crime family

One of the Republican crime family finishes his sentence:

Former congressman Bob Ney of Ohio has been released from a halfway house in Cincinnati after serving a sentence in connection with a public corruption scandal.
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Ney has served nearly a year-and-a-half of his original two-and-a-half-year prison sentence. The sentence was reduced after he completed treatment for alcohol problems.

Just one of the many touched by the Abramoff corruption. Ask McCain how Ralph Reed is doing.

And the RNC crime family looses another one:

Representative Rick Renzi, a Republican from Arizona, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in an alleged scheme to profit from a land deal.

Renzi, 49, announced in August that he wasn't seeking re- election. He was first elected to the House in 2002.

Two others were indicted with Renzi. The charges in the indictment include conspiracy, money laundering, insurance fraud and wire fraud.

I wonder how his friends feel about this?

"So happy together!"

How about John?

UPDATE:

Huffington Post reminds us that Renzi is the co-chair of McCain's Arizona campaign. I wonder what the Senator has to say about that.

Right wingers always look at us like we are crazy when we talk about the flat out lies the White House tells. Well here is they are actually the ones who deserve the crazy look.

Think Progress has a video up of last night's Countdown. During yesterday's White House briefing, Dana Perino told reporters this in regards to Cheney exempting himself from the law:

PERINO: If you look on page 18 of the EO, when you have a chance, there’s a distinction regarding the Vice President versus what is an agency. And the President also, as the author of an EO, and the person responsible for interpreting the EO, did not intend for the Vice President to be treated as an agency, and that’s clear.

Sure - that makes it all better. Doesn't it?

But wait! Keith Olbermann didn't buy it and the people at MSNBC looked into this further:

OLBERMANN: No exemption at all for the Vice President on page 18. So we emailed the White House, which referred us to section 1.3 — which is about something else altogether — and 5.2 — which makes no mention of the Vice President. In fact, there is no exemption for the President or the Vice President when it comes to reporting on classified material.

So again we have a White House flat out lying to the American people. True what do we expect from Dana Perino. It was her husband who thought he was above the law and landed himself in the slammer. Just another part of the Bush crime family.

Just now breaking - the man behind coin-gate here in Ohio, and former Bush fundraiser, has been sentenced to at least 18 years in prison for cheating Ohio tax-payers out of millions. Of course Bush will most likely pardon him before he leaves office. The crime family must stick together!