/apps/pb...059/NEWS01</a> <a href="http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050831/EDIT01/508310315/1020/EDIT">news.enquirer.com/apps/pb.../1020/EDIT</a> <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/kentuckydocket.php#fletcher">talkingpointsmemo.com/ken...p#fletcher</a> Rep Tom Delay (R-TX) <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12141276/">www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12141276/</a> Rep Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-CA) <a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050702/news_1n2duke.html">www.signonsandiego.com/un...2duke.html</a> <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.com/cunningham.php">tpmmuckraker.com/cunningham.php</a> Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) <a href="http://loper.org/~george/archives/2006/Mar/972.html">loper.org/~george/archive...r/972.html</a> <a href="http://www.rollcall.com/issues/51_87/news/12286-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS">www.rollcall.com/issues/5...MP=OTC-RSS</a> (sub req) Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA) <a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20051223-9999-lz1n23lewis.html">www.signonsandiego.com/ne...lewis.html</a> Rep Michael G. Oxley (R-OH) <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/18/AR2006041800987.html?nav=rss_politics">www.washingtonpost.com/wp...s_politics</a> Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) <a href="http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000401.php">www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000401.php</a> Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) <a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20051204-9999-1n4adcs.html">www.signonsandiego.com/ne...4adcs.html</a> Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH) <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/14275670.htm">www.mercurynews.com/mld/m...275670.htm</a> <a href="http://www.swingstateproject.com/2005/07/oh-2_jean_schmi.php">www.swingstateproject.com..._schmi.php</a> Rep. Charles Taylor (R-NC) <a href="http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/cats/charles_taylor/">www.tpmmuckraker.com/arch...es_taylor/</a> Rep. Katherine Harris ’06 Sen candidate (R-Fla) <a href="http://cfn13.com/StoryHeadline.aspx?id=15039">cfn13.com/StoryHeadline.aspx?id=15039</a> <a href="http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/cats/katherine_harris/">www.tpmmuckraker.com/arch...ne_harris/</a> Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) <a href="http://www.harpers.org/sb-curt-weldon-kim-employment.html">www.harpers.org/sb-curt-w...yment.html</a> Rep. John Sweeney (R-NY) <a href="http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000158.php">www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000158.php</a> Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-NY) <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/22/AR2006042200995.html?nav=rss_politics">www.washingtonpost.com/wp...s_politics</a> Ralph Reed ’06 Lt Gov candidate (R-GA) <a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114548590969830492-KX98zvSUWRHqye46SjeFOdagWUQ_20070419.html?mod=blogs">online.wsj.com/public/art...?mod=blogs</a> <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.com/reed.php">tpmmuckraker.com/reed.php</a> ex-IL Gov. George Ryan Sr (R) <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0604180306apr18,1,6246344.story?coll=chi-news-hed">www.chicagotribune.com/ne...i-news-hed</a> I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to Vice President <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2128530/">www.slate.com/id/2128530/</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=I._Lewis_Scooter_Libby">www.sourcewatch.org/index...oter_Libby</a> Interior Secretary Gale Norton <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/17/AR2005111701682.html">www.washingtonpost.com/wp...01682.html</a> <a href="http://denverpostbloghouse.com/washington/?p=367">denverpostbloghouse.com/w...ton/?p=367</a> Whitehouse OMB Official David Safavian <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091901859.html">www.washingtonpost.com/wp...01859.html</a> <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-10-05-official-indicted_x.htm">www.usatoday.com/news/was...cted_x.htm</a> Whitehouse chief domestic-policy adviser Claude Allen <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2138116/fr/nl/">www.slate.com/id/2138116/fr/nl/</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/24/AR2006042401825.html">www.washingtonpost.com/wp...01825.html</a> Whitehouse Prostitute/Shill Jeff Gannon/Jim Guckart (lol) <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27730-2005Feb15.html">www.washingtonpost.com/wp...Feb15.html</a> <a href="http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/02/man-called-jeff.html">americablog.blogspot.com/...-jeff.html</a> (Karl Rove Coming soon? & I know Jeffylube is over a year old now but how could I leave him out of the mix?) ;p <a href="http://www.bugmenot.com/">www.bugmenot.com/</a> can help you get around many of the Reg Req sites. Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 4/27/06 2:17 pm

Posted: **Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:10 pm**

That is one hell of a rogues gallery!

Posted: **Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:28 pm**

I think Jefferson's prescription is the only effective solution to the morass that Washington DC has become. But a good stop-gap measure, step-in-the-right-direction IMO would be dissolving the Republican Party and prohibiting all party officers from occupying any political positions. (Not ruling-out impeachment and war-crime indictment by the leading gangster-murdering thugs). Not that I think the Democratic party is defensible. If anything, Democrats have been a little less reckless and a little more incompetant in exploiting corruption, although subject to the same kinds of coercion, blackmail, threats and bribery by corporate, military-industry, and global banking/finance elite interests. A big problem is that much of the public has insidiously been made complicit in accomodating fraud, war-crimes and neocolonial exploitation -- as the military 'defends' corporate foreign schemes, the American public benefits both directly and indirectly, via Wall Street profits and cheap goods (and govt. subsidized industries, esp. agriculture and 'defense' industry jobs). US policy has severely sabotaged economic opportunity and prosperity in Latin America, which provides a cheap-labour opportunity for US manufacturers while stimulating northward immigration. It's a terrible treadmill causing untold needless suffering. If the public only knew how they'd been cheated and sold a fatally-flawed 'vision' there'd be thorough house-cleaning of America's failed, morally-bankrupt leadership. Of course,. that's what the PTB are scheming through bullshit terror to prevent. The neocon thugs didn't arise from a vacuum -- they're a symptom of deep-seated illness with a long-history of undermining authentic self-rule democracy. Starman

Posted: **Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:51 pm**

Good point, Starman. Actually, your point would be an excellent platform for the Dem party. To paraphrase, "Ask not how corrupt are your politicians, but what you have done to facilitate that corruption?" That's only a little bit tongue-in-cheek.

