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1. A Culture of Corruption, Croynism, & Incompetance
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What do Majority Whip Tom Delay, Senate Majority leader Bill Frist,
Acting House Whip Roy Blount, Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham,
Whitehouse aides, Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, the most recent FDA
chief, Lester M. Crawford, the current FDA chief Dr. Andrew C.
von Eshenbach, chief of Procurement, David Safavian, Joseph
Schmitz,a former Investigator General at the Pentagon, former
White House attorney Timothy Flanigan, lobbyist Jack Abramoff,
Representatve Robert Ney, Governor Robert Taft, Governor
George Ryan, Governor John Rowlands, RNC treasurer Robert
Kjellander, the Carlye Group, Conrad Black, Richard Pearle,
and Thomas Noe have in common?

Answer: ALL REPUBLICANS, all under indictment, under arrest,
under investgation, under suspicion, convicted of crimes, or
currently on trial. All connected to George W. Bush who
promised to restore respectability to the White House.

read articles:
Joe Conason's, "The GOP's Spreading Plague
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100105D.shtml

Bush Management and Budget Procurement chief hauled off in handcuffs:
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Bush_Management_and_Budget_Procurement
_chief_arre_0919.html

Troubled Year Gets Worse for the GOP, By Dan Balz -The Washington Post-:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092905B.shtml

Bagdad ofn the Bayou, by Molly Ivins:
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0928-28.htm

murder, the mob, and Jack Abramoff:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Businessman-Slain.html

the money machine implodes:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092905K.shtml

To be blunt, Blount's a bamboozaler, a crook and a cad:
http://citizensforethics.org/press/newsrelease.php?view=84
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092805S.shtml

Tom Delay, a pattern of corruption, arrogance, and sleaze:
http://citizensforethics.org/press/newsrelease.php?view=84
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-DeLay-Investigation.html

Stick a fork in Delay, he's done. Only OJ could beat this rap:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/
100105dntexdelay.20c896f8.html

Delay's phone records subpoened:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9687682/

Bush FDA appointees mired in conflict of interest:
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/092805HA.shtml

More questions for Doctor Frist:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/101205Z.shtml

Frist subpoenaed in probe of stock sales
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051013/pl_nm/frist_dc_2

Over a period of four years, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist
accumulated stock in a family founded hospital chain that
produced tens of thousands of dollars in income --
all outside the blind trusts he created to avoid a conflict
of interest, documents show
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/12/friststock.ap/index.html


INVESTGATE, IMPEACH, IMPRISON.


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Date: 10-02-2005 on 08:24 a.m.
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The Hammer faces the Slammer!

Another day another Delay indictment!
The second indictment is for money
laundering, a charge that will be
easier to obtain a conviction on.
Maybe there is justice in Texas after all.

read AP article:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100305P.shtml

An legal take of the Delay indictments:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100805Y.shtml


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Date: 10-03-2005 on 11:09 p.m.
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The memo that may bring Bush down.

Read article:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/100505Y.shtml

Blount and Delay swap donations. Sounds like money
laundering to me.
(Article also documents $3000.00 fine paid by Blount
foundation for ethics violations related to concealment
of fundraising):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051006/ap_on_go_co/
delay_money_carousel;_ylt=AtQJuGDbH2O3z4kkU_
kU322s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--


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Date: 10-05-2005 on 07:37 p.m.
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Flanigan Withdraws as Nominee for Deputy Attorney General
By Dan Eggen and R. Jeffrey Smith
The Washington Post

Editor's Note: Timothy E. Flanigan was
also Tyco's Corporation's senior vice
presidentand general counsel up until
April. Flanigan left Tyco only a few
weeks before indictments were
handed down against two Tyco
executives. Flanigan was nominated
by George W. Bush in May to be the
Deputy Attorney General working
directly under Alberto Gonzalez. That's
nothing new. Flanigan, a member of
the Federalist Society, worked directly
under then-White House Lead Counsel
Gonzalez as his deputy. Flanigan left
the White House Staff in November 2002
to go to work for Tyco. Tyco is
incorporated in Bermuda. Many
businesses incorporate in Bermuda
for lower taxes and relaxed banking
regulations. Flanigan served in the
Justice Department during the
presidency of George H.W. Bush.


