PBS NOW: Alaskan Oil, Politics & the Corrupt Bastards Club
NOW takes a look at the FBI case against the "Corrupt Bastards Club," where cash and favors flowed between an Alaska-based oil services company and an Alaska Republican good-old-boy network that stretched all the way to DC.
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Two state legislators have been convicted in Federal court for accepting bribes from VECO. The FBI has video and audio evidence that reveal VECO executives shockingly handing out cash to those legislators in exchange for promises to roll back a tax on the oil industry. But that may only be the tip of the oily iceberg. NOW's Maria Hinojosa learns that dozens more lawmakers are being eyed in the growing scandal, including one of the country's most powerful politicians, Alaska U.S. Senator Ted Stevens.
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Impeach the Bush administration!!!
Impeach the Bush administration!!!
Impeach the Bush administration!!!
say cheese Ted...
Janet @ 3:
xoites defends Constitution @ 2:
Rich in San Bruno @ 1:
I'll second all three motions.
Another rock overturned, another bunch of cockroaches running for cover. These slimy cowards are brazen, arrogant criminals. They make Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel look like pikers.
Impeach the Bush Administration!
Their biggest mistake was believing KKKarl Rove when he promised the Republicans they would stay in power for longer than just three electon cycles.
Everybody got GREEDY.
Oh, and some of them solicited for sex in public bathrooms.
Oh, and some of them LIED to get our troops to occupy a foreign country.
OH, and some of them outed covert agents to protect those lies.
Oh, and some of them covered that up.
Oh, and some of them approved TORTURING enemy combatants.
Oh, and some of them sexually abused young boys in Congress.
Oh, and some of the COVERED THAT UP.
Oh, and...
Oh, and...
They shouldn't have called their group the "Corrupt Bastards Club". A little self-incriminating.
Impeach the Intertubes!... I mean, Bush Administration!
Oh, lordy, not Ted!!! Absolutely shocking! [/sarcasm]
Tube man is a piece of work. His Wikipedia entry under "Ethical issues and federal investigations" needs its own "Doc Block" on MSNBC.
And apparently he's into the Hulk too, so he must be a good friend of Widestance.
Rahm 'The Rabbit' Emmanuel is so jealous of Ol' Ted he could jes spit.
'Course he's stupid enough to think that he won't get caught.
Impeach the Bush Administration!
And which cable news service(s) are on this very pertinant story???
a) CNN
b) MSNBC
c) Faux News
d) all of the above
e) none of the above
f) Allakaket, Alaska Public Television
Anyone still wondering how America and the world for that matter got to be in so much greedy trouble.
This is a story of Republican family values and their God ( nonot that God, the dollar one).
Do we really want to continue in the ME society Republicans want us to live in?
Nothing makes me happier than to see corrupt politicians and corporations pay for crimes committed against Americans.
We are America and we are sick and tired of the corrupt!
Put them out of office and behind bars where they belong.
We are a nation of laws and corporations and politicians will no longer take advantage of our patience. It has run out. Bye bye Stevens and the rest of you jackass's too big for your britches now aren't you?!
#15: Anyone still wondering how America and the world for that matter got to be in so much greedy trouble.
This is a story of Republican family values and their God ( nonot that God, the dollar one).
Do we really want to continue in the ME society Republicans want us to live in?
Any comments on the Honerable William ( I keep 90K in my freezer) Jefferson?
No?
Sorry-That should be the Honorable William ( I keep 90K in my freezer) Jefferson
This shit is epidemic, through out this administration. I also just read an article in the Las Vegas Journal, talking about a web of fraud alleged in military contracts, costing American people millions and millions of dollars, where these people installed in the military supply rooms are selling millions of contracts to bogus companies, for kick backs and yet, like us reading this crap in news papers all over this country, I know that US Congress/Senate members are also reading as well as being informed about all this money going to contractors.
Yes we know that ALL the republicans are in on this crap, that we know, but to think that our democratic leaders would somehow endorse this crap is just sickening.
About six months ago, Senator Reid and Speaker Pelosi, were summoned to the white house to speak with Bush. They alleged the conversation was confidential and never commented on what was said, yet they later passed a bill to give him over one hundred and fifty billion of our money and Pelosi got even tougher in her stand to take impeachment off the table and her stand to continue so called supporting the troops by giving Bush all the dame money he wanted to fund this illegal war and Reid agreed to back her.
