All the attention is on the Republicans

[Domitius Corbulo]

On 11/23/2012 1:18 PM, Billy wrote:> In article
<35ija859vl4k1qcgt...@4ax.com>,
> God's Debris <hea...@dead.net> wrote:
>> All the attention is on the Republicans because they lost.......
>
That's the cop-out. They are in denial saying that they could have done
something wrong or the democrats did something improper. If they wanted
a genuine explanation, they might try looking at their own platform and
compare it to the democrat's platform. Here are many reasons why the
right is now wrong: Democrats - 3, Republicans - 12.

John Ensign (R-Nev.)

Then-Sen. John Ensign was a proponent of the Federal Marriage
Amendment, which would have banned states from recognizing same-sex
marriage. "Marriage is the cornerstone on which our society was
founded," he argued on the Senate floor in 2004. He also called on
President Bill Clinton to resign over the Monica Lewinsky scandal,
saying it had destroyed the president's credibility. Yet in 2009, Ensign
admitted that he had had an extramarital affair with a former campaign
staffer who was also the wife of one of his top aides. An ethics
investigation by the Senate Ethics Committee and the FBI followed, and
Ensign resigned in 2011.

Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.)

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has a long and rich history of
hypocrisy, including receiving a reported $1.6 million in consulting
fees from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before blaming the mortgage giants
for the country's housing crisis and endorsing President Barack Obama's
health care plan before the 2012 presidential primary campaign, during
which he hammered Mitt Romney's Massachusetts plan for being similar to
Obamacare. But his crowning hypocrisy was probably leading impeachment
proceedings against President Bill Clinton in the 1990s over the Monica
Lewinsky scandal while Gingrich himself was having an extramarital
affair. His ex-wife Marianne recently claimed that while they were
married, Newt requested an "open marriage" so that he could continue the
affair with his now-wife, Callista.

Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.)

Rep. Charlie Rangel stepped down as chairman of the House Ways and Means
Committee after he was congressionally censured for failing to pay
income taxes and filing misleading financial statements, among other
misdeeds. But that didn't stop him from hammering Mitt Romney for his
lack of transparency on tax returns. "Before he judges other people
about paying federal income taxes, Governor Romney should come clean
about the tax returns he's hiding from voters," Rangel said.

Paul Ryan (R-Wis)

The failed vice presidential candidate has been an outspoken opponent of
earmark spending, but that didn't stop Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) from
arranging a $735,000 earmark to construct a transit center in his
hometown of Janesville, Wis. Likewise, after slamming President Barack
Obama's stimulus package, Ryan sought stimulus funds for several
projects in his district.


Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.)

Rep. Michele Bachmann was the original sponsor of legislation to repeal
the Affordable Care Act, but her war against "socialized medicine"
hasn't stopped husband Marcus from applying for public funds for his
"pray away the gay" counseling practice. Bachmann, an outspoken opponent
of big government, has also personally benefited from federal farm
subsidies. She recently described the Internal Revenue Service, which
earlier in her career employed her to sue people in tax collection
cases, as "the most heartless organization anyone knows of."

John Boehner (R-Ohio)

House Speaker John Boehner has loudly congratulated himself for the GOP
House jobs package -- even though economists say the package's 32 bills
will do little to create jobs -- while working hard to block President
Barack Obama�s $447 billion jobs plan. A longtime critic of wasteful
government spending, Boehner (along with other House Republican leaders)
spent $1.5 million defending the Defense of Marriage Act.

Al Gore (D-Tenn)

He won an Oscar for "An Inconvenient Truth" and a Nobel Peace Prize for
his work on climate change, but Al Gore's own carbon footprint was once
an inconvenient issue. His 20-room Nashville mansion and pool house in
2006 racked up $30,000 in utility bills, consuming more than 20 times
the national home average, according to a report by the Tennessee Center
for Policy Research. A Gore spokesperson disputed the conservative think
tank's report and said that renovations on the home cut its electricity
and natural gas consumption about 40 percent by the next year.

Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.)

Sen. Strom Thurmond , a famed segregationist, spent many of his 48 years
in the U.S. Senate fighting racial integration and equality, punctuated
by his 24-hour filibuster in a failed attempt to kill the Civil Rights
Act of 1957. Six months after Thurmond's death in 2003, a biracial woman
named Essie Mae Washington-Williams revealed that the late senator was
her father. Her mother was 16 and working for Thurmond�s parents when
she became pregnant.

