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The Record of Republican Corruption : [ What kind of "Christian" imagines that Jesus Christ would want any part of this party? ] |
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in High National Offices : As Abe Lincoln once said, "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
The logical place to start might be at the top, namely corruption at the presidential level. But since it's corruption in Congress that is on people's minds these days, despite my view that it is a more serious matter than corruption of Congressmen, I've moved my section on corruption in the White House to the bottom of this page.
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"Hall of Shame " Award winner for 1997, 1998 and 1999 Senator Bill Frist" took money from the tobacco industry, $23,000 so far (Source Center for Responsive Politics at URL http://www.crp.org/tob96/tobacco91-96.htm ). He gives good return to the industry for their investment in him, by voting in their interests in most instances. Public Citizen gives Frist a rating of 13% [ the ideal being 100% ] on tobacco issues. . . When Republican Senators killed the McCain Bill (S1415) which, properly amended, would have been a powerful force to reduce the damage tobacco does to our society, Frist voted in favor of the tobacco industry on 12 out of 14 votes, for a cumulative score of 14%. That's a failing grade in any school ! Check it out for yourself at Public Citizen http://www.citizen.org/tobacco/mcpac.htm#List.
So what's the big deal? 75% of senators, Republican and Democrat, took money from tobacco companies for decades. See http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/214167.html . Republican presidential candidate Fred D. Thompson has been crisscrossing the country (in 2007) on a private jet lent to him by a businessman and close adviser who has a criminal record for drug dealing.
In Connecticut, the holier-than-thou Republican party chose the mayor of one of the state's largest cities as its candidate for the U.S. Senate. If Joe Lieberman had caved in to Republican demands in the year 2000 that he not run for relection to the Senate |
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Yet in 2002, The D. James Kennedy Center for Christian Statesmanship named DeLay "Distinguished Christian Statesman of the year." "The Texas congressman openly shares his faith and has voluntary Bible studies with his staff." The corruption of House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, and his gang of "40 thieves" is so extensive that it takes whole web sites to cover :
Mary Kahn, wife of Mr. Gingrich's Congressional campaign manager during the 1970s said, "Newt uses people and then discards them as useless. He really is a man with no conscience. He just doesn't seem to care who he hurts or why." Keep those to quotes in mind as you read what Mr. Gingrich told the Washington Post on January 3, 1995: "I have an enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. And I am doing it." [immorality:] When Henry Hyde (R-Illinois) was a mere state representative back home in Illinois, being a devout practicing Catholic husband and father of four sons, This 11-term Republican is chairman of the Ways and Means subcommittee on Health. In June, (2003?) the Bakersfield Californian reported that Thomas, who is married, was having an affair with health care lobbyist Deborah Steelman, who steered huge campaign gifts to Thomas' war chest. In an "open letter to friends and neighbors" (voters), Thomas did not deny the relationship, but said during his legislative career, " . . . Any personal failures of commitment or responsibility to my wife, family, or friends are just that, personal. I have never traded a public responsibility for a personal one and I never will." The Chairman of the House Government Reform & Oversight Committee. He hates President Clinton so much that he publicly called him a "scumbag". Following an expose, Burton was forced to admit that he fathered an out-of-wedlock child, a fact he denied for years. He has yet to admit, however, that during 38 years of marriage he has committed adultery with dozens of women, sexually assaulted others (including a lobbyist for Planned Parenthood), and kept mistresses on his campaign and public payrolls – to the tune of at least a half-million dollars. Wade pleaded guilty in February 2006 to bribing former Rep. Randy ''Duke'' Cunningham of California. Congressman Schmitz' daughter, Mary Kay LeTourneau, made national headlines when as a school teacher, she was arrested twice for having sex and producing two children with an underage student of hers (beginning when he was only 13 years old). Dan Crane (R-Illinois) was censured for having sexual relations with a 17 year-old female page. Gerry Studds(D-Mass.) was censured for having sexual relations with a 17 year-old male page. Conservative Republicans try to get some kind of political advantage by treating these two cases as morally equivalent, or they speak only of the Democrat, Studds. But here's the rest of the story that they don't want people to know:
