What Will Democrats Say About This?
This ABC News story and others seem to confirm that Rep. William Jefferson, a Democrat, may soon be indicted for bribery. Seems he demanded a share of a company in exchange for promoting its international business ventures. How sad.
Democrats jumped up and down on Duke Cunningham, a Republican, for taking bribes. Further evidence, they claimed of Republican corruption.
This story about Jefferson (and see Rep. Ballance, former Democrat Congressman from North Carolina sentenced to prison last year) goes to prove that it doesn't matter what your party affiliation is, you can become corrupt.
Dave Obey says his legislation will reform Washington. We disagree. All he is doing is changing the rules. There are COUNTLESS rules and regulations governing conduct by Members of Congress now. Some people just feel like rules were made to be broken and those individuals who knowingly and purposefully violated those rules should be prosecuted. New rules won't change their behavior.
For us, it's a matter of trust. Do you trust someone who's lived and worked in Washington for 37 years? Do you believe someone who has taken 2/3rds of his campaign contributions from DC special interests and lobbyists will actually work to clean up the system, especially someone whose primary committee assignment involves doling out pork projects?
Obey Out believes we should hire a new Representative in Washington.
Democrats jumped up and down on Duke Cunningham, a Republican, for taking bribes. Further evidence, they claimed of Republican corruption.
This story about Jefferson (and see Rep. Ballance, former Democrat Congressman from North Carolina sentenced to prison last year) goes to prove that it doesn't matter what your party affiliation is, you can become corrupt.
Dave Obey says his legislation will reform Washington. We disagree. All he is doing is changing the rules. There are COUNTLESS rules and regulations governing conduct by Members of Congress now. Some people just feel like rules were made to be broken and those individuals who knowingly and purposefully violated those rules should be prosecuted. New rules won't change their behavior.
For us, it's a matter of trust. Do you trust someone who's lived and worked in Washington for 37 years? Do you believe someone who has taken 2/3rds of his campaign contributions from DC special interests and lobbyists will actually work to clean up the system, especially someone whose primary committee assignment involves doling out pork projects?
Obey Out believes we should hire a new Representative in Washington.
posted by ObeyOut2006 at 1:05 PM
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Democrats are trying the old jedi mind trick on this one. They think if they say, "we've done nothing wrong, ever" that the American people (via their friends in the media who only run big stories on the Republicans in trouble, not the Democrats) will buy it.
Minority Leader Pelosi just appointed a "Clean House Team" that consists of a Member who took an Abramoff trip overseas, a Member who bounced $100,000 worth of checks in the House bank scandal and Dave Obey (who also bounced checks, for those who forgot), among others.
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