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30 seats and counting

Disagreeable

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Another upset. Democrats ousted seven term Congressman, George W. Bush's buddy, Henry Bonilla from his job. Link below. Now we've got one left in Florida to be decided. Yes, the Republican has been declared the winner in Katherine Harris' old Florida district, but the Dem is challenging that. Somehow about 18,000 votes didn't register on the machines in one particular district. :???:

"Democratic former Rep. Ciro D. Rodriguez upset Republican Rep. Henry Bonilla in a House runoff election Tuesday in southwestern Texas’ 23rd District, pushing the Democrats’ net gain to 30 House seats and concluding Campaign 2006 with one final stunning come-from-behind victory for the new House majority party."

http://www.nytimes.com/cq/2006/12/12/cq_2034.html
 

Econ101

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Bonillo was one of the packer lackeys who sold out the interests of ranchers in Congress. He received a lot of packer money and wielded his power in Congress for packers in a lot of ways.

I am glad to see such a sellout gone. He deserves it for selling out democracy for his and his party's campaign coffers.
 
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Anonymous

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Dis-- Thats some of the best news I've seen since Burns got kicked in the hiney... :D :D :D Bonilla was one of the worst examples for the Republican party there was-- bought out thru and thru......Maybe the voting public is truly starting to wake up..... :clap:

He was the man that almost single handedly killed the M-COOL law with his snidely tricks for the Packers-- while taking hundreds of thousands of $ in packer money from the Tyson/Cargil/Swifts etal, AMI, NCBA, and retailers......

Maybe now he will go to work for Dittmer at the AFF and make it a 3 person foundation :wink: :lol: :lol: Be right in there with NCBA Jan...A nice 6 figure "foundation" job is apparently how the Packers show their appreciation for going above and beyond the call of duty.....
 

memanpa

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he11 i bet DIS would have voted for him as bad as he was! :D :D
in fact i heard that DIS was very close to him.
clinton and monica close. except DID inhaled Lol
 

Work Hard and Study Hard

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memanpa said:
he11 i bet DIS would have voted for him as bad as he was! :D :D
in fact i heard that DIS was very close to him.
clinton and monica close. except DID inhaled Lol

Are you two? You bring absolutely nothing to the table other than an ignorant blind hatred of Democrats. Their is nothing more ignorant in life than a blind hatred of anyone.
 

nonothing

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Work Hard and Study Hard said:
memanpa said:
he11 i bet DIS would have voted for him as bad as he was! :D :D
in fact i heard that DIS was very close to him.
clinton and monica close. except DID inhaled Lol

Are you two? You bring absolutely nothing to the table other than an ignorant blind hatred of Democrats. Their is nothing more ignorant in life than a blind hatred of anyone.

See if the repub's are not in a favorable story,what the like to do is attack the sender personally.....notice he never acknowledged the representative for being a horrible example of the party.Instead of agreeing it was time for this republican representative to go,Mr..Memanpa choose to attack DIS yet again.....Funny thing is,the other high and mighty repub's on this board never call him out for his meanness...Had Mr.Memanpa been a dem,Oh would we hear about his antics then.....shows me the hypocrisies of this place,if your a repub you can say whatever you like without being challenged..but if a dem was to act the same way all hell would break loose......That's why it is hard to respect some folk here,they are just more into a person being of the party name rather then what is morally the right thing to do.....
 

memanpa

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no no you are right!! he was scum!!
needed to be ousted!!
if you do not like what i have to say and who i decide to bother, then YOU have a free choice. you do not have to read what i write! personally i do not care one way or the other, 11
you can spout off agianst me all you want, but it is funny that there are more against you and your rantings that are for it ?
wonder why?

have a nice night!!!!
 
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Anonymous

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Old Joke-- But kind of fitting of this Congress (except you could only send it on Wednesday or Thursday or there wouldn't be any in their offices to receive it... :wink: :lol: )



Fax machines can have a great effect on politicians. Somebody just sent a
fax message to every member of Congress.

Each fax message was exactly the same: "The press has found out everything."

Both houses of Congress emptied out within thirty minutes.
 

Steve

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Pa wrote:
no no you are right!! he was scum!!
needed to be ousted!!

A republican gets tossed for being against conservative values, and few republicans deny this, yet when a democrat commits crimes.....gets caught,...indicted..what happens, dems re-elect them....

why is it this happens?

it shows that Republicans cross party lines to oust scum.....Dems re-elect them,..........

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 9, 2006
Congressman William Jefferson D-New Orleans speaks to supporters in New Orleans Saturday, Dec. 9, 2006. Jefferson defeated State Representative Karen Carter for reelection. (CBS)

Fast Fact

Jefferson, 59, was accused of taking bribes from a company seeking lucrative contracts in the Nigerian telecommunications market.

