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Hot on the heels of the Sanford and Ensign scandals comes the adulterous tale of Chip Pickering. Max Blumenthal on why Republicans don’t want the former congressman’s diary released.
While former Rep. Chip Pickering of Mississippi allegedly carried on an extramarital affair with Elizabeth Creekmore Byrd, he recorded details of his exploits in a secret diary, including the dates and locations of his adulterous encounters.
Pickering, a Republican, described several assignations he had with Creekmore Byrd inside the C Street House, a Capitol Hill townhouse inhabited by an all-male group of right-wing Republican congressmen belonging to The Fellowship, an evangelical group, according to a person familiar with the diary's contents.
And according to a divorce filing by Pickering’s estranged wife, Leisha, the former congressman’s diary reveals the identities of several men who enabled his adulterous trysts and helped him cover his tracks.
According to a divorce filing, Pickering’s diary reveals the identities of several men who enabled his adulterous trysts and helped him cover his tracks.
So who were Pickering’s enablers? Are they or were they ever C Street House residents? And what role did they play, if any, in helping Pickering transform a house that hosted a “Christian men’s accountability group” into his love nest?
Thanks to heavily politicized local courts and an aggressive damage-control campaign waged by Pickering and his powerful Republican allies, the diary, which is said to contain the answers to these questions, is locked away in a courtroom in Mississippi. And if Pickering has his way, it will stay there indefinitely.
Pickering was once considered one of the GOP’s brightest stars. An ardent social conservative and defender of “traditional marriage,” he was seen as a shoo-in for former Majority Leader Trent Lott’s Senate seat when Lott retired in 2007. Indeed, according to Leisha Pickering’s divorce filing, Mississippi Governor and former Washington super-lobbyist and Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour personally offered Pickering the seat. But according to the divorce filing, Creekmore Byrd “insisted that if Pickering accepted the position in the Senate that their relationship would not be able to continue.”
In the end, Pickering chose his mistress over his congressional career and his wife. After serving 12 years in Congress, he announced his intention not to seek re-election suddenly in August 2007, just months after sponsoring legislation urging President George W. Bush to adopt legislation declaring 2008 “the National Year of the Bible.”
Chip Pickering is the scion of one of the most influential Republican families in Mississippi, son of retired federal appeals court Judge Charles Pickering, one of the founders of Mississippi’s post-civil rights GOP and past president of the Mississippi Baptist Convention.
Appointed to the federal bench by Bush in 2001, Charles Pickering encountered a ferocious Democratic filibuster fueled in part by his documented involvement with segregationist elements battling civil rights in the 1960s. After a recess appointment by Bush in 2003, Charles Pickering withdrew his nomination and retired a year later when he realized that he would never earn the votes he needed for confirmation.
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Once again, the Republicans have shown how hypocritical they are. They preach like they have a monopoly on "Christian Values," Family Values," blah, blah, blah.... And what do they do? They put they feet in their mouths again and again.... It's not an isolated incident. Republicans are better than anyone else..
It's not their feet in their mouths that is the problem.
The neo-con Republicans are amazing gymnasts & acrobats since that they manage to keep their collective nose in its navel while keeping their feet (foot) in their mouth(s)
Democrats are NEVER hypocritical. LOL.
Since Liberals never preach family values,
when their politicians cheat they get a pass.
Duh. What an enlightening statement. That's exactly the point. When you're not out there putting it (family values) front and center, then of course you get a pass. By pass do you mean resigning governorships (Spitzer/McGreevey) or political careers (Edwards)? To date Ensign & Sanford still have their jobs and it took forever for Larry Craig to get the hint. You sound like you have Palin's incredible perception into contemporary issues.