Now I say the above because these people have either been threatened or they are themselves taking kick backs as I am positive Dian Feinstine is doing and yes there are others involved in this and all you need to do is look at the voting pattern of these thugs and you can see what is happening in our government.
It just makes you sick to see what we thought were fine upstanding people we could get behind to lead this country back to some kind of civilization, just screwing the hell out of all of us, because if the shit was that serious, they do have the option to resign and leave office, like a person that really cares about this country would do, yet they stay in the jobs and continue to do this shit in all of our names.
This crap is just unforgivable.
the bottom of the barrel scrapers corruption knows no bounds
Yo California, Are ya guys gonna get serious about Pelosi, in 08?
Our selfish, greedy nature, that some people have fed off to the point of bursting, will either destroy us, or us honest working people will rise up and kill these people. Yes, kill these people. Send them to hell. I know it's not right to say, but it won't stop until they're dead. Jesus was invented to make bad people feel better about themselves. Oh, I can screw over as many people as I want, steal as much as I want, fuck as much as I want ("if only I could get my fat out of the way of my tiny prick" the old men say ), say whatever I want, because on Sunday I will be forgiven! For I am just weak! I am by nature unjust, and God knows this! I know this because I tell myself this....
These people are enough to really make one sick with anger and vengeance. I think a revolution might be closer now with most of everyone's TV shows on rerun.
P.S. I have never hurt so much as a frog before, but if I saw one of these people on the streets, where they couldn't hide behind private cars, private offices, private halls, private rooms; I wouldn't think twice about sucker punching one :)
Republicans have been doing this forever - they have looted the country and we're going to be paying for their crimes for a long, long time. We're screwed.
Why do you think Bush bought all that land in Paraguay?
You can be sure the Corrupt Bastards Club made honorary members of Sen. Trite Loot, Dennis ("the Menace") Hasbeen, and -- wait! Who is that peeping out from the rear on the right side of the photo? Could that really be Sen. Larry? The same Sen. Larry caught with wide stance toe tapping an undercover officer in a Minneapolis airport men's room? Golly, when you're out in the wild like that, you kinda gotta snuggle up to a buddy just to keep warm. I wonder who Sen. Larry was snuggling against? Trite Loot? Denny Hasbeen? I bet those two got initiated into something in addition to the C.B.C. I wonder who was on top. And, BTW, did you notice how quickly the GOPS "rehabilitated" Trite Loot after his past as a segregationist began to haunt him with his comments at a Strum Turdman tribute about not having "all these problems" if Turdman had just been elected prez? Suggests to me that the Republic Party actually HATES African-Americans and only puts them in high positions, e.g. Sect'y of Defense, when they're Uncle Tom enough to play the role of a token. That way, African-American voters will be duped into thinking that the GOPS have their interests at heart. Compassionate conservatism and all that hogwash.
The corruption in Alaska is relatively small in comparison to what goes on in Texas with oil. Most people should know that OPEC is modeled after the Texas Railroad Commission which is still alive and well today. The main purpose of the Texas Railroad Commission had little to do with railroads in modern times. Instead, it was used as a mechanism to constrain supply to maintain price stability...in others words, a cartel. In addition, the strong political representation from Texas coupled with a lot of robust funding convinced the federal government to consider oil pumped out of the ground as an amortization expense which anyone with a bit of accounting knowledge knows means they could use this "expense" to reduce their taxes. So the very oil that was pumped out of the ground to make money (revenue at significant margin because of cartel pricing) was then used to justify an expense because you were depreciating a working asset which was the oil find itself. All of this translated to billions in taxes that were avoided by large oil companies...the same ones that are using the US government to fight a war for them using a mercenary army. Maybe in the end it will all work out...but, I am hoping there is more transparency. (posted to skewz.com)
JFK was against this.
As a resident of the State of Alaska...all I got to say "IT'S ABOUT GODDAMNED TIME!!!!"
Hey all,
I live up here in Alaska...read crooksandliars everyday.
Someone should do their thesis on corruption in Alaska.
"Alaskan Republicans were on trial today because.....it is a weekday"
I ran into Sarah Palin the other day. No one else in the Seattle airport recognized her. Anyways, although she is a republican, she seems to slam corruption. I even got in a zinger when I was talking to her about nailing these corrupt republicans.
