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More Hypocrysy from the Self - Rightious Right. What do you think, Republicans? Do we need a congressional investigation of Bush/Chenny fund raising tactics?
. . . And Another Thing
By James Hatfield
The power behind the throne has lost the kingdom for George II
How Dubya's chief strategist, Karl Rove, got Vice President Cheney in a fund-raising scandal and cost the GOP control of the Senate because of his tactical errors, snubs and oversights
May 30, 2001—According to defensive Republicans, Vice President Cheney's "private reception" at his official residence last week for 400 longtime major supporters who had given $100,000 to $250,000 to the GOP was a simple "thank you," not a fund-raiser.
But the fancy black-tie gala at the D.C. National Guard Armory the following night (which featured Dubya as the main event) was by the GOP's definition a fund-raiser because more than 3,000 people paid big bucks to attend, filling GOP coffers with $23.9 million.
Isn't this the same bunch of money-grubbing hypocrites who had a swell time beating up Clinton-Gore for using government property linked to political fund-raising, such as hosting donor coffees and rewarding political supporters with sleepovers in the Lincoln bedroom?
In the immortal words of former President Clinton, "It depends on what 'is' is."
Reality check time for the biased and conservative mainstream press (yes, that liberal media horse hockey is just a myth): Records show that 938 people were Clinton's overnight guests at the White House from 1993–96. More than a third, including many friends of Bill and Hillary, were donors to the Democratic Party or to the president's 1996 reelection campaign. They gave a total of $6 million. Late last year, another list was released, showing an additional 404 overnighters from July 1999 through August 2000, including donors who gave a total of $600,000 to Hillary's Senate campaign.
So where the hell are those Republican crybabies who previously held congressional inquiries and jumped up and down like my 20 month-old daughter demanding Attorney General Janet Reno appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Clinton-Gore coffees?
Several of those kaffee klatsches for Democratic Party donors were held at Gore's home on the grounds of the Naval Observatory, the same government property as last week's little schmooze fest with Cheney. (The event was unpublicized until Newsweek busted the selective amnesia sufferers on the magazine's Web site.)
The Cheney "thank you" reception prompted Judicial Watch, the right-wing public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government and public corruption, to announce that it would institute legal action because the get-together was a flagrant violation of the law which prohibits fund-raising on a federal site.
http://www*******journal.com/Commentary/Hatfield053001/hatfield053001.html
. . . And Another Thing
By James Hatfield
The power behind the throne has lost the kingdom for George II
How Dubya's chief strategist, Karl Rove, got Vice President Cheney in a fund-raising scandal and cost the GOP control of the Senate because of his tactical errors, snubs and oversights
May 30, 2001—According to defensive Republicans, Vice President Cheney's "private reception" at his official residence last week for 400 longtime major supporters who had given $100,000 to $250,000 to the GOP was a simple "thank you," not a fund-raiser.
But the fancy black-tie gala at the D.C. National Guard Armory the following night (which featured Dubya as the main event) was by the GOP's definition a fund-raiser because more than 3,000 people paid big bucks to attend, filling GOP coffers with $23.9 million.
Isn't this the same bunch of money-grubbing hypocrites who had a swell time beating up Clinton-Gore for using government property linked to political fund-raising, such as hosting donor coffees and rewarding political supporters with sleepovers in the Lincoln bedroom?
In the immortal words of former President Clinton, "It depends on what 'is' is."
Reality check time for the biased and conservative mainstream press (yes, that liberal media horse hockey is just a myth): Records show that 938 people were Clinton's overnight guests at the White House from 1993–96. More than a third, including many friends of Bill and Hillary, were donors to the Democratic Party or to the president's 1996 reelection campaign. They gave a total of $6 million. Late last year, another list was released, showing an additional 404 overnighters from July 1999 through August 2000, including donors who gave a total of $600,000 to Hillary's Senate campaign.
So where the hell are those Republican crybabies who previously held congressional inquiries and jumped up and down like my 20 month-old daughter demanding Attorney General Janet Reno appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Clinton-Gore coffees?
Several of those kaffee klatsches for Democratic Party donors were held at Gore's home on the grounds of the Naval Observatory, the same government property as last week's little schmooze fest with Cheney. (The event was unpublicized until Newsweek busted the selective amnesia sufferers on the magazine's Web site.)
The Cheney "thank you" reception prompted Judicial Watch, the right-wing public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government and public corruption, to announce that it would institute legal action because the get-together was a flagrant violation of the law which prohibits fund-raising on a federal site.
http://www*******journal.com/Commentary/Hatfield053001/hatfield053001.html