I think it's because Democrats aren't trying to claim ultimate moral authority. I'm quite sure that Dems cheat just as much as Republicans and in about the same ways; it's just that they're not elevating the issue by previously condemning everyone who does that. I'm reminded, for example, of Gary Hart's pronouncement to the press to follow him around and catch him doing something wrong. They took him up on it and he choked on his words. And I was personally disappointed, but, shoot, he was the one who threw down the gauntlet to the press. :)
Clinton and Edwards hardly got passes.
Look up the definition of hypocracy. The Dems hardly get passes but you just perfectly defined hypocracy in your reasoning for why these fake social conservatives get extra attention. Its the same reason Spitzer got booted so fast, despite being a Dem. When these social conservatives cheat they aren't just revealing a personal weakness, they are undermining everything they stand for and therefore bringing into question the legitimacy of their social positions in the first place.
Family values need to remain in the family and not preached by our politicians. You can not legislate morality....how many times do we need to say that???
Sophia -- when you can't or don't practice what you preach you lose your credibility. People such as Ensign, Sanford, and Pickering are all men who have run their traps too loudly and too often about honoring marriage vows and being faithful, amongst other things, and they carry on sleazy, tawdry affairs on the side with people other than their wives.
Therein is the difference. I trust that makes sense to you.
The Democrat party's rhetoric, which "liberals" identify with, doesn't attempt to place moral authority in the hands of government. I have to laugh when I hear Republican backers talk about less government interference in their daily lives, even as they want the government to endorse and legislate specific morals and values onto the population.
Hey Max, why not take the next 10 years to document/expose the BJ Clinton sex diary(s) and those of Barney Fagg? How about Mika Bryzinski's alleged harem of boy toys? Why not Max? ya jerk!
You sound pretty excited with all those sexy words. Did it do anything for yercrotch?
Clinton and Frank sex diaries? ....Never heard of 'em.
Mika Bryzinski's alleged harem of boy toys?.... Who alleged?
Where did you find this info?
ya jerk!
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Nick , you may have just penned the most idiotic post of all time.!!!! Congrats on that one. Barney fagg, oh that is a classic one. I bet his feelings are really hurt. And to throw in Mika B? dude, she isn't a politician, she may not even be a celebrity. Take a breath and use the remote control to view other channels. You need to get out more often.
is it just me or does anyone else wonder is ol' Barn has a mouhful of mansperm every time he speaks? proof he doesnt swallow, thats for sure
The real question here is why nickatdabeach has penis on his mind? Why nick are you thinking about what another mans package is up to?
I think you may have some sexual ID issues. Just accept who you are and get some deep therapy for the self hatred..........
Wanna put a stop to these pathologic liars and hypocrites, e.g., Ensign, Sanford, Pickering and their ilk, then let's pass Sen. Leahy's federal bill that makes the "honest services doctrine" applicable to members of Congress. (Personally, I'd like to see it apply to Judges and Law Clerks as well). It'll never happen in this case but what needs to be done is for the DOJ to look into how this bible thumper, while cavorting in the C street rat's nest, used his Committee position to steer 156M of federal funds to his paramour's telecom company, Cellular South (based in Ridgeland, Mississippi).
When is Blumenthal going to do an expose` of Mrs. McCain's dalliance(s) with that younger guy -- saw it on TMZ not long ago? Has Megan McLame come out of the closet yet? Just curious on both issues.
For Christ's sake, another one? Must be some really racy, unknown to everyone else, version of the bible these people use and their C Street house sounds like a very active brothel. Whoring Repubs are caricatures of Christians. Maybe they will shut up finally with the moralizing platitudes?
Geez, he has 5 kids and
Genni2002
Just imagine what we DON'T know about, if this is the tip of the iceberg.
one after another surfaces and it just seems never ending..
Well, at the least, the house on C St is a disorderly house & the creatures residing there are involved in many unsavory pursuits & acts. One wonders if the so called fellowship of Christians(?) & those involved with DC's Nat'l Prayer Breakfast(s) will choose to go underground, disband or purge itself of less than reputable associates? Any such action could be called god's will by fundie Christers.