Impeach the Bush administration!!!
Impeach the Bush administration!!!
-->"That'll never leave this room." Ha ha ha... ha
I thought those 'CBC' caps were part of the standard uniform for members of Congress, and politicians everywhere, Now, don't get uptight, all you female politicians, I'm not calling you 'Bastards'.
In your case, the cap should be read 'Corrupt Bastardette Club'. (Happy, Diane?)
Remember, the FBI guy said "dozens" of people would be prosecuted. Don't settle for a handful. At least 24 people should be prosecuted.
PBS should be very careful or Ted Stevens will threaten them like he did the bloggers. Ohhhhh scary!!!! I wonder if he has a good Lucca?
James M. Martin @ 26:
A couple of points. Dennis "Hasbeen" would not have had to have been initiated into anything. He and Larry have a lot in common. And HELLLOOOOO!!!! You're just realizing that the republican party hates blacks??? Man where have you been??? The republican party has been saving the good old boy southern whites from those terrrible black people since the 1960's. The only blacks the republicans like are the step-n-fetchers. Condi Rice, Colin Powell, and Alberto Gonzales (Mexicans are the new blacks).
Absolute power corrupts absolutely and the republicans have been in absolute power in the House and Senate for the past 12 years, and when Bush got in the White House the party really began to rock!!!! They started taking everything that wasn't nailed down.
Reminiscent of those Mob get-togethers they used to have in the Catskills.
Just a bunch of thugs.
Just wait until the FBI finally gets the idea of hiding cameras in the snatches of the top hookers in D.C. and Dallas.
I don't know why everyone is always surprised when these stories come to light in this country.
Mixed economies, that is, economies where the government is accepted by the public as being legitimate when interfering in the market in any way, will always have bribes, coercion and corruption.
The government does not produce anything...they can't...all they can do is take from some people and give to others. They are not in the business of making cars, houses, food, health-related products, or anything. Thus, if they are involved in the market in any way, instead of just doing what they are supposed to do, which is protect individual rights, there will be bribes and corruption on a literally constant basis. There must be bribes in mixed economies because a private individual must come to learn that if they don't bribe the government, then others will. And if others bribe the government, then the individual will be harmed by the laws and favors that benefit the briber at the expense of the first individual.
Thus, in mixed economies, there is a growing amount of currying favors with the government, lest people lose out. The only way this can be a reality, the only way this can happen is if the majority of people think the government should be involved in the market in the first place. Even if most people think it is for other, perhaps moral reasons, the end result is always corruption, because the government (as Noam Chomsky puts it) is nothing but a power center institution. That power is the monopoly use of physical force.
Of COURSE bribes will become norm if our society comes to believe that an institution that provides nothing except physical force can somehow be intermixed with the market. The market is an institution based on voluntary exchange, not force. You mix force into the equation, and there will be bribes, for that is how the market operates, by using money. The market cannot use guns like the government can, so it must bribe the users of force.
Since you will never stop people from wanting to profit, but you can stop people from engaging in violence, the market must be left alone, and the government must become small and just do its job.
But.......but......the Repugs said that they would restore moral values to our government.
But.......but......the Repugs were the statesmen and the Dems were the Politico's.
Preacher Boob @ 39:
ZING!
foolme1ns says:
'And HELLLOOOOO!!!! You’re just realizing that the republican party hates blacks??? Man where have you been??? The republican party has been saving the good old boy southern whites from those terrrible black people since the 1960’s. The only blacks the republicans like are the step-n-fetchers. Condi Rice, Colin Powell, and Alberto Gonzales (Mexicans are the new blacks).'
Duh! No, I am NOT just realizing the GOPS hate blacks, but I think you missed the subtlety of my way of putting it. Being a Texan, I am well aware that the primary reason the Party broke up the "Solid South" and converted many of our "Yellow Dog" Democrats (so Democrat we'd vote for a yellow dog if nominated by the Party) is that those Democrats felt disenfranchised by the changing color of the Party. They looked around at the local convention and saw too many people of color (not just black but brown, yellow, &c.). Even today, when currying the favor of Southern WASPS, GOP candidates at rallies toss around the buzz words to get votes. (What do you think that idiot George Allen thought he was doing when he told an audience he was being tailed by a "macaca"?) And as for your comment about step-n-fetchits, duh again: what did you think I meant when I referred to Colin Powell as an Uncle Tom. Duh! Well, yeah, you're right, Condi is another token and so was Alberto VO-5. And, BTW, Condi would never abandon Arbusto; in moments of candor, she has Freudian slips in which she refers to him as "my hus--, uh, the President." Not so Powell. He realized he'd been had after the U.N. speech on WMD's. Not so VO-5. His Latino macho complex wouldn't allow him to be butt fucked.
