outraged again at Liberal Street Fighter
Here’s a prediction: the Democrats will not pick up enough seats to take back the Senate, and probably won’t take back the House, either. Of course, the fundraising emails you get from the party or Senator Kerry’s online unit or whatever list you are on will promise otherwise. They’re going to take the Congress back from the Republicans and their “culture of corruption”.
Only problems with this scenario are:
- The Republicans fight dirty, and they fight to win.
- The Democrats ONLY fight when their personal perogatives as legislators are threatened.
This is going to be a long, ugly and dirty political fight this summer, but only one side is fighting. Already, we are seeing the early stages of a Republican campaign to take the knees out from under the Democrats on their whole “culture of corruption” meme. No, this isn’t just the raid on Representative Jefferson. Nope, once again that old hack Senator Reid has led with his chin.
Senate Democratic Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) accepted free ringside tickets from the Nevada Athletic Commission to three professional boxing matches while that state agency was trying to influence him on federal regulation of boxing.
Reid took the free seats for Las Vegas fights between 2003 and 2005 as he was pressing legislation to increase government oversight of the sport, including the creation of a federal boxing commission that Nevada’s agency feared might usurp its authority.
He defended the gifts, saying that they would never influence his position on the bill and he was simply trying to learn how his legislation might affect an important home state industry. “Anyone from Nevada would say I’m glad he is there taking care of the state’s number one businesses,” he said. “I love the fights anyways, so it wasn’t like being punished,” added the senator, a former boxer and boxing judge.
What a mealy-mouthed punk he is. Let’s see. This was BOXING, which people place WAGERS on, in LAS VEGAS. What other things in life just SCREAM “corrupt” and “fixed”?!?! It doen’t matter if he didn’t change his votes (not saying he didn’t, frankly don’t care … he’s a hack, a fraud and doesn’t represent my values). If you ask your proverbial man-on-the-street which sounds sleazier, golf trips in Scotland or boxing matches in Vegas, and he’s going to laugh. “Vegas, of course”.
Some other Senators went with Reid to watch the bouts:
Two senators who joined Reid for fights with the complimentary tickets took markedly differently steps.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) insisted on paying $1,400 for the tickets he shared with Reid for a 2004 championship fight. Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) accepted free tickets to another fight with Reid but already had recused himself from Reid’s federal boxing legislation because his father was an executive for a Las Vegas hotel that hosts fights.
Man, this just SMELLS Of a setup. CNN even had a grainy picture of Senators Reid & McCain on the tube this morning, with a highlighting circle helpfully picking Senator Reid’s face out of the crowd.
What does the “leader” of the Democrats in the Senate have to say for himself?
“I’m not Goodie Two Shoes. I just feel these events are nothing I did wrong,” Reid said.[…]
Senate ethics rules require senators to avoid even the appearance that any official meetings or actions they took were in any way connected with political donations.
Reid defended his actions, stating he would never change his position because of donations, free tickets or a request from a former staffer turned lobbyist.
“People who deal with me and have over the years know that I am an advocate for what I believe in. I always try to do it fair, never take advantage of people on purpose,” he said.
Asked if he would have done anything differently, the Senate Democratic leader said his only concern was “the willingness of the press . . . to take these instances and try to make a big deal out of them.”
Whine away old man, like you always do. For someone who was supposedly so tough, you sure lead with your chin. You keep your arms down at your side, flat-footed … offering no sign that you studied your opponent before you stepped into the ring. Your corner men plainly don’t know what the hell they’re doing, yet you’re going to whimper that the press is being unfair?
Wake the fuck up.
How much longer does this country have to be held under the thumbs of the leg-breaking, fight-fixing Republicans and the Dempublicans who help them? I mean, “culture of corruption”?!!?!? How damned effete. CALL THEM CROOKS. Jesus, show just SOME sign that you people give a damn about the damage being done. You so-called “leaders” of the used-to-be party of the people just look like washed up old boxers who eat the canvas on rigged fights, while the bookies on K Street collect bigtime on the action.
No more stories of the glorious past, of your time cleaning up the Boxing Commission Senator Reid. Anybody who thinks Vegas was “cleaned up” is a rube anyway. It just became more civilized about what it does. Just like the scams run by the Bush Family and the sharks on K Street. You Dempublicans aren’t even GOOD at being corrupt. You get caught in this penny-ante crap, with pictures of you taking bribes or sitting ringside … it’s pathetic. You’re like the marks that mobsters use to front their businesses: if the heat gets too hot, overboard you go, crying and whining about how those OTHER guys are the REAL criminals, you were just trying to get what you had coming to you.
Pathetic, really, and it’s not even summer yet. By the time the Republicans are done with you, and after you continue to fail to really strike back for months on end, the American voter will just throw their hands up and stay home. Why bother voting for an incompetent bunch of wannabe crooks over the mobsters? At least the mobsters take some pride in their work.
Take back Congress?!?! Please.