While it may be true that the views of these fundie Christer's should be called god's swill, that may offend other Christians who consider the Christian's Bible to be nothing save god's truth & it expresses god's unchangable will.
Okay, let's call the house by its given name from now on:
The C-Street Prayer Circlejerk.
I doubt if they will "shut up with the moralizing platitudes" because they haven't the moral fiber to do such a moral and decent thing; and, we citizens are not prone to bring them to task for those double standards. We are too busy makin their description(s) of us true--dolts who don't have a clue about anything, unless they tell us.
Amazon just emailed me that my copy of "The Family" is on the way. I can't wait to learn more about the C Street Gang!
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It must be topping the bestseller list by now.
silveriofr; If it was 'their feet mouths again and again' they'd be in a lot less trouble. I think they spend too much time reading the Old Testament and then trying out all those sins they list...
It's that "go forth and multiply" thingy that they are perfecting.
If that diary is made public the GOP will implode.
Not so much. The base will ignore every shred of evidence and blame the liberal media for publicizing the diary. It's OK if you're a Republican, you know.
LOL, you got that right.
Uncommonsense
Since I have been posting on this site, it has really come to my attention like never before, that "Republicans" are really awful people. The hypocrisy and
self-delusion that I have read here has really turned my stomach. I don't
have any idea how these people can live with themselves and their snarl of
fearful and twisted self-importance. It's psychotic.
jdx6009 - I'm a life-long member of the Democratic Party and a "lapsed Marxist," but I have to say that I found your comment about Republicans a little offensive. I know several Republicans who are decent, honest people who, while being fiscal and social conservatives, are willing to entertain and discuss other points of view. It would be very difficult for me to call Colin Powell or Tom Ridge "awful people." Of course, the attention whores, who are in conservative politics for their own gain and who apparently feel the strict "values" they apply to society don't apply to them, deserve all the calumny they get when they turn out to have feet of clay. As for the Democrats, well at least Clinton (and even JFK) never ran on the "I'm Not a Dawg" platform.
dbleff
I'm sorry you were offended. But my comment could not have been more
sincere. I've read some of the most vile and disturbing comments from
people who have no idea what it's like to live in a modern advanced society.
And what's worse, they don't want to have any idea. They want to grab
everything they can, stash it all in the Caymans, and screw all of the idiots
who want to contribute or want them to contribute. Sadly, it's been exclusively
from those with a Right leaning perspective. I didn't always think this way,
but I definitely do at this time. Selfish bordering on psychosis, no answers
to any of society's problems, and could care less as long as they're holed up
in comfort; this is a very encapsulated version of my real opinion which I'm
sure would only offend you more.
dbleff - I hear what you are saying - not all republicans are awful people. I have republican friends. The problem is the party is now controlled by awful people. If I were a republican like Colin Powell I would be giving serious thought to leaving the republican party rather than being seen as in the same political sphere as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, the Birthers and all the other looney bins that are now synonymous with that party. Case in point follow the posts of the avid "republicans" on TDB and you find very little of redeeming value - mostly the kind of blind idealogical jingoism that one typically associates with any fanatics. I agree jdx6009 made a rather broad statement that is unfair to some in the republican party. However, while I think it is true that not all people who might identify themselves as republicans are awful people, the republican party has become an awful party. The policies the republican party has pursued over the last 30 years are basically against the interests of the vast majority of the American people. As they allowed the ruinous mess on Wall Street to develop with their foolish "let the market decide" economics it was game on down at the trough were the pigs of greed have been feasting on the hard work of the American people. After plunging us to the edge of the abyss economically they are nothing but obstructionists doing nothing to help the American people and everything to try to maintain the status quo for the moneyed special interests who drive a lot of what goes on in the neo-con political world. Meanwhile the their stupid little drones who post regularly on TDB embrace a politics that is working against them. Rush Limbaugh is a political pied piper who is leading his little neo-con army to its destruction. So jdx6009 did make too broad a statement. I agree not all republicans are awful people, but collectively this neo-con republican party is an awful party.
dbleff said: 'It would be very difficult for me to call Colin Powell or Tom Ridge "awful people."'
