“If a voter is looking for Jesus on the Republican ticket, they’re not going to find him. There was only one perfect man, and all others have fallen short. They should look at how a candidate dealt with his moral failures.” — Gary Bauer, former Reagan staffer and 2000 GOP presidential candidate, reflecting on the revelation that Sen. David Vitter (in photo), R-La., was a client of the “D.C. Madam.”
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These are the same sharks who smelled blood in the water and tried to tear the Clintons’ to pieces.
Take your “family values,” Mr. Bauer and cram them down somebody else’s throat.
The American people are sick of CON hypocrisy.
Depends . . . they’re not just for personal hygiene anymore . . . now they’re also for kinky CON sex with prostitutes.
Ask for them by name.
Depend on “Depends.”
Republicans wouldn’t vote for Jesus if he ran. Seriously, would Jesus support tax cuts for the rich, oppose health care, approve of torture and unnecessary war? Well, Jesus varies with every self-proclaimed Christian.
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This article is from the May/June 2005 issue of Dollars & Sense magazine.
The president completed a tour to spread fear over the financial solvency of the Social Security system and promote his multi trillion tax dollar plan to allow workers to divert nearly a third of the 12.4% Social Security payroll tax into private investment accounts. Wall Street will rake in the dough in a monster way.
At a stump speech in West Virginia in early April, Bush pointed to a filing cabinet stuffed with paper representing government IOUs and said, “A lot of people in America think there is a trust–that we take your money in payroll taxes and then we hold it for you and then when you retire, we give it back to you. But that’s not the way it works. There is no trust ‘fund’–just IOUs.…” On April 28, Bush proposed indexing high-income workers’ benefits to inflation, a move he described as “progressive.” If these and other administration statements about Social Security leave you scratching your head, you’re not alone.
With all the fear-mongering falsehoods flying around, it can be difficult to separate fact from fiction. Below, Doug Orr helps D&S readers do just this, with clear, at times surprising, answers to many common Social Security-related questions. Congress is expected to vote on Social Security “reform” in June. –Eds.
Has the president actually lied to the public about Social Security?
Yes. President Bush has repeatedly said that those who put their money in private accounts are “guaranteed” a better return than they’ll receive from the current Social Security system. But every sale of stock on the stock market includes the disclaimer: “the return on this investment is not guaranteed and may be negative”–for good reason. During the 20th century, there were several periods lasting more than 10 years where the return on stocks was negative.
http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2005/0505orr.html
This BUSHCO group cannot stop a crash if it is in fact about to be. Social Security checks will come in handy as ENRON and Savings and Loan victims discovered.
Rhonda Holman- “Teeing it up for the irrational haters”.
Of course there is no perfect man; Republican or Democrat, black or white, male of female, Yankee fan or Red Sox fan.
http://finance.yahoo.com/funds/understanding_investing/article/100545/Stock_Performance_by_Decade
The average stock market return per decade is 10.5% ANNUALLY. That means you would more than double your money each decade, not counting additional contributions. It is a long term investment subject to ups and downs but over time is a big winner.
People are missing out opportunity if they are not in the stock market. And the ability to put some of a portion of social security contributions into the market would have been a great opportunity for younger folks.
Sure! Just ignore all the scandal-laden republican news! Remember that nobody is perfect!
You know, I actually agree with that, however, the republicans are the ones who claim such moral authority, and the hypocricy is what gets me. The rest of us already KNEW you guys were crooked. While the dems say “hey, people make mistakes’ the republicans want harsh punishment for those who AREN’T republicans but really hate it when the sentences come back down on them.
That’s ok, they know Bush will give em all a pardon.
Pmom,
It’s a great way to distract from what really matters, like Iraq, health care, Social Security, long-term care of and transition assistance for veterans, and the gutting of America’s industrial base.
Seriously. The far-right learned that by talking about blowjobs instead of issues of substance, they get to do whatever they want to the nation while no one is watching.
And there is a perfect Democrat?
Max,
“If a voter is looking for Jesus on the Republican ticket, they’re not going to find him.” — Gary Bauer
Leave it to Gary Bauer to state openly that Republicans are looking for their version of Jesus to suddenly declare his candidacy for President of the United States. Leave it to Gary Bauer to, without even realizing it, identify what’s wrong with the current Republican Party: It believes it, and only it, is divinely inspired to rule this nation.
You don’t see Democrats making such outrageous claims.
And here’s another quote from the same linked article, one that sums things up better than the Bauer quote:
“It’s the hypocrisy that people can’t stand,” said Michael Cromartie, a social conservative himself who chaired the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom under President Bush. “It’s not the fact that people are frail and given to sinful behavior. It’s when they try to pretend to be morally upright and end up being self-righteous because they preach one thing and live another.”
So… I wonder if values boy will comment on the recent spate of republican “moral” scandals? Will he note that if you proudly proclaim to be the party of “faith and values’ people might actually hold the braggart to it?
Be careful what you boast of. Folks will remember it. And THESE asswipes think they are morally superior to gay folks who want to be married?
What? I thought for sure Sam would make the cut. Does this mean God has abandonded the Reps? Or maybe, He really didn’t love them best after all.
