I'M A REPUBLICAN AND I'M IN JAIL

[Jcrowley]

Lewis Libby

Former Vice Presidential Chief of Staff, Special Assistant to the President for National Security

Known to have discussed the classified identity of a CIA officer with at least one member of the media. Indicted on 5 counts of lying to obstruct a federal investigation into said discussion(s).

Resigned all White House jobs following indictments



Tom DeLay

Former Republican Majority Leader, US House of Representatives

Indicted on 3 counts of money laundering in an effort to purchase more seats in the US House of Representatives for Republicans

Resigned leadership post following indictments. Remains a member of the House of Representatives. Will not seek re-election this November.



Mike Scanlon

Republican lobbyist, former press secretary to Tom DeLay

Pleaded guilty to stealing millions of dollars from Indian tribes (who he privately referred to as "monkeys" and "troglodytes") on whose behalf he had promised to lobby Congress for legislation favorable to their casino-building ambitions

Cooperating with federal investigators looking deeper into the crime



Jack Abramoff

Republican Lobbyist

Pleaded guilty to wire fraud in lying to lenders helping him buy a riverboat casino. Cooperating with federal investigation into the bribery of four Republican members of Congress, including Tom DeLay and Ohio Representative Bob Ney.

Sentenced to 6 years in prison.



David Safavian

Former head, White House Office of Federal Procurement Policy

Convicted of four counts of lying to federal investigators about accepting a vacation to Scotland (along with Bob Ney and various Republican activists) as a bribe for helping Jack Abramoff buy 40 acres of federally-owned land.



Bob Ney

US Representative (R-OH)

Pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from Jack Abramoff and his partners in exchange for overlooking human rights abuses by clothing manufacturers in the American territory of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Has entered rehab for alcohol addiction. Remains member of U.S. House of Representatives. Will not seek re-election this November.



Randy Cunningham

US Representative (R-CA), Member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and Intelligence Committee

Pleaded guilty to accepting nearly $2.5 million in bribes to steer federal contracts toward certain defense industry firms. One such firm, military and national security intelligence specialist MZM, was paid $145,000 to buy furniture for the White House. As the investigation into Cunningham's activities got underway, Tom DeLay praised him as a "hero" and "an honorable man of high integrity."

Sentenced to 8 years in prison.

http://www.intelligencesquad.com/id132.html

[Subdivisions]

1. That's one scary line-up!

[billybob537]

2. Just the tip

of the ICEBERG

[babylonsister]

3. Smiling material here! Nom and thanks! nt

[marmar]

4. Repugs love building new prisons...

I bet they didn't think they'd be filling them. :nopity:

[Maggie_May]

5. We should just run that as a ad

if you want more crooks vote Republican.

[sandnsea]

6. The Neo-Convict Party n/t

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

45. The party of Criminals and Pedophiles

Now those are some real Republican Family Values for you!

[4morewars]

7. HA HA

[NanceGreggs]

8. I'm LOVIN' it!

K & R!!!

[ryanus]

9. Wait. Are they actually in jail?

These high-power types often find some way to avoid punishment.

[boobooday]

10. Awesome post

Thanks for gathering all the criminals in one place. It's quite an impressive roster!

[bluestateguy]

11. Bush's pardon list is growing longer

Save for DeLay, all of them all in the federal system, so they can all be pardoned.

[yourout]

12. I heard they are holding the next RNC con-vention at Shawshank.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

44. .

:rofl:

My vote for #1. bumper sticker of the century!!

[bdamomma]

13. there are alot more of those sleazy greedy men who have to

join them, I can think of a several more.

[nam78_two]

14. Stop it! You are making me sob here

Such a bunch of fine upstanding men :cry: :cry: :cry:

Oh the humanity.....

Great post :)! Someone should make a campaign ad!

[Independent_Liberal]

15. Let's see...

First we had: Lay, Skilling, Abramoff, Taft, Colyandro, Ellis, Scanlon, Volz, DeLay, Franklin, Rosen, Weissman, Safavian, Libby, Cunningham, Noe, Rudy, Fletcher, Aragoncillo, Aquino, Foley, Ney, etc.

Who might we have next? These are possibilities: Hastert, Palmer, Doolittle, Sweeney, Cantor, Pombo, Feeney, Rohrabacher, Renzi, Hayworth, Sherwood, Blunt Gohmert, Harris, Hunter, Goode, Bilbray, Cornyn, Frist, Burns, Roberts, Shelby, Wilkes, Norquist, Blackwell, Barbour, Foggo, Novak, Hadley, Feith, Gonzales, Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush, Rice, Bolton, Abrams, Perle, Wolfowitz, Wurmser, Negroponte, Chertoff, etc.

[oldboy101]

16. A most interesting list of possible felons,

but I don't see Bush on your list! How could you overlook him? Still it promises to be entertaining once the Democratic House and Senate begin holding hearings! :popcorn:

[Independent_Liberal]

19. Yes, Bush is to be the last.

As in, the last domino to fall.

[immoderate]

17. and Bush!

--IMM

[Independent_Liberal]

23. Yep!

[Stardust]

20. No President Chucklenuts?

[Independent_Liberal]

22. He's the last domino.

See post above.

[Jcrowley]

24. Of those you list

Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, Pombo, and Frist need to be in shackles- In that order.

I don't care if Dumbya gets incarcerated, I'd rather see him be forced to do minimum wage labor to survive for the rest of his wicked daze. But Cheney needs to rot with Rove in the Big House.

[Independent_Liberal]

27. Updated the list...

Added Rice, Bolton, Negroponte, Perle, Wolfowitz, etc.

[Joe Chi Minh]

37. In the Pending tray.

[barbtries]

18. thank you

it is powerful, seeing this lineup all together. but all cannot be right until the very top echelon of this criminal administration are charged and made to answer for their many crimes against iraq, against the citizens of the US, against humanity and the planet we inhabit.

[Monk06]

21. The good news is, it's Friday and we're getting Salisbury Steak....

for dinner and Apple Cobbler for dessert.

[intheflow]

25. Great post!

I can go to bed now and dream happy dreams of impeachment! :)

[civildisoBDence]

57. They've actually merged the War on Poverty with the War on Drugs

...creating a War on Poor People Who Use Drugs.

And THAT one, we're winning!

Newsprism

[DeepModem Mom]

26. LOL! To be continued.... nt

[sfwriter]

28. Thank you!

What a lineup!

[Raksha]

29. Bad boys, bad boys, what ya gonna do?

What ya gonna do when they come for you?

I KNOW, that's kind of predictable but what the hell--it *IS* a catchy song...appropriate too!

[babylonsister]

30. That song is GREAT! nt

[Gregorian]

53. GOPS

Not the show.

[sce56]

31. Just a bunch of Republican't s

http://republicant.org

[Johnny Appleseed]

32. a motley looking crew...

That's how the band Motley Crüe got it's name, btw. Someone looked at em and said what a motley looking crew and they ran with it.

[LTR]

33. How many poor animals had to die to make Bob Ney's ridiculous rug?

That is one of the worst hair hats I've ever seen!

[Arugula Latte]

56. I was going to say ...

He deserves to be jailed for that alone!

:rofl:

[malaise]

34. This is a classic

I'm loving it.:popcorn: :rofl:

[maseman]

35. Don't forget

Tom Noe...top Repuke fundraiser in Ohio.

[jhain]

36. are man wigs allowed in jail?

It will be an added plus when we do get the real mugs shots- no toupees!

[Hepburn]

40. Toupees in jail....

Not usually allowed in the general prison population. Places like federal half-way houses do allow personal items like this. I will add: I am looking forward to Jerry Lews, R-CA 41 (Redlands) having to give up his toup as well. Too bad his capped teeth are not in the same category.

And....I wonder where the investigation about him is going. Last I heard, I thought it was headed for a Grand Jury. Here is part of an article from the SD Union Trib, December 23, 2005:

WASHINGTON – From powerful positions on the House Appropriations Committee, California Rep. Jerry Lewis has greenlighted hundreds of millions of dollars in federal projects for clients of one of his closest friends, lobbyist and former state Congressman Bill Lowery.

Meanwhile, Lowery, the partners at his firm and their clients have donated 37 percent of the $1.3 million that Lewis' political action committee received in the past six years.

Such intertwining of public, political and for-profit business is legal. But because the relationships between campaign contributors, lobbyists and lawmakers are forged out of the public's view, they are not widely known or understood.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20051223-9999-lz1n23lewis.html

Nothing like: Capped teeth, a bad toup, and way too much Man Tan!

Hmmmmm....and I am wondering what Hot Tub Tommy DeLay is gonna look like when he is forced to stop dying the gray out of his hair...:shrug:

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

47. Tom Delay: Living proof you can't overdose on Grecian Formula

Otherwise, he'd be deader than Elvis.

[Hepburn]

51. LMBO!!

Good one! :rofl:

[Jcrowley]

58. What a shiny bastard

That's one freaky creep. Is that the 21st century version of Plastic Vampire Man? Just one look and you know that dude is into some shifty business.

Would you trust your children's future with these blood thirsty vipers?

Geez that is one sinister looking artificial cutout figure.

[keepCAblue]

38. Add Weldon to the list...

And his daughter.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2397631

[keepCAblue]

39. The ones who got away...

Poppy Bush for his war crimes in Panama

Kissinger for his war crimes: http://www.zpub.com/un/wanted-hkiss.html

[Vinca]

41. Here's a suggestion -

instead of a presidential library for the Chimp (which is, after all, ridiculous on its face), how about a George W. Bush wing of a federal prison?

[progressoid]

42. To be fair, the only reason these guys got into trouble was because of

Clinton's Penis!

[sweetheart]

43. yes

[spanone]

46. KICK AND RECOMMEND

H I G H L Y.

[Jcrowley]

48. Here's a shifty character who belongs in The Big House- "Dusty" Foggo

Kyle "Dusty" Foggo

Former Executive Director of the CIA

Under investigation by the FBI, IRS, CIA, Defense Department, and US Justice Department for possibly accepting prostitutes as bribes in exchange for awarding a CIA contract to a company run by his friend Brent Wilkes -- who also runs MZM.

Resigned his post days after his boss, CIA Director Porter Goss, had inexplicably and abruptly done the same.

[Olney Blue]

49. "Family values, my ass"

[RedEarth]

50. Thanks for posting....I'M A REPUBLICAN AND I'M IN JAIL

I'm tempted to post this on a winger site....

[thingfisher]

52. How many more

of these sleezy bastards (of both parties) have not been and will never be caught! The whole government is filled with a corrupt hoard of greedy humanoids willing to do anything to gain power and wealth. That is why our democracy is in such a sorry mess. The whole system has been co-opted for the sake of the corporate interests that control the means of production, natural resources, economic policy, and virtually all the government regulatory bodies that were originally intended as a check on their power.

It seems that we have come to fully endorse the notion, "The business of America is business" in all of its hideous ramifications or as the cartoonist Al Capp put it (back in the days when actual political satire was allowed), "What's good for General Bullmoose (understood as General Motors) is good for the USA!" In contemporary America the only good is that which increases corporate profits, no matter what the social costs to the nation.
To multinational corporations (many of which began in the USA) there is no greater allegiance demanded than that of profit. Patriotism is a concept to be manipulated for public relations purposes.
So when you have elected officials who must depend on corporate money to be elected you have elected officials who must serve the interests of their corporate sponsors.
The revolving door that has developed between government and industry has virtually insured that corporate influence in the making of policy is here to stay. What hope is there when the people writing government policy belong to the corporations the policy is supposed to regulate?

NONE. This is how we have ended up with all the infrastructure necessary to implement a totalitarian fascist state. Lies and deceit have propelled to the top office a morally bankrupt empty suit who has created an atmosphere of fear designed to facilitate the relinquishment of basic historic freedoms of an electorate too focused on narrow ideological concerns to understand the larger political agenda being pushed forward.

Don't expect Ralph Nader to come riding up on a white horse... that ship has sailed!

[Jcrowley]

54. Well heck

that is one temptation you must give in to, don't ya' think? And if you do let us know what kind of responses you get. And of course this is just the starter package.

[eppur_se_muova]

55. I was expecting something to the tune of "I'm a lumberjack"...

but this is even better. :)


I'm a Republican and I'm in jail,
I sit and rot in a six-foot cell!