"Democrats are too weak to be worth bribing"

[InsultComicDog]

Watch for this meme...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086/

Republicans obviously stand to lose the most as the shocking array of "money-for-favors" revelations from Abramoff almost exclusively involve the GOP. But that is only because Republicans control both chambers of Congress and the White House. Democrats are too weak to be worth bribing. If they were in power, or if they regain some power in November's fight for control of Congress, a bribery scandal would envelop them too.

Nice rationalization, you f'ing bastard.

[SharonAnn]

1. Unfortunately, there could be some truth to that. Why buy someone

who can't deliver anything? The minority has no clout, doesn't write the bills, can't get an amendment added, etc.

[Inland]

11. That only goes to who gets offered bribes, not who accepts them.

eom

[ClassWarrior]

14. Wrong question. Why steal and launder money to avoid finance laws...

...if you're going to "spread it around" to both parties?? Jack's a Republicon operative, this is a Republicon crime operation, and it's just one small example of the Republicon culture of corruption.

NGU.

[jsamuel]

2. So Step 5 is, "Ok, Dems didn't do it too, but they would have if they were

in our shoes."

[politicaholic]

15. Pretty much. The dems have to be guilty of something...right? n/t

[stepnw1f]

3. Good.. They Can Implode on their own

Let's build a Party more powerful than before. Getting into power is only the beginning.

[verse18]

4. shoulda, woulda, coulda. whatever

[berni_mccoy]

5. That's because repubs view Morality and Ethics as Weakness

What warped minds they have.

[ClassWarrior]

6. Weak... Honest... who's counting?

:rofl:

NGU.

[Hello_Kitty]

7. Soooo

It's okay to bribe the strong? :shrug:

[PunkPop]

8. Shit. I always kind of liked him.

But that statement is nothing but chickenshit speculation.

[Inland]

9. Pointless, isn't it..... Think of the K Street Project

The power grab and corruption go hand in hand. What is the K Street Project? It's to use the lobbyists as a means to power, and vice versa. It's not like the repugs got in power and then all the sudden the lobbyist shwoed up. Abrahmoff, Norquist are as dedicated party men as Delay.

[lumberjack_jeff]

10. When did news slip into hypotheticals?

If Democrats had power, it's true that they'd be more attempts to bribe them. Because Republicans did accept bribes as soon as they attained power is not a reason to assume that Democrats will do the same when they regain power.

Republicans are the party which campaigns that government is corrupt and incapable of doing anything right. Should we be surprised when they work their hardest to prove their point when they gain control of it?

[Strawman]

12. The voters can fix that

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

13. But....But.....But......I Thought The Democrats Were Involved Too

Isn't that what the left wing sympathetic media has been trying to tell us all this week? The bastard on CNBC yesterday made me want to smash my TV, so I just turned him off instead. He was interviewing someone discussing the fallout from the Abramoff scandal, and the guy was going on and on about repubs involvement, and the CNBC host interrupted to say...."But there are a # of democrats who took money as well, aren't there." Of course, then, the guy agreed. My understanding is that not a single Democrat took any $ from Jack directly, but you will never hear it from the media, because they've got their heads so far up KKKarl's Ass that they obviously can't smell reality through the shit.

[baby_mouse]

16. No.

The democrats are too STRONG to ATTEMPT bribing.

[AZBlue]

17. Wasn't there some rumor about him being involved??

He's just so pissy, what else could it be?

Actually this comment is so absurd it's come all the way back around to being funny. What an excuse!

[melody]

18. That would need to be the spin for their being frequently more ethical

...than the current crop of Repubicans.

Yeah, it's not that they're ethical, it's that they're worthless, which amounts to the same thing in the minds of the GOP.

[yodermon]

19. Bullshit.

A bribe for a vote is a bribe for a vote. Bribe enough individuals, and you get enough votes.
No party is a monolith in Congress (except when Delay threatens the firstborn of dissenting repukes).
What's funny is that this passage implies that the repukes MUST HAVE been bribed en masse for any bribery to even be effective.

:rof: This is the best that they've got for talking points? I love the smell of flop sweat in the morning.

[frylock]

20. and if my aunt had nads, she would be my uncle.

what a maroon. :eyes: