"The time has come that the American people know exactly what their Representatives are doing here in Washington. Are they feeding at the public trough, taking lobbyist-paid vacations, getting wined and dined by special interest groups? Or are they working hard to represent their constituents? The people, the American people, have a right to know...I say the best disinfectant is full disclosure, not isolation."
Now moving on other highlights: the Bush Administration is not calling DeLay a social friend but he’s a friend of the President nonetheless; watch the Daily Show for the color-coded chart.
According to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's campaign committee, whose surplus is invested in the stock market, has lost more than $16K in the stock market in the 1st Quarter. And this isn’t the only time his campaign funds have lost money in the stock market either. Now can you imagine your social security money being invested the same way? Because we know whomever is investing Frist’s campaign money would be the same people who would manage our Social Security money in a Bush or GOP 2008 Administration.
Speaking of 2008, the President’s brother Jeb (and the would-be front runner for the GOP nomination) lost in his bid to get rid of one of the Florida Democratic Party’s raising stars: Buddy Dryer continues to be Mayor of GOP-leaning Orlando, despite a Bush-appointees investigation and charges of campaign law violation that threatened to remove the popular mayor. The crime? His campaign paid black people to get their fellow African-Americans to vote by accepting absentee ballots in 2002. The election law on this point is ambiguous if such actions are even a crime.
Remember the Caging List of FL African-Americans the GOP targeted to disenfranchise in 2004? Guess where most of them lived. Anyway, the special prosecutor told the Oralando Sentinel that he was dropping all the charges against Mayor Buddy (not Providence’s Mayor Buddy, who might be back front his second round in jail).
Meanwhile Senator Lincoln Chaffee twists in the wind on Bolton, hoping either to get more money from Frist or find a way out of this Catch-22 for a Blue State GOP Senator up for re-election. "I think it would be accurate to say I'm on the fence" he told the Projo.
Governor Arnold blamed his ESL skills after getting caught sounding anti-immigrant in California, a big no-no. Here’s the original quote: "Close the borders in California and all across Mexico and in the United States," Schwarzenegger said Tuesday. "Because I think it is just unfair to have all those people coming across, have the borders open the way it is, and have this kind of lax situation." After a couple attempts at spinning by his press people, Arnold tried to claim that the mistake was a language barrier. "I meant 'securing' our borders, not 'closing' them.” He said, going on to joke that he needed to take some more English classes, if only George W. Bush were so lucky to have this excuse in his pocket.
California Democrats’ BS detector went off like crazy. "The governor knows what he's saying. He knows what his words mean,'' state Treasurer Phil Angelides told the SF Cronie (he’s running against Arnie in 2006). "The visual image of closing the border is a clear image ... and it's not the first time he's done this,'' pointing out how Schwazenegger condemned the San Francisco gay marriages in 2003 to a GOP crowd, only to backtrack later when needing to seem more moderate claiming he asked the AG to halt the marriages because "we see riots, we see protests, we see people clashing.'' The anti-politician is actually just a typical one, playing to the base and middle at the same time, and trying not to seem to Janus-faced about it.
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