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tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 4507
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 9:19 pm: | 
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Liz Dole's Republican Senate committee is running a smear site against some guy named Ford running in Tennessee. Here's the site: http://www.fancyford.com/. Ford is african-american, so of course dig the row of white chicks prominently displayed on some of the pages. That will sure get the "base" riled up, won't it?
Ironic then that "shop like Ford" is one of the main links, now that a scandal as erupted over the White House's own african-american showpiece, Claude Allen. He was Bush's chief advisor on domestic policy, and Bush had nominated him for a federal judgeship.
But he was running a scam where he'd buy an item at Target and take it out to his car, then bring the receipt back in, select the identical item off the shelf, and bring it to the return counter to get money back.
Adding a little to the irony, here's some quotes from a National Review article endorsing his nomination, which those nasty old Democrats were somehow blocking.
Quote:The Framers understood, and conservatives by and large maintain, that judges should faithfully apply the law as crafted by the legislature and enforced by the executive.
Except for those shoplifting laws, I guess.
Quote:Given their understanding of what a judge should do, the radical Left's criticisms of Allen are more understandable. He is conservative and unapologetically pro-family. Were he to follow their judicial model, he might well implement his own "agenda," favoring life and responsibility, just as liberal judges have happily imposed theirs.
Sweet.
Quote:Yet, recall also that every federal judge takes an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. Despite their bluster to the contrary, no liberal critic has produced a single shred of evidence that were he confirmed, Allen would so cavalierly ignore that duty.
Criminal statutes being an entirely different matter, I guess.
Quote:Claude Allen promises not to advance a political agenda from the federal bench he has been nominated to, but to be the type of judge who buttresses the foundation of American government — by applying the rule of law however he finds it.
I could go on, but I'm laughing so hard I can't see the keys anymore!
Shop like Allen!
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Grrrrrrrrrrr
Citizen
Username: Oldsctls67
Post Number: 376
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 11:54 pm: |
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Come on Tom, what really was the point of that? Now some Republican guy is going to dig up some instance of Democratic Law Breaking and start a thread about being proud to be a Democrat... |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 4510
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 12:25 am: |
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I know, I know. I just loved the "shop like Ford" paired with Allen's shoplifting arrest -- it was just too good to pass up. |
Dr. Winston O'Boogie
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Username: Casey
Post Number: 1989
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 7:02 am: |
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No it's actually different with this guy. His job as domestic policy adviser required him to go around moralizing, saying stuff like this:
Quote:I am proud to be part of an administration that is not afraid to say what is right and what is wrong
Of course, these guys are always talking about extramarital sex when they say those things, not stealing. |
Eats Shoots & Leaves
Citizen
Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 3105
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 8:59 am: |
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You know, that GOP spot is disgusting, playing on fears about the on-the-town black guy partying and hanging out with bling-bling encrusted starlets (and, God-forbid, NBA stars from the black-man's league--not baseball players like George hangs with). Imagine what one could produce about Liz Dole's pecadillos when she ran the Red Cross--bet she did not sleep in Super 8 Motels, and who the hell would want to invite her to a party, anyway? Let's not even mention a spot on Fundraising Like A DeLay.
But Ford is also a blithering idiot for living that lifestyle when he is a public figure. You paint a target on your back when you enter public office, so you better make sure you have good protective cover. You want to live the high life, go be a high-priced M&A guy or a top-shelf entertainment lawyer. Or retire and become a lobbyist, since it looks like some in the GOP will kill any lobbying-reforms this session (and there are faint few Dems with the cojones to really make a stink about it). |
Grrrrrrrrrrr
Citizen
Username: Oldsctls67
Post Number: 382
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 - 11:53 am: |
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You're right Tom, you just can't make this stuff up  |
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