GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS and facing two to twenty along with six on the other charge. Sweet.
Anyone seen Casino Jack? Kevin Spacey IS the rapacious insane (no surprise, a total ZioNazi) Jack Abramoff--but if you want to check out the actual slimeball extraordinaire there's also Casino Jack and the United States of Money, a documentary also just out. And while we've always known that lobbyists and their bribes are part and parcel of all Washington politics, the galling and shameless criminality of the GOP is conspicuous here. I guess it's that particularly hypocritical Christer sleaze that seems to attend their depraved contempt for decency..and humanity, really. Check out the utterly vile Nordquist, for example.
Excellent. Our elected representatives should always be held to the highest legal and ethical standards and suffer the consequences when they fail to meet those standards.
Sincerely,
Boss Hogg ERRRRRRR Charlie Rangel
Jihad is hump of Islam...and Islam wants to hump us very much.
Rich Fader wrote:Excellent. Our elected representatives should always be held to the highest legal and ethical standards and suffer the consequences when they fail to meet those standards.
Sincerely,
Boss Hogg ERRRRRRR Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters
“It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.”
You're comparing the small-time personal perks of Rangel--a free condo and some improperly funded mailers--with the wholesale crime spree of DeLay and Abramoff? C'mon, are you aware of what they were up to? Their agenda? It's like comparing a shoplifter to a Bernie Madoff. Check out the Casino Jack documentary and get back to me.
Well it's all laid out pretty clearly in the documentary, but I'll give you a few of the basics...
DeLay was intent--and largely successful until his arrest--of shamelessly and brazenly operating the house of representatives on a straight up pay-for-play system--and he openly acknowledged this, reasoning that "the private sector" should run politics just like business. Simply, anyone who wanted anything now had to pay him--through Abramoff--and he would dole it out to the various congressmen personally.
This toxic and perverted pseudo libertarianism is in fact at the base of all of his and his coterie's demented designs. These slimeballs like Nordquist, Rove, Ralph Reid and the similar paranoid right-wing Christers are so utterly deluded and corrupt that they laugh about their underhanded smear campaigns--check out the documentary and hear them for yourself.
Similarly the Hammer had no problem angling successfully for legal loopholes for sweatshop operations in the Mariana Islands--18 hr days, sexual slavery, etc.--and even laughed it off, claiming the workers were doing better than before. For his part, Abramoff, the greediest and most aggressive crook in modern political history, was apparently ultimately aiming at setting up a huge international internet betting operation to be based in Guam--and protected by the Hammer's machinations so as to avoid taxes and to launder all the money. Of course he was busted before this wet dream of money, money, money could be realized. He had his vile associates (there's a 9/11 connection as well) murder a sleazy Greek billionaire--straight out of Goodfellows. And there's lots more. enjoy. :wink:
LTS TRN 2 wrote:This toxic and perverted pseudo libertarianism is ...
some of what you say (not much) I agree with. Delay is a crook like pretty much the rest of the republicrats, but to paint him as any sort of libertarian shows just what a dumbfukk you are.
libertarianism promotes gubmint getting the fukk out of things, not keeping the same level of control just to sell it to the highest bidder. That type of activity takes place at the other end of the political spectrum where your heroes reside.
mvscal wrote:The only precious metals in a SHTF scenario are lead and brass.
First, he was not just another congressional crook. He amped it up to a whole new level--and did so with a very scary design of total control for he and his demented neocon design. But you're right that his basic interpretation of Libertarianism was perverted. That's exactly what I called it. Make no mistake, however, he and Abramoff, Rove, Limpdick and the astonishingly repellent Nordquist all dutifully hold Ayn Rand and her simplistic drivel as gospel for government's role, etc., and as a moral license, as it were, for their manic greed. In fact the entire current Tea Bagger phenomenon is hinged on this utterly fake and toxic notion.
LTS TRN 2 wrote:Well it's all laid out pretty clearly in the documentary, but I'll give you a few of the basics...
DeLay was intent--and largely successful until his arrest--of shamelessly and brazenly operating the house of representatives on a straight up pay-for-play system--and he openly acknowledged this, reasoning that "the private sector" should run politics just like business. Simply, anyone who wanted anything now had to pay him--through Abramoff--and he would dole it out to the various congressmen personally.
Well, that's nice except that he was neither charged with or convicted of any such thing.
Similarly the Hammer had no problem angling successfully for legal loopholes for sweatshop operations in the Mariana Islands--
Legal loopholes? Oh you mean like the one in that is still in place in Samoa exempting them from Federal minimum wage laws at the behest of tuna companies? What? No peeps and squeakings of phony outrage when Democrats engage in the same type of influence peddling?
Your hypcrisy is only exceeded by your stupidity. In annals of political corruption, Delay's crimes are pretty small potatoes.
Screw_Michigan wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 4:39 pmUnlike you tards, I actually have functioning tastebuds and a refined pallet.
While it's true that DeLay was barely distanced from Abramoff--his bagman--and was indeed wrung up on the money laundering and gerrymandering scheme in Texas, it was his grand design in thus securing total power that you're missing. Now it's true that even though he was run--and locked up--the basic K street system of legal bribery has remained in place--and grown now that the Supreme Court has shamelessly gone radical activist. So yes it's almost a mere symbolic victory, but nice nonetheless.
