You’re probably wondering why I am thankful for that. Well it’s because of this: In a year when national Republican fortunes took a turn for the worse, Louisiana delivered the GOP two seats in Congress in elections delayed by Hurricane Gustav. Indicted Democratic U.S. Rep. William Jefferson was ousted Saturday from his New Orleans area […]
I can’t say that this comes as any shock: In the six weeks since lawmakers approved the Treasury’s massive bailout of financial firms, the government has poured money into the country’s largest banks, recruited smaller banks into the program and repeatedly widened its scope to cover yet other types of businesses, from insurers to consumer […]
Marcy Wheeler feels that the pardon pen could be whipped out for old Toobz Stevens. It wouldn’t shock me one bit. The Republicans have a track record of rewarding corruption with Presidential gifts such as pardons.
Joe Scarborough and Katrina vanden Heuvel were talking about the Eliot Spitzer mess this morning. Katrina asked why our government, which is struggling to even fund “fighting terrorism”, has the money and resources to prostitutes. Scarborough actually agreed with her on that, and they both feel that perhaps there was more to this than people […]
So much that he doesn’t even think there has been widespread corruption in the Bush regime. That goes to show you, a McCain White House will be another four years of a Bush White House, with no respect for the law.
Religion has to be the most corrupt part of our society. I don’t blame the people who follow it, I just blame the people who lead it.Here is the latest scandal surrounding Oral Roberts University: Now, his son, Oral Roberts University President Richard Roberts, says God is speaking again, telling him to deny lurid allegations […]
So what is HR 451 you ask? Well it deals with corruption. Here is how Pelosi’s site describes it: The House has passed HR 451, introduced by Democrats, which calls on the ethics committee to either empanel an investigative subcommitee or report to the House describing its reasons for not doing so within 30 days […]
About time we get another corrupt politician taken care of: An indictment charging Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., in a long-running bribery investigation is being announced Monday, federal officials said. The indictment is being handed up in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. A press conference was being organized for late Monday in Washington to discuss the […]
Here in Butler County, Ohio, we are plagued with GOP scandals also. Just today we had this happen: A Butler County official pleaded guilty Thursday to a misdemeanor crime. Former county treasurer Carole Mosketti avoided jail time for her conviction on a conflict-of-interest charge, a judge fined her $1,000 and ordered her to pay $3,800 […]