Note that the conservative base of the Republican party calls these two RINOs. There is no room at the inn for moderates.
You are certainly right that there are decent people in the Republican party. But you will be hard put to find many at the top of the party's power structure, or among elected Republican officials. I don't see any at all among the Republican talking heads on cable news and talk radio.
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If the diary could contain material pertinent to influence peddling on the hill, couldn't a congressional investigation subpoena the contents?
1. It will never be made public. Have you ever been to Mississippi?
2. The GOP and closet racists or open racists run that state from top to bottom.
3. The MSM, could care less about C street and politicians who are not only hypocrites, but liars. If it doesn't drive ratings, they dont care. They are no longer the "fourth estate" and journalism is dead in this country. It's all about dancing with the stars and idiotic reality TV.
Chip Pickering is chik peckering.
My vote for the line of the year. LMAO
Ooooooo pleeease release the diary!! :D
1) The C street facility enables so The Fellowship can control.
2) These guys are supposed to be the smart ones able to lead our country. Mrs. Clinton knew not to have a diary.
3) Confession to your peers only gives them ammunition or makes you codependent.
Vote the idiots out.
This is such a non-issue. However, I think I'd rather read the book coming out about John F Kennedy and his affairs while in the white house, bringing women home, etc. that would be more interesting than politics. Believe me, both parties aren't angels. Theres enough to go around on both sides
Didn't the C street facility also have gay love-ins?
That is 'allegedly' true.
Closeted gay repubs and repub fornicators co-habitating.
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Republican politicians are the worst type of scum. Hypocrites, liars and shameless opportunists. I love it when their foibles are exposed for all to see!
"C Street Diaries" a must for everyone's summer reading list.
Not since Nathaniel Hawthorne died have we had such a heady mix of sex, religion, politics, and hypocrisy. Of course, Hawthorne's work was fiction and symbolic. This is nonfiction, but a sizzling good read.
She needs to withdraw her case and just write a book using the idiots diary! She would make a TON more money than the hooker he is now with could ever pay.
The one he's with now isn't a hooker, at least not professionally. Her family has a TON of money.
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The C Street gang all belong to The FAmily or The Fellowship or the Christian Mafia....all the same. They hide behind religion, but that is not what they are about, it is about 'power' and holding on to 'power'.
All the members of The Family believe they were "chosen" by God. Their first loyalty is to God and one another, and NOT to their constituents. Which is why you don't see these guys resigning, because the only care about POWER.
And by the way, members of this secret religious group, The Family, are from both political parties. This is not about republican vs democrat. This is about a group and their desire for power in our government, and to blur the lines between church and state.
When the American public finally understand that the "sexual affairs" of these men are not the issue, but the agenda of this group and their desire for power in the name of God, but done in a secretive manner is what is important.
This group has been operating for decades in Washington, behind the scenes for the most part to promote their agenda which include, seeing God's sovereignty extended to every aspect of governance; complete deregulation of the markets; ending all social programs. They have been accomplishing many of these goals for decades with political leaders of both parties in Congress for the past 70 years.
This is from a newspaper article on a democrat from Michigan who lives at C Street but denies knowing anything about The Family, who owns the building.
"Sharlet's book describes The Family as a kind of shadow multi-national government, operating in secret through small prayer groups called "cells" and modeled after the organization of mafia and terrorist groups. Doug Coe, the leader of the group, frequently refers to the leadership lessons of Hitler and the example of the mafia as a model for how the group operates.
How far-reaching is The Family's influence? David Kuo, a high-ranking official in the Bush administration who oversaw the White House's office of faith-based initiatives, wrote in a recent book: "The Fellowship's reach into governments around the world is almost impossible to overstate or even grasp."
