Clearly a powerful congresswoman attempting to take advantage of her office to assault a simple policeman attempting to do his job....and then trying to ruin his career/life by claiming you did so because of his racism....is not something you would dismiss as a simple human fault?

If anything must be stopped dead, it is the internicine sniping from both ends. It is about time for the extremes to recognize that the majority do not march in lockstep with ANY single philosophy. IN fact, I would guess that no two people really think exactly alike. THere is an interesting book coming out later this year which I have had the opportunity to preview. The Author is Father Andrew Greeley, who not only wqrites an excellent novel, but works as a statistical analyst for The University of Arizona and The University of Chicago. It discusses over 40 years of data about conservatives and whether they act as a bloc when it comes to voting or opinions on such matters as marriage and abortion. Look for it.

Both major parties play the race card...one by claiming to be the champions of the poor and the other putting tokens in high places, and saying "See how open minded we are?" Neither approach is becoming. I have a very good female friend that I used to work with. She used to say: "I am NOT an African American. I am a black American woman." Blacks, whites, browns, reds and yellows with a modicum of common sence see through the sham. Now if only FOX, CNBC and CNN could see it too, but they are all too busy counting their advertisement revenues.

Years ago, in the early 60, I met Ray Charles. He was an interesting guy; we were a group of College kids in a men's chorus, most white, a few black. Ray grinned that big grin of his and said.."You know, of all of us in this room, I am the only one who is really color blind...".

Keep the hate alive. Somehow the Country must need it to keep going.

Hello? His entire staff is on the take! DeLay himself is under indictment! Not a "single thing to pin on him?" Hello?

You are one scary dude. I'm can see why you hide your face behind menus.

Until last year all of mine were on the 911 tech forum. Lets see Rodehard get to this point then we can talk. Right now he drools on anything with the word "Bush" on it...

I showed up in Vegas despite being threatened. Strangely enough, the tough guys making threats did not. Someone even lost $500 on the deal. Not wanting my photo on the internet is quite a bit different than hiding...ask anyone who was there about how much hiding I did
.....funny, I did not see your face there.

So what exactly has Delay done....except had a bunch of unsubstantiated accusations from his political opponents? A typical liberal tactic.

No one saw your face either. Remember? You were hiding it behind your menu. Repeatedly.

DeLay abused the public trust and sold his office. Keep on defending him. It tells us more about you than even your face-hiding antics.

Is the truth so difficult for you to admit?

Everyone with the nads to come to the Pelican meet saw my face as much as they wanted.

Your tactics are as obvious in my case.....as in your characterizations of our county's leaders.

Your attempts to obfuscate the truth knows no bounds.

And you were the ony one hiding your mug behind your menu. I wonder why?

And I wonder if you realize how silly you looked.

I didn't see you there....were you having a pajama party with G9?

They are ALL allegations until a jury decides otherwise....I wish you all could at least agree on that and deal with it. Some of these threads get downright puerile. I think G. Carlin used to refer to it as 'pr!ck waving".

AS far as Delay, it will be interesting to see where this all goes. But until it is resolved, all the hypothesizing in the world ain't gonna make a tinker's damn of difference.

As one "prick waver" to another.....I agree.

fint my man....I take great pains not to be labelled.

I am, in fact, one of the great majority of citizens that think the extremists on all fronts are full of crap!!

Cheers!!

As do I!
Cheers!!

Um, you may want to take note that two of DeLays top three aids have already plead guilty, as has his favorite lobbyist. The third staffer (the Chief of Staff) has been implicated by the other two.

There's no need to wait for a jury when someone pleads guilty.

You can take this "balanced" stuff too far. When the Majority Leader's top three aids are crooks, that's enough evidence for me. How about you?

(Shhhh...especially if they are liberals or libertarians, right?)



Heehee....

Rodeo:

What I may think re: Delay and what a jury or court determines may be two different things. Mine is conjecture and theirs is a legal finding. That being said..Do I PERSONALLY think Delay is guilty of something?


(Weasel word warning)

I think MOST of the Congresspeople are guilty of something and if they were to visit my home, I would hide the silverware.

If you are talking about giving their votes in return for campaign support, I agree. If you are talking about the criminal selling of votes and influence, I disagree. Not 1 in 100 members does that.

DeLay's office was in the latter catageory. It was (is?) a criminal enterprise.

Not just campaign support...

GIFTS!!! FREEBIES!!! PERKS!! TRAVEL!!

I would STILL hide the silverware!!!

It is late..I forget...Who is the guy who'se ill-gotten gains are or have been auctioned off?

(with apologies to Sheakespeare)

"There are more nefarious things going on in Washington than are dreamt of in your philosophy"

I have gotten to the point where it is a tossup between a politician ond a used car salesman.

Duke Cunningham. Another bastion of Republican morality.

Watch for Bob Ney (R-OH) to go down as the next Abramoff sleazeball.

The Repub majority turned the House of Reps into an an Auction House. They were selling your country.

Greed is good, right?

P. J. O'Rourke wrote about that in his "A Parliment of Whores".