courtesy terrellaftermath.com http://terrellaftermath.com/
Are you ready for some return fire ammunition for the coming assault on Republicans by the Democrat media machine? It will be a constant drum beat associating greed and Republicans and all matters politically incorrect . . . the implication being Democrats are selfless in their politics and personal lives.
We Republicans are certainly not sinless or scandal proof. But it is often portrayed that our sins and scandal are somehow worse, compounded by the charge of “hypocrisy,” never mind the hypocrisy in making the charge. Maybe we should be proud of our occasional “hypocrisies” because at least in this day and age it implies that we know what is wrong.
On a number of matters Democrats simply seek to obviate the charge by adopting the wrongs as “rights” . . . so called “victimless crimes” at least when it comes to Democrats. Political and union graft corruption and intimidation are often dismissed as “Republicans do it too” or “solidarity is for the greater good of workers” and “its time to move on.” Being a Democrat means rarely having to say you are sorry, and if you do say so, that should end the matter.
We are not going to let them off that easy.
The dominant liberal media, religious social justice pimps and other Democrat hacks (essentially paid partisans) are prone to talk and write about Republican linked corruption. But they really cannot get away from what, strangely, seems to be the worst sin in their book, hypocrisy. That is because they also like to wrap themselves in the flag of “fairness” and “objectivity” and “balance” and “compromise” and “doing the people’s business,” “transparency” and the latest gag enduser, “civility.” In reality they rarely exhibit any of those concepts. They grotesquely violate them while calling for conservatives to adhere to them.
Every one of the scandals or scandal linked personages listed below primarily involve Democrats. They primarily involve personal financial gain or large unethical political fund raising aggrandizement, and usually lies and various abuses of power. The criterion for listing is adjudicated criminality, admitted or administratively confirmed ethics violations, notorious moral turpitude while in a position of high honor, rank political hypocrisy, and national security breaches (we didn’t say treason). I skipped nickle dime sex scandals unless they became notorious because of the high profile position of the office holder. I skipped drug alcohol and domestic charges unless they rose to a notorious level (a high hurdle for Democrats) . Also skipped were less notorious political crimes unless they involved a Senator or high ranking House member that rose to a level of notoriety.
Understand that for Democrat corruption to be covered by the dominate liberal press, it was at least as bad as reported. A synopsis could be supplied to each but for the purposes of this article a basic listing should be enough. We invite readers whose memories are not jogged by the mere mention to “google” or visit “wikipedia” searching the name of the perp or the scandal for sufficient information to establish the veracity of the listing herein.
Listing here is not to imply that in some cases Republicans were not involved, only that they were not in control of the scandal although they were in control of themselves. Additional context to this is the tendency of the liberal mainstream media to equivocate regarding them, being sure to play-up any “bipartisan” aspect, not referring to party affiliation for Democrats when they do for Republicans, slow acknowledgment of the offense, and then burying and killing the story, and of course the extent of breathless coverage national media “invest” in Republican linked scandals compared to a “no-story here” approach to virtual endemic big-government Democrat linked corruption.
Some of the listings provided here are from scanning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_scandals_in_the_United_States. And associated with the above site: http://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_American_federal_politicians_convicted_of_crimes#2009.E2.80.93_.28Obama_.28D.29_presidency.29 and also http://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_American_state_and_local_politicians_convicted_of_crimes.
To be sure one will find plenty of Republican corruption, but not as frequent and in our judgement, when it did happen, was generally not of the same breadth and scale
Random selections provided for fun. Be prepared for a long scroll down memory lane.
DEMOSCAMS
The Real Stolen Election – JFK / LBJ 1960
Tammany Hall
Solyndra
Boss Pendergast
Bootlegger Joe (kennedy)
Marion Barry
House Bank Scandal (two indictments, both Democrats)
House Post Office Scandal (4 of 5)
Johnny Chung (Chinagate)
Charlie Trie (Chinagate)
John Huang
James Riady
Koreagate (Clinton)
Al “no controlling legal authority” Gore a.k.a. Hindu Gate
Barney Frank’s homosexual pimp houseboy
Endemic mob rule in unions
New Orleans aka the “Big Sleazy”
CIETC Iowa Polk County Democrats
Bob Torricelli
Jim Trafficant
Tony Coelho
Clinton Pardongate Carlos Vignali
Clinton Disbarment
Speaker Jim Wright
Dan Rostenkowski
Ed Mezvinsky (BTW father-in-law to Chelsea Clinton)
Dem’s vote early and vote often — Cook County Graveyard voters
Cappaquiddick Ted Kennedy
ENRON and Clinton Administration, joined at the hip
Walter Fauntroy
Charles Diggs, Jr.
