posted on April 25, 2007 08:28:46 PM new
This is from Liberal ABC news.
Nancy Pelosi accuses the Republicans of corruption then does the exact same thing, only at a much larger scale. One has to wonder how the Demomorons can call the Repubs corrupt when they are the ones breaking the rules.
Democrats in Congress appear to be taking full advantage of the "pay to play" system they said led to a "climate of corruption" under Republicans, an ABC News investigation has found.
"Washington looks pretty much the same as it always did," said Ellen Miller of the Sunlight Foundation, despite Democratic promises of reform.
Campaign finance records made public this week show Democratic congressional campaign committees taking in substantially more in contributions than their Republican counterparts.
According to the records, the Democratic House and Senate committees reported $32.7 million in contributions. The Republican committees reported $22.9 million.
One of the Democrats' biggest fundraisers, held at a private estate in suburban Washington, required lobbyists and other big donors to pay as much as $28,000 to have dinner and access to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic House leaders.
During last year's campaign, Pelosi strongly criticized Republican fundraising efforts.
"The Republicans have turned Congress into an auction house, for sale to the highest bidder. You have to pay to play," she said as the Democrats announced how they planned to reform Congress.
Lobbyists say nothing has actually changed in Washington, other than with the Democrats in power, they are in a position to collect the largest share of the contributions.
"There's a cuisine and place to greet your favorite politicians in almost any hour of the day or night in Washington," said Tony Podesta, a leading lobbyist and Democratic party fundraiser.
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If it's called common sense, why do so few Demomorons have it?
posted on April 26, 2007 07:36:01 AM new
People are tired of the bickering between the 2 parties ,it seems this is all they are good at.
They have to pick on the other party to justify their existence.
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Lets all stop whining !
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posted on April 26, 2007 09:30:31 AM new
This article and more like it are most likely the reason SCREAMING dean doesn't want to allow the press in to their meetings.
Wants SECRET meetings - that EXCLUDE the press....so they won't point out these 'lies', double standards AND false promises the dem party leaders have made.
Their biggest one was THEY would END THE WAR.
Anyone who actually BELIEVES their false 'promises' is doomed to never see them come about.
This issue is NO different.
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"While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation": "What would a Democrat president have done at that point?"
"Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack."
Ann Coulter
[ edited by Linda_K on Apr 26, 2007 09:32 AM ]
posted on April 26, 2007 09:39:42 AM newWants SECRET meetings - that EXCLUDE the press....so they won't point out these 'lies', double standards AND false promises the dem party leaders have made
Just like Bush not wanting Gonzales to give formal testimony to Congress.
Just like Bush and Cheney not wanting to originally give "an on the record account" to the 9/11 commission.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on April 26, 2007 09:53:49 AM new
Greenwatch
December 16, 2003 | Back Issues « previous | next »
Bush Seeks Approval for Secret Meetings, Polluting Trucks
The Supreme Court yesterday granted the Bush Administration's requests to intervene in two important environmental cases the White House wants overturned.
The first one involves whether the White House can continue to keep secret records of Vice President Cheney's Energy Task Force, which shaped the controversial energy bill currently stalled in the Senate. The second case involves whether the Administration should have to conduct an environmental study before issuing permits to trucks from Mexico.
In the energy task force case, public interest groups won access to some information about who was on the task force and how it operated, but Cheney appealed.
Created by presidential executive order in 2001, the task force routinely met behind closed doors and recommended a host of industry-backed proposals, such as opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and many other public lands to oil and gas drilling. Cheney has repeatedly refused to reveal who his group met with, even to Congress's investigative arm, the General Accounting Office.[1]
In the Mexican trucks case, a federal appeals court ruled in January that the Administration violated environmental laws when it took steps to grant Mexican trucks full access to U.S. highways without adequately reviewing their environmental impact. The Bush Administration then asked the Supreme Court to step in, even though the Department of Transportation had already begun to comply with the court order.
At least 30,000 Mexico-domiciled diesel trucks could enter the U.S. per year, including many older, pre-1994 trucks that are the most egregious polluters. A study shows that by the year 2010, trucks from Mexico will emit twice as much particulate matter and nitrogen oxides as U.S. trucks.[2]
Meanwhile, one of the Supreme Court justices who will decide "Cheney v U.S. District Court" was the guest of the vice president last week, the Washington Post reports.[3] Justice Antonin Scalia joined Administration leaders celebrating the holidays at the Cheneys' Christmas party in the vice president's residence last Thursday.
posted on April 26, 2007 10:55:50 AM new
""But it's always interesting to watch their responses when proof like this is offered....they just don't want to acknowledge it.""
Are YOU a Bunghole?
