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Franklin Pierce
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We need to put every politician under that microscope.
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Yup - and hold them accountable - We really need to have some serious consequences. Too many times they get caught and then there is no punishment. The sentence needs to be quick and PAINFUL! A lot of examples need to be set and soon.
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*rolls out guillotine and leaves it beside Senate entrance*
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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
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After promising transparency and change. It sure seems like its the same ole same ole...
Tom Daschle, picked to spearhead U.S. health care reform, failed to pay more than $128,000 in taxes. Quote:
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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
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Well isn't that special.
"A pattern is developing," Cantor said. "The pattern is solidified. ... It's easy for the other side to sit here and advocate higher taxes because -- you know what? -- they don't pay them." Change my ass. I've never seen more people turn a blind eye to the duplicity and double standards in the Demoncratic controlled Congress. And people bitched about the Republickins. Poppycock. Must be the blinding light from Obama's halo.
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But the Executive Orders issued to-date suggest change...perhaps not as much as some (like me) would like. The restoration of the Freedom of Information Act and the Presidential Records Act that Bush gutted with EOs. Far more ethics standards for senior political appointees during their time in office as well as during their return to the private sector. Banning of torture. One small step for more transparency and accountability. Or maybe this is the wrong place to bring all this up. I'm a little rusty here. |
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I don't totally disagree. But the democrats are talking out of both sides of their mouth and this one and no one is calling them out on it.
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What politician has ever not talked out of both sides of their mouths?
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"Change, yes we can!"
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Not if they continue to do business as usual by allowing the double standards for standards of conduct among the appointees and those they present to Congress for approval in key leadership positons. There isnt a damm thing bipartisan about them, which actually I can live with, because they get all the responsiblity for it.
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Appointments have never been bi-partisan.
Most presidents get the cabinet level appointments they want unless there are questions of serious impropriety or serous questions of qualifications. Personally, I think the tax issues are embarrassing but trivial The most glaring rejection was of John Towers as Bush Sr. Defense secretary. His colleagues in the Senate knew he was a drunk and were not prepared to put the US armed forces under his control And I have run up my post count enough for one setting....but its nice to be back and discuss the issues intelligently...or at least I hope that is the standard here! |
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I don't disagree. That was not the point. "Change. Yes we can!" was about doing things differently. Rhetoric about corrupt politicans in the White House and Bush administration are being ignored when tax dodging cheats are nominated for posts in the Obama administration and suddenly pay back taxes they never intended to pay.
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