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Jane,
Call me jaded but these tactics are the norm for election year politics are both parties engage in them equally.
posted by
WritersBlok
on October 22, 2006 at 10:00 AM
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Offbeats and Writeroflight, I'm all for the Dems imploding on themselves
come Election Day. I would love nothing more!
posted by
JanesOpinion
on October 22, 2006 at 8:41 AM
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Janes
Of course this will come back to haunt them. In fact just this morning I heard where some Senator democrat bought a piece of land, his friend bought the adjoining piece of property. Then they formed an LLC, the senator gives his property to the LLC. So they sold the darn thing and the buyers found out it was zoned residential, not commercial. The senator made a cool million on that deal and did not disclose it. His reason was...he didn't think he had to, it was a business deal. It will go to the eidetic committee as early as next week. Then there is the Dem senator who kept the cold lasagna cash in his freezer...so Jane the way I look at it, the Dem's always make these kinds of extravagant findings before election and that causes them to implode. People get sick of hearing it...just my 2 cents
posted by
Offy
on October 20, 2006 at 6:10 PM
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You are pardoned . . .
for the implied language. 
Most definitely appropriate for the situation, and a lot more people need to be thinking that way instead of blindly accepting whatever the news media tells them to think. (Gee, I thought only Rush listeners were mind-numbed robots! 
)
posted by
WriterofLight
on October 20, 2006 at 4:56 PM
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LeRoy, it's called selective amnesia. Right?
Sort of like the well child checks I do. I ask the parents if the kid has any hearing problems and the most common response I get is "well, there seems to be some selective deafness . . . ."
posted by
JanesOpinion
on October 19, 2006 at 7:14 PM
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Jimmy, I like you too! Hope you found your wig . . . .
posted by
JanesOpinion
on October 19, 2006 at 7:13 PM
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Great post, Janes
Isn't it ironic that the same people who won't stand for eavesdropping on foreign terrrorists calling their buddies in the states will demand that the House leadership spy like a police state when it comes to republicans. Foley used to be a Democrat anyway. Has everyone forgotten that the demos ran a male whorehouse out of Barney Franks house!
posted by
LeRoyCoyote
on October 19, 2006 at 12:59 PM
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JANE SAYS, HAVE YOU SEEN MY WIG AROUND? I FEEL NAKED WITHOUT IT.
I think it is too bad that you are a Republican in these times...I like you otherwise...peace...
posted by
jimmy68
on October 19, 2006 at 12:10 AM
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TAPS, ahhhh shucks.
I had hoped to live in a utopia. You don't think that's possible???
posted by
JanesOpinion
on October 18, 2006 at 6:38 PM
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JanesOpinion, You might as well get used to it, it aint agoin' to stop any time soon.
posted by
TAPS.
on October 17, 2006 at 7:44 PM
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Indeed, Janes, indeed it is, lol.
posted by
Blanche.
on October 17, 2006 at 5:47 PM
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"bite my tongue" -- oh how hard that is!!!!
posted by
JanesOpinion
on October 17, 2006 at 5:43 PM
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oh, and someday slow down and type fewer typos: "my tongue"
posted by
Blanche.
on October 17, 2006 at 4:56 PM
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I do a lot of praying, too, Janes, mostly I pray that I bite me tongue, lol
posted by
Blanche.
on October 17, 2006 at 4:55 PM
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Blanche, I completely agree!
Last night, after being in a huff over the news articles I read, I stomped off to bed, laid in bed quietly and started praying . . . before I knew it I was asleep.
posted by
JanesOpinion
on October 17, 2006 at 4:54 PM
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I have learned an important lesson here on the blog, Janes, regarding fiery
subjects. When it gets too heated, go cool off.
posted by
Blanche.
on October 17, 2006 at 4:45 PM
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Corbin and Justi -- good points, both of you.
Thanks for your comments!
posted by
JanesOpinion
on October 17, 2006 at 4:43 PM
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Ach, Blanche, you are being so very balanced . . . .
I am very impressed! (Far more balanced than I was feeling last night, that's for sure.)
