Captain's Quarters -

Boy, the GOP just keeps on giving us reasons to vote for them, don't they?

(rolls eyes)

There is no constitutional protection for sitting congressmen if cause for suspicion of a felony or treasonous act exists. Period. Read it for yourselves.

Why is Newt always supposedly smart? Other than the '94 election, which may have had more to do with a backlash against the Clinton's gay military and social healthcare idiocy, what has Newt done? Serve his wife divorce papers at her hospital bed?
I just see another idiot politician. I've never had the impression he is "smart". What a sleeze bag.

Utterly insane. So if O.J. were a congressman, he could have stashed the knife in his office safe, with no cop able to get it? Crime is crime, don't let anyone get away with it.

Like it or not, there really is a separation of powers problem here. If the FBI can physically invade Congressional offices at will, or at least with the cooperation of a willing judge, then the Executive and Judicial branches together have a power to insert themselves into Congressional affairs that was never intended. The fact that the FBI can search, say, Exxon's offices is neither here nor there since Exxon has no standing as a coequal branch of government.

Also, the FBI's position is essentially that, given a warrant from a lower court judge -- one of whose decisions may just have been overturned by the Supreme Court -- they are free to search any Supreme Court Justice's office. This may prove to be a harder sell to the USSC than you think.

Newt Gingrich, the man who doesn't believe in personal fidelity, doesn't believe in Border Security, presses for Amnesty for Illegal Aliens, presses for SOVERIGNTY of Congressional offices - I'M so shocked!
[sarcasm off]

Our Founding Fathers warn of putting men in office who display corruption in their private lives - and they had realistic expectations of "human beings" who run for office.

I'm not sure why today's generation thinks we need to "lower our standards" to something "more realistic" than the standards of our Founding Fathers - and "settle for the best we can do" - such as the likes of THIS!

If we settle for THIS, we might as well flush the whole Union - it's over!

We need a third party.
And then the Republican party needs to just go away.
I am done.

But Pelosi wasn't quiet! Didn't she give Jefferson a plum committee assignment (Homeland Security)?

Given that Jefferson's money stash came from foreign sources, that's certainly putting the wolf in charge of the sheep here.

And what's the chance that Hastert and Gingrich are turned out of office when Jefferson's own district reelected him?

Rose,
Remember, we elected an admitted draft dodger as President over a war veteran. And Jefferson's own district reelected him. That just says it all, right there. Where can we go on either side that beats what the people have done to themselves?

Hunter ... why not join me in what I have been preaching all along then, both parties are mirror images of each other, they both could care less about the middle class and have not governed this country for a long time with the public in mind but only that of big business.

I know many people think you might be a liberal or a dem if you buck and fight and complain about the GOP because to those unable to think past point party loyalties you are either with me or against me (as so the idiot in the WHI has said once or twice), but I have all along had nothing but dispise for this President and the GOP and the Democrats and their free spending ways, the total bickering between both parties and the lobbyists who control their days and their bank books.

Did Gingrich start taking stupid pills?

For someone who I believe to be brilliant, this is a huge blemish on his record. The argument in support of Congressional immunity from the Executive with Legislative oversight is awfully weak. The argument that defending it now in view of the aftertaste from the '06 midterms is politically foolish.

Newt, you might want to consider offering your services as policy wonk in the GOP should Republicans retain the Executive (and not before) and abandoning the marathon to the presidency.

Rose,
Remember, we elected an admitted draft dodger as President over a war veteran. And Jefferson's own district reelected him. That just says it all, right there. Where can we go on either side that beats what the people have done to themselves?

Posted by: unclesmrgol

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Well, the DIMS voted for the draft-dodger, and the man blatantly guilty of Treason - Hanoi John - and that says everything - then they pile on and ridicule Bush Jr for the years of fighter jet service on our border security - a feat not a single one of them is capable of. Hanoi John cannot even blow up a stock of rice without peppering his own fanny with the rice!

But on the GOP SIDE -

Dole was a war veteran - so is McCain - but THAT doesn't say it all.

DOLE is the one who came to Bush Sr, several times when the worst tax hike bills were sitting on Bush Sr's desk GETTING A POCKET VETO as Sr promised, when DOLE came tiptoeing through the Rose Garden AT MIDNIGHT on the last night, to have a little chat with him and PROMISE that if "HE WOULD DO HIS PART" and sign those TAX HIKES, then the DIMS would "KNOW HE WS SERIOUS " about the budget, and they HAD "PROMISED" they would THEN sit down with him and go through a budget cleaning session AND DISMANTLE DEAD PROGRAMS, and slash the budget by at least an equal amount. DOLE PROMISED!

The Dims, OF COURSE, never did anything of the kind - DOLE KNEW THEY WOULD NOT AND NEVER INTENDED THEY SHOULD! - BUT IN '92, THE CAMPAIGN SLOGAN "READ MY LIPS - NO NEW TAXES - AS A SMEAR JOB ON BUSH was raised BY ROBERT DOLE!

I am STILL glad I did NOT vote for him. I did NOT vote for PEROT, either.

NEITHER will I vote for any of the RINOS they have up THIS YEAR, EITHER.

Not "war hero" McCain, not Giuliani, not Newt, or Mitt, not Huckabee or Brownback, not Thompson.

And don't forget Gerald Ford - in his day, the only Republican the DIMS IN CONGRESS WOULD APPROVE to be APPOINTED PRESIDENT - who justified THEIR faith in him HIS FIRST DAY IN OFFICE!

*THAT [SNAP] for Moderates.

Newt, you might want to consider offering your services as policy wonk in the GOP should Republicans retain the Executive (and not before) and abandoning the marathon to the presidency.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel

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IF THE GOP TAKES NEWT FOR POLICY WONK, and he already DISSES Border Security, has no serious problem with ABORTION (what a shock), WANTS to work out an AMNESTY for ILLEGAL ALIENS with the DIMS "THAT IS PRACTICAL AND PRAGMATIC", and now wants to fight for the rights of the William Jeffersons to "REIGN" with total immunity,

THAT isn't a political party I would support any more than I do the DIMS.

What's the point!

They'll do as they please TO US, whether we like it or not.

They don't need my support to shred my nation and crush me and my family, any further.

Rose,

Could you provide a link or two for Newt's pro-amnesty position? I've understood him to be pro-secure border first before anything and sanctions on employers hiring them. That's a pretty good start. As far as an immediate blanket amnesty, I'm much less certain. He's not a Tancredo disciple (of which I am), but I don't think he's abandoned the idea of attrition over amnesty either.

I understand Gingrich's appreciation for Constitutional powers and all and recognize his allegiance to the institution for which he served; however, I think that allegiance is clouding his judgment with regard to Jefferson's law breaking.

Nevertheless, a misstep does not entirely discredit everything he stands for. He is a highly intelligent man with experience and education. If he'd just avoid the occasional stupid pill, he'd be about as perfect as one will find in politics. His contributions to policy would be worthwhile.

Jefferson should be thrown into jail. He's guilty as sin.

I say again: THERE IS NO CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION FOR SITTING CONGRESSMEN IF PROBABLE CAUSE OF THE COMMISSION OF A FELONY OR OF TREASON EXISTS.

I don't think it can be made plainer than that.

Force the Constitution down their everlovin' throats. Make the SOBs choke on it. WE are the bosses. REMEMBER?

I say again: THERE IS NO CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION FOR SITTING CONGRESSMEN IF PROBABLE CAUSE OF THE COMMISSION OF A FELONY OR OF TREASON EXISTS.

I don't think it can be made plainer than that.

Force the Constitution down their everlovin' throats. Make the SOBs choke on it. WE are the bosses. REMEMBER?