(AP) U.S. Congressman William Jefferson easily defeated his fellow opponent in a runoff vote despite an ongoing federal bribery investigation.

In complete but unofficial returns, Jefferson — — received 57 percent of the vote over state Rep. Karen Carter, who had 43 percent.

Carter was unable to capitalize on a scandal that included allegations the FBI found $90,000 in bribe money in Jefferson's freezer.

In a concession speech, Carter embraced family members and pledged to work with Jefferson, especially on the area's recovery from last year's Hurricane Katrina.

"I guess the (Democrats) are happy with the status-quo," she said.
 

Disagreeable

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A republican gets tossed for being against conservative values, and few republicans deny this, yet when a democrat commits crimes.....gets caught,...indicted..what happens, dems re-elect them....

See. Here's a prime example of the misrepresentation of a staunch Republican. Jefferson has not been indicted or convicted of anything. Yet you suggest he has been. The voters in his district chose to reelect him. When he was first put under investigation last year, Dems removed him from all committee assignments. That's all they can do. He's innocent until proven guilty. It's the law of our country. But future Speaker of the House Pelosi :D :D has not given him any committee assignments for the new term. If he's cleared during the investigation, I'm sure she'll appoint him to committee assignments he deserves. If he's convicted, you know, like Republican Duke Cunningham, he'll go to jail and Louisiana will send a replacement to his seat in the House.

Tell me one Republican who has recently been kicked out of the House by the Republican majority for illegal or immoral acts. Not Tom DeLay. In fact, the Republican majority tried to change the rules of the Ethics Committee to protect DeLay. Tom DeLay resigned of his own free will to concentrate on his upcoming trial.
 

Steve

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when a scandle breaks out Republican voters throw the bums out.....


Dems re-elect them ....and Dis defend thair actions......

now that ethics......
 

Disagreeable

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Steve said:
when a scandle breaks out Republican voters throw the bums out.....

Talks cheap, Steve. Tell me which Republican got tossed out of their seat by the Republican leadership?


Dems re-elect them ....and Dis defend thair actions......

now that ethics......

I get to vote in my state, not yours or LA. Jefferson is innocent until proven guilty. The voters sent him back to the House. You bet that I'll defend their right to vote for whomever they want. But the Democrats in the House refused to seat him on a committee, though he has the right by seniority. That's ethics.

On the other hand, Republican leadership in the House tried to change the rules to protect Tom DeLay after he was indicted. Now that's a lack of ethics.
 
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Steve said:
when a scandle breaks out Republican voters throw the bums out.....


Dems re-elect them ....and Dis defend thair actions......

now that ethics......

Montana threw the bum (Burns) out-- but it wasn't the Republican voters that did it as about 1/2 of Montana voters list themselves as Independents- and say they vote for the person, not the party....In fact the Repubs backed him- didn't even run anyone electable against him in the primary and then poured millions $ from around the country into his campaign fund-- which I see he kept about $300,000 worth of to pay for his continuing criminal attorney's legal charges... :wink: :lol: :lol:
 

aplusmnt

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Disagreeable said:
Steve said:
when a scandle breaks out Republican voters throw the bums out.....

Talks cheap, Steve. Tell me which Republican got tossed out of their seat by the Republican leadership?


Dems re-elect them ....and Dis defend thair actions......

now that ethics......

I get to vote in my state, not yours or LA. Jefferson is innocent until proven guilty. The voters sent him back to the House. You bet that I'll defend their right to vote for whomever they want. But the Democrats in the House refused to seat him on a committee, though he has the right by seniority. That's ethics.

On the other hand, Republican leadership in the House tried to change the rules to protect Tom DeLay after he was indicted. Now that's a lack of ethics.

I can not believe you are trying to turn this into a Republican and Democratic issue. ALL Politicians are evil and all of them try to change the rules to fit their needs. They all take money from big business and they all do unethical things with power and money as their objective.

No one party is more ethical than the other. It is just a matter of who is getting caught and who the media is after at the moment.
 

Steve

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Dis wrote:
I get to vote in my state, not yours or LA. Jefferson is innocent until proven guilty.

so is tom delay innocent until proven Guilty?

because you convicted him in other posts....yet still defend Jefferson.....why?

maybe it's your ethics that are questionable?
 

Disagreeable

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aplusmnt said:
Disagreeable said:
Steve said:
when a scandle breaks out Republican voters throw the bums out.....

Talks cheap, Steve. Tell me which Republican got tossed out of their seat by the Republican leadership?


Dems re-elect them ....and Dis defend thair actions......

now that ethics......

