tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post116058375133815082..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1160610029195978502006-10-11T18:40:00.000-05:002006-10-11T18:40:00.000-05:00Racist name-calling and historical revisionism wont get to the truth.<BR/><BR/><I>from Wikipedia</I><BR/><BR/>At the invitation of the United States government, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) sent a team of observers to monitor the presidential elections in 2004. It was the first time the OSCE had sent observers to a U.S. presidential election, although they had been invited in the past [14]. In September 2004 the OSCE issued a report (PDF 168K) on U.S. electoral processes and the election final report (PDF 256K).<BR/><BR/>Earlier, some 13 U.S. Representatives from the Democratic Party had sent a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan asking for the UN to monitor the elections. The UN responded that such a request could only come from the official national executive. The move was met by considerable opposition from Republican lawmakers [15]. The OSCE is not affiliated with the United Nations.<BR/><BR/>------------------------<BR/><BR/>Yes, Congresslady Carson was one of those 13 lawmakers. Hardly a drunken slip of the tongue or a cautionary tale!Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/06987859307032067229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1160608082610776302006-10-11T18:08:00.000-05:002006-10-11T18:08:00.000-05:00Wilson, nobody's mad about Waco any more. Try to stay focused.<BR/>(Well, nobody on here is mad anyway)<BR/><BR/>Miss Carson's ridiculous off-the-cuff remark about UN Elections Observers was extremely embarrassing. Ask anyone on the Hill. It's oft-mentioned to new MCs as an example of "What Not To Do." She was tipsy, ill, napping, or just stupid--or some combination of the above.<BR/><BR/>She embarrassed all of us. We'll get over it. <BR/><BR/>But hell Wilson, it wasn't the first or last time.<BR/><BR/>Dontcha get it? Drip, drip, drip...like water torture.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1160600347483639912006-10-11T15:59:00.000-05:002006-10-11T15:59:00.000-05:00Black helicopters bearing U.N. one-worlders to snatch away guns from God-fearing, fag-fearing Hoosiers? I dont think so, AI - I know the Birchers and Militia-types were certainly nervous about that two years ago - you still mad about Waco?!Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/06987859307032067229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1160598887441785232006-10-11T15:34:00.000-05:002006-10-11T15:34:00.000-05:00Does Julia plan to ask the U.N. to send inspectors to monitor our elections like she did two years ago?Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1160598672954105182006-10-11T15:31:00.000-05:002006-10-11T15:31:00.000-05:00Only severely deluded Republicans, deep in denial, could blame Democrats for Foley's behavior and the leadership's failure to do anything. Do Republicans ever take responsibility for anything tha goes wrong on their watch?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1160598528884849102006-10-11T15:28:00.000-05:002006-10-11T15:28:00.000-05:00Little Karl Roves all over the country are hollering "all politics is local" - don't talk about Iraq or Katrina - dont talk about Foley or Abramoff or Delay - dont talk about the GOP Rubber Stamp Congress.<BR/><BR/>Our Congresslady Julia Carson has opposed consistently George W Bush and his reckless policies. Republican Eric Dickerson wants to join that GOP mess!Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/06987859307032067229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1160593520695379492006-10-11T14:05:00.000-05:002006-10-11T14:05:00.000-05:00Advance:<BR/><BR/>Politics is local. Stay focused on our own representatives' conduct in office. The voters in the State of Florida have to deal with this embarassment. This State has its own. We need to clean up our own mess!<BR/><BR/> Dickerson vs Carson for the 7th DistrictAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1160590359204750502006-10-11T13:12:00.000-05:002006-10-11T13:12:00.000-05:00Wolf Blitzer calls them out on trying to shift the blame to the Democrats:<BR/><BR/>"Blitzer: Well you don’t have any evidence though, right? Rep. McHenry: Well look at the fact points…four weeks out from a national election… Blitzer: Yes or no: do you have any evidence? Do you have any evidence Congressman? Rep. McHenry: Do you have any evidence that says they weren’t involved? Blitzer: I’m just asking if you’re just throwing out an accusation or if you have any hard evidence. Rep. McHenry: No, it’s a question Wolf. The question remains, were they involved? And if they were not involved they need to say clearly, and it’s a question, it’s not an accusation. Blitzer: Well, they are denying that they had anything to do with this."