Wouldn't doubt that the Bush family is involved on this as well. Everyone is wrapped up in oil. It's no wonder alternative sources of energy are never fully supported by D.C. The oil "bastards" won't let it happen. And guess who pays for it......you and me.
Now this shit should be on 60 Minutes.d yell as hard as you can. Are all Repukes this corrupt? Talking about taking food from the mouths of babes. Stand up Alaska an
daleok @ 42:
It's up to the government to allow competition in new energy sources. For the last 50 years they have not allowed this, meaning this isn't something intrinsic to one party or the other. It means that the nature of government itself is anti-competition. You say it's only the Bush family who is involved but you're missing the bigger picture. There are many more people involved. This goes back to at least the 1950's when the US government began their global conquest after WW2. In the 1950's they began to meddle in the middle east, and this created an environment for many more Americans to be politically involved with that region of the world. Please don't make this a partisan thing because if you do you are ignoring the much more important issue of the government being there in the first place. If you make this a one party thing, you will only prolong the problems. Sure you may make a difference in getting some members of government out of there, but you are imlicitly allowing others to get involved by stopping when only the Republicans stop. What then? Do you honestly think everything is going to be all peachy? HA! Think again.
couldn't the CBC (Corrupt Bastards Club) be a euphemism for the entire Republican party?
Zippy @ 18:
one Democrat to how many Republicans. . . and where is Jefferson now? And who asked for the investigation of Jefferson (it was other Democratic lawmakers btw) on all counts the entire party overall is leaps and bound about the republicans on ethics AND making sure their colleagues . . . too bad the Republican lawmakers don't seek investigations against other REPUBLICANS, you might have a leg to stand on citing the one Democrat that "balances" out all the corrupt Republicans we are finding.
when I think of this topic ........I brings to mind ANWAR....and how they went out of their way to get at it.It's still in jeapordy.It wouldn't surprise me in the least if we find out that they're in ANWAR already drilling.
skins @ 30:
Wow ... people, the state, owns the resources and the oil companies only develope them . . . she sounds like a Democrat
Raise taxes on the oil companies, she acts like a Democrat
A Republican going after corruption in her own party, she again acts like a Democrat ... and unfortunately I don't think if she has her sights on anything higher, she's going to go anywhere - or she'll get eaten up in the process ... but I do respect her, something I hold for few Republicans.
Would anybody like to guess what the other oil scum was bringing to "Dick"s Energy Task Force meetings?
Zippy @ 18:
yeah!....give him a trial and if he's guilty.......fry his ass.....and while they're at it lets get all of them in court....Armitage,Delay,Rove,Cheney,Card,Boosh those cretins who are getting people to sign that petition under the guise of "Cures for Children with Cancer"..when infact it's a petition to split the electoral votes here in Calif.Hey how about Katherine Harris....nah...what for?She just help install Boosh in his coup.Throw in Jeb Boosh along with Harris. John Ashcroft...just because he's not on the radar screen doesn't mean he should be forgotten..does the words "secret military tribunals"ring any bells? John Boehner...handing out checks from the tobbaco companies on the floor of the Congress?...ahhhhhhhh....the smell of corruption...it has it's own particular stench...doesn't it.John Negroponte..Iran Contra.Trent Lott...segregationist.....and isn't Doolittle in Calif in the courts right now.....hmmmmm??? I wonder what for.
How much was the bonus for oil exec's last time around....somewhere around 3-400 ..MILLION....EACH!
So ...
I guess fat powerful men DO actually MEET in rooms and make plans that further their power and wealth while screwing us all...
Conspiracies DO happen after all...
Who's shocked?
Well welcome to the party! As a liberal blogger from Alaska I appreciate the coverage by such an esteemed site as Crooks and Liars.
