We all know that 4th Congressional District Rep. Doc Hastings is an incompetent, partisan hack… but who knew he was so modest? The General went browsing around Hastings website today, and couldn’t find any mention of his “leadership” of the House Ethics Committee, a tenure during which not a single ethics case has been heard.
You’ve obviously scared everyone in Congress into faithfully following ethics rules. Otherwise, your hearing schedule would be packed. Of course there will always be misunderstandings like Duke Cunningham’s incarceration, the free market lawmaking approach taken by representatives DeLay, Noe, Pombo, Blunt, Doolittle, Harris, Hunter, Ney, Chocola, yourself, and others, and Don Sherwood’s penchant for strangling mistresses, but you’ve obviously found a way to clear their good names without resorting to hearings. That’s one heck of an accomplishment.
You’re doing yourself a tremendous disservice by not publicizing all of this great work. Do yourself a favor and add your Ethics Committee accomplishments to your website. And while you’re at it, put your name and photograph on the Ethics website as well. I couldn’t find either anywhere there. It’s almost like you’re ashamed of the things you’ve accomplished as Chair.
Hmm. Wouldn’t it be nice if Washingtonians could erase our shame by removing any reference to Hastings from our congressional delegation? Jimmy over at McCranium has some suggestions.
Hastings must go.
McMorris must go.
Reichert must go.
They all MUST GO!
Karl’s just getting what he paid for!
U.S. PLANNING TO NUKE IRAN
A New Yorker magazine articles reports that Bush is planning to take out Iran’s underground nuclear facilities by hitting them with nuclear bombs. Bush and Scotty McClellan denied it, and British foreign secretary Jack Straw called the plan “nuts,” so it must be true!
In other news, they’re hold elections in Italy today, and exit polling indicates right-wing billionaire bush-buddy p.m. Berlusconi is losing.
It will take years for Eastern Washington to outgrow its ‘brainwashed’ heritage. Maybe by 2030 they will understand the value of decent congressmen.
NEW ROGER RABBIT POLL INDICATES HASTINGS IS A DORK
According to a poll conducted this weekend among rabbits living in Green Lake Park, 99.9% of the park’s non-native fauna thinks Rep. Doc Hastings is a “dork.” The other 1/10th% didn’t participate in the poll because they got run over by cars.
I have a question for 4th C.D. voters: Why are a bunch of abandoned Easter pets with 20 toes, no fingers, pointy ears, and cute cottontails smarter than you humans? Why do you idiots keep voting for this guy? Are you humans so irrational that you want to be represented in Congress, of all places, by a freakin’ JOKE?? Get real, people! In just six months you’ll have an opportunity to do something about the fact your district is rapidly becoming a laughingstock not only in Green Lake Park but of the whole country! Maybe the WHOLE GALAXY!! Yeah, that’s what I said, they’re laughing at you up there on Alpha Centauri’s planets.
RR, bring you cousin,
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20.....NtZW5ld3M-
to help you eat away Doc’s record. Oops, his only record is a ‘non record’.
RR, bring your cousin,
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20.....NtZW5ld3M-
to help you eat away Doc’s record. Oops, his only record is a ‘non record’.
Also, you rednecks in 4th C.D. should adopt a policy of shooting bet welshers on sight.
We need to stamp out bet welshing!
Put those gun racks in your pickups to good use!
Wow! This thread is already up to a dozen posts! That’s more than Stefan’s pathetic little blog gets in a week.
The ethics of your congressman is up to you, the voter, not some self-appointed body. You want your guy out because he is a rat, then vote that way.
I realize that this means Baghdad Jim and Cynthia McKinney will be in office forever. But, better to have total jokes representing total morons than to have someone in office who might actually enact the left wing agenda.
Baghdad Jim and Cynthia McKinney 08!!! A communist and a racist!!! Both represent the Democrat Party well!!
[Just another Chicken Hawk] @ 14
We know you are a racist, but you are a communist also?
Benton, Yakima and Whitman counties are all very R.
Hasings will die in office – save major moral scandal – sex stuff.
He works his district well, springs from old Pioneer Pasco family, hard district to elect a democrat.