I would imagine, pertaining to politics, that we agree more than we disagree -- you and I.
posted by
JanesOpinion
on October 17, 2006 at 4:42 PM
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xenox, the statue of oimitations?
I shall have to go look up that word. :o)
I believe you meant limitations? 10 years??? OK, well then, they certainly waited until the VERY LAST MINUTE to make a stink about the whole thing, eh?
Again, I'm not into coverups. It's just the TIMING that I find very, very odd.
posted by
JanesOpinion
on October 17, 2006 at 4:41 PM
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Truthfully, JanesOpinion, I am not as hardcore a Democrat or Liberal as you
might imagine. The polarization of the two sides is detrimental to finding intelligent solutions, I believe.
posted by
Blanche.
on October 17, 2006 at 4:41 PM
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Blanche, I would imagine you saw a lot of that.
And trust me, I would be suspicious if Republicans were doing this towards Democrats. (Although I confess I would be less vociferous in my complaining.)
posted by
JanesOpinion
on October 17, 2006 at 4:39 PM
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Parnell, thanks for your comments, but . . . .
did I say that Republicans were more ethically responsible than Demos? Nope. My issue is the timing of everything. I find the TIMING of all this to be very suspect.
posted by
JanesOpinion
on October 17, 2006 at 4:38 PM
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I agee, JanesOpnion, timing is everything. When I worked at a law firm,
of course, serving the papers is a well-timed event, it carries a message.
posted by
Blanche.
on October 17, 2006 at 4:38 PM
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Blanche, I agree with you on just about everything --
Trust me -- I'm not into coverups. If wrong has been committed then there needs to be justice. It's the TIMING of all this that is really, really suspect to me.
Really suspect.
Did I say the timing of this bothered me? Oh yeah, guess I did.
posted by
JanesOpinion
on October 17, 2006 at 4:36 PM
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Jane's
Since the law goes back far enough to get some of the dirt out. Does anybody believe the man from Rose law firm killed himself? Do we want to parade a President again with suspicion of rape for at least two of his women not all while in the White house but yes part of it and the balance while in the Governor's office. Was Bill Clinton the first player of the lipstick ring on my thing? Crude? Yes I was. There is no other way to describe this man and his behavior! He was the first president to look right into the face of millions of his constituents and lie, bald faced lie, not because he believed some information from the FBI, just lies to cover his own butt.
posted by
Justi
on October 17, 2006 at 2:29 PM
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ask pat buchanan about sleazy campaign tactics
he's an expert.
oh yes -- statue of oimitations -- the law goes back to prosecute for crimes committed 10 years ago.
posted by
Xeno-x
on October 17, 2006 at 2:13 PM
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Janes.....
It's a sick attempt to foster apathy in the GOP base.....it's a shame they don't spend more time on proposing alternatives........but they haven't been able to for 12 years.
Besides they have plenty of minions to parrot the claims.
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on October 17, 2006 at 10:08 AM
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Jane
To suggest that one side of American politics is fundamentally more ethical than the other is silly. Both the Republicans and Dems have long histories of perversion, corruption, and personal failings.
One would hope that people cast their vote on a slightly deeper basis..
posted by
Antipodean
on October 16, 2006 at 7:56 PM
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Sorry, JanesOpinion, I must respectfully disagree, then sign off for dinner
The R's have been holding Ted Kennedy's Chappaquiddick over the Dems heads for 40 years; insider trading is wrong so why not investigate it (after all, if they have nothing to hide, what's the harm?), and Foley is a pedophile who Hastert personally had knowledge of being a pedophile, which in my opinion, makes him as culpable for the harm Foley has done to the children with whose care he is entrusted as a powerful authority figure. He is a pervert, plain and simple, and deserves to be imprisoned rather than merely "fired".
Wrong is wrong, and fair is fair. It cuts both ways. If the Republicans lose the eleciton as a result of misconduct, it's on them, not the people who brought it to light. Why shoot the messenger.
posted by
Blanche.
on October 16, 2006 at 7:39 PM
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