C-Street is indeed Bi-Partisan but not in the "equal numbers of Liberals & Conservatives" sense. There are right wing Republicans and right wing "Blue dog" Democrats. As you point out the main point is power used to promote an antidemocratic agenda. They are concerned with Political Ideology far more than party or even religion.
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That must be why God punishes them throughout history, ala Inquisition, Cursaders who killed Jews along their way to the Holy Land, Holocaust, endless wars.
God Himself called them "a stiffed necked people", got sick of their whining, and sent Christ to free us of the Mosaic laws. All 600 and more of them.
Republicans are the new 60's Hippies!
Free Love! Party Down!
I have just seen the light and I am joining up with these guys!
Right On!
I get your sarcasm, but they are unfortunately not nearly as beneficent as the hippies were. This party is a malignancy on our society.
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There is so much anger and self-righteousness directed at the group of people who are being judged here, that it sounds like the people whom we oppose.
This is a chance to speak out against HYPOCRISY, y'all, this is about more than scoring petty politically-partisan points. This is our opportunity to show that we are better than those who stand against us.
Stand up for honesty and transparency in government and against the false satisfaction of partisanship. This is about more than party, it is about the accountability of our officials to their employers, us!
I think you're right, rapierwits. I agree with you about the need to speak out about hypocrisy. The thing is, as Sophia5 pointed out above, it seems to be pretty much just one group that puts themselves in the way of being hypocritical on this issue. I'm not saying that there's more or less cheating depending on the party; I have a feeling that it's pretty much a level playing field there. And in fact, a study showed that Republicans tend to feel less guilt about things and so they even enjoy sex more. But it's only the Republicans who are trying to claim God's law, traditional marriage, family values, and all the other stupid buzzphrases and then jam their viewpoints down everyone else's throat as the only allowable morality that earns them my continuing contempt.
People will cheat on their spouses and try to lie about it when they get caught. This is the way people are and always will be. How one feels about this is up to the individual. It's only when the person who's gotten caught with their pants down is someone who had tried to legislate that everyone should keep their pants up because Ga-wud had said so and they oughta know that it rises to the level of national news.
The Bible was right about treating pious hypocrites with scorn and derision. These guys have wrapped themselves in carefully selected bits of the flag, Christianity, and traditional homespun values to create a fictitious representation of values that supposedly carries moral weight and then sell it to a credulous bunch of idiots. They deserve to be spat upon and sneered at when they're found doing the things that they themselves claimed were so contemptible in their opponents.
Well said JohnHedtke.
This is one of those rare stories where the behavior of every single person involved appears to be in a despicable and uninspiring fashion. And, the Pickering family will still dominate that backwater of a state.
So what is despicable about pickerings wife? The woman has been wronged and she is seeking the legal redress the laws of that state say she is entitled to seek. I am sure she didn't ask her husband and father of their 5 kids to cheat on her.
I wouldn't call Pickerings wife despicable, she was wronged for certain.
But, bringing a law suit against the mistress, stating that the mistress was responsible for the Pickerings marriage problems and the cause of his career loss is a typical republican selective blame.
Don't blame the person who vowed to be faithful to you, blame the mistress he chose to be unfaithful with.
I'm not defending the mistress in any way, I just believe the wife should put the blame where the blame is due, on her cheating husband.
If you saw the movie "Borat" you would have seen Chip Pickering at the Pentecostal revival. Apparently the more religious a congressman is, the more he has to hide.
How about you liberal lonnies that have a secret diary of your own popping it out to Max ( I wish I could be like my dad Blumementhal) to post in one of his editorials...what say you?
It is a matter of privacy, I would tell anyone of you yelling to give it to me to read, to go to hell, as it is none of anyone's
business whats in my dairy.
Looks like we've found our first Defender of Hypocrisy.
By the way, diaries are totally admissible in a court of law, at least in divorce cases.