Mitt Romney (R-Mich-Mass)

From his opposition to President Barack Obama's health care reform,
which was patterned after his own plan in Massachusetts, to his
politically expedient shifts in positions on immigration, climate change
and abortion, Mitt Romney has a record of hypocrisy too expansive and
well documented for any Etch A Sketch to erase.

Mark Foley (R-Fla.)

During his time in office, former Rep. Mark Foley introduced a bill
against child pornography, fought to expand federal sex offender laws,
supported anti-gay legislation and chaired the House Caucus on Missing
and Exploited Children. Then he was caught sending graphic sex messages
to underage males working as congressional pages. He quickly resigned in
2006.

David Vitter (R-La.)

When Sen. David Vitter admitted his involvement in the "D.C. Madam"
scandal in 2007, it didn�t end his career or lead to any criminal
charges. It also didn't end his attempts to narrow prosecutorial
discretion for others in vulnerable positions. At a hearing last year on
the HALT Act, which would have suspended discretionary immigration
protections, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) accused Vitter of "hypocrisy to
seek to limit the use of discretion when one has enjoyed the benefit
himself." Vitter has also advocated for abstinence-only sex education
and in 2004 ran on a "family values" platform that included opposition
to same-sex marriage.

Sarah Palin (R-Ak)

Sarah Palin has been an outspoken opponent of President Barack Obama's
health care plan, but a more socialized system wasn't always so
problematic for her. In 2010, she admitted to having taken trips across
the Canadian border to receive single-payer health care long before she
brought "death panels" into the war against the Affordable Care Act.

Larry Craig (R-Idaho)

Former Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) is best known for his 2007 airport
bathroom trip that ended in a same-sex-sting arrest for lewd conduct
after he allegedly solicited sex from an undercover officer. Craig
blamed his wandering foot on his "wide stance" but resigned later that
year. While in office, he had supported the anti-gay marriage Federal
Marriage Amendment and voted against a measure to include anti-gay bias
in hate crimes legislation. He received a rating of zero from the Human
Rights Campaign for his votes on LGBT issues.

Eliot Spitzer (D-N.Y.)

While serving as the Democratic governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer was
brought down by a federal wiretap that revealed he patronized a
$1,000-an-hour prostitute named Ashley Dupre at a Washington, D.C.,
hotel. Further investigation uncovered the prostitution ring Emperors
Club VIP, and numerous money transfers to the club were traced back to
Client 9 -- the governor. As New York state attorney general, Spitzer
prosecuted at least two prostitution rings, and as governor he forced
state comptroller Alan Hevesi out of office for the comparatively minor
offense of using a state car and chauffeur for his sick wife.

Scott DesJarlais (R-Tenn.)

Rep. Scott DesJarlais just won a second term despite recent revelations
that he had sex with a patient while working as a physician and later
urged her to get an abortion. Yet DesJarlais' campaign platform opposed
abortion. "All life should be cherished and protected. We are pro-life,"
his website stated. There�s more. According to transcripts from his 2001
divorce proceedings, released after the election, the congressman and
his then-wife made a "mutual"
decision for her to have two abortions while they were married.

(D- 3)
(R-12)

Of course by sharing this we become the "Liberal News" - Another lie?
Certainly. If there were 12 democrats and 3 republicans we'd still be
the "Liberal News"-just don't dare criticize those who should be
criticized. While at it, look up the definition of "Liberal". The right
wing has taken upon itself to rewrite that definition as well. Perhaps
it's the definition. By that definition, few of the Liberals are really
Liberal.

> The changes that need to be made are, capping the amount spent on
> election campaigns, capping campaign contributions, debates including
> all nominees for an office, debates run by a non-partisan group, like
> the League of Women Voters.
>

If we wanted to level the playing field to enable an honest selection of
candidates, first we need to have all campaign contributions placed in a
pot and then equally divided among all candidates for a campaign that
only runs for 1 week. They can start 2 weeks before the election and run
for one week only. If a voter needs a freakin' year to make up his
mind, he shouldn't be allowed to vote. This last election has burned out
a lot of people May this president last as long as he wants to and we
won't have to repeat this crap in another 4 years.