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Cary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-04 12:53 PM
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I.e., Kenneth Starr. .We are letting these people off the hook too easily!
My uncle reminded me of Kenneth Starr over the weekend, and how no one really has gone after this guy. Anyone who wishes to refresh their memory:

http://archive.salon.com/news/1998/09/cov_10newsb2.html

How many millions were wasted trying to smear Clinton? Starr brings a lawsuit to determine what? Attorney-client privilege after one's death? How much did all this cost?

And now we have this whole marriage amendment being proposed. How much is this effort going to cost?

Look at Martha Stewart's prosecution. Is this really the case to put all of those resources into? These resources can't be better used?

Of course we had an elective war against Iraq that's costing us hundreds of billions of dollars. We could go on and on, but I go back to Starr.

In an era of unprecedented deficits, I think we should be railing away at the Pukes over these things. I don't think we're railing enough.
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asjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-04 01:03 PM
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1. We have been railing for years
but nobody seems to be listening. Going back 12 years and still no one is listening. The SCLM took care of that.
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Crachet2004 Donating Member (725 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-04 01:30 PM
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2. We have been 'too nice'.
Well, I'm not nice now. And if we win, I think there should be a bunch of EXTREMELY expedited investigations, culminating with a bunch of VERY lengthy prison terms!

Yeah! I'd give them a real quick trial and throw their a$$es in prison! With no parole.

I would too.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-04 01:39 PM
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3. Absolutely we've been too nice!
I think it's part of the culture of the Dems to try to be understanding, and the culture of the Pukes to be hard core, hard handed and "anything it takes!

We all need to fight back with the same tactics or we've lost!

Why don't we seem to have the articulate people on air like they do? Yes, there are a few, but certainly not the number the competition has!
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Crachet2004 Donating Member (725 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-04 06:29 PM
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6. I hate to be like them,
But I hate to be shouted down, too! I told one guy, "You're not right, you're just loud"...and I told it to him loudly, in a bar, nose to nose! lol. He shut up. They hate it when someone gets in THEIR face! Bully's almost always back down, and ALWAYS back down if it looks like they might get their butts kicked. Thats how I turn their volume down. He still won't talk to me, because I humiliated him-good! They don't know how to act when someone comes flying up out of their chair, with blood in their eye. NOBODY, disrespects me like that, and talks in a big, loud voice like I'm a little kid, and won't let me get a word in edgewise! Or if they do, they better batten down the hatches, cause a hurricanes' comin'! I hate to be like that, but I don't know what else to do with them, when they try to dominate a whole room full of people who didn't even come to listen to that crap. They get programmed to be that way on Fox, I think. If they have Fox on in the bar, I make them change it. Those guys don't need to listen to that crap. It makes them mean.

I'd like to see colmes beat HANNITY's a$$ on TV...or anyone else for that matter.

As to why we don't have as many spokespeople, it is no surprise the corporate media puts people on the air who are, well, procorporation! The media conglomerates need busted up into itsy bitsy, teeny weeny pieces...then our people will have a chance to be heard!. We have more and better spokespersons, they just don't get put on the air.
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JPZenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-04 02:12 PM
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4. $40 Million for Whitewater vs. $12 Million for 9-11
Those bozos wasted $40 million and 4 and a half years investigating the Whitewater real estate deal from the 1970s - while limiting the 9-11 investigation to $14 million and 1 year. In addition, the 9-11 investigation has a strict deadline - after which the commission legally must be dissolved.

In Whitewater, there were never any criminal charges filed against anyone - let alone any convictions.
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Cary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-01-04 03:20 PM
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5. We should tally all up all this wasted money and. . .
list all of the things like the 9-11 investigation.
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