Thanks for making me laugh (you liberal "lonnie")!
I live in Mississippi and if Chip Pickering was so stupid and egocentric that he had to write about his sex life, then he wants you to see it. As a seasoned politician, he certainly knew the potential consequences of recording information that could lead to his own downfall. Some of the details between the resignations of Lott and Pickering don't gel. Pickering had already made the surprising announcement that he was leaving congress before Lott resigned. Barbour may or may not have discussed him replacing Lott, however, he says that he did not and I have no doubt that unlike the rest of us, he knew why Pickering was resigning. Everyone assumed that a scandal was involved, but it could have ranged from bribery or having a "wide stance" to homocide. We don't delude ourselves. We know our politicians are criminals and are grateful that we get to send some of them to Washington to get them out of the state. Barbour, however, would have been in the know. At all times, he has his finger on the heartbeat of the GOP and has had for years.
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Much much agree w/ your posts essentially exposing new Family Value pimps (my words). "Pickering-itis," a statewide disease in Mississippi is worth a brief recap: Daddy Charles, handed fed judgeship as payback from Lott after delivering block votes while heading the vote swollen Southern Baptist Convention for years; not satisfied with mere trial court judgeship, failed to make it over the "bar" and get on the 5th Cir despite political finagling via Rove, Barbour et al and finally W's interim appmt during Congress' recess; Chippy, ambitious little politico who mysteriously turns down Lott's suddenly vacated Senate seat; and the newest edition, Stacey Pickering, a Baptist Seminary grad and of all things, now State Auditor. Just curious, but what's the chronology on Chip's turn down of Boss Hog's (Barbour's offer) of the Lott senate seat and Chip's withdrawal from politics?
Does Barney Fag still have any financial interest in that gay whorehouse he had going a few years back? Oh sure he denied involvement but what would you expect from a liar? Hey Barn, I need some of that ACORN bailout money, think you can enact legislation to slip me a couple hundred thou? Hell, the ACORN founder siphoned off a cool mill w/o prosecution, maybe you can slip in some special legislation on the next stimulus bill? whaddya think pal? I'll let ya date my brother.
xIntcat, expose Pickering for the C street frolics yes, yes, and use a federal subpoena for the diary Cynthia Brewer is helping him conceal, but more important, DOJ needs to look at the use of his Telecom Committee seat to steer 156 Million to his paramour Creekmore's company, Cellular South. God only knows (n/p/i) how many "family values" pimps have gamed the fed and state gov't for free money during the reigns of Bush and Barbour. Their "God and country" donors have lucrative businesses scattered all over Madison County, Ms which they periodically carve up for fun and profit. Cynthia Brewer, a joke of a chancery judge, is simply another one of their puppets, a minor league politico looking for political favors from people like Barbour, the Pickerings and Barbour's private lawyers who appoint judges to vacancies in Mississippi. Despite the demise of Pickering the lesser, and his pious father Charles (former head of the S'thern Baptist Convention who bagged a federal judgeship from Lott but thankfully still couldn't make it on the 5th Circuit even after Bush gave him a recess appointment), people in Ms still have to deal with Stacey Pickering, a Baptist seminary grad who of all things got elected Ms state auditor. These family values politicos are prone to morph "family values" into "family legacies" when it comes to tapping the public office trough.
I think that all these extramarital affairs by the C-street boys, as amazingly hypocritical as they are, are distracting us from something even more worrysome. The reason these guys feel justified in doing whatever they want is that they are being taught that they are in positions of power by the grace of God. So whatever they decide, in there oh so righteous minds, must have God's blessings. When you consider the fact that they are in positions to create laws and dictate national policy, the implications are frightening. I fear that their ultimate goal is to run a more insideous version of Christian taliban like movement. How can you maintain a seperation of church and state when members of the "state" think that they have been put there to do God's work. With nut bags like these operating within our government, it's no wonder that many in the Muslim world see our military incursions into Muslim countries as some sort of Christian Crusade.