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1160588042301187682006-10-11T12:34:00.000-05:002006-10-11T12:34:00.000-05:00The Michigan Daily:<BR/><BR/>A former House page said he witnessed inappropriate contact between former Republican Congressman Mark Foley and another page in the back of the House floor in early 2001.<BR/><BR/>The page, Richard Nguyen, a first-year student at the University's Gerald Ford School of Public Policy, said he saw Foley pat a male page's behind.Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/06987859307032067229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1160586400696242222006-10-11T12:06:00.000-05:002006-10-11T12:06:00.000-05:00Having worked for the Illinois legislature for six years, I can attest to the fact that members of both parties are loathe to police the sexual misconduct of their own towards legislative staffers.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1160585652271123182006-10-11T11:54:00.000-05:002006-10-11T11:54:00.000-05:00This case reminds me of Abramoff fiasco--the Republicans want to take their scandal and try to find a way to somehow make it bipartisan.<BR/><BR/>It was their House to clean; the Dems have been so powerless I don't think they could investigate a rogue squirrel on the Capitol lawn.<BR/><BR/>Spinning it around to somehow blame Foleygate on the Dems has been backfiring on them anyway. I think people are nearly as disgusted by the attempts to shift blame as they are by Foley's actions themselves. The Republicans are in a lose-lose situation on this one.Jeff Newmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16442791690252112600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1160585559517216672006-10-11T11:52:00.000-05:002006-10-11T11:52:00.000-05:00Disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) paid a visit to the House page dormitory in 2000, according to ABC News. A drunken visit to the dorm by Foley in 2002 or 2003 had been reported last week. Writes ABC's Rhonda Schwartz:<BR/><BR/> A staff supervisor at the dorm for congressional pages intervened when former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) tried to pay the teens a nighttime visit in the summer of 2000, ABC News has learned.<BR/><BR/> The pages were having an informal "mixer" party in their dorm at the Tip O'Neil building behind the Capitol, according to a former page who was 17 at the time.<BR/><BR/> "It was a beautiful summer evening, and I recall Mr. Foley arriving in his blue Series 3 BMW convertible about 9:30 at night," the former page said. "Several of us saw him and went outside to chat."<BR/><BR/>A supervisor saw the kids going towards Foley's car and "shooed" them back inside, Schwartz reports.Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/06987859307032067229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1160584843801226432006-10-11T11:40:00.000-05:002006-10-11T11:40:00.000-05:00You may be right, and if so, someone's head should roll. But just like Eric Dickerson not having enough money, it may not make a difference.<BR/><BR/>Why? The voices of reason and honest reporting about prior knowledge, are being completely drowned out.<BR/><BR/>Part of that is Hastert's own fault. He trotted his fat ass out and basically denied anything for three days. That gave the story legs. He was the living breathing symbol of a bloatic federal government that can't find its ass with both hands and a road map.<BR/><BR/>If he'd said very early : "I will get to the bototm of this. Responsible people will pay." Or something similar. Things wuld be entirely different.<BR/><BR/>Still, you kinda wonder, why it's THIS issue that brings down the Republican caucus. I'm not sure if it's poetic justice or sad.<BR/><BR/>The correct story about "who knew what and when" doesn't fit into a 10-second sound bite. I had to slow down and re-read your post twice, to get the pronouns correct and be sure I followed it. I'm kinda slow sometimes, but still, it's not an easy explanation. It requires patience.<BR/><BR/>In very short supply from Oct. 1 on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1160584730101268202006-10-11T11:38:00.000-05:002006-10-11T11:38:00.000-05:00Christopher DoddAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com