The right way to redistribute wealth

[PeteyNice]

Ahh the party of morals and values...

WWJD?

The committee's February report to the Federal Election Commission includes an entry for a $1,946 payment on Feb. 4 for "meals" to Voyeur West Hollywood. The bar's website describes it as "a destination for provocative revelry that combines eroticism and nightlife exclusivity."

....

A Los Angeles Times article about the club's grand opening in October describes Voyeur as "not a sex club but rather a high-end nightclub." Entertainment includes "impromptu bondage and S&M 'scenes' being played out on an elevated platform by scantily clad performers. … Even more provocative scenes are played out in an enclosed glass booth area adjacent to the club's dance floor area."

[SC Devs Fan]

The problem Petey is you see this as a republican problem and not a problem with some jackass politicians who tried to get away with writing off table dances. Still, I bet it makes it easier for you if you reduce it down to republican bad, democrat good.

[MantaRay]

The problem Petey is you see this as a republican problem and not a problem with some jackass politicians who tried to get away with writing off table dances. Still, I bet it makes it easier for you if you reduce it down to republican bad, democrat good.

Actually, I believe Petey is just shinning a light on the hypocrisy.

[PeteyNice]

The problem Petey is you see this as a republican problem and not a problem with some jackass politicians who tried to get away with writing off table dances. Still, I bet it makes it easier for you if you reduce it down to republican bad, democrat good.

The DNC does not claim to be the party of religion and values. If you are going to talk the talk you need to be prepared to be called on it when you don't walk the walk.

[SC Devs Fan]

Just want to make sure that you believe the DNC doesn't stand for morals and values.

And Manta, you're not only in the boat labeled DNC good, RNC bad, I believe you are in the wheelhouse.

[squishyx]

I don't really see the hypocrisy here. The RNC is made up literally of millions of members, the fact that 2 or 3 ran up a tab at a place they weren't supposed to really only highlights a corrupt staff that could exist in any group of that size. If the RNC sanctioned it, or had spent a significant amount of money then you could prob make a case. It seems more likely that a few people were abusing their corporate expense account. If my company gives me their card so I can go on a trip, and I buy a bunch of hookers, I don't think that should reflect poorly on my company (maybe if they let me have the card again).

[SC Devs Fan]

wow squish you and I are on the same side!

[MantaRay]

Just want to make sure that you believe the DNC doesn't stand for morals and values.

And Manta, you're not only in the boat labeled DNC good, RNC bad, I believe you are in the wheelhouse.

SCD: You can believe what you believe.

[PeteyNice]

I don't really see the hypocrisy here. The RNC is made up literally of millions of members, the fact that 2 or 3 ran up a tab at a place they weren't supposed to really only highlights a corrupt staff that could exist in any group of that size. If the RNC sanctioned it, or had spent a significant amount of money then you could prob make a case. It seems more likely that a few people were abusing their corporate expense account. If my company gives me their card so I can go on a trip, and I buy a bunch of hookers, I don't think that should reflect poorly on my company (maybe if they let me have the card again).

I disagree. If you worked for some random company sure. But if you worked for a company that professes to embody "wholesome" values then it does reflect badly the company as well. The RNC does not have millions of employees.

[squishyx]

I disagree. If you worked for some random company sure. But if you worked for a company that professes to embody "wholesome" values then it does reflect badly the company as well. The RNC does not have millions of employees.

Not millions of employees maybe, but members. And I think when you talk about the RNC you are referencing the body as a whole which includes them. Never the less, if a few rogue staff members of the NAACP we're to use company petty cash to attend a KKK rally you probably wouldn't consider them anti-black.

I never really bought into the idea that a few spoiled apples ruins the bunch, and lets be honest, is there anything the RNC could have done to prevent people from doing what they did? If it turns out that higher ups approved the charges then that's something very different, I didn't get that impression though.

[Jimmy Leeds]

Petey must be on to something.

The Democrats are the party of the Ku Klux Klan.........they tie black people to trees and burn them to death. They burn crosses on black people's yards, they murder civil rights activists in Mississippi........they are the party of anti-black, anti-Jewish sentiment running amok in the country.

Democrats = WHITE POWER

Isn't the only former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan a Senate Democrat?

[Easy Parise]

HOLY SMOKES! A straight republican sex scandal! I'll have to cross that off on my bingo.

[squishyx]

Petey must be on to something.

The Democrats are the party of the Ku Klux Klan.........they tie black people to trees and burn them to death. They burn crosses on black people's yards, they murder civil rights activists in Mississippi........they are the party of anti-black, anti-Jewish sentiment running amok in the country.

Democrats = WHITE POWER

Isn't the only former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan a Senate Democrat?

That is such a terrible example. For one, you are going back 150 years, second the democrats of the 1860 and 1960's are much more akin to republicans of today then democrats if you look at party platforms.

Edited March 29, 2010 by squishyx

[SC Devs Fan]

I disagree. If you worked for some random company sure. But if you worked for a company that professes to embody "wholesome" values then it does reflect badly the company as well. The RNC does not have millions of employees.