Okay now that I have kissed up a little I have a question for you. Where the hell have you been?
I know that Alaska may not be on everybody's radar, but trust me when I say we are a very revealing microcosm of what is about to happen all over the country. We are convicting our Republican lawmakers as fast as we can get court dates to prosecute them.
I believe that Ben Stevens, Ted's son, is the next to take the fall. I am not so confident about Ted who is a juggernaut up here. But I really think that for the first time in thirty years he may be vulnerable in this next re-election bid.
We have been a Republican stronghold for almost our entire statehood, but I think the "times they are a changing".
StCyrlyMe @ 19:
How about this theory : Senator Reid , Nancy Pelosi and other dems have been manipulated or brainwashed somehow. Maybe threats, maybe bribes, maybe ....? But they WERE ethical ,determined people who stood on great principles. What made them change. They were drugged? Nah . Too far fetched. Extreme. Risky. OH, THE WIRE-TAPPING. SPYING. LISTEN TO THEIR CONVERSATIONS 24/7. If the corrupt Republicans have secret helpers to spy on Harry Reid, Nancy P. etc. and learn exactly how they think, what their current weaknesses are, etc. -then they CAN be manipulated. How about that thing of remotely turning on cel-phones and listening to people's conversations. Let's say Rebublican X offers a bribe to Reid....and Repub Y threatens Nancy P. THEN AFTER THAT the "Republican spy-on-most-powerful dems-team" listens to all their conversations. Then ,based on what they hear - they make adjustments. Example : "Hmmm, Nancy can be intimidated better than we expected. We need to increase the threat level to get her cooperation. Harry , on the other hand, never falls for intimidation tactics, but he's tempted if the amount of money is huge and if he's guaranteed prestige and security".
That's basically my theory. Am I being silly here? Would love to hear comments on this. (^_^;)
How long will it take to put Ted Stevens and these other bastards in jail? Maybe all of us common folk should stop paying our taxes until after this gets done.
They are doing everything in their power to kill us all, Their is only 1% of the pop that has a family farm quess how they are goin to kill us
I live the Matsu Valley in AK. It's one of the redest areas in AK. What's disgusting is that hardly anyone cares about this corruption. Either they are not even paying attention or they just shrug their shoulders and say something like, "all the politicians are corrupt, so what if Uncle Teddy and his insiders have scraped some off the side, they bring the state a lot of money. This just sickens me. It appears that this type of corruption is just an accepted fact of life in the Alaskan Republican Party. They have no true moral compass. For AK Republicans it's every person for themselves, fuck the poor and the Native Alaskans, if your not on the insider gravy train well too f'ing bad for you. You should have made friends with the right people. The local paper here, The Frontiersman, just recently had a new conservative editor put in place to put out all sorts of positive spin and defense pieces on recently convicted local republican politicians.
But, there is a groundswell of progressives who are working on a clean elections campaign initiative. I hope it takes off so we can have some regular citizens run for office and remove entrenched money grubbers like Ted Stevens and Don Young.
And where is the national media on this story? It's all pretty telling.
The " Teapot Dome " crooks were amateurs compared to these guys.
And some of them had sex in the Oval Office...Oh wait. Sorry, not a republican. :)
Cowboy Bob in Austin @ 7:
gotta contribute to PBS - they are the only ones who are doing investigative reporting.
Doesn't actually sound to me like Bush has much to do with this...I believe local Alaskans are perfectly capable of being corrupt by themselves.
Pretty damning. I love the line "that this stays in the room." Wow!
Looks like Mr. Allen will soon be "producing" license plates.
What do you mean the Repiglicans did not have sex in the Oval office?
What the fuck do you think Jeff Gannon, Guckert, Gosch was doing after hours with all those visits that show him never leaving...
The Repigs have sex in the Oval office... except it is ritualistic homosexual sex with hookers.
Ferretman @ 63:
The way he is tied to this is with the vile secretions oozed out of his mangina which fertilizes and fuels this corrupt political system in the first place...
He is a criminal... he always has been and always will be.. and he was the turdiest turd in the punch bowel so he got the big chair for a little bit...
A Real human being that works in an Ethically positive world view... be it Dem or Repig... would of come down on this corruption like ten tons of steel... But not a Bushie...(or a Clinton for that matter)
But he doesn't... He looks for ways to dice up our constitution... Does anything possible to ignore the crimes committed in his name under him and very well under his own orders.
