Former Representative Mark Foley (R-FL) was caught sending salacious instant messages to a former Congressional page. He resigned on the spot, and to this day has yet to have a single person come forward and defend his actions.
Current Representative William Jefferson Clinton (D-LA) is under investigation for bribery by the FBI, and his staunch refusal to cooperate with them led to a miniature Constitutional crisis when he tried to assert Congressional immunity and protect his office from a search. He also shanghaied a National Guard unit during the Katrina flooding to rescue a safe from his home.
Jefferson is currently running for re-election, with the endorsement of New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has been wracked by financial and corruption scandals. The latest is a land deal that netted him over a million dollars, one that he “neglected” to list on required financial-disclosure reports. There have been — to the best of my knowledge — NO calls for his resignation by any of his fellow Democrats.
It appears that scumbags are pretty evenly distributed, but one side seems a bit better at getting rid of them (Foley, Duke Cunningham)– while the other tends to pooh-pooh their peccadilloes (Mel Reynolds and Sandy Berger, just to name two) and go blithely on with life.
The Democrats tend to talk a lot about “the culture of corruption.” Maybe their expertise is based on keeping the corrupt ones around, so they can study them better.
Let me explain to you slowly:
– Rep got rid of their bad apples 90% of the time. The Dems got rid of their bad apples 0% of the time. In fact, they even celebrated their bad apples).
All you have left is the perfection argument. If the Reps are not perfect, then they are as bad as the Dems. This is an intellectually dishonest and what I call “perfection fallacy”: America is not perfect, NOrth Korea is not perfect. So America is the same as North Korea.
If you complain loudly about the ethics of the Reps, then you must be intellectually honest enough to admit that the Dems have no ethical standard.
Haven’t heard a peep yet today. Posted this info twice. Now 3 times. You can hear a pin drop on this one.
Posted by: Hugh at October 13, 2006 03:46 PM
Fall down and hit your head Hugh?
And to end your constanty whining about Ney, he should be run out of twon on a rail.
Happy now? Go find something else to whine about.
JP
Hey “pucker puss” (lee lee) whose ass are you trying to kiss?
There’s only one of you with a modicum, and I say just a modicum, of balls to repond honestly about Ney.
Harry Reid? Last time I checked he wasn’t indicted or convicted of anything. I guess some of you wingnut loons don’t want us to have a Constitution, but we do.
Now you can smugly preach to us about your moral superiority.
Harry Reid? Last time I checked he wasn’t indicted or convicted of anything. I guess some of you wingnut loons don’t want us to have a Constitution, but we do.
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When will you call for Harry Reid ‘s resignation? Hastert wasn’t convicted of any crime. Why did the liberals call for his resignation.
Hugh, are you intellectually honest enough to admit that the Dems have no ethical standard?
If you complain about the ethics of the Reps, then you have to do the intellectually honest thing: you haven’t shown one fact to show that the Dems are not in the sewage wrt ethics.
Oops, btw Clinton admitted lying under oath. Why didn’t he resign? You guys cannot be simply intellectually honest. If you want to support the Dems, it is your right, but you should be honest enough to admit that you don’t care about ethics or women or children at all.
LoveAmerica
You can be sure that one of the few things I care about is what you have to say and your silly Hannity-like cross examination questions.
Hugh,
Thanks for admitting that you have no answers to my args and my facts. What can you do when you cannot be intellectually honest but to ignore the truth?