Hey freepers--Cunningham wore a wire

[Kingofalldems]

How's that grab you? He's one of your heroes, isn't he? And BTW, there is no use saying, 'I bet there were some members of the 'Democrat' party involved', because there weren't.

[Loonman]

1. Freepers are playing ostrich over Cunninham

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=Cunningham

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. It's the Democrats fault!

For not noticing that Cunningham had all that extra money!

LOL!

[Loonman]

12. Crap, that link broke

Just put Cunningham in the search window.

Last story is 12/15/05

[babylonsister]

2. And wouldn't it be wonderful if his buddy Duncan Hunter was

involved?

[Kingofalldems]

5. I'm hoping for that fat guy from Az.

Reminds me of Rush Limbaugh.

[babylonsister]

7. J.D. Hayworth; yes, another candidate. But there are so many! nt

[Hello_Kitty]

22. No worries there. He was up Abramoff's butt. n/t

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. Cunningham wore a wire??? Where? When? Why?

How the hell did I miss that? Have any details?:hi:

[babylonsister]

8. Here you go, from greatest:

Washington’s power players have always bragged about being well-wired, but for disgraced former congressman Duke Cunningham, “wired” wasn’t just a figure of speech. In a week when legislators are focused on the question of who else might be brought down by ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s cooperation with prosecutors as he seeks lenient sentencing over his two federal guilty pleas this week,
sources tell TIME that ex-Rep. Cunningham wore a wire to help investigators gather evidence against others just before copping his own plea.


http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/06/cunningham-wire /

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1146700,...

Also discussed at:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[in_cog_ni_to]

14. Hahahahahahha! HOLY SHIT!

They have GOT TO BE SHAKING IN THEIR BOOTS NOW! OMG! This is THE BEST NEWS I've heard in days. Oh man...I wonder who they got? :woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

[C_U_L8R]

19. All the Repukes are wearing wires these days

It's like a gigantic game of who can implicate who...
and the winner is the last man standing... or is that the loser
anyone got an instruction sheet for this game ?
Whatever.... bottom line... all the Pukes are wired.

[rpgamerd00d]

4. He sold out his own party. What a "hero" he is now, right Freepers?

[jimshoes]

10. They don't need to worry

if they have nothing to hide. :evilgrin:

[jeanarrett]

9. Oh yeah, check it out. . . they ARE already blaming the dems:

To: GaltMeister
What I don't get is how this guy lived such an ostentatious lifestyle and nobody wondered how a congressman could afford those luxuries. Particularly in the days where the political parties put the opposition members under an electron microscope. The Dems should have discovered all this and ratted Cunningham out years ago.



8 posted on 01/06/2006 11:50:23 AM PST by John Jorsett (scam never sleeps)
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To: r9etb
Maybe, John, it's because most of them live that lifestyle. A lot of them are rich to begin with; and a lot of others get that way once they reach DC.
Granted, but that doesn't explain why the Democrats didn't notice that he was living far beyond his means. I believe it was them who finally discovered that he'd sold his house to a defense contractor at far above market, which is what got the ball rolling on this scandal, but I'd have thought he'd have been found out long before that. The only explanation that occurs to me is that maybe they don't normally bother to do oppo research on Republicans who are in extremely safe districts, and that only their recent "culture of corruption" offensive caused them to start.


18 posted on 01/06/2006 11:59:34 AM PST by John Jorsett (scam never sleeps)
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What a bunch of losers.

[babylonsister]

13. Unreal. So now it's up to Dems to police repugs if they appear

to be living above their means? :crazy:

[in_cog_ni_to]

15. Huh? This post >>>>>>>

but that doesn't explain why the Democrats didn't notice that he was living far beyond his means

and the DEMS should have discovered this years ago and ratted him out????

Those people really are weird.:scared:

[Kingofalldems]

26. I nominate that FR post as the dumbest thing ever written

over there. Beyond moronic.:rofl:

[Shakespeare]

23. It's our fault because we didn't catch him sooner?

Ohfergodsakes...morans.

[Kingofalldems]

25. How pitiful of them

:rofl:

[Tom Joad]

11. Republicans have at least helped one segment of the economy...

Prosecuting attorneys and legal staff are in high demand... This will employ hundreds of people to prosecute even a dozen congressmen (and were talking probably many more than that).

[in_cog_ni_to]

17. No KIDDING. I heard the Justice Dept. won't prosecute everyone

involved because there's TOO MANY of them. So what? They get off with a slap on the hand? At the VERY LEAST, they should leave Congress. Last number I heard was 60 Congressman. UNBELIEVABLE!

[Tom Joad]

24. This will be done by a justice dept run under a repuke admin. Sweet.

It will be hard to say they are being attacked by Dems.

[TahitiNut]

16. From "fly by wire" to "fry by wire" ... I love it.

I gotta believe he nailed Duncan Hunter and (hopefully) J.D. Hayworth ... two of the dirtiest critters in D.C.

[LeftNYC]

18. The Freepers have no response.

I would post this over there, but I am banned because I asked how come none of them were fighting in Iraq...Simple question I thought.

[TahitiNut]

20. The image of homophobic Repukelickers frisking one another for wires ...

... has my brain all a-twitter! Nothing proves the rampant corruption in the GreedyObesePig caucus than their own worries and the furtive glances of their own constituents.

A clean conscience sure is the most comfortable pillow on which to rest one's head at night.

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