Pukes Can't Give Up the Perks

[spindrifter]

You know how the Thugs like to knock people on welfare, claiming that they get used to "the easy life" when the government pays them monthly benefit checks? Maybe it's time for some of the Thugs to take a look in the mirror:

Lobbying Changes Divide House GOP
Many Resist Leaders' Proposed Reforms

By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 2, 2006

Just two weeks after House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) pledged to pass far-reaching changes to the rules of lobbying on Capitol Hill, House Republican members pushed back hard against those proposals yesterday, charging that their leaders are overreacting to a growing corruption scandal.

In a tense, 3 1/2 -hour closed-door session, many Republicans challenged virtually every element of the leadership's proposal, from a blanket ban on privately funded travel to stricter limits on gifts to an end to gym privileges for lawmakers-turned-lobbyists. Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.), a veteran conservative who is seeking a top leadership post, scoffed that Congress knows how to do just two things well -- nothing and overreact, according to witnesses.

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House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier (R-Calif.), who was to unveil a draft of the full lobbying reform package yesterday, instead announced it was not ready.

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Taken together, yesterday's events suggested that House Republicans are badly divided over how to respond to a scandal that includes the guilty plea of Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.), the loss of a committee chairmanship by Rep. Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio), and the cooperation with prosecutors by Abramoff, a once-prominent GOP lobbyist, who pleaded guilty to fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/01/AR2006020102374.html

[marmar]

1. Their Repuglican Party...

is a hopelessy corrupt cesspool. To paraphrase Cheney, our only option is its complete and total destruction.

:nopity: