Make no mistake. Hookergate is about Blackmail not Sex.

[hang a left]

And it has been going on for over 10 years. Anyone remember the Congressman from Florida that had the weird CAFTA vote?? What about the Prescription Drug Vote fiasco??

How many public officials and their aides have been compromised??

I remember a passage in "The Outlaw Bank" the BCCI book. I am paraphrazing but...it was about finding a person's weakness and exploiting it. For some people it is money, for some it is women, for some it is young boys, and so on...

Almost all of our representation in DC is OWNED in one form or another. It isn't just the Pukes.

[misternormal]

1. Another "gate"...

:rofl:

[Cooley Hurd]

2. I believe they stepped up their blackmail tactics as soon as...

...they'd achieved total power (in 2002) to include spying on members of congress, the press, etc. I've wondered (for quite a while now) about what they have on Lieberman & McCain (some secrets so gnarly that it would ruin them if exposed).

We know they spied on the UN in 2002. What would stop them from spying on ALL of their political opponents?:shrug:

[glitch]

5. Absolutely nothing. These guys are in it for keeps and think the ends

justify the means. Completely agree they've been spying on their opponents, and their "allies" too since they've had access.
No honor etc.
There is nothing inside them that will stop them, they don't have that capacity (usually acquired by the end of adolescence in healthy humans).

[KittyWampus]

19. "There is nothing inside them that will stop them?" What about Hubris?

It's been the downfall of every dictator.

[Recursion]

20. Hubris

Yeah, the problem with that is that a leader's hubris when he falls tends to take the rest of us with him.

[Joanne98]

3. "The Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins

He said the NSA did the same thing. They gave him tests to find his weaknesses and they looked for weaknesses in foreign leaders they wanted to control. I worry about the Dems being blackmailed every time they do something stupid. It's a good case to make for term limits.

[rucky]

8. Best way around blackmail:

confess. good for the soul, too.

[HopeFor2006]

15. Agree

The American public can be very forgiving... we all have our weaknesses.

[Kolesar]

4. That was Paul Craig Roberts' hypothesis in one of his commentaries

Seen on www.counterpunch.org I hate some of the stuff on counterpunch, but....

[napi21]

6. I know it's not just the Pukes! But let me tell ya,

if anybody in power is stupid enough to get involved in a situation they can be blackmailed for, then they ought to GO! I don't care what party affiliation they have, or how great they appear to do their job!

[LiberalPartisan]

7. You are SO right!....n/t

[cassiepriam]

23. I agree, but doesn't everyone have a weak spot? And Rove knows

exactly how to find it and use it to his advantage.

[Little Star]

9. You can't have one without the other.....n/t

[DearAbby]

10. that had crossed my mind...BLACKMAIL

when I heard it...also the Franklin Scandal of the 80's, crossed my mind... is there any connection? When is that going to resurface?

Ya know it would not surprise me, if at the end of this, everything comes out...well maybe a little surprised :evilgrin:



Sick bunch of bastids.

[Warpy]

11. I want to see Guckert/Gannon's client list

I think it would blow that town wide open.

I'll bet there are a few televangelists in there, too. Remember the silence from the pulpit when that story broke? Why would Phelps, Falwell, Robertson, Dobson, Terry, Reid and the other sanctimonious gasbags be silent on a homosexual prostitute being granted admission to the inner circle of pious GOP power?

Enquiring minds want to know.

[Hubert Flottz]

12. I've been pondering this hole thing!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1118377

[Spazito]

13. I agree, this goes well beyond a mere tawdry sex scandal

The question has continually come up when the media and/or congressional members act in a certain way whether someone has something over them. Given this 'enterprise' has been in operation for at least 15 years, that question has even more merit than one might have given it previously, imo.

[hang a left]

14. Gay hookers hmmmm and boys??

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/5/194558/7271

[hang a left]

16. ...

[itzamirakul]

17. Abramoff, Gannon, AIPEC? ... Read about it here...

Indicted lobbyist Abramoff operated sex, spy ring at 3 DC hotels

GOP Sen. Leader William Frist and reporter Robert Novak alleged as regular clients Prostitutes financed by Jack Abramoff and linked to AIPAC and former Israeli prime minister serviced House, Senate members, media hosts, top military, other feds.

www.TomFlocco.com

[hang a left]

21. I would love for that to be true....

but as I have learned over the years, Mr. Flocco likes to make shit up.

[itzamirakul]

24. OK...I kind of wondered about that......eom

[Catherine Vincent]

18. I'll bet you they spied on my hero Patrick J. Fitzgerald

Couldn't find anything except that he works all the time.

[cassiepriam]

22. That would explain a lot. And it is the way the oil mafia works...nt