Posted: **Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:24 am**

This may not qualify as corruption, but... <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/">www.huffingtonpost.com/</a> Hastert Caught Ditching Hybrid He Drove To Energy News Conference For SUV... <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060427/480/dcpm10904272019">news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=...0904272019</a> Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 4/27/06 10:37 pm

Posted: **Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:31 am**

Anybody following the Cunningham/prostitute scandal with regards to a ....er...possible prominent administration official? <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.com/">tpmmuckraker.com/</a> clip "CIA's Goss Drawn Into Hooker Probe? By Justin Rood - April 27, 2006, 7:23 PM Ken Silverstein reports at Harper's blog on the spreading Cunningham-Wade-Wilkes prostitute scandal. He says more lawmakers, past and present, are being investigated. Sounds like he thinks House Intel Chair-turned-CIA Director Porter Goss is one of them....? Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 4/27/06 10:41 pm

Posted: **Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:10 pm**

"give Republicans an edge" Damn, I'll say it gave them an edge--their company helped steal the election. clips URL: <a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12528891/">msnbc.msn.com/id/12528891/</a> MSNBC.com Mississippi governor helped implicated firm GOP Marketplace allegedly involved in political dirty tricks The Associated Press Updated: 7:48 a.m. ET April 28, 2006 WASHINGTON - Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a former Republican Party chairman, arranged the startup financing for a GOP telemarketing company implicated in two criminal cases involving election dirty tricks. Virginia corporation records show Barbour's investment company arranged a quarter-million dollar loan to GOP Marketplace in 2000 and also gave a promotional plug to the telemarketer several months later..... ...Barbour, who became Mississippi governor in 2003, gushed over the prospects of GOP Marketplace in a company press release in 2000. He predicted it would be profitable and "give Republicans an edge" by using the Internet to buy and sell telemarketing services. The loan made Barbour and his Washington business partners part owners of the company, the incorporation papers show. Dirty tricks in NH, NJ By 2002, according to federal court records, GOP Marketplace president Allen Raymond and the Alexandria, Va.-based company were carrying out political dirty tricks in New Hampshire and New Jersey. Raymond, who once worked for Barbour at the Republican National Committee, is serving a three-month prison term after pleading guilty to arranging for hundreds of hang-up calls in New Hampshire in 2002. The calls jammed Democratic phone lines that were offering assistance in getting to polling stations in a close U.S. Senate race. In a New Jersey indictment, prosecutors implicated Raymond and his company in a separate scheme to make harassing calls to voters but did not charge either with crimes. Rather, the indictment charged the losing candidate who hired Raymond. Ex-candidate James Treffinger pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and mail fraud. GOP Marketplace's New Jersey operation preceded the New Hampshire phone jamming and used a different tactic, prosecutors said. Raymond arranged for annoying "attack ad" calls during the 2002 Super Bowl. The ads attacked a Treffinger opponent, but appeared to come from a third candidate. Treffinger served spent 13 months in prison. The Treffinger indictment did not name Raymond, but referred to a political consultant. Lawyers confirmed Raymond was the unnamed consultant mentioned in the indictment..... More GOP connections Barbour is the latest prominent Republican to be connected to Raymond and GOP Marketplace. President Bush's former campaign chairman for New England has been convicted in the New Hampshire case and The Associated Press reported April 10 that key figures in the phone jamming had regular contact with the White House _ and Republican officials _ as the scheme unfolded. Records of the calls were introduced as court exhibits in New Hampshire and analyzed by the Senate Majority Project, a Democratic organization that is trying to help their party wrestle control of the Senate from the GOP. The White House political office, recipient of most of calls, was run in 2002 by the current Republican national chairman, Ken Mehlman. He denies any calls were related to the jamming, contending the discussions focused only on the close election won by John Sununu, R-N.H..... .....In a company news release from Aug. 7, 2000, announcing the agreement, Barbour praised the company's use of the Internet and described his own role. "I am convinced that GOP Marketplace will not only be a profitable business, but will also give Republicans an edge in the 2000 elections," he said..... Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 4/28/06 10:20 am

Posted: **Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:27 pm**

Not a surprise to see my congressman on this list. "A crooked stick will cast a crooked shadow."

Posted: **Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:33 pm**

I'm surprised not to see mine.

Posted: **Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:52 pm**

I think Bernard Kerik should be on the list, too. Remember him-- the guy Bushie wanted to appoint to head Homeland Security? He dropped out after it was revealed that he had some questionable conflict-of-interests in his old job, he appeared to have been stalking an ex-girlfriend, and also that he had been involved in some questionable activites in Iraq: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Kerik">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Kerik</a> Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 4/28/06 10:56 am

Posted: **Fri Apr 28, 2006 1:00 pm**

Here's another list, arranged by state: <a href="http://forums.therandirhodesshow.com/index.php?showtopic=73535">forums.therandirhodesshow...opic=73535</a>

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