Whitewater but more Clinton Arkansas scandals than Web space
Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones, etc., etc., etc.
Wilbur Mills
Wayne Hays
Gary Condit
Garry Studds
Harman Talmadge
Daniel Flood
Web Hubbel
Alger Hiss
Bill Ayers connection to Barrack Obama
Peter Paul
Marc Rich
Gary Hart / Donna Rice
Gus Savage
Mel Reynolds
Jessie Jackson
Allan Howe
Sen. Brock Adams
John Murtha ABSCAM, airport for nowhere, and other earmarks
Savings and Loan Scandal (3 of Keating 5)
Slavery and Jim Crow and the Democrat Party
WV Senator Robert C. Byrd KKK
Fugitive from justice George Soros
Craig Livingstone
Rod Blagojevich
Pennsylvania Senator Vince Fumo
Catholics for Kerry leader Robert Eric McFadden
Monica Conyers wife of John Conyers
ACORN voter registration indictments
Charlie Rangel
Allan Mollohan
Peter Franklin Paul
Henry Cisneros and the whole Barrett Report Coverup
John Edwards
George Wallace
Tony Rezko
Gov. Dan Walker, of where else, Illinois
Gov. Don Siegelman of Alabama
Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker
Gov. Otto Kerner (former) of, you guessed it, Illinois
Rep. William J. Jefferson (cold cash)
Rep. Walter T Tucker III
Wedtech Scandal
Abscam Scandal (6 of 7 were Democrats)
Alcee Hastings, Jr.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
For gosh sakes people just think the whole state of New Jersey, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and just about every big city in the country.
PS: Chicago named most corrupt city . . . and they don’t call Cook County Crook County for no reason.
Seedy politics as usual if not actionable graft and corruption, conflicts of interest, certainly hypocrisy and assorted unAmerican activities:
Sandy “the burglar” Berger
The utter injustice regarding Scooter Libby for his role in the Valerie Plame matter
Obama 2008 pledge not to take money outside the Presidential Campaign Fund
Harry Reid Real Estate transactions
Crony Capitalism and Obama Bundlers
Fiskar Automotive, Solyndra
Nancy Pelosi and Starkist
Sleazy Hanoi Tom Harkin independent foreign policy adventures
Still waiting for John Kerry’s release of his military records
Chinese Tech Transfers (Clinton)
Obamas connection to Bill Ayers and other radical leftists
Michelle Obamas “job” at the U of Chicago Medical Center
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geitner, tax cheat
Sen. Tom Daschle and his wife
The Chris Dodd and Ted Kennedy Sandwich
Time lines and connections relative to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Rathergate
Sen. Dianne Feinstein conflicts of interest
Developing . . . former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine
Also read the book Donkey Cons, by Lynn Vincent and Robert Stacy McCain, a comparative study of political scandals.
Of course these are petty crimes compared to the crimes liberal Democrat policies inflict on Americans . . . overwhelming debt, increased welfare, social and cultural decay.
In closing, as Representative Adam West remarked recently, “When you look at the history of the black community with the Democratic Party, you see slavery, you see segregation, you see the Jim Crow Laws, you see secession and now you see socialism which is really not beneficial to the black community.”
We might add that it would be at least arguable to portray Democrats as the party of : sophistry and sacrilege, sand bagging the constitution, scoundrels and schemers, screech owls, screw balls, stooges, sedition, self-deception (our kindest disapprobation not applicable to Democratic leadership), sellouts, sepsis, phony sermonizers and we haven’t gone through half of the S words yet, . . . add cynicism if we add the use of phonetics to the litany.