The Christian Mafia aka The Family aka The Fellowship is a perverse dangerous cult that encourages elitist thinking in order to justify criminal activity in the pursuit of power and world domination. I wonder if Charles Manson can sue them for using the same name as his cult. Since it is reported that the C street gang has been around since the 1930s, I guess they can claim prior ownership of the name.
It's a fact. When they achieve climax, they shout, "Thank you, Jaysus!"
"Liberal lonnies"?...The Daily Beast at the very least needs a comment preview function.
I have to confess to laughing out loud at the irony of a loony post berating "liberal lonnies."
Makes me almost hope that they don't edit out such gems.
A few Republicans are involved in sex scandals, while dozens of Democrats are engaged in tax evasion, corruption, bribery, money laundering, human organ trafficking(!), etc.
Yep, I can see why The Daily Beast and other media outlets would be far more interested in the former than the latter (based on how much space has been given each).
Yes it's quite unfair considering how much coverage Fox News will give this story.
Some of the Republican leadership feel it is their perogative to represent the 1% moneyed interests and big business. Of course being adored by only 1% of the electorate (remember Business Doesn't Vote) won't get you elected next year. So... They create these other issues - family values, Alien invasion, War against Terror to garner additional votes. Of course since their real patrons are the 1% and Big Business they feel no real obligation to adhere to their family values, Undocumented Alien laws and the military that will have to execute their war of exploitation. When their own proclivities come to the for they ask for "privacy" and therein lies the basic problem.
Can we trust someone who on one hand want's to invade your bedroom but doesn't want you to invade his - because he a hypocrit? Can we trust someone who will tell our secret organizations to manufacture evidence for a war but call for "secrecy" when others attemt to shine a cleansing light on those commands? Can we trust the Republican Leadership if they are associated with these fools that claim to be Republicans and Americans but whose private lives betray their public ones?
I think not. And that is the basic problem - not that a few of them have erred but that think they should be above their own laws.
Yeah, right. Human organ trafficking, bribery, yada, yada, yada. Do you have some sources for that, gibbon?
Yes, it's a local paper called the NY Times, dumbass:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/nyregion/25jersey.html?_r=1&pagewanted =2&em
And some other sources:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aS75MsiDa4WU
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_12902985?source=rss
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1201966/Rabbis-mayors- 44-New-Jersey-officials-arrested-money-laundering-trafficking-handbags--hum an-kidneys.html;jsessionid=006DD2EC56CAD926363B7E9035EE1C0C
fenngibbon
The "human organ trafficking" never happened. It was a promise made
by ONE Rabbi in ONE letter. Other than that it had nothing to do with
what was otherwise a money laundering and corruption scandal. I'm not
condoning anything here, but it seems responsible to point out that you
are being inflammatory. Human organ trafficking didn't happen.
Gibbon, you schmuck: Local politicians that call themselves "Republican" or "Democratic" have no resemblance to the national party. Local city pols are out for themselves, and to say that this is equal in value to what the Republicans have been pulling nationally is beyond ludicrous.
Yes I am sure much will be made of mayors and councilmen involved in what has been bipartisan local corruption in the New York / New Jersey area that has been there since forever.
The National Corruption from the K-street project to the C-street Projects to Plane loads of pallets of cash, to the Bush TARP bailouts that dwarf even that, have been much more partisan if not exclusively Republican.
And in almost every one of these cases no matter which party is involved it is the conservative "each person should look out only for themselves, and have no empathy for others" approach to governance that is the true "Culture of Corruption".
Gibbon - A small, long-armed ape found in India, Southern China, & the East Indies.
In other words, a typical conservative Republican.
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What are you saying? Repubs don't get involved in other things than just sex scandals? Well, it that were true, that would be one thing.
The point is, about this story, that it seems like the Repubs want to be the moral, family, religious compass of society and they continuously disappoint in this area.
