Author Topic: Delay... Scum or Biggest Scum? (Read 1155 times)

midnight Target · « **on:** February 10, 2006, 10:14:54 AM »

Time for some rightious indignation here.

Tom Delay, the darling of the Conservative right, upholder of American values and defender of Christian morals protects people who use slavelike conditions to keep workers and even perform FORCED ABORTIONS. Where has this story gone? Where is the "liberal media"? Christians throughout the land should be beating the drums to oust this idiot from office, but wait! He's a republican! They can't!

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/05/09/real.delay/

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91 percent of the workforce who were immigrants -- from China, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh -- were being paid barely half the U.S. minimum hourly wage and were forced to live behind barbed wire in squalid shacks minus plumbing, work 12 hours a day, often seven days a week, without any of the legal protections U.S. workers are guaranteed
Murkowski wrote a bill to extend the protection of U.S. labor and minimum-wage laws to the workers in the U.S. territory of the Northern Marianas.

..........But one man primarily stopped the U.S. House from even considering that worker-reform bill: then-House Republican Whip Tom DeLay.

According to law firm records recently made public, lobbyist Jack Abramoff, paid millions to stop reform and keep the status quo, met personally at least two dozen times with DeLay on the subject in one two-year period. The DeLay staff was often in daily contact with Abramoff.

DeLay fully approved of the working and living conditions. The Texan's salute to the owners and Abramoff's government clients was recorded by ABC-TV News: "You are a shining light for what is happening to the Republican Party, and you represent everything that is good about what we are trying to do in America and leading the world in the free-market system"

Later, DeLay would tell The Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin that the low-wage, anti-union conditions of the Marianas constituted "a perfect petri dish of capitalism. It's like my Galapagos Island."

Suave · « **Reply #1 on:** February 10, 2006, 11:39:43 AM »

An american politician is not a public servant. He is an employee of corperate enterprise. Much like an accountant, or an attorney. The apex of success in america isn't to be the president or political repressentative, but to be one of the of the guys who the politicians works for.

Last presidential election pitted a skull and bones member against a skull and bones member. Will we ever again see a president who comes from the worker/consumer entity that is the american citizenry? It's a rhetorical question.

The business of america is business.

Sandman · « **Reply #2 on:** February 10, 2006, 11:43:53 AM »

We live in the information age.

Can someone tell me why we still need an elected representative?

Suave · « **Reply #3 on:** February 10, 2006, 11:45:39 AM »

If we didn't ? Who would protect the interests of big money?

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 10, 2006, 11:51:37 AM »

OMGWTF a politician being a scum bag?

MT you have set my world on its ear!!;)

ChickenHawk · « **Reply #5 on:** February 10, 2006, 12:26:47 PM »

But MT, you forgetting that "Tom Delay is a good man."

Disclaimer: the preceding statement was dripping with sarcasm playing off previous statements made by members of this esteemed bbs.

midnight Target · « **Reply #6 on:** February 10, 2006, 02:16:09 PM »

People still hate Hillary more that Delay? I wonder why?

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #7 on:** February 10, 2006, 02:22:15 PM »

She's a scumbag too?

Gunslinger · « **Reply #8 on:** February 10, 2006, 02:24:37 PM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
People still hate Hillary more that Delay? I wonder why?

"Congress is being run like a plantation....and you all KNOW what I mean by that" -Hillary Clinton

At least she's honest about her pandering.

Then there's "not one democrat took one dime of Ambramoff money" -Howard Dean, Chairman DNC

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Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid wrote at least four letters helpful to Indian tribes represented by Jack Abramoff, and the senator's staff regularly had contact with the disgraced lobbyist's team about legislation affecting other clients.
The activities _ detailed in billing records and correspondence obtained by The Associated Press _ are far more extensive than previously disclosed. They occurred over three years as Reid collected nearly $68,000 in donations from Abramoff's firm, lobbying partners and clients.

Reid's office acknowledged Thursday having "routine contacts" with Abramoff's lobbying partners and intervening on some government matters _ such as blocking some tribal casinos _ in ways Abramoff's clients might have deemed helpful. But it said none of his actions were affected by donations or done for Abramoff.

"All the actions that Senator Reid took were consistent with his long- held beliefs, such as not letting tribal casinos expand beyond reservations, and were taken to defend the interests of Nevada constituents," spokesman Jim Manley said.

Reid, D-Nev., has led the Democratic Party's attacks portraying Abramoff's lobbying and fundraising as a Republican scandal. But Abramoff's records show his lobbying partners billed for nearly two dozen phone contacts or meetings with Reid's office in 2001 alone.

Most were to discuss Democratic legislation that would have applied the U.S. minimum wage to the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory and Abramoff client, but would have given the islands a temporary break on the wage rate, the billing records show.

Reid also intervened on government matters at least five times in ways helpful to Abramoff's tribal clients, once opposing legislation on the Senate floor and four times sending letters pressing the Bush administration on tribal issues. Reid collected donations around the time of each action.

...Abramoff's firm also hired one of Reid's top legislative aides as a lobbyist. The aide later helped throw a fundraiser for Reid at Abramoff's firm that raised donations from several of his lobbying partners. And Reid's longtime chief of staff accepted a free trip to Malaysia arranged by a consulting firm connected to Abramoff that recently has gained attention in the influence-peddling investigation that has gripped the Capitol.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/02/09/D8FLR3380.html

Scum is as scum does.

Gunthr · « **Reply #9 on:** February 10, 2006, 02:25:01 PM »

MT, you've asked over and over here why Hillary is hated. I was wondering if you had acquired any perspective of your own this after all the words that have been typed on this issue.

Gunthr · « **Reply #10 on:** February 10, 2006, 02:26:57 PM »

Delay is scum. Fat prettythang Teddy Kennedy is the biggest scum.

midnight Target · « **Reply #11 on:** February 10, 2006, 02:32:52 PM »

Mention a Republican politician supporting forced abortions and near slavery and the response is there to see.

Mention the word Hillary and .... hehe... you guys crack me up.

Masherbrum · « **Reply #12 on:** February 10, 2006, 05:24:34 PM »

I'll be honest here. I say to hell with the Repubs and Dems. They are ALL scum (no, one is NOT better than the other). I treat them like they treat me: they could give a rat's a** about my existence.

Karaya

Gunslinger · « **Reply #13 on:** February 10, 2006, 06:26:19 PM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
Mention a Republican politician supporting forced abortions and near slavery and the response is there to see.

Mention the word Hillary and .... hehe... you guys crack me up.

No MT its your math that's funny.....actually both sides do this for political jockeying.

Politics: Not supporting the bill = supporting abortions and slavery
Real Life: Not supporting the bill = not supporting the bill

Abortions....slavery.....plan tations. hmmm I see a definate theme here. I give it 18 days till we see the ever dreaded race card pulled to sum it all up.

midnight Target · « **Reply #14 on:** February 10, 2006, 06:30:40 PM »

If you think all he did was "not support the bill" you didn't read the article.