What hypocrisy – when it is a Republican, Mr. Bauer wants to forgive and forget. If this had been a Democrat, he would have called for his head on a platter.
The measure of a man is what he will tolerate. Obviously Mr. Bauer, in all his holiness, is willing to tolerate deviant behavior if it is one of his own kind. Kinda makes you wonder what the other Republicans have been doing that we just don’t know yet????
These so-called Christian Conservative Republicans have all been nothing but deviant sex fiends, liars, thieves and cheaters. But I don’t blame Jesus or God for this bunch because I do not believe anyone of this so-called Christian bunch has a clue as to who Jesus or God truly is.
And as for the supporters of these politicians – you are just as bad if you tolerate it and sweep it under the rug. Much like the Catholic Church covered up their pedophile priests for years. It is beyond me how anyone with a clear conscience could ever step into a Catholic Church today.
Hypocrisy is running rampant and it is in the churches. I’ll take my chances with the heathens – at least I know what I am dealing with upfront.
The religious bigotry and intolerance on this blog would rival anything out of Nazi Germany in a heart beat. It speaks volumes as to the kind of newspaper that would attract this kind of scum.
I Think that the worst thing Bush has done to America is dropping our morals to those of the Zionists. We had to drop our membership in the World Court to keep from having to deal with the War-Crimes which the Israelis have had us make as a part of our Foreign Policy.
The most brazen being the slaughter in Iraq, but the completely uncalled for destruction of Lebanon, right down to their infrastructure is openly sickening.
There is no excuse for doing that, which also killed many Lebanese. The dropping of cluster-bombs on our way out of Lebanon, which when unexploded looked like toys and as designed killed far too many children.
The Zionists have no morality, but the People of United States do, and never should have been allowed to be drawn into that butchery.
When you lay with dogs, you wake-up with fleas.
One by one countries are boycotting Israel for the rank disgusting behaviour.
Rhonda Holman and the Bitch of Belsen could probably have a wonderful afternoon discussing lampshade designs.
Ah and speaking of, why look, it’s Ed Friedemann with his usual anti-Semitic rant. Great timing, Ed.
Wichita, home of the 4th Reich.
Anybody wonder when or where Ken Lay might make a miraculous resurrection??? Before, or after he is pardoned?? LOL j/k
Your Cliche isn’t working as I’m not disparaging the Jewish Religion, but rather the secular behaviour of the Zionists.
But you already know that.
Ummmm why would you want to make a comparison of any kind between Rhonda, and Bitch of Belsen??
anti-Semitism:
One more lie on top of the rest.
Uhh, let’s see, would her religious intolerance be one? Yes, yes, I think that would be one. The Christian baiting might qualify. And then the expressions of the followers she attracts can be seen any day of the week.
Heil Rhonda.
Incidentally, any smoke coming out of Tiller’s crematorium today?
Wichita, home of the Fourth Reich.
Most ironic name on the WEBlog:
Gentle Ben.
Vicious, mean-spirited, spit-in-your-face Ben is more like it.
So I see CapN… hmmmm
CapN, you remember those silly repetitious postings from yesterdays threads??? I see most of them have been pulled today….. Hmmmmmm
Capn – and in no way related to THIS Ben.
I thought KFG wrote orally superior there until I blinked and saw the “m.” Guess it was a case of transference. :)
“If a voter is looking for Jesus on the Republican ticket, they’re not going to find him.”
Jesus, isn’t he that illegal immigrant the Republicans want to kick back to Mexico.
Its /Hay-SOOS/ they are looking for right?
I dont always agree with Rhonda but I have never seen her exhibit religious intolerance. I guess if “you aint got nothing’” you can always attack the messenger.
Rhonda, you go girl!
BLAME THE MEDIA! BLAME THE MEDIA!
It’s almost as bad as BILL CLINTON! BILL CLINTON!
Gentle Ben is anything but that today.
GB, you just keep going on and on comparing this blog and the Eagle editorial board to Nazis and other vile things.
Do you have anything to share that would support your feelings or is today just your day to go postal?
Brian, just a case of nic-atosis
Both side screw up. Even independents screw up. The right expose themselves by spewing the holier than thou mantra and leave themselves wide open when they are caught.
Brian, if you’d been sitting outside of Auchwitz you’d have been one of the ones who claimed they had no idea.
Heil Rhonda.
From Democratic Underground’s Weekly Top Ten Conservative Idiots:
Funnily enough, David Vitter also happens to be southern regional chair of the Giulani presidential campaign. And what does Rudy think of Vitter’s dalliances? In a sort of bizarre Möbius strip of hypocrisy, the thrice-married adulterer said last week, “Some people disappoint you.”
No doubt. So let’s see. First Giulani’s state campaign chairman for South Carolina was indicted for distributing cocaine (see Idiots 296), then his Low country chairman was revealed to have called the NAACP the “national association of retarded people” (see Idiots 297), and now his southern regional chair has been caught not merely with his pants down, but with his diaper on.
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McCain got more bad news yesterday. A Florida co-chair for his campaign was arrested on Wednesday after offering to perform oral sex on an undercover officer, the Associated Press reported.
