Kinda quiet on the ol' politicals in here lately. But there is unrest in the forest.
For example, Ohio has gone from about 76% Repub to 49% among white, Christian Evangelicals. That's huge considering this is the base of the base, eh? Also, all of the Repub candidates and encumbants seem to be either in jail or going there soon.
It's like the tidal wave that was created after Nixon or Clinton. Brought on by the overwhelming of both parties at the level of crime, deceit and moral crappiness.
Personally, I'd rather have a balance of both parties, but we rarely get what we want.
I should have been more clear. I meant Ohio Repulicans. Such as:
Tom Noe, the GOP fund-raiser at the heart of Ohio's biggest political scandal in a generation, was sentenced today to 27 months in a federal prison for illegally funneling money into Bush?s re-election campaign.
and
Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio) pleaded guilty Friday to bribery charges stemming from the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling investigation, becoming the first sitting congressman to confess to taking bribes in the scandal that continues to reverberate through the Republican-controlled Congress.
Dewine will be next.
A day after Mike DeWine refused to rebuke GOP leaders who knew about the scandal involving sexually explicit emails sent by a Republican Congressman to children, the Ohio Senator finds himself caught up in the controversy again today as he gets ready for a fundraiser tonight with Tony Snow, the White House spokesman who dismissed Foley?s sexually explicit emails as ?simply naughty.?
Ah, I gotcha. I'd heard about Ney, but not about the other two.
I was about to point out the hypocrisy of the way the whole Foley thing has been publicized, but you guys probably already know everything I could say. Congressman Studds and all that.
Yeah, his husband says he died from a blood clot in his lung. Happened while he was walking his dog. Looked like he was getting better, but then deteriorated.
On July 14, 1983 the House Ethics Committee concluded that Rep. Dan Crane (R-Ill.) and Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Mass.) had engaged in sexual relationships with minors, specifically 17-year-old congressional pages. In Crane's case, it was a 1980 relationship with a female page and in Studds's case, it was a 1973 relationship with a male page. Both representatives immediately admitted to the charges and the committee recommended reprimand for the two.
He was the first openly gay polititian to be elected to congress. All the others are still in the closet.
Big Blue Owl wrote:Yeah, his husband says he died from a blood clot in his lung. Happened while he was walking his dog. Looked like he was getting better, but then deteriorated.
On July 14, 1983 the House Ethics Committee concluded that Rep. Dan Crane (R-Ill.) and Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Mass.) had engaged in sexual relationships with minors, specifically 17-year-old congressional pages. In Crane's case, it was a 1980 relationship with a female page and in Studds's case, it was a 1973 relationship with a male page. Both representatives immediately admitted to the charges and the committee recommended reprimand for the two.
He was the first openly gay polititian to be elected to congress. All the others are still in the closet.
And after having sex with the page came out in the open he was re-elected a few times and even given a committe chair position. Yet when a republican sends some gay instant messages to pages (never has had sex with any... so far the FBI hasn't come up with anything illegal like Studds did) the democrats want the whole party to retire and be put under investigation.
Like everyone, I'm glad Foley is gone. I just get sick of the hypocrisy.
of both parties at the level of crime, deceit and moral crappiness. 