I get to vote in my state, not yours or LA. Jefferson is innocent until proven guilty. The voters sent him back to the House. You bet that I'll defend their right to vote for whomever they want. But the Democrats in the House refused to seat him on a committee, though he has the right by seniority. That's ethics.

On the other hand, Republican leadership in the House tried to change the rules to protect Tom DeLay after he was indicted. Now that's a lack of ethics.

I can not believe you are trying to turn this into a Republican and Democratic issue. ALL Politicians are evil and all of them try to change the rules to fit their needs. They all take money from big business and they all do unethical things with power and money as their objective.

No one party is more ethical than the other. It is just a matter of who is getting caught and who the media is after at the moment.

The Republican Party has done their very best for years to kill the opposition. Once upon a time, in a different world, Dems tried to be nice. They tried to work with Republicans, only to get stiffed, insulted, slandered. I don't have a kind word to say about liars, crooks and cheaters. And that's what the Republican leadership has turned into. Maybe with the whipping they took in the election, with some of the worst (Hasterett, DeLay) being out of leadership, things will get better. If I see they're actually willing to work with the Dems for the betterment of this country, I'll cut them some slack. Until I see that, my opinion of Republicans, the Religious Right, strict social conservatives, remains the same. They stink. Up until the last few yeas, I've been pretty independent. But in reality there is no one to turn to besides the Democratic Party to bring some reason to Washington, DC.

I don't believe all politicians are evil. I think many of them are actually willing to serve this country and I appreciate them. I don't want to go to DC. I wonder who'll be taking care of Tester's farm now that he's going to be working in DC.
 

Disagreeable

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Steve said:
Dis wrote:
I get to vote in my state, not yours or LA. Jefferson is innocent until proven guilty.

so is tom delay innocent until proven Guilty?

because you convicted him in other posts....yet still defend Jefferson.....why?

maybe it's your ethics that are questionable?

Trying to change the subject won't work, Steve. You should know that by now. You used Jefferson as proof that Dems have fewer ethics than Republicans. It's not true.

I think DeLay is a scumbag. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it. Yes, he's innocent until proven guilty. I have no doubt that if he had run for re-election, the voters in his district would have sent him back to Congress and he was under indictment. He's still very popular in his district. He stood beside President Bush when Bush stopped off there on November 1 to rally Republicans. Early on, when Republicans thought they could win that seat, he was personally involved in picking the replacement candidate.

I don't defend or condemn Jefferson. He's not been charged with anything! On the other hand Republicans Bob Ney and Duke Cunningham, are both either in or headed for jail. They didn't get kicked out of Congress by Republicans when the FBI announced they were under investigation. The Dems removed Jefferson from committee assignments when he came under investigation. The Republican majority tried to change the ethics rules to protect Tom DeLay's leadership position when he was indicted. What is so funny (or sad) is that the Republicans put the rule in place when they first took the House! And then tried to change it to protect DeLay! That's Republican ethics. Would the Dems do the same? You can say what you want, but we don't know that they will.
 
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Anonymous

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Dis
I wonder who'll be taking care of Tester's farm now that he's going to be working in DC.

I think it is his daughter and son-in-law that will move to the place and take care of it...They had an article about it in the paper and the problem they were having getting affordable Health Insurance since the move of occupations makes them lose their current plan... Its always nice to see a common person, that has a knowledge of the problems (health insurance) of the common folks of the country, will be involved in the decision making now....
 

Disagreeable

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Oldtimer said:
Dis
I wonder who'll be taking care of Tester's farm now that he's going to be working in DC.

I think it is his daughter and son-in-law that will move to the place and take care of it...They had an article about it in the paper and the problem they were having getting affordable Health Insurance since the move of occupations makes them lose their current plan... Its always nice to see a common person, that has a knowledge of the problems (health insurance) of the common folks of the country, will be involved in the decision making now....

He's one of the reasons that I reject the argument that all politicians are evil. The sheriff from Indiana looks promising, too. I'm just sorry we didn't get the bull rider from KS.
 

Steve

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Dis wrote:
Up until the last few yeas, I've been pretty independent.

when I stop rolling on the floor laughing I might respond..... :lol: :lol: :roll: :roll:



Packer..Packer..Packer?

I've known Disagreeable way to long to have ever seen an independant thought to believe that comment....wheres your link to back up that little lie?.... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

as for ethics I was not impressed with the attempt to try to save De;ays skin against trumped up charges....brought by a fellow independant like you...but Jefferson shows that you and your fellow liberal dems are much worse .....when it comes to ethics.....yep follow the letter of the law ....but squeek by the defination....No I never had intercourse with that woman, Billy,... defined your parties ethics.....and you keep defending thier lapses all the while trying to judge the others...Now thats a complete lack of Ethics...
 
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