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So, what you’re saying Bob, is that they have no shame. Other than about sex, that is.
Captain’s Quarters has a translation of an Iraqi document showing that Saddam Hussein recruited suicide bombers to attack American interests.
Prediction: this will have no effect on the “Bush lied, millions died!” crowd, who are in the grip of a derangement so severe that no facts or documents will ever have an impact.
I noticed this a couple of months ago when I send Hastings an email through his site. There’s a dropdown box where you are required to pick the topic of your comment — nothing about ethics whatsoever on that list either! I ended up choosing “crime” I believe.
JDB, Perhaps your real name is Jazakum Allahu Khairan. Why is it Democrats and Muslims sound the same????
Although Blog KLOWNS continue to insist that the Abramoff imbroglio is “a Republican scandal,” 40 of the Democratic Party’s 45 U.S. senators made the Jack Abramoff dishonor roll, including:
Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) – $22,500
Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) – $6,500
Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) – $1,250
Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) – $2,000
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) – $20,250
Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) – $21,765
Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) – $7,500
Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) – $12,950
Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) – $8,000
Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ) – $7,500
Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) – $14,792
Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) – $79,300
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) – $14,000
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) – $2,000
Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) – $1,250
Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) – $45,750
Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI) – $9,000
Senator Jim Jeffords (I-VT) – $2,000
Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) – $14,250
Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) – $3,300
Senator John Kerry (D-MA) – $98,550 HIT the JACKPOT!
Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) – $28,000
Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT) – $4,000
Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) – $6,000
Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) – $29,830
Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) – $14,891
Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) – $10,550
Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) – $78,991
Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) – $20,168
Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) – $5,200
Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) – $7,500
Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR) – $2,300
Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) – $3,500
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) – $68,941
Senator John Rockefeller (D-WV) – $4,000
Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) – $4,500
Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) – $4,300
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) – $29,550
Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) – $6,250
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) – $6,250
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The Abramoff scandal is a Republican show, which is why Democrats assert that it is.
Unless you are in favor of publically financed campaigns, which couldn’t outlaw campaign contributions anyway, contributions from individuals and PACs will continue and increase. There is nothing wrong with accepting them, just because the contributors were clients of Jack Abramoff.
What is wrong is to, for example, assure a defense contractor a bid because he slipped Duke Cunningham cash or services.
Which of the people on your list did that?
If you need more ideas of what the wrong thing to do is, look here:
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/statebystate.htm
Miss Chicken Hawk:
And how many of those did Abramoff actually give money to himself?
Oh, that’s right, 0!
You have just been truth slapped!
[Just another Chicken Hawk]:
And why do you and the average clansman sound the same?
JCH & Puddy’s obsession with Cynthia McKinney is pretty hilarious when you take this ‘family values’ Don Sherwood guy! He met this trophy blonde Ann Coulter chick at a Young Republicans meeting. How perfect is that?! Sherwood is a member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee and Vice Chairman of the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations – and McKinney chairs what committee again, JCH & Puddy?
Police called to his Washington apartment by Cynthia Ore, 29, to whom Sherwood was giving a back rub, when he began choking her for no apparent reason. Ore backed off the claim, but one may still wonder what a 64 year old married Congressman was doing alone in his apartment giving a back rub to his 29 year old friend. In a telephone interview, Ore said she met Sherwood at a Young Republicans meeting in 1999 and that they had a relationship that lasted over the years. “For me to start to go back to that day is very painful to deal with all the suffering I went through,” Ore said. “I loved him. He always told me he loved me and I believed him.”
Rep. Don Sherwood Speaks Out About Lawsuit
Congressman Sherwood made an appearance at the Lockheed Martin Plant in Lackawanna County Monday morning to trumpet a $50 million defense contract for the facility in Archbald. But when it was over, Sherwood finally broke his silence on the festering controversy involving a Maryland woman who claims the congressman beat her over the course of a five year affair.
FAIRFAX, VA — The National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) is proud to endorse incumbent Congressman Don Sherwood in Pennsylvania’s District 10.
