Comments on: Culture of Corruption: 100 Representatives on PMA list

By: Murthamania! « The Daley Gator

Murthamania! « The Daley Gator — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:58:57 +0000

[...] H/T Hot Air [...]

By: NorthWest Florida Republican » Allen Boyd(D) and Senator Bill Nelson(D) among those taking PMA money.

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:13:39 +0000

[...] Culture of Corruption: 100 Representatives on PMA list CQ’s little list: The PMA 104 [...]

By: reshas1

reshas1 — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:38:47 +0000

It’s OK tho, they are Dem’s, they can get away with this kind of stuff.

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » CQ’s little list: The PMA 104

Hot Air » Blog Archive » CQ’s little list: The PMA 104 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:06:09 +0000

[...] already wrote one post about this earlier today, but I want the actual list to get separate attention. CQ Politics has [...]

By: Worse And Worser « Justbkuz

Worse And Worser « Justbkuz — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:19:49 +0000

[...] there’s more, a lot more, going on. Via Hot Air, the earmarking business is like a military operation: Firm with Murtha Ties Got Earmarks From [...]

By: Culture of Corruption: 100 Representatives on PMA list « Dirty Democrats

Culture of Corruption: 100 Representatives on PMA list « Dirty Democrats — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:24:41 +0000

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By: jcila

jcila — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:12:54 +0000

ALL of the Democrats and 2/3rds of the republicans are Completly CORRUP

I say its high time for another tea party

We need to MARCH on washington and make sure
NONE of these cock roaches escapes..

By: burt

burt — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:04:39 +0000

"$3.3 million is ~~almost~~ more than a hundredth of $300 million, not a tenth. Note to self: do NOT do math before the first cup of coffee."

By: rockmom

rockmom — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:11:21 +0000

Ha. My current and former Congresscritters are on that list. Patrick Murphy is especially abominable. He campaigned all over the place with Murtha. Then he ran TV ads portraying him as a fiscal conservative Blue Dog. Then he went back to Congress and now he votes 100% with Nancy Pelosi. He’s a lying scumbag and I plan to make sure everyone in this damn district knows it.

By: uh-oh - Nearly One-Forth of the House got donations from corrupt firm connected to Murtha | Political Byline

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:01:38 +0000

[...] The Beltway, The Washington Independent, Liberty Street, Right Wing Nut House, Betsy’s Page, Hot Air, Wizbang, Taegan Goddard’s …, Riehl World View, Sister Toldjah, Michelle Malkin and [...]

By: Murthas Leads Scandal in ‘The Most Open and Honest Congress’ | The Great Illuminator

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:19:37 +0000

[...] HotAir: The sudden exposure and collapse of lobbying group PMA may create a huge problem for Democrats — [...]

By: CLaFarge

CLaFarge — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:18:58 +0000

Murtha’s like some kind of magician. These issues are always cropping up, along with insulting his constituency, and he gets re-elected every time. This guy’s got job security that we can only dream of.

By: Streecar

Streecar — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:56:43 +0000

Shame

By: INC

INC — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:37:19 +0000

Our Dem senator from Florida, Bill Nelson, has some $50,000 of questionable donations he's returning because they came to light by a watchdog group.

Sen. Bill Nelson plans to donate to charity the campaign contributions he received from donors under investigation for mishandling money, his office said Wednesday. One of the donations the Florida Democrat received came from the company run by Robert Allen Stanford, accused this week by the Securities and Exchange Commission of defrauding investors out of $8 billion. The Stanford Financial Group has donated $2.4 million to lawmakers and political action committees since 1989, according to a review by the Washington watchdog group, Center for Responsive Politics. Nelson received more from Stanford than any other lawmaker, and he plans to donate the $45,900 to charity. “Based on the fact that Mr. Stanford has been indicted in a fraud case I will give to charity any campaign contributions from him or his employees,” Nelson said in a statement. He also may do the same with roughly $4,000 in contributions he received from the PMA Group, a Washington lobbying firm under federal investigation for improperly handling campaign contributions. Nelson said his office was reviewing all donations received from the group. “We will not keep money if someone made improper contributions. As soon as authorities are able to identify any such contributions, we would give that money to charity,” he said. In addition to Nelson, Democratic Reps. Zoe Lofgren and Peter Visclosky of Indiana also announced they plan to return PMA donations they had received.

This is from the Florida Today, a liberal paper, hence no mention of Murtha. Notice the statement about returning contributions as soon as authorities identify that they're improper. No proactive stance to identify them by his own staff! Compare that with Sarah Palin asking for a review. Culture of Corruption--the Dems came up with the slogan and they own it.

By: Amazed

Amazed — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:27:51 +0000

Bribery in modern terms is called “Campaign Contributions”
K Street rules the country.

By: sdun1

sdun1 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:45:40 +0000

Unfortunately, journalism is dead.

Inform me when it rises from the grave to confront these politicians.

I won’t hold my breath.

By: SKYFOX

SKYFOX — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:31:42 +0000

and how to say “that’s the stupidest stunt you’ve ever tried to pull – now sit down and shut up!!!”

kamasm

Mom!…when did you get a computer?

By: Chaz706

Chaz706 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:31:28 +0000

I thought this was going to be the most ethical congress ever. I’m so disillusioned.
Wingo on February 19, 2009 at 9:48 AM

Didn’t you forget your /sarc tag or is that an actual statement?

By: christene

christene — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:31:17 +0000

Do as I say,……
not as I do.

By: Star20

Star20 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:26:45 +0000

Looks like the "Accountability and Transparency (RAT) Board" is coming into being just when it may be needed the most!

By: mph

mph — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:10:35 +0000

The Republicans are just as bad. If anyone came along who actually wanted to stop all the corruption, the two parties would refuse to let them debate as they do with other 3rd party candidates. Having lawyers in congressional seats for their lifetimes was never the intent of the writers of the Constitution.

By: marklmail

marklmail — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:08:16 +0000

Um, MSM, where’s the LibGate?

By: search4truth

search4truth — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:07:05 +0000

I just wonder….the sheep that vote for these Dems…will they even CARE about this stuff? I mean you have the lady asking the President for a KITCHEN for pete’s sake. To take Scalleywag’s comment one step further….

It makes me sad that I have no confidence in our government anymore. None whatsoever.scalleywag on February 19, 2009 at 10:54 AM

I have no confidence in our electorate anymore. And THAT is sad.

By: Ace of Spades HQ

Ace of Spades HQ — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:03:39 +0000

The Most Ethical Congress in History: “Stimulus” Provision Guts Investigatory Powers of Congressional Watchdogs…

Ah, yes. Smell the hope and change. Youve heard a lot about the astonishing spending in the $787 billion economic stimulus bill, signed into law this week by President Barack Obama. But you probably havent heard about a provision in……

By: Baxter Greene

Baxter Greene — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:01:28 +0000

When the AP cannot even provide cover for the democrats,then it is starting to get bad:

Analysis: Democrats self-destructing over ethics

By LARRY MARGASAK – 7 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) —

The Obama administration and the new Congress are quickly handing over to Republicans the same “culture of corruption” issue that Democrats used so effectively against the GOP before coming to power.

I expect to see hour long specials from CNN/MSNBC on democratic corruption,Katie and Brian Williams leading off their news programs with this democratic corruption,Olberman denouncing the corruption,NY Times/WaPO front page stories on democratic corruption along with Time and Newsweek covers, Pelosi/Reid holding their constituents accountable and providing transparent investigations.

All right…All right…I know. Not a chance in he!!.
Guess we will have to push it since our press core can’t get off their knees in addressing the Obama administration.