YellowLinesandArmadillos

LOL, now there is a real typo.

You left out soliciting underage girls.

Yeh I know, still why wasn't this caught, forget about the Bush Incompetent comment, did that for public consumption, couldn't let my reputation sag. While I was at USDA and on the hill every once in a while there would be a report of someone downloading porn while at work? Once guy at the Senate Printing and Graphics office was burning CDs and may have been selling them. I guess these guys are so obsessed they think they won't be caught and when they are in the system for a long time most of the time they won't be? Still an assistant Secretary of Homeland. Incredible.

Yeh, why wouldn't a decent background check catch this?...never mind, Bush not Bad,....Bush Admin incompetent, but he is loyal so everyone will keep their jobs at taxpayer expense.

A little Bush apologist Katrina hangover? You know what I say about the best way to get rid of one of those do like Cheney...keep drinking.

If Moran ever got in the Leadership, it would not be for long. P.S. He was born in Buffalo.

Yeh, I heard that and only Bill Lamb can be excited, he can actually go to a Bills game again...if the Bills move then Football as a sport is history, who cares, kinda like the NBA. Give Blood...Play Hockey.

Politics is politics and sooner or later it hits everyone with mud, and ironically I still think that this country was on its best footing when Delay was majority whip and Clinton was President. Folks on opposite sides of the aisle from either would claim they are crooks, interesting what it says about those who claim to want to clean up the system....just a different set of crooks getting in office is all I can see would result. I just want to see a balance in powers with the net effect that the resulting competition does some good.

Then there is that, can't argue even when I think sometimes they are going to make progress, ha! No matter what they call it at the beginning and how good the original legislation looks, wait till you see the actual bill language and the Federal Register with the implementing language before you decide if they actually did anyting. Most of the time the final product creates more loop holes than it closes.

Man this is too close to home, I worked on the 1st Moran campaign, to get rid of Stan Parris. Moran has been relatively good for Alexandria except on the banking stuff and he has gotten worse as it has gone along. He was always ethically challenged, but early on he voted more according to my priorities than Parris or that idiot cevant McSlarrow who ran against him a bunch of times. I think the last time, I just left congressional blank on my ballot. I am sure there is more crap about him and the only real difference between he and Delay is that Delay was in a high place of power understood fully what he was doing also most of his folks working for Moran have avoided the ethical problems. Still Jim should step down. VA Bills statement that Moran is on a par with Delay is wishful thinking and relief on his part that he point to some crooks on our side, fine. Delay is still scum and "Pockets" as we used to call him, because you better make sure he didn't steal your wallet when you went by him deserves to be in jail. Moran I would jail for stupidity, alone, but legally it is questionable if he did anything wrong. Finally, some of the bodies Delay sunk are floating to the surface, and P.S. don't insult Jesus with your crocodile religious b.s. when you resign, that was just disgusting.

LOL

Are you calling Zinni a liar?

Now there is a useless discussion thread. I won't bite except that I have Croatian roots and I highly approved and probably what should have been done in Iraq given the sectarian hostility.

Yeh you are trying to hijack the thread, and Yeh probably Clinton did screw up, Clinton bad, think everyone has blamed him for Somalia, hence why he did what he did with the Serbian situation, he learned from his mistakes. When is W going to ? learn?

Probably the only way to get her out of office.

When I say Dems, I mean the establishment Dems, not the lefties. Don't think Hillary can cut it, Warner doesn't have enough charisma, Richardson is seen as too much of a hustler, not sure who else out there would gain moderates' enthusiasm. The real left is looking for red meat, but Hillary has disappointed them, Obama is not ready and knows it, Biden is a Democratic version of McCain without the credentials...arrogant and testy. Not sure anyone jumps out that can do it at this point.

Dems are desperate, I just don't know Zinni's slant on other issues to comment on whether he would have a chance. Still I see the Dem nomination as wide open for an outside to take.

Among other things he said this weekend, exactly.

McKinney to be charges by Capitol Hill police, warrant sought. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MCK...-04-03-19-14-47

Like I said, only rumors and a Lugar style conservative, Dems might be able to stomach, methodist from what I remember and a gentleman all the way. He was chairman of the Senate Ag Committee when I was part of reforming Crop Insurance. That was a joke, but he always treated everyone well.

Got you, except both Zinny and he I thought were focusing in on Afganistan and whether enough forces were committed, Zinny felt not and thought we missed a huge opportunity to get Osama. Then the issue switched to Iraq. Hard to separate the two, I know but they are different even if stated in the same breath.

There are rumors out there and they are only rumors at this point, but some think Zinny may be gunning for the Dem nomination. Man that would be interesting and Dems might just go for it if he is not too right wing on their core issues.

Amen, both parties do their absolute best to recruit them, especially Dems because of the perception that they are militarily soft. Obviously there is history and some truth over the last 40 years, but now it is more a left over lie from the 60s and the die hard anti-war gang. You are who you associate with I guess, just like we like to paint all GOPers as right wing religious fanatics. Good politics, not always true.

I stand corrected, he was trotted out to give a rebuttal to Zinny this weekend, shoot thought he was still there, sounds like it, he keeps acting like things are going well and that only small mistakes have been made.

All that being said or granted, Franks, Rumsfeld or whoever put the limits on these decisons didn't have enough foresight to understand the ramifications or adjust after they became clearer. Sounds like a lot of technical b.s. for excuses to avoid admitting they screwed up. Even General Zinny this weekend described these decisions as strategic, not tactical mistakes and therefore at the door step of Rumsfeld and Franks. The interview I saw with Franks this weekend and the continued impression I get is that he is no more than a powerless mouth piece for Rumsfeld and says and does what he is told. He has got to be hatin life, because I get the impression he knows he is a sucker, yet he doesn't quit.