The issue has always been in allowing Congress to self govern it’s own behavior it has allowed them to softly punish one another instances where a good beating was more inline with what should have been doled out. Charlie Rangel is a prime example of this. Not only did his actually actually enrich him but they enriched his “leagacy” also.

I applaud the effort to shine some light on the issue Moe.

Thanks Moe. I needed a good laugh. And a good cry.

—-should the media and the adult commenting public give to public servants?
It is one thing for politicians and political operatives to promote or attack, but the Fourth Estate lets itself be used far too often, not without criticism, but mostly without loss of privilege.
Brain Lamb and the folks at C-Span provide a valuable service, and as well as congressional coverage, give forums to both left and right outlets and advocacy groups. But during the Bush Presidency, when Conyers was going through his ‘impeach Bush’ phase, he held mock ….mock…committee hearings having nothing whatsoever to do with official Congressional business,complete with mock ‘witnesses’, and C-Span televised them. Even the captions at the bottom of the screen did not make it clear that these were mock proceedings. Kind of an Orson Welles type deal if you weren’t in on the joke.
The point is that even people and outlets who think they are being ‘fair’ and open minded and courteously deferential are, way more often than is pointed out, part of the problem. Moe’s expose of the media’s abdication of it’s responsibilities, indeed it’s abandonment of its profesionalism, is parralleled in so many aspects of the culture it is not funny. From the scientific community (we “believe” in AGW) to the Education community (we have to mold our children into what WE want them to be and do in the future) to even the religious community (we have to adapt and adopt), the sacrfice of principle and the forgetting of purpose are everywhere.

A Republican can commit a crime, not a Democrat. Of course that goes for garden variety scandals as well.
A black Democrat gets even greater dispensations.
This tells us of the nature of our “watchdogs” of the media. Their stupidity we know about, their fanaticism we live with, the complete absence of any hint of normal human morals is the part that gags.

Waters, Rangel, Bernice Johnson, David Scott, Conyers etc.

I can’t wait for West to shake up that “institution”

Here’s the problem, republicans don’t have the intestinal fortitude to put away a democrat. I have to hand it to the D’s, they can turn a parking ticket offense by an R into the crime of the century, and then paint the entire republican party as corrupt. But let the democrats commit true political corruption, i.e., virtually all the Congressional Black Caucus, and the Blue-blood, ruling class elites of the GOP either don’t want to get their hands dirty or they are too lazy to do the really heavy lifting of making scandals of the democrats stick.

Until the Tea Party can get more people elected and replace the current GOP leadership, this will never change.

All of my life I have been told to hold my tongue, watch my manners ;don’t be insulting.

I’m really sick of the hypocritical appeasement from the right (including my self) by allowing them to get away with Liberalism and telling us that it is mainstream. And letting the media get away with excusing them.
It is time to drop the polite facade and start cleaning our own house.
we need to eject ALL liberal republicans and reject their appeasement of liberalism masked as “compromise”

you will lose compromising with terrorists, and you will lose compromising with liberalism.
and, make no mistake, liberalism is corruption.
liberalism is the anti liberty
the anti individual
the anti property rights position
it is the anti AMERICAN way
and it must no longer be appeased.
it must be stopped.

and his entire family is an embarrassment here in Michigan. His wife is a real tool… a real tool…. look her up on youtube. One absolute crazy lady. It is amazing to me that while she sits in jail, her hubby never noticed an extra 150 grand just lying around the house. Go figure. This man continues to get re elected in this state. It is absolutely pathetic.

>reimbursing the government as comprehensively as possible
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I’m wondering what that means, exactly. Do we have any clarification from Conyers or his staff? I certainly hope the Ethics Committee looks at these “infractions” with a high powered microscope. And I hope that if they do find something, that he is censured, fined (heavily), and drummed out of office. The audacity of the Democrats to flout the rules has got to stop.

100%. Never got more than a mild rebuke.

And yes, he is hardly alone among members of the CBC. It is difficult to find a member who has been in Congress as long as eight years who has not experienced a strong increase in personal wealth without any apparent source, or whose friends and families do not get jobs for which they are not remotely qualified (ever wonder how the failed publisher of a small newspaper got onto the Federal Communications Commission? Mignon Clyburn may be a nobody, but her daddy can steal whatever you need).

which are used by the FAA technicians I work with whenever they have a need to travel to a radar, communications, navaid work site.

I guarantee that if I was discovered driving one on personal business, (let alone allow a family member to drive one of them!) I would be fired.

The GSA vehicle lease agreement is very strict and Rep. Conyers should be punished at a minimum by confiscating all of his leased vehicles.

It’s sad to say that I am unshocked by this and I’m pretty sure the media won’t touch this one, even as it is being handed to them. I remember when the story originally broke and my question to friends even then was “What the hell was 27K of “concert tickets” doing in the hands of his son…?!?!

Nancy Pelosi said she was going to clean the swamp. John Bonner should point out every day that Nancy Pelosi should demand that John Conners (let alone Rangel and Waters) should resign. Or else she should resign since she didn’t drain the swamp.

Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN

back a few years in Macomb County where he was meeting with other scumbags, my first and only impression of the guy as I talked to him was complete arrogance overshadowed with a very low IQ. He refused to shake my young sons hand, which may have been a blessing in disguise, and when we asked what he was going to do to change some things that were wrong in the state, he simply stared then turned his head and started talking to another guy.

His son was an even bigger a hole and loser so this does not surprise me in the least. Best thing I ever did was get out of Michigan.

is contained in the following video clip (html is NOT my friend)

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2009/10/more_model_obam.html

Remember this? It should go a long way to explain things like John and Monica Conyer’s, Kwami Kilpatrick and the one of America’s great cities about to be turned back into farm land.

is that this time next week Conyers will have ZERO power.