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Date: 10-09-2005 on 11:42 a.m.
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Al Lawrence and I have written a column called "A Deep Look at Corruption Culture." I will try to get it posted here soon. I think the DTR fans will really enjoy this commentary.
Date: 10-12-2005 on 08:02 p.m.
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Following is a link to an excellant piece that documents what
happens to honest public servants under the Bush administration:

Casualties of the Bush Administration
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.
mhtml?pid=28817


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Date: 10-16-2005 on 12:25 p.m.
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BUSH'S PBS LAP DOG UNDER THE GUN,
another crook resigns in disgrace

Report: Tomlinson Violated Federal Law

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111505R.shtml

Investigators at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting concluded
today that its former chairman repeatedly broke federal law and its
own regulations in a campaign to combat
what he saw as liberal bias.


2079 KIA
15,568 maimed and wounded
$250 Billion TDR
DRAFT chickenhawk Republicans NOW!


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Date: 11-16-2005 on 09:42 p.m.
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Michael Scanlon, top aide to Tom Delay, has plead guilty, in a plea agreement with prosecutors, in a crime connected to uber lobbyist, Jack Abramoff. He is expected to co-operate in testimony against others under investigation. Robert Ney ® Ohio, is reported to be the un-named Representative #1.
This scandal may potentally ensnare a dozen or more top figures in the Republican party.

full article:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111905X.shtml

INVESTIGATE, INDICT, IMPEACH!


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Date: 11-20-2005 on 09:52 a.m.
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ABRAMOFF SCANDAL NEARS CRITICAL MASS

clip from Truthout.org:
The inquiry has already reached into the White House; a White House budget official, David H. Safavian, resigned only days before his arrest in September on charges of lying to investigators about his business ties to Mr. Abramoff, a former lobbying partner.

"I think this has the potential to be the biggest scandal in Congress in over a century," said Thomas E. Mann, a Congressional specialist at the Brookings Institution. "I've been around Washington for 35 years, watching Congress, and I've never seen anything approaching Abramoff for cynicism and chutzpah in proposing quid pro quos to members of Congress."

read full article:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112005A.shtml

another article:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112105C.shtml

WEEZ GOING TO BE RICH!/I want all their money!
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112205Z.shtml

ANOTHER REPUBLICAN CROOK FROM OHIO, Bob Ney facing the grindstone of justice:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112305K.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112705E.shtml

Abramoff Scandal investigation widens to include four legislators, 17 present/former congressional aides, and members of the White House:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112605Z.shtml

Burning Conrad Burns, the Abramoff scandal scorches Republican senator from Montana:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112605A.shtml

Randy Duke ® CA., takes bribes, pleads guilty, resigns, goes to jail:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/crime_cunningham_dc;_ylt=Am398UJmVEgyA_VopNMV1dWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

INVESTIGATE, IMPEACH, IMPRISON,

2108 KIA
15,568 maimed and wounded
$250 Billion TDR
DRAFT chickenhawk Republicans NOW!


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Date: 11-21-2005 on 09:31 a.m.
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What the Cunningham conviction tells America about corruption in conservative Washington D.C.

FROM SLATE.COM
read article:
http://www.slate.com/id/2131370/?nav=navoa


2128 KIA
15,608 maimed and wounded
$250 Billion thrown down a rat hole
DRAFT chicken hawk Neo-cons NOW!


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Date: 12-04-2005 on 11:04 a.m.
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Conrad Burns a bum from Big Sky Country took "donations" from uber lobyist Jack Abramoff then voted to support Abramoff's clients. Quid pro quo, a bribe by any other name. Perhaps Conrad and Randy "Duke" Cunningham can share a jail cell and do the country a favor.

raed article:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1207-08.htm

INDICT, and IMPRISON in Gitmo


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Date: 12-07-2005 on 09:54 p.m.
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TWO MORE CHICKENHAWKS CONVICTED OF FELONIES:

Former Abramoff Partner Pleads Guilty, Increases Threat to DeLay
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121605N.shtml
Adam Kidan, former business partner of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal fraud and conspiracy charges. Kidan's plea will require that he cooperate and possibly testify in the case against Abramoff in order to get a reduced prison sentence.

Republican Party Official Convicted on Phone-Jamming in New Hampshire
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121605O.shtml
A former top Republican Party official was convicted on telephone harassment charges Thursday for his part in a plot to jam the Democrats' phones on Election Day 2002.


2152 KIA
15,708 maimed and wounded
$250+ Billion thrown down a rat hole
DRAFT Chickenhawk Republicans NOW!


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Date: 12-16-2005 on 03:52 p.m.
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Lobbyist Is Said to Discuss Plea and Testimony
By Anne E. Kornblut
The New York Times

Wednesday 21 December 2005

Washington - Jack Abramoff, the Republican lobbyist under criminal investigation, has been discussing with prosecutors a deal that would grant him a reduced sentence in exchange for testimony against former political and business associates, people with detailed knowledge of the case say.