State Rep. Bob Allen, 48, allegedly propositioned the officer after coming out of a bathroom at a park in Titusville. He was charged with solicitation for prostitution, for which he could be jailed for up to a year, the AP reported. Allen has denied guilt and called the charges “an ugly and unpleasant situation.”
Indeed. In fact, one could argue that this is a real blow to the McCain campaign. A-ha-ha.
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David Almond resigned from the North Carolina General Assembly last week after the state GOP failed to cover up allegations of “serious, improper behavior.”
And what was this serious, improper behavior?” According to Howie Klein at DownWithTyranny:
Impeccable DWT sources tell me he exposed himself in front of a female employee and chased her around the room yelling “S*** it, baby, s*** it.” It is unclear whether or not there was physical contact. She filed a personnel complaint.
Did I mention that David Almond was a vice chairman of the committee on children, youth and families?
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/top10/299
The difference in just about every single Republican sex scandal you can name is the Republican did the right thing and resigned rather than put his party thru the circus.You can debate the rights or wrongs all day long of the coverage, but ultimately that’s the medias choice to make.But when the candidate and/or politician whomever resigns, the story is over.
Gentle Ben picked-up the soap once too often.
Yes Ed, I picked it up and left while you remained bent over waiting for your next customer.
Say, Ed, I bet you have a lot of great anecdotes from the time you dated Ernst Roehm.
Wrong again, Myboyz.
The dude that was caught propositioning the policeman?
“I’m not guilty! I’m not, I’m not!” stamps feet and turns red in the face.
Sen. Vitter didn’t resign. He’s “forgiven.”
The difference in just about every single Republican sex scandal you can name is the Republican did the right thing and resigned rather than put his party thru the circus.You can debate the rights or wrongs all day long of the coverage, but ultimately that’s the medias choice to make.But when the candidate and/or politician whomever resigns, the story is over.
Posted by: myboyzdad
Oh, has Vitter resigned? Has Allen resigned? Did any of the other multitude of Republicans resign after being caught in their sex scandals or lobbyist scandals?
The circus you are referring to myboyzdad is the circus that your Republicans put on during the Clinton years. And for what, Monica Lewinski? And, as I recall, each Republican politician from Newt Gingrich to Henry Hyde had their own mistresses while they were pointing the finger at Bill Clinton.
Perhaps this is why Bill Clinton is still popular today, despite all the whining by the Republicans. The average American knows the Republicans are full of holy self-righteous crap and they know Bill Clinton was the target for each and every Republican.
The election of 2008 will be very interesting. After all, there are alot more hidden closeted Republicans that we haven’t heard from yet.
I don’t see how Vitter’s wife could even look at the SOB, let alone ‘forgive him’. What’s wrong with her?
From his picture Vitter looks like a nice man. Just goes to show you that you cannot judge a book by its cover.
BTK looked like a “nice” man…well, except for his mug shot, maybe.I’m sure all those priests that molested kids looked like really “nice” men. When I worked in the psychatric units, anytime a man was admitted and came through the doors thumping the bible, we usually suspected that he was a sexual predator. For some complicated reasons, the two go hand in hand.Whenever someone tries to convince me of how good a christian they are, I’m ALWAYS suspicious.
Amen Mary Caruso! Beware of the wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Vitter was on the news tonight. Didn’t his wife say she was gonna “Bobbit” him if he ever messed around? Funny, his voice isn’t any higher than it was before…
Mary, Btk was the president of church too, so obviously they were fine judges of character when he was selected
Antisocial and sociopathic personalities often have the ability to make themselves look really good. We have a saying in behavioral health…”half the anti-socials are in prison and the other half are holding political office!
Vitter’s wife stated “I’m proud to be Mrs. Vitter”. Guess she’s proud to be the one achanging the little shitter, critter, vitter!
I just don’t know when the country will recover from all the damage the Republican Party has inflicted on it. Hopefully we can start the massive clean up in 2009 but it will take alot of work to undo all the years of Republicanism.
The Dems are no better, they are even worse than republicans. When a senator from Massachussets had a homosexual relationship, it was fine for them. When Clinton screws around it was fine for them. When Larry Flint peddles his porn it is fine. So you libs are in no better shape and it is funny when you try and preach.
john_s,The difference is that liberals usually do not preach that they are moral and others are not.
Amen, Brian, at least Larry Flint never tried to appear as anything but the scrumbag he is.It’s about the hyprocrisy and the dishonesty of those who hold themselves up as “holier than thou,” only to act like a scumbag when they think no one’s looking.
“When a senator from Massachussets had a homosexual relationship, it was fine for them.”
Is Barney Frank a Senator now? Woo HOO!
Oh, and john the bigot? Yes, it is just fine for gay people to have homosexual relationships with consenting adults.
Grow TF up. Get a clue. And check your bigotry at the door.
I wasn’t talking about Barney Frank, there was another, Gerry Studds, who had a homosexual relationship with a 17 year old. I guess that was fine since he is not a hypocrite.As far a Larry Flint is concerned liberals are fine with him because he is not a hypocrite. He can continue to peddle his porn just because he is not a hypocrite.