"A few republicans" - give me a break. You just see what you want to see. I know some of the people involved in the NJ scandal are democrats, and I see that. I don't feel compelled to defend them as you do the republicans whom you seek to whitewash witht he phrase "a few republicans". You try to trivialize or obscure any wrong doing from your party by pointing back to wrong doing involving dems. Wrong is wrong, and your party is largely responsible for the mess our country is in today. Own up to it and admit your party sucks.
Sorry that I consider where someone sticks his penis to be slightly less important that a massive case of corrupt activity by public officials.
And I said "a few Republicans" because, well it's a few Republicans. Sanford, Ensign, Pickering. I'm probably missing some, but considering that the Pickering thing isn't even a recent case, I don't think I'm unjustified in characterizing this as a "few."
Did you and your fellow Republicans feel this way when trying to impeach Clinton?
Republicans follow one basic rule above all else- they never admit that they do anything wrong. GW Bush refused to admit he'd ever made any mistakes during his presidency, even though he is widely considered the worst POTUS in history.
No, in the Twilight Zone where they live, light years away from reality, any behavior is only wrong if it is committed by a Democrat.
It's no wonder why no one with a modicum of intelligence takes seriously anything those hypocrites say.
You have missed the bigger picture of membership in a cult that teaches the perversion of christianity for the purpose of seizing wealth and power worldwide.
You did, however, miss a few Republicans like the pedophile Foley. Newt Gingrich, David Vitter and Larry Craig. I think that Karl Rove and Lindsey Graham are still in the closet, but I could be wrong.
xintcat
You're not wrong on Lindsey Graham, I promise you.
Just for the record, I was against the release of the Starr Report because I thought it would be a salacious distraction from the real reason for impeaching Clinton: perjury and obstruction of justice (by trying to convince others to commit perjury). If any Republican broke any laws, nail their hides to the wall, I say.
I rather suspect that Mr. Blumenthal, like many of the braying jackasses here, was in the "Aw, c'mon, it was just lying about sex" camp ready to give Clinton a free pass. It's interesting to see that all you people are now adopting a less charitable view of the "just sex" defense. I'd wonder why, but I know the reason: the people you're so willing to lynch now have an R after their names, not a D. Which means it's not about sex or the rule of law, but politics, plain and simple.
Quite frankly, you people disgust me. Why don't you all practice what liberals preach with regard to eugenics and suck down a bottle of Drano?
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fenngibbon
That is one of the nastiest and just plain low-grade comments I've ever
read on this blog, and frankly I hope they kick your ass out. "you people
disgust me"? Why do you post here? No one would miss you.
"A reliable source close to Leisha Pickering's divorce case has told me that Chip Pickering and local Republican Party bigwigs connected to Barbour's political allies have applied a full court press on Leisha Pickering, hoping to coerce her into dropping her lawsuit."
This quote from the story is disturbing in its self. Witness intimadation must not be illegal in Mississippi.
What bothers me more than anything is that those people run on family value platform. As if you don't have family values you haven't got a chance in hell of winning the republican nomination. I don't care if a person cheats on their spouse that really is a private affair and that is how it should be. However, when you make that one of your values to run for office than it is fair game when you are found out. What scares me about these guys I want to know is the influence these politicans have with The Family. I know that there are democrats in C street building. All of us should be very worried about this group. I just ordered the book The Family because I want to know what influence they are having on running our country. They also talk about the 7 mountains. This really is scary stuff. They want a theocratic government. We all should be worried about this group. They will take away womens rights and put them back in the kitchen.
Yep, much better to be a Democrat: everyone expects you to be an immoral scumbag, so you don't have to worry about anyone getting pissed at you when you turn out to be an immoral scumbag.
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charles116
I think you finally got to me.
The C Street scum. How can anyone today admit they are republicans? There are so many bad people from both parties in our government. They call themeselves Christian but garbage they are.
Thank you.
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