Mr. Abramoff is believed to have extensive knowledge of what prosecutors suspect is a wider pattern of corruption among lawmakers and Congressional staff members. One participant in the case who insisted on anonymity because of the sensitivity of the negotiations described him as a "unique resource."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/122105L.shtml

2158 KIA
15,708 maimed and wounded
$250 Billion thrown down a rathole
DRAFT Chickenhawk Neo-Cons NOW!


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Date: 12-21-2005 on 08:44 p.m.
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Ulysses S. Grant - Corruption, Graft, and Bribery

The Republican administration of Ulysses S. Grant was one of the most corrupt and disastrous in U.S. history. The "Credit Mobilier" (Railroad) scandal, the "Whiskey Ring" scandal and the Depression of 1873 led to the quick end of reconstruction in the South and left newly freed slaves at the mercy of southern retribution for more than 80 years. The Whiskey Ring Scandal involved a group of distillers who were found falsifying reports and cheating the government out of millions in tax dollars. Many of president Grant's appointees were involved in the scandal including Grant's personal secretary, Orville E. Babcock. Even though the prosecutor had mounds of evidence against him, Babcock was acquitted but was forced to resign.

The greatest financial scandal of the nineteenth century was orchestrated by a collusion between industrialists and key Republican congressman and members of the Grant administration who arranged for the Credit Mobilier holding company to receive government land and money to build a railroad out west. In return these men received bribes and kickbacks and the railroad was never built.

Many railroad builders viewed the Plains Indians as obstacles to be removed. General William Tecumseh Sherman had written in 1867: "The more we can kill this year, the less will have to be killed the next year, for the more I see of these Indians the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers."

In 1876, president Grant's Secretary of War, William Belknep, was under investigation for accepting bribes in connection with the Indian Agency. Belknap sold trading post appointments (along with Grants brother Orvil) and received kickbacks which caused high prices at the trading posts. The soldiers were forced by regulations to buy only from the trading posts. Lt. Col. George Custer had previously arrested Ulysses S. Grant's son, Fred, during the Black Hills Expedition and now began an investigation into the trading post corruption. He labeled the traders "a bunch of crooks," adding that Secretary Belknap was the "chief of the thieves." Custer was being groomed by Democrats to run for president in the next election but before he could give congressional testimony about the government corruption, his life was cut short when he found himself in the middle of an Indian massacre. The Battle of the Little Bighorn, or "Custer's Last Stand," coincidentally solved all the Republicans problems by taking the focus off their scandals and was used to inflame Indian hatred and remove the rest of the Indians in the West, allowing the railroad corruption to continue. Over the course of Grant's presidency, all of the executive departments came under congressional investigation.

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=177
http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/Lesson_80_Notes.htm
http://cprr.org/Museum/Credit_Mobilier.html


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cont.

Warren G. Harding and the "Ohio Gang"

The Republican administration of Warren G. Harding is considered by many to have been even more corrupt than Ulysses S. Grant. The Teapot Dome Scandal, was one of the most embarrassing episodes in U.S. history. In 1921 Secretary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall, a member of Harding's "Ohio Gang" was able to gain control of valuable oil fields in Teapot Dome, Wyoming and Elk Hill, California. These oil fields had been set aside by the government for use by the navy. In 1922, Secretary Fall made a secret deal with two rich oilmen. He gave them a lease to pump oil out of the fields and sell it for themselves. Fall received $325,000 in bonds and cash as well as a large herd of cattle.

Another Harding "Ohio Gang" member, Jesse Smith, assistant to Attorney General Harry M. Cramer was exposed as a "bagman" when he was caught carrying bribes to and from the Attorney General's office. Charles Forbes, head of the Veterans Bureau, was convicted of taking at least $250 million dollars in kickbacks and bribes. Charles Cramer, legal advisor to the Veterans Bureau was exposed for taking bribes. Colonel Thomas W. Miller, head of the Office of Alien Property was convicted of fraud. He had sold valuable German patents seized in the first world war for below market price. He too had taken bribes. Through it all only Harding, Calvin Coolidge and a few members of the Cabinet remained in the clear. In 1923, Harding declared "I have no trouble with my enemies... but my damned friends, they're the ones that keep me up at night!"

http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/Lesson_80_Notes.htm


If you add these two together with Nixon, you still don't get George W. Bush, with more than $8 billion missing so far from Iraq boondoggle.


Former U.S. Official Pleads Guilty in Iraq Reconstruction Fraud
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=auW0uPQx9itY&refer=top_world_news

Please pass these on

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Todd Smyth
Alexandria, VA


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Date: 02-02-2006 on 06:16 p.m.
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