-Although Blog KLOWNS continue to insist that the Abramoff imbroglio is “a Republican scandal,”-
Pretty entertaining, Mr. Cynical. Reminds me of the time you jokers tried to blame the Senate Democrats for Bush’s invasion based on lies – as well as the time you tried to pretend Ken Lay was actually the Democrats’ tool (Enron gave 20% to Dems, you know!)
You went from desperate to desperate desperation pretty dang quick!
Whitman County isn’t responsible for mr. Hastings, we’re in the 5th and McMorris is our current burden. Peter Goldmark should give her a good run, but it’s uphill.
The masks on the dogs are to keep them from biting each other? Eating the funny little rabbit? Last but not least, scare the hell out that funny cottontail creature?
http://www.strangecosmos.com/c.....13729.html
Jimmy Carter being chase by a Wabbit.
http://www.strangecosmos.com/c.....07130.html
-JDB, Perhaps your real name is Jazakum Allahu Khairan. Why is it Democrats and Muslims sound the same???? –
So, JCH has covered the anti-semitic stuff, the anti-black stuff, the anti-gay stuff…now the Democrats are such bigtime jihadists, even their names SOUND Muslim?
Fake Christians like JCH sure do make great poster boys for the modern conservative movement: morally repugnant creeps (of questionable sanity) using religion to justify their sick and twisted “I hate everybody who doesn’t look or think like me” values.
Unless, of course, JCH is just kidding, and is one of those leftist trolls who is trying to make the right look bad!
Are you still being chased by that ‘escape goat,’ klake?
How’s that GED coming along?
Carter gets attacked by a rabbit – Bush is downed by a PRETZEL!
They found Roger Rabbit house in Green Lake.
http://www.strangecosmos.com/c.....14908.html
Anyone who thinks Hastings is:
– Less of a ‘partisan hack’
– Less ethical
– Less embarassing
then Jim McDermott, is a ‘partisan hack’.
LiberalRedneck:
Worse, apparently my initials sound muslim. You have to give [Just another Chicken Hawk] creativitiy points in his racism.
“Carter gets attacked by a rabbit – Bush is downed by a PRETZEL! ”
Now that’s funny!
Janet S @ 13 — I understand you disapprove of our Constitution as the Framers constructed it, but that’s the Constitution we’ve got … and the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (the “Ethics Committee”) is the mechanism by which the House carries out its self-regulatory responsibilities under Article I, Section 5, Clause 2.
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Man that’s a B-I-G rabbit!!!
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This LIE by Mr. Cynical cannot go unanswered. That is a list of Democratic Senators who accepted campaign contributions from tribes. Well guess what, since Republicans are the party of Indian-hating bigots (e.g., Slade Gorton & Jim Johnson), Indians support Democrats!!! Whoop-de-doop. That’s like saying big business supports Republicans.
Here’s how Mr. Cynical’s LIE actually works. Tribes contribute to Democrats. Abramoff shakes down the tribes. Therefore Democrats got money from Abramoff contributors!
What I want to know is how Mr. Cynical’s washing machine works. He puts $100 of L & I taxes between the rollers, turns the handle, and when it comes out the other side it still looks like $100, but now it’s Rossi slush funds. Hey Cynical, what’s inside the rollers that turns $100 bills from L & I taxes into Rossi slush funds?
The things about Mr. Cynical’s LIE is, not one single Democrat got a cent from Abramoff. After all, Abramoff was a REPUBLICAN lobbyist and fund raiser, so why would he give money to Democrats? That makes no sense — and he didn’t. http://www.dailykos.com/storyo...../1655/0100
The whole Republican LIE depends on the right-wing guilt-by-association tactic. Indian tribes gave money to Democrats. Abramoff extorted money from tribes. Therefore, Democrats got Abramoff money. See how the LIE works?
Abramoff is a 100% REPUBLICAN SCANDAL. No Democrats got money from Abramoff. No Democrats extorted money from tribes, or sold political favors. Only Abramoff and his associates did that, and only Republican politicians sold favors or “face time” in exchange for Abramoff extortion money. You bastards OWN this scandal. It’s ALL YOURS!!! And all Republican attempts to implicate Democrats in the Abramoff scandal are LIES.