Everybody knows what politicians do for a living, but few are willing to be as frank about it as Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Fla. According to The Hill newspaper, Brown-Waite once identified herself to a man on an airplane as “a hooker — I have to go up to total strangers, ask them for money and get them to expect me to be there when they need me. What does that sound like to you?” And what does that make a pol’s pol like Tom DeLay?
Posted by Rhonda Holman
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At least somebody is honest.
I do not think politcians are hookers. A hooker tells you exectly how much a service will cost up front. They then perform the service agree upon. afterwards they do not tell you it end up going beyond the agree amount and need more money. Nor does another hooker try add on money for the service of someone else in some other state.No, I do not think politicians are hookers. A hooker knows what they are and make no pretense to you that they are anything else.
Rhonda
Speaking of Tom Delay…How about a thread on the latest revelations about Ronnie Earles grand jury shopping, and the fact that the charges he brought in the first indictment were for something that wasnt illegal when Delay allegedly committed them????????…………….Well?And how about the statement by one grand jury foreman that he made up his mind about Delay based on some advertising he’s seen in a previous year, not the evidence,or lack thereof, presented to the grand jury?
Heck, you’re kind of stuck in a rut, aren’t you? You’re starting to sound like a whiner.
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Just a little PO’d about the obvious bias on display by the Eagle. Three threads about how guilty Tom Delay looks but nothing about the very credible evidence that the man prosecuting him is on a political witch hunt and likely in violation of the law himself.
Maybe if Earle was a crooked politician, the Eagle would take more interest. I suspect that if he was a republican and was after a Democrat, you’d just think he was playing hard-ball.
Heck, I wouldn’t worry too much if I were you. Delay will get off. He’s got a whole year to repair the damage to his credibility. Being a sleazeball doesn’t seem to keep republican politicians from being reelected.
Poor, defenseless Tom DeLay.
If only he were some important politician, he could defend himself against these baseless charges and even file a counter-suit.
How about we just let this go to court where issues like this are decided once and for all?
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See, this is the difference between liberals and conservatives. Conservatives get all outraged when a rich, powerful politician gets “unjustly” charged. Liberals get outraged when poor, powerless people get unjustly crushed by people like DeLay . . .
Galahad
How about when poor, powerless people get unjustly crushed by people like Sadam Hussein, or Hitler, or Fidel Castro, or (fill in blank with pretty much any left wing dictator)
You mean, Heckler, like Slobidon Milosivic in Serbia in which Clinton sent troops to stop over the hysterical objections of the right wingers (”where’s the exit strategy?”).
Or how about the dictators that WE supported and support like the Shah of Iran, the Saudi monarchy, the Chinese commies during the Tiananmen Uprising, or when we helped overthrow the democratically elected gov’t of Nicaragua and put in a business friendly right wing junta.
Saddam was in a box. He couldn’t hurt the Kurds or the Shias (no fly zones). He couldn’t rebuild his military or WMD’s, which we proved when we ran over their defenses like a knife going through butter.
There are ten thousand ways to deal with Saddam better than a full, frontal invasion–but only an invasion would insure that Halliburton gets the oil.
Ronald Reagan was quoted once as saying that politics is the second oldest profession. And, it bears a remarkable similarity to the first.
Ray,No, politicians screw whole countries at a time!
I read this on a bathroom wall in the early seventies (anyone remember The Flicker lounge?)
“Vote for Nixon in ‘72, why change Dicks in the middle of a screw?”
Seems like not much has changed since then.
Good one Damoon.
I see heckler is still firmly ensconced in Sean Hannity’s rectum. Hey Heck? Get out sometime and see the light.
DeLay is going DOWN. One thing you can expect
oops news break absolutely excellent SNL sketch re DeLay and Bill Frist. Damn good ending!
I was saying one thing you can expect from the party of dog eat dog is that they will devour their own.
DeLay and Frist too will be poison in that party long before they are frog marched off to jail. Frist has got Lott breathing down his neck and DeLay has already been sold out by those who are gonna get indighted next. Or am I being too Blunt?