October 7, 2005 "Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a U.S. legislative watchdog group, has released a report attempting to document the unethical and illegal activities of who they are calling the "most tainted members of Congress". In describing the reasons for the report Melanie Sloan, executive director of CREW said, "[CREW] was compelled to research and release a report on these corrupt members because the ethics committees in both the House and Senate are completely inert. The report calls for the House and Senate to act to investigate and take appropriate action against them for these violations of the rules." She went on to attack both parties regarding ethics, "Democrats are just as much to blame as Republicans for the current ethics deadlock. The Democrats won't file ethics complaints against even the most egregious violators like DeLay and Ney. The Democrats are spineless." The report is entitled "Beyond DeLay: The 13 Most Corrupt Members of Congress", seeking to capitalize on the current media attention on ethics that has come about due to the indictments of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. The report covers possible violations of federal laws, as well as congressional ethics rules. To compile the report, CREW drew upon Federal Election Commission (FEC) reports and audits, sworn testimony, emails, and personal financial and travel disclosure forms. By analyzing that information, CREW then attempted to determine if the member's activities violated federal laws, regulations, or congressional ethics rules. (excluding the obvious Republican Majority Leader Tom Delay)
(The 11 Republican and 2 Democratic) "most corrupt" members of Congress covered are: For a great analysis of the vast network of Republican corruption involving Congress and those who fuel and benefit so much of that corruption, see the gop auction house site and click on the pictures of any of the principals that may interest you. Check out this great Mark Fiore "Ethics Liquidators – Saleabration" animation. [ requires that speakers be turned on ] and the great rogues' gallery of pictures of Republican scoundrels at http://www.culture-of-corruption.net. The Public Campaign Action Fund features a letter by a number of honorable former Republican congress members who are ashamed of their party's current leadership in Congress:
Here's an interesting article from "Pat & Jerry Country": "Convicted sex offender wins 'Republican of the Year' award", by Matthew Roy, The Virginian-Pilot © February 13, 2002 Suffolk,VA -- " previous commitment will keep a Suffolk man from traveling
to Washington, D.C., to accept a Republican of the Year award: He's
serving a 26-year state prison sentence. |
at the same time that he was running for the vice presidency, then our nation would have had a Republican Senator from Conn., named Philip Giordano at least until he was sentenced to serve his 38 year sentence in Federal prison as a result of the FBI investigating him for financial shenanigans and discovering in the process that this crooked, disgusting Republican office holder had been repeatedly molesting the 8 and ten year old daughter and niece of his prostitute-mistress (in the mayor's office among other places).
didn't hamper his five (or seven) year affair with a married woman with three kids, an affair that continued even after the woman's husband, Fred Snodgrass, found out about it and demanded that Hyde leave his wife alone.
-A disproportionate number of the state's congressional Republicans are facing ethics questions that threaten to sink their careers and their party's political fortunes too.
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"By their fruits (actions), you will know them." - Jesus of Nazareth |
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That's a job for "Christian" Republicans politicians:
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Ironically, big-time political strategist Roger Stone was one of the GOP’s top strategists urging Republican politicians to emphasize family values and integrity . . . until he was exposed in a story in the National Enquirer revealing that he and his wife (pictured at lower right) were swingers. [ http://www.madcowprod.com/05182007.html ]
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administration in U. S. history." Informed Americans, as opposed to those who get their news and political education from the "fair and balanced" sources like Fox News, know that the contenders are all CONSERVATIVE administrations, which for the past 70 years has meant "Republican", but in the 70 years prior to that was more likely to be "Democratic".