His Actions speak louder then any words he has blubbered out of his feces eating mouth...
The Repig actions speak louder then the sound of their TEARS of oppression could ever hum too...
and yes indeed... The Dems actions speak tomes to their semantic, hollow outrages as they lay dying in the very own tiger pit they dug unconsciously themselves.
While most stupid ass Americans are too busy playing the game by what color their jersey is ... and totally remaining ignorant to the real game ....
Crap like this is so standard and archaic in the world of politics... and we have also known about it for so long... WHO IS SURPRISED??? WHO REALLY GIVES A SHIT???
This is STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE for Gov Officials....
Honestly.. with all the VERY serious issues we are facing...
Why are we worried about the BBQ sauce on their tacky tie?
Do we dare to look on the Dinner Table to see where that BBQ sauce has come from?
My goodness you're a sour one...and incapable of sticking to the subject, it appears.
Whether or not Bush lied about anything isn't the issue here (for the record, he didn't)....the issue is the corruption that is Alaskan politics. I'm told from my in-laws (who live up there) that this has all been one of those "well known secrets" that finally has broken into the light of day.
If oil company officials and/or government officials have committed crimes, then let's charge'em, try'em, and hang'em. But let's not undercut the issue by dragging in extraneous nonsense, okay? Keep your pathological BHS (Bush Hatred Syndrome) rants for the wacko conspiracy lists, please.
Zippy @ 17:
Yea, I've got a comment. Jail the son of a bitch if he's found guilty. And ah, Zippy, do you often comment about republic corruption? I thought not.
Ferretman @ 63:
Time will tell. And what will you have to say if evidence points to the White House?
Ron @ 61:
Do you actually give a shit about America, it's ethics, and it's values?
AbbeyHoffmansGhost @ 69:
When and if that happens, I'll probably beat you to the condemnation. I'm willing to take it wherever it goes--are you?
why have sex in the white house when you have those fine, fine facilities at theeeee.....MINNESOTA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...or theeeee....WORLD TRADE CENTER COMPLEX...and you don't even need a two-way radio!
Impeach the Bush administration!!!
Baja @ 59:
Same place that the EPA is on all the spills that are a regular occurence on the north slope, kept at a safe distance.
I know an oil worker that spends anywhere from 3-6 weeks on, and 2 weeks off on the north slope. He says that the mess that is made by the drilling is disgusting. Oil is spilled while being pumped, leaking oil pipelines, among other minor spills during transport. We don't hear about these things because it will hinder the progression of our addiciton to oil. It might actually spark enough outrage to stop the movement for more exploration and oilfield development. Check out these links:
Here is a Sierra Club story about what could be the largest spill ever on the north slope. (I know, the Sierra Club is a bunch of ganji smoking hippies, they couldn't possibly provide a report that has good facts. They're not on the inside.)
Oh, that's right, the hippies weren't alone. 4 days later BBC ran the story. Do you remember oil prices goin up in late March early April to repair the pipeline. That was the story, not the environmental impact, or what had actually happened. The rest of the media picked up on it with the BBC.
Here's my favorite that received no attention. This PDF shows the amount of spills per year from 1996 - 2004.
Environmental damage is something that needs to be included in this conversation due to it being part of the corruption. There is so much going on that people can't keep up with it all, and forget about things. Who's willing to start a comprehensive timeline, online, that shows all the corruption that has been brought to the surface with room for additions when there are is more light shined on the vampires. God bless!
News Flash! Trite Loot has announced he is resigning his post as Senate Minority Whip. Duh! Trite Loot had to go, the better to fight off allegations he was initiated into the CBC. What the resignation as whip probably means is that Trite discussed the TV expose' with fellow GOPS and was asked, "Hey, man, is something else going to come out about all this Alaska stuff? I mean, it could really hurt us." Then, recalling the bruhaha over Loot's inappropriate comments at a Strum Turdman tribute (the bit about, "if you'd been elected, we wouldn't have had all this trouble [i.e. African-American efforts to obtain white man's rights]," Trite decided he'd bow out "for the good of the Party." And they talk about Edwards's $300 hair. What do you suppose it costs to make that suit Trite Loot look presentable?
