Finally the Ethics Panel Goes Into Overdrive

[Harry Dresden]

Disgusting is Boehner, Waddle Chin and Kantor

anybody who sits in the US congress is a lowlife fuck.....all of them....

Then you must be an idiot who hates what the founders designed.

I'm so sick of idiotic statements like this.

Its that stupid bullshit republicans have said for years.

"Government is cant do anything right , just elect us and we will prove it."

Then they color anyone who has done good through government with the same Brush they color themselves after fucking it all up.

Dont expect anyone to buy that stupidity there harry.

Truth like i have said before....the Democratic party has got your head so far up their asses,that you will be there no matter what..........you would take the bullet for them.....your a good loyal fool......they are lucky to have you....

 

[Annie]

anybody who sits in the US congress is a lowlife fuck.....all of them....

Then you must be an idiot who hates what the founders designed.

I'm so sick of idiotic statements like this.

Its that stupid bullshit republicans have said for years.

"Government is cant do anything right , just elect us and we will prove it."

Then they color anyone who has done good through government with the same Brush they color themselves after fucking it all up.

Dont expect anyone to buy that stupidity there harry.

Truth like i have said before....the Democratic party has got your head so far up their asses,that you will be there no matter what..........you would take the bullet for them.....your a good loyal fool......they are lucky to have you....

Granted, unless they let her be their spokeswomen, then they are toast. That's a fact.

 

[Vel]

He needs to go.

He was there out of the rule of law.

No one wanted him there , they had to seat him.


I find it very funny that now the righties are concerned about oversight. You cared nothing for it during the Bush years.

Just curious. How many state governors were busted for selling senate seats during the Bush years?

 

[Annie]

The Courant is helping to bring down Dodd, if there were more papers like this, they wouldn't be in such shape as an industry:

A Pardon For A Friend, A Good Deal For Dodd -- Courant.com

A Pardon For A Friend, A Good Deal For Dodd

Kevin Rennie

NOW YOU KNOW

March 8, 2009


It takes considerable political skill for a U.S. senator to win a presidential pardon for a friend without the traditional review by the Justice Department. Sen. Christopher Dodd moved the furtive levers of power in 2001 for Edward R. Downe, convicted of tax and securities fraud eight years before. A man will do a lot for a former real estate partner.

It was reported here two weeks ago that Downe's real estate development partner, William "Bucky" Kessinger of Kansas City, Mo., purchased a 1,700-square-foot home in Ireland with Dodd in 1994 for $160,000. Downe's name appeared on the transfer document filed in the Irish Land Registry as the witness to Kessinger's signature. Kessinger owned two-thirds of the property, Dodd one-third.

Dodd's spokesman told The Courant in 2001 that the senator and Downe, who pleaded guilty to insider trading in 1993, had been friends for many years. No one mentioned that Dodd and Downe together purchased a condominium in Washington, D.C., in 1986. Dodd bought Downe's share 3 1/2 years later....

...In 2002, long into a historic Irish property value boom and the year after Dodd got Downe pardoned, Kessinger sold Dodd his share in the lair for only $15,000 more than the $107,000 he'd paid in 1994. Two years after the bubble exploded, homes smaller than Dodd's and on smaller pieces of property than his are on the market for several times the maximum $250,000 Dodd has declared his is worth each year on his Senate disclosure formssince 2002.

Waterfront properties on the "Irish Riviera" don't often come on the market. In today's dire real estate market, a 750-square-foot, two-bedroom townhouse in nearby Roundstone is for sale for $750,000. A 900-square foot, three-bedroom semi-detached house, boasting of a view of Inishnee, the island where Dodd's house stands high above Bertaghboy Bay, is offered for $700,000.

Dodd said through a spokesman two weeks ago that the price he paid Kessinger — $122,351, according to the Land Registry, for his two-thirds share in 2002 — was based on an appraisal. He hasn't released it.

A presidential pardon is a rare possession, especially when the man pardoned, Downe, still owed millions to the Securities and Exchange Commission for his violations.

Rarer still, however, is the real estate developer, like Kessinger, who appears to have left hundreds of thousands of dollars in appreciated value on the table for his minority-share partner. Dodd appears to have latched onto one — and, on paper, has turned a profit like the Wall Street pirates he once loved but now disdains.