Political cartoonist Bill Mitchell email me this. I have been on his distribution list for quite sometime. Here is his email message to me:Hello,
I often do 'Special Reserve Cartoons.' Cartoons which are only seen by close friends and other cartoonists. This is one. It won't be published on CNN.com, but I thought I'd send it around to my friends on this list.
Feel free to pass it on to the Senator, your friends, the Senator, any Idahoans you might know, or the Senator.
Cheers,
B.
Commentary: There is a message within a message from Bill's cartoon. As much as folks are simply nauseating yet comical of hearing Senator Craig soliciting sex to an undercover officer in a bathroom, this is simply exposing more and more of the hypocrite lawmakers that are holding office. I really don't give a rip what Craig's private life. But, his hypocritical and repeated statements that he is not gay and not holding himself accountable for his crime add more of a human stain to much troublesome political party. Craig and other hypocritical lawmakers have become judge, jury, and executioner to the American people and to the gay community by saying one thing and do something else. Moral values and God had been an abusive tool for political gain by the GOP too long.
Craig is no different from any public servant in this country. There are rules that you have to abide by and those rules have consequences. Craig has a code of ethics to abide to as a Senator and as a public servant to his state. Craig knew the rules. But, Craig has been in office too long and thought that he can be untouched. Now, his little "secret" has finally been exposed. He chooses denial and his choice of denial comes with consequences. He has danced to the music and now he has to pay to the piper.
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I love that he put Craig's # on the wall!
too funny---
I heard his little speach on the radio. He said he plead to a lesser charge under stress.
Hhmmmm.... wonder what he was really doing then??
not just playing footsies.
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This is a bit unrelated, but since I saw both of these this morning, I was thrilled to hear my man Johnny going for impeachment! Move over Nancy... your clogging up the pipes.
a href=http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Conyers_Impeachment_not_off_my_table_0829.html>Conyers says "Impeachment not off my table"!
my favorite line from Conyers:
"Nancy Pelosi, who I actually supported, cannot prevent me from introducing an impeachment resolution against, well I've got a long list of people who are eligible."
it is a LONNNGGG LIST (ha ha ha!).... I love it!
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a href=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/29/AR2007082902355.html?wpisrc=newsletter>Democratic Divide
well I messed that one up...
2nd try
Conyers says "Impeachment not of MY table"
The Democratic Divide
It's good to have long time GOP friends who throw you under the bus in your time of need. Look Craig isn't gay he's just like the Brokeback movie he likes both men/woman. He and his GOP friends do this all the time but Craig just got caught. I hope no one believes this is the first time as he most likely had the other matters taken care of. We see elected officials by the picture they give on the outside. The GOP group use God's name to push their corruption. How many other GOP friends of Craig do the same thing or worse look for that to come out soon. Birds of a feather flock together.
Glad you all enjoyed Bill Mitchell;s political pic.
Patriot Girl:
You can see how divided the Demicrats are. Pelosi says impeachment off the table. Conyers says no. The bottom line is that all of them have to work together. The American people are getting irritated by the lawmakers that say one thing and then do another.
SPB I have a question
The GOP Senators are calling for Craig to resign because he tried to make an offer to a man/ yet the same GOP Senators cheered Vitter who said he paid for prositution. What's the differnence in the acts conduct?
Ms. J,
I think he was part of the "Big Jolly Fun Club" that they all belong to. Like so many of the other little weasels, he f--ked up, so now he can't be in the club anymore. No difference at all in the acts of conduct... just got caught with his pants down is all.
"What's the differnence in the acts conduct?"
Jackie:
There is no difference between the conducts of Vitter and Craig. Both violated the Senate ethics according to the manual. The only differnce between those two are Craig is a liability to the GOP but Vitter is not. Vitter is needed for the GOP for Louisiana. And Ms. Palfrey's case is not a threat to the GOP because Ms. Palfrey's case is still ongoing and her case hasn't nailed another GOP lawmaker that will ruin the GOP party. Yet, Vitter denied any sex involved in Ms. Palfrey's business. Craig got caught and pleaded guilty.
GOP has a lot to lose with Craig. Craig is connected to the Abramoff/Wade/Wilkes scandal:
WILKES/WADE LOBBY NETWORK
Brent Wilkes - Between 1992 and 1997, Brent Wilkes worked for Audre Inc., run by Tom Casey, and during that time employees and family members donated $77,000 to members of Congress.
Audre is tied to Evergreen Information Technologies of Colorado, which often gave donations to the same members of congress on the same days. ($20,000 out of $22,000 in donations were ruled illegal.)
After Wilkes broke from Audre and started his own firm, Duncan Hunter continued to support Audre’s software against Wilkes’s. Thereafter, Wilkes started donating to Cunningham.
Brent Wilkes’s high-school football buddy and best friend is Kyle Dustin “Dusty” Foggo, currently the number 3 man at the CIA.
Wilkes and Foggo were roommates at San Diego State, were best men at each other’s weddings, and named their sons after each other (according to the San Diego Union-Tribune).
Mitchell J. Wade - has a Navy Intelligence background, and he started by working with Wilkes.
In September 2002, the General Services Administration signed a blanket purchase agreement (no-bid contract) with MZM totaling $250 million over five years.
Wade’s first contract for $140,000 was to supply office furniture and computers for VP Cheney’s office.
MZM also gained a contract with the Army’s National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) and two months later, MZM hired the son of the NGIC executive director (William Scott Rich III).
Then, MZM got an even bigger NGIC contract.
NGIC is the group that said Iraq’s aluminum tubes could be used for a centrifuge.
Craig received money from Wilkes and Wade. Both Wade and Wilkes have been indicted.
From TPM:
Idaho's Craig Gives Away Wilkes Cash Idaho's Sen. Larry Craig (R) gave charities over $40,000 in campaign donations he received from crooked contractors involved in the Randy "Duke" Cunningham bribery scandal. He's giving away $30,000 which came from Brent Wilkes' ADCS, Inc. Craig fought unsuccessfully for earmarks in a appropriations bill which would require the Pentagon to contract with ADCS. The Pentagon had not requested the earmark, and its Inspector General had faulted ADCS' work in an investigation two years prior. (Idaho Statesman)
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