I was mighty proud to see my state represented in the fishing photo. Kit Bond is the Missouri Ted Stephens. He is a powerful senator that brings home lots of pork. He has been a faithful Bushie and I would not be surprised if he has been rewarded in many ways. I hope the FBI chases this wherever it leads.
HAHAHAH! How naive is that! The energy cartel (oil/coal/nuke) is firmly in control and KILLS (literally) the competition, or those who refuse to sell out. Do a review of all the dead inventors and their patents. Now these same thugs have ties with major universities, research institutes, the automobile industry, and ... the government! New scientists, hungry for dollars and a leg up should collaborate with criminals and the military-industrial- complex? (darpa, DoE, etc., sic) Who is it that attends Washington dinner parties and funds campaigns? Do politicians know who their major contributors are? nyet, nyet, it's all just in your mind.
Oh, almost forgot:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbakN7SLdbk
impeaching the bush administration will not solve anything.
this has been going on for a looooooooonnnnnnnnnnngggg time!
I've been watching this shit go down with these good old boys here in Alaska for 8 years while my job, family and all my possessions have been pulled out from under my feet. Finally some light is coming in on these greedy dark bastards. Corrupt Bastards Club is in the light. The pride of American engineering our Trans Alaska Pipeline is now in the hand of corrupt British Petroleum as welll. British Petroleum is the biggest ring leader of corruption of them all. Be sure to follow that snake of a company as it slithers it's way through your pockets. Check out the BP logo on your new Ford vehicle's gas tank. Ford Company is also in bed with British Petroleum. It is like a huge boa constrictor has wrapped itself around America and squeezing us into submission and eventually death.
I agree that this extends beyond the 'party' ethics of repubs. Democrats can be just as dirty, although it does seem to be a trend that repubs are the ones doing the dirtiest of the dirty. What we need to do is this : when our next president is in office, we need to watch them like hawks! no being pacified b/c he or she is a democrat, and so must be better than any republican stuff. We need to stop being so apathetic and start cleaning house in the gov't, starting with our very own party. If Hillary is president, we'll need to make damn sure she does what the people want, and to keep her nose clean (i don't think she can do that on her own). I swear, maybe it's b/c we are such a young country, and we haven't had to deal with centuries of corruption like europe has, but we are so afraid of actually standing up and doing something about our gov't. Look at france, they have revolutions and protests every other day, and they are doing quite well, b/c the gov't is afraid of the PEOPLE... like they should be
Countdown corrected my suppositions about Trite Loot leaving his Minority Whip post in the Senate. Olbermann pointed out that he's resigning from the Senate itself -- to get into lobbying. Seems the new restrictions imposing longer waiting periods between congressional service and whoring yourself on K Street will go into effect next spring, so Trite wanted to bow out now to avoid their effect. When questioned about it, Loot said he hadn't given that law a thought, and in any case he wasn't going to be lobbying, just doing some "consulting" work. Yeah, sure.
Why is it that GOPS are so prone to lying? When they're not doing it outright, they do it by euphemism. Who does Trite think he's kidding? Why do we go on allowing these crooks and liars to peddle influence in the White House and Capitol office buildings? What ever happened to democracy, representative government, and enacting the will of the people? The very thought of Trite Loot making money in the private sector after ripping us off for years in public office is just infuriating. Check out this asshole's website. He bla bla blas about how he did so much for the Katrina victims of Mississippi. But if you interview anyone a few blocks from the beachfront casinos (who reopened with taxpayer subsidies), you find that Loot did NOTHING to help the average guy in his home state.
And now he wants to make a career of corrupting other pols. Give me a break! Will this nonsense never end?! Don't forget that John McPain supported a bipartisan bill meant to curb lobbyist, PAC, and special interest influence. But he backed down and allowed a watered down version to get the nod, in effect maintaining the status quo, which is to say, business as usual. Even if the Alaska scandals do reach Loot, he'll have no trouble gaining entry to the offices of his former colleagues: they're all Crooked Bastards, too.
Plus hardly more than a whimper is heard about this on the local Alaska TV news. Where is the outrage? These lap licking Alaskans roll out the red carpet for corrupt businesses like British Petroleum and still find good things to say about their corrupt politicians. The majority of Alaskans are no better than prostitutes. Brain-washed sheep!
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