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Oh yes I can. I'm complaining about the lack of coverage on one....and the overkill coverage on the other.
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Okay, then we have to get into the relative prominence and influence of the Veep -- and the use of no-bid contracts -- versus a single senator voting on projects that are subject to competitive bidding. |
Oh puhleeze!! So because there's 100 of them, Senators can hide their conflicts of interest better.
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Well,gee.....what about "where there's smoke; there must be some fire?"
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I've never said that. The quality and quantity of smoke is important. |
And generally the smoke is more prominent and noticeable when it's on the Republican side of the aisle, right?
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Where was the investigation to take a little "look see??"
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What would be the basis for the investigation? With Gonzales, you have a specific action to investigate -- the unusual firing of eight prosecutors, and the false and changing explanations that followed. |
NONE of which is ILLEGAL or a CRIME....right???? In fact, because there was no "there, there" regarding the reasons for firing them....the Dem leadership has skipped ahead to Reason #3: "incompetency."
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With Feinstein, the only thing you've got is that she sat on the MilCon committee, and her husband owned two defense contractors. There's not a scrap of a suggestion that there was wrongdoing -- just an independent weekly saying it could be a conflict.
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AND how very nice for her that the media isn't putting it on the front pages everyday and trying their darnest to blow it all out of proportion!!
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Well, I can't see a credible problem with the firings of 8 political appointees either. But we're sure getting a big TO DO over that!!
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Opinions vary, of course. But I think that there's an objective difference between the two. |
That's because you're looking at it through biased eyes that says those nasty Republicans MUST have done something wrong. Frankly, there was far more smoke in the e-mails of the Dems on the Judiciary Committee a few years ago, but it was glossed over. Calling Bush's nominees "nazi's----the NAACP writing Kennedy and telling him to "delay" a judicial nominee at least until a Minority Rights case gets decided---where it WAS delayed and the case was decided 5-4; and a Senator--John Edwards writing Leahy and telling him to delay nominees because it would hurt his contributors. THOSE are ALL things much, much, much worse than what we have here.
And you remember what those Dems said about it? They said...."while unseemly, nothing there was criminal." And nothing happened to them. No one had to step down or resign or anything. SAME thing should happen here. That is IF fairness is to prevail.