The Republicans have been the plaything of Corporate interests since Warren G. Harding... That Norton was corrupt is old news. While I ain't particularly happy with the Dims these days I would point out that the "family values " thing with the Repugs is and always was a front to lure in the gullible and the reactionary. The Repugs THEMSELVES have no use for that "traditional values" stuff in their own personal lives, they just want to impose that stuff on the rest of us while they do as they like! I will always prefer Moonbats to hyppocrites, usually they are less venial and more honest.
The new "health care reform bill" is another friggn gift to corporate amerika, with an "Individual mandate" that will fine people who refuse to purchase for profit extortionate "health care". This is worse than a new tax, this institutionalizes fear based healthg care extortion and puts the entire health care industry at the mercy of the very institutions that screwed up amerikan access to medical care. Now they will be able to deny you care and attach your paycheck anyway! A Pox on Both their Houses!

We should put fence and barbwire around Washington DC and just call it a prison. It'll save a lot of time and effort of our justice system.

I say lock her up. I don't care which side of the isle they come from, we need to get a big broom & sweep all the corrupt ones out. Unfortunatly, there's a whole lot more greedy b@stards waiting in line to take their place.

If she's guilty, then by all means, put her in jail. The echo of Teapot Dome reverberates here, if true.

Cgull said:

"She's just the first drop in the bucket, how many more shady deals will be disclosed? Would'nt it be nice if Obama proposed a anti corruption bureau, ACB to investigate past, present and future activity?"

First Cgull, I hope that's sarcasm and not an actual suggestion. If it is sarcasm, then kudos to you but I think it isn't. J. Edgar Hoover and J. McCarthy are cheering you're suggestion as I write. That's just what we need, another McCarthy-style investigatory body funded, run, and policed by politicians. I can smell the partisan investigations right now.

Second, we already have about half-a-dozen such bodies already. "Independent" Prosecutors in the DOJ; House and Senate ethics committees charged with detecting, investigating, and prosecuting ethical breaches; any number of executive branch law enforcement agencies - notice the FBI took down William Jefferson (freezer full of cash) not to mention the various esteemed congressional members who were surreptitiously working for the Turkish goverment.

Third, and I probably should've put this first, corruption is the price of doing political business in the District. You could burn the city to the ground and kill every politician in it and corrupt public servants would pop-up in the next capital as soon as it was built. You may ask why - human nature, first and foremost. We all want a taste of the pudding from the golden spoon. You can also throw "power" into the mix - that's why these independent executive agencies are a bad idea, they grant absolute power to the politicians running them. Combine that with meddling politicians playing the extortion game with businesses (corporations and small business) and you create a culture of "pay to stay in business" - why do you think business and unions dump so much money down the throats of political campaigns every year?

Just so you know I'm not simply jaded and complaining, here's my solution - ban all businesses and their agents from all direct personal contact with politicians. You might say, "Well businesses should have a say to! Afterall, the SCOTUS said they were legal "persons" afforded due process under the law, etc." My reply is that businesses do not and have not ever voted - the people that make up businesses do (employees, board members, and shareholders) and they should vote according to what they believe is in their best interest but businesses should not be shaping or influencing the law (note the recent debacle with the toy bill). If business constituents (i.e. all employed people and investors) vote for what's in their best interest, then all business should be safe.

The other part is to ban all political contributions consisting of organizational money. This way, no politician will feel obliged to "pay back" the donating special interests. (Note the union pay-for-play in the current administration) Organizations should still be able to advertise in favor of one candidate or another (this is where McCain-Feingold is wrong) but all politicians should either run entirely on public funding or private individual donations. Once again people will donate to politicians that will represent their best interests so if they support and organization or cause they will donate to a politician who supports the same.

Yet another part of the solution is to return the fed gov to its constitutionally enumerated powers. Easier said then done and would probably take another civil war to accomplish.

If you want to discuss the implications under the Bill of Rights and our current legal framework inflicted upon us by the SCOTUS of the FDR on up era, please say so and I will be happy to respond thoroughly.

I don't know why there is no such thing as balance with these political parties. Republicans are generally devoid of moonbats, possessing good work ethic, decency, common sense, etc. except when it comes to protecting the land? Why does the right insist on yielding good-guy status on the environment to the loons on the left? Can't we have a group who insist on being good guys all around? (I mean, besides hunters and anglers).
Corporate scandals, greed, destruction and "family values" do not go together. Hating America and protecting the environment shouldn't go together, either, but the left owns both of those.

A corupted politician? NOOOOOOOOO!!!!! You know how to tell a polotician is lying? thier lips are moving!

Bella

That is about the most succinct summary of the Obamacrap Healthnightmare Bill that I have heard. A +1 for you!

Ihave to agree with Koldkut' Dog bites man no news there.And thats a BIG-10/4 Buckhunter.

Not well versed in the law, but I hope the corruptor and the corruptee both do time and pay a large fine.
Wishful thinking I know, but a guy can hope.
They say that there is a pendulum effect, that things move from one extreme to the opposite extreme. I'm waiting for politics to move to righteousness.

Bluecollarkid
You said it about perfect. The only thing I can add is to have term limits in all of congress.

They need to concentrate on their foul ups and fix the economy and deficit they created and leave the former administration alone. Those policies saved lives when they were implamented properly. They also kept the enemy from conducting another 9-11 style attack.

I don't agree with all of their tactics but I didn't see President Bush investgating Bill Clinton and his administrations foul ups.

Anyways, this is a piss poor leadership and ways to take the heat off of them and their mistakes and their current impotent policies.

The media swallows this stuff hook line and sinker and this administration is good at manipulating them to get the heat off of themselves.