While posing as paragons of virtue and truth, conservative Republicans claim that Bill Clinton's administration was "the most corrupt administration in American history", despite the fact that history contradicts everything about that statement. It may be hard to order them exactly, but here are the contenders for the first, second, third & fourth "most corrupt administrations in American history". ( I wanted to include only instances of current corruption on this site, but because of the charge by conservatives and/or Republicans that the Clinton administration was "the most corrupt in U. S. history", I have had to go back in history to show what really corrupt administrations were actually like.) http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h234.html : "The frequency of these events led to the use of the term "Grantism", a word synonymous with greed and corruption. Many people at the time speculated that money from these ventures was being funneled into Republican Party coffers. These unsavory dealings led to the establishment of a more moral "liberal." Republican Party. "The Harding administration is infamous not only for the Tea Pot Dome Scandal but for the general corruption of his administration. He was most unprepared to be President even though he had served in the state senate, as Lieutenant Governor, Governor, and Senator from Ohio. He did not have the physical stamina or the strong character required for leadership in the White House. Like U.S. Grant's administration, blind party politics and bad appointments led to vast corruption." See http://www.shakerwssg.org/warren_g_hardingmarion_ohio.htm. Republican Calvin Coolidge, who had become president upon Harding’s death, attempted to tar both parties, but it wouldn't wash; the corruption was strictly Republican. Republicans had tried repeatedly to shut the investigations down, and nearly succeeded, aided by public apathy. [ Read "The Teapot Dome Scandal, How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country" by Laton McCartney, published 8 April 2008 ] By the end of Reagan's two terms, 138 officials in his administration had either been convicted, indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations. "In terms of number of officials involved, the record of his administration was the worst ever." The corruption of Ronald Reagan's administration was so massive, and so under-reported, that it requires a separate web page all unto itself:
George Walker Bush Reaped $14 million from selling his $600,000 stake in a deal that involved the building of a new stadium for the Texas Rangers. George profited handsomely while taxpayers were stiffed for the money to subsidize Bush and his investment partners. A Big Slice of the Texas Rangers for a Little Money (and a Big Profit)
"My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of brotherhood. The '80s were about acquiring — acquiring wealth, power, prestige. I know. I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul." (in a February 1991 article for Life Magazine ) Jeb Bush Defaulted on a $4,56 million loan from Broward Federal Savings in Sunrise, Florida. After federal regulators closed the S&L, the office building that gave Jeb used that loan, the $4.56 million to finance was reappraised by the regulators to $.5 million, which Bush and his partners paid, thereby leaving the taxpayers with a $4 million LOSS. Bush Family Value$
Neil Bush and gopcorruption-3.html.
 Bush Family Scandals
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Several recent media reports have baselessly asserted in recent weeks that Republicans and Democrats equally engage in campaign "tricks" or smears. But to support their assertions, they typically provided only or predominantly examples of Republicans' activities, with scant or no examples of Democrats' actions:
For example, anchor John Seigenthaler Jr. introduced a segment on "dirty tricks" in political campaigns during the October 28 edition of NBC's Nightly News by asserting that "as the election draws near, this turns into the season when dirty tricks can come into play," but "[n]either Republicans nor Democrats can claim the high ground when it comes to these hardball tactics." But as Media Matters documented, the subsequent report by NBC News senior investigative correspondent Lisa Myers provided no evidence of Democratic "dirty tricks." Instead, Myers's report focused only on "Republican operative" Allen Raymond, who was convicted for his involvement in a criminal operation to jam state Democratic Party phone lines in New Hampshire on Election Day in 2002. Similarly, on the October 25 broadcast of ABC News' Nightline, co-anchor Terry Moran asserted that "both sides are playing a serious game of hardball" with "mudslinging" attack ads hitting "below the belt." However, as Media Matters noted, Moran's report provided no examples of Democratic-sponsored attack ads being aired that match the level of distortion and personal attack found in the Republican commercials -- commercials that have garnered wide media attention and been broadly condemned, both for their inaccuracies and their ugly personal attacks.
"Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.
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When it serves his political ambitions, Rudolph Giuliani talks about his upbringing as a devout Catholic, his thoroughly Catholic education, including a short stint in a seminary, until he entered a secular law school. But ever since he started shedding wives, he has been rather alienated from his church. His principal connection seems to be through his close friend, Monsignor Alan Placa, who was best man at his first wedding to his second cousin, officiated at his second church wedding and baptized Giuliani's son and daughter. Placa was barred from the ministry after he was accused of sexual abuse, but he received special permission to preside at the funeral of Giuilani's mother, Helen, in 2002. Placa has been working for Giuliani's consulting business, Giuliani Partners, despite the urging of abuse victims that he be terminated. ( Source : boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/ articles/2007/08/10/giuliani_evokes_catholic_upbringing_on_campaign_trail/?page=1) |
See DemocraticCorruption.html |
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This 1st page deals with corruption at the national level.
See Page 2 for GOP Corruption at the state and local levels. |