Penny MG Loc: Fresno, Texas

You mean like Obama is doing now?

Penny MG Loc: Fresno, Texas

good common sense! :thumbup: :thumbup:

Penny MG Loc: Fresno, Texas

just curious..Is the 600 million in tolls the bottom line here? Heaven forbid this is what the dems are griping about.....MONEY. I would think that inconveniencing the people should be more important.

Penny MG Loc: Fresno, Texas

That is supposed to be KICK his backside.....

Penny MG Loc: Fresno, Texas

I think your opinion is spot on!

W7AX Loc: Polson, Montana

WOW! Do you ever need a history lesson ! The Panama Canal Zone and the Canal itself was sovereign US property. Bought, paid for and built my Americans when the French couldn't. Carter GAVE that all away to Panama for nothing. Now it's run by the Chinese. Now our ships have to pay over twice what they used to. Don't ever tell us that Carter didn't have serious flaws. He should have stayed with peanut farming. This country would have been far better off.

yhtomit Loc: Port Land. Oregon

I think the reason why we don't take time to point out the bad republicans is because we are inundated with addressing the multitude of democrat short comings.It's a lot of work.
But your right,there are a few bad Republicans out there.

GeneB Loc: Chattanooga Tennessee

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GeneB Loc: Chattanooga Tennessee

hate to say it but more than a few. I am not a Dem.

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If you want to have a reasonable discussion about the issues, you need to graduate from third grade and stop the name calling. (That goes for both sides). I usually ignore blogs that contains terms like "teabagger", "Obummer", "DemoRats" etc. "Fright wingers" is new to me but no more mature than the others.

Now to address your concerns. By the time we find out that a Republican has misbehaved, they are usually being escorted out of their offices. The Republicans appear to be more inclined to push their own out before they are indicted. It all comes down to nothing to talk about. He/she misbehaved, got pushed out, resigned and is gone. End of story.

On the other hand, you might recall Congressman William Jefferson from Louisiana, who was caught with money in his freezer and was eventually convicted and imprisoned for corruption. He was not forced out, in fact, he was re-elected after the money was found (among an assortment of other evidence of wrongdoing). He walked into the House of Representatives in January of 2007 to a standing ovation from the Democrats, being cheer led by Nancy Pelosi. He never resigned, he was defeated in the subsequent election. Had he been a Republican, he would likely have been shown the door (by other Republicans) as soon as the FBI found the money.

As for Christie, you will find a lot of Republicans, especially the more right wing ones, who do not like him and if you read the right blogs, you will find that there are many Republicans who are rooting for him to fall.

The charges against McDonald are serious. Once charges are filed, the presumption of innocence prevails. We can speculate as to whether or not he violated the law, but it is for the courts to decide. If he is convicted, he will join the likes of Jefferson in prison. Not openly criticizing him is not a sign of bias but the exercise of our duty to allow due process. The question is whether he is being treated differently than other politicians who accept favors from donors.

I think the complaint some have is that there seems to be more scrutiny of one party than the other. For example, Obama is an admitted former cocaine user. The news media and most Democrats have no problem with that but a Junior Congressman from Florida has to resign. Yes, the difference is current vs. former use, by my personal opinion is that the use of illegal drugs is a crime and should disqualify anyone who has habitually used them from high public office. Our leaders should be held to a higher standard than the rest of society (every one of my employers over the years required me to pass drug tests). I am certain that there are enough qualified people who have never used drugs to fill the offices.

rrforster12 Loc: Leesburg Florida

Well, it seems to me that creeps in politics that misuse their positions for personal or Party gain should be fired no matter which Party they belong to. NO EXCEPTIONS. What we have in our Country seems to be that the Democrat Party, having a majority of the Press on their side, is allowed to slide on transgressions committed by members of that Party while the opposition Party gets slammed at every opportunity well out of proportion to what the transgression may be. Example:Christy is the subject of a massive investigative exercise over the possibility that he had something to do with causing a traffic jam, while on the other hand we have Democrat transgressions such as the IRS being used to target opposition Party members in order to thwart their support for their Candidate in a Presidential election, gun-running schemes that went awry and got innocents killed, and the abandonment of our people in Benghazi leading to their slaughter being stonewalled and swept under the carpet by those that caused those situations, and the Press seems complicit in doing so. Politics is generally a dirty business, but some transgressions are worse then others. Nobody was killed when Radel stuffed his nose with coke, and,to their credit, he was pressured by his Party to resign as opposed to how the Dems have reacted to most of their members foibles. To sum up, power corrupts, but with Top Management and a press willing to look the other way on half the corrupted officials, our government will just continue to breed more of the same.

autofocus Loc: North Central Connecticut

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autofocus Loc: North Central Connecticut

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bvm Loc: Glendale, Arizona

At least he didn't IGNORE or LIE about Benghazi, IRS, NSA, Fast and Furious , YOU CAN KEEP YOUR DOCTOR, YOUR PLAN, doesn't kiss Moslem Derrières, Wage a war on women, Nor did he promote us getting FLUKE'd ( Like in Sandra ).

Effate Loc: El Dorado Hills, Ca.

I think either defending or demeaning either party for the very corruption that has permeated our government since way before Tammany Hall politics is ridiculous as both sides have participated is much bigger ways in pork barreling and kick-backs that have way more negative effects on your lives than a Bob McDonald or Ray Nagen could ever do. To blindly carry water for either party without truly understanding the import and consequences of legislation, executive orders and court decisions is the sort of uninformed naïveté that is allowing bad policy that is fundamentally transforming this great country (and I don't mean in a good way).