Again, I disagree. So if a member of Obama's cabinet gets caught cheating it makes the who administration look bad? No way. Its how you discipline that employee that sets the tone for how a company is known not its lowest employee or the worst deed done by that person. If the RNC sent out a memo saying "spend the money wherever you like including strip clubs" then you condemn the party but just because some jackasses tried to get it written off doesn't reflect on them at all.

[Jimmy Leeds]

Again, I disagree. So if a member of Obama's cabinet gets caught cheating it makes the who administration look bad?

Well, Van Jones for one was a self admitted Communist.

And he and that lip smacking lady moron kept quoting Mao

[devilsadvoc8]

Well, Van Jones for one was a self admitted Communist.

And he and that lip smacking lady moron kept quoting Mao

That's a bad example, because Petey doesn't like it.

[SC Devs Fan]

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/03/29/gop-chairman-michael-steele-spends-lavishly-on-the-road/?icid=main|htmlws-main-n|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicsdaily.com%2F2010%2F03%2F29%2Fgop-chairman-michael-steele-spends-lavishly-on-the-road%2F

Not the response most of you had hoped for... sorry. On a related note, I'd like to party with Erik Brown.

The Republican National Committee disputed that Steele himself had spent money at the Hollywood nightclub. "This was a reimbursement made to a non-committee staffer,'' the RNC said in a statement. "The Chairman was never at the location in question, he had no knowledge of the expenditure, nor does he find the use of committee funds at such a location at all acceptable."

RNC Spokesman Doug Heye pressed that point emphatically on Fox News Monday afternoon. "Michael Steele was not there. He didn't know about it. He would not have known about it," Heye told Fox's Megyn Kelly.

Heye said he didn't know who was reimbursed by the RNC for the charges, but Kelly and several other news organizations reported that the club-goer was Erik Brown, a Republican direct-mail executive from Orange County, Calif.

[PeteyNice]

That's a bad example, because Petey doesn't like it.

I fail to see how being a Communist or quoting Mao is a bad thing or goes against what Democrats claim they are.

Maybe if he was busted trying to blow up an abortion clinic or something.....

Edited March 30, 2010 by PeteyNice

[Devils731]

I fail to see how being a Communist or quoting Mao is a bad thing or goes against what Democrats claim they are.

Maybe if he was busted trying to blow up an abortion clinic or something.....

Ok, then Democrats are for forcing themselves on men? Or putting their bribes in a freezer? Or the party of not paying your taxes? The Party of cheating on wives with cancer?

So either the Democrats are hypocrites for having people in their party do those things or they stand for all those things, right? In reality it's that having huge amounts of people associated with your party lead to some weird stuff happening.

I don't think it would be weird to poke fun at this but to act like it's a big deal and points out hypocrisy isn't a truism.

[Jimmy Leeds]

**Petey scrambles back to his day job at the circus............*****

[Daniel]

Are people seriously arguing about which political party is more hypocritical?

[squishyx]

Are people seriously arguing about which political party is more hypocritical?

we've had worse debates

[oofrostonoo]

I'm let down that this wasn't some big gay bondage tea bagging bash. Michael Steele isn't the closeted-gay bible thumper he ought to be. I bet a lot of republicans breathed a sign of relief when this turned out to be a heterosexual scandal.

It's more funny than anything; not a big deal.

[Jimmy Leeds]

This could "never" happen to a Dem because they have no morals.

[arena2004]

I fail to see how being a Communist or quoting Mao is a bad thing or goes against what Democrats claim they are.

Maybe if he was busted trying to blow up an abortion clinic or something.....

Petey, communists kill "for the better good of the people", that is whatever people keep their mouths shut. Nice CNN headline here that tells us "China Good!!!!"

http://www.prisonpla...are-legacy.html

"Despite Communist China’s nightmare one-child policy and record of repressing women, CNN joins in resounding Mao Zedong’s Women’s workers slogan, “Women Hold Up Half the Sky.”

Now the truth:

Curic, Matt, Diane, The View, MSNBC are trying to figure out how to spin this like you will in 10 minutes:

"Bodies of 21 babies found in China river"

http://www.google.co...i9NHIwD9EOV8S00

BEIJING — The bodies of 21 babies, believed dumped by hospitals, have washed ashore on a riverbank in eastern China, state media reported Tuesday.Video footage showed that the bodies — stashed in yellow plastic bags, at least one of which was marked "medical waste" — included some infants several months old. Some wore identification tags with their mothers' names, birth dates, measurements and weights. The official Xinhua News Agency said there were also fetuses among the bodies.

Residents discovered the remains under a bridge in the city of Jining, Shandong province, over the weekend. Tags on the feet of eight of the babies traced them back to a hospital in Jining, according to the People's Daily Web site. Three of them had been admitted earlier to the hospital in critical condition, the report said. It did not say when.

The other 13 bodies were unidentified. The number of girls or boys was not reported..."

Teaparty, Bush, Palin or Rove?

No, your hero's the Chinese Communists did this. Also, every other communist leader that became the most powerful person in their respective country but could not relinquish power and became a tyrant.

Edited March 31, 2010 by arena2004