And Duke Cunningham will get his $60,000 per year pension:

[yy4me]

This is the height of arrogance. I guess this is just another example of a government gone wrong. To put it politely, this stinks!

[MADem]

1. Let me piss you off even more--he gets a NAVY PENSION, too!

That shitheel retired in 87 with a full pension.

[AlecBGreen]

9. SHITHEEL!

bwaahahhaha! I havent heard that one is ages! Cheers mate :toast:

[MADem]

10. I knew that bum when he was on active duty

And shitheel describes him to a T.
:toast: :beer: :beer:

[maine_raptor]

2. Yup

And MADem is right too, he gets his Navy one too.

And to further inflame you...............

the cost for his room and board for his current TDY will be paid for by the taxpayers too.

Have a Nice Day.

[life_long_dem]

4. I don't mind paying taxes to imprison GOP criminals.

Another thought, who pays the bills to house the war criminals in the Hague? I'll donate some money for bread and water for **, Prick, Dummy, Rovey.

[babylonsister]

3. Kerry tried to get that stopped, but I don't know whatever

happened to this. (Link doesn't work, guess because it's old).
I would love to see something like this passed, though. It's way past time. If it doesn't happen, DeLay could be in the same boat if/when he's indicted. He'll still get retirement, subsidizing his offshore spoils that are probably illegal.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2... /

By Rick Klein, Globe Staff | February 9, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Senator John F. Kerry said he plans to file a bill today that would strip government pensions from lawmakers who are convicted of official misconduct, adding a new element to congressional efforts to overhaul ethics and lobbying laws.
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Kerry's bill would halt pensions for senators and House members who are found guilty of bribery, perjury, or conspiracy to defraud the government. Kerry is nicknaming the bill the ''Duke Cunningham Act," after the Republican House member from California who resigned his seat last year after pleading guilty to accepting bribes.

Cunningham is entitled to a pension of about $40,000 a year under current law, which denies pensions only to former lawmakers who are convicted of crimes against the United States, such as treason and espionage.

''It's disgusting that hard-working taxpayers fund the retirement of criminals like Duke Cunningham," said Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat. ''We have to restore the public trust in the country. People don't believe in Washington. They think it's broken."

...

''Republican and right-wing activists have been getting a lot of practice trying to hide their incompetence, corruption, and failures from the American people," Kerry wrote in the e-mail to supporters

[FULL_METAL_HAT]

5. Maybe they/he started to see a hope for taking back the congress and

Maybe they/he started to see a hope for taking back the congress and put it on the back burner till after the November elections?

Considering the GOP's present total ethics reform :sarcasm: it might be better to wait. After all, old Dukey has 8 long years to wait to get his pension(s) nailed.

{B^> FMH

[babylonsister]

6. Or, maybe no one wanted to sign up for it, because they too

might be in the indictment loop. God forbid anyone should want to police themselves. Yeah, that ethics reform is one big joke, isn't it. :eyes:

[FULL_METAL_HAT]

7. Not a whole lot of action thats for sure ... here's a page I found

http://www.reform.house.gov/GovReform/Hearings/EventSingle.aspx?EventID=38757

Not much else, and the congressional record system seems to be pathetic in this google-search world.

http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=547764461

C-span has the video of the meeting but want $150 for it! That's ridiculous in our internet world.

But of course the reason for both of these is to limit public access to public information -- thanks to our present administration...

[babylonsister]

8. I've tried to find Congressional bills on google, and they make

it impossibly confusing (to me), even if you have the bill number. It definitely limits my public access.

[0007]

11. What a fuck up society we have.

[Blue_In_AK]

12. My understanding is that his pension

will go toward his restitution ... this from someone very close to me who is on his defense team.