OMFG - Dems DON'T Want To Investigate The Whore BECAUSE He's A Whore?!

[Edgewater_Joe]

Just when you think we finally got them to grow a spine, it appears to be collapsing into a puddle of congealed butter.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=81

Democratic senators have cooled to an inquiry into the disgraced reporter with ties to prostitution who may have been given classified information relating to CIA agent, RAW STORY has learned.

Part of the reason, Senate aides say, was the revelation that the reporter who wrote under the pseudonym Jeff Gannon had in fact sought to prostitute himself online. Democratic senators seem more reticent above delving into a scandal colored by sexual allegations

Do we need to say that if this was the Repunks they'd already be saturating cable news shows with commercials about it?

WHAT THE HELL DO WE NEED TO DO TO THESE PEOPLE TO GET THEM TO DO THEIR F'N JOBS!?!?!?!?!

[Democrat Dragon]

1. Has he been giving blow jobs!?

:mad:

[DulceDecorum]

54. Professional Courtesy

Gannon says he does not kiss.
So Judas follows suit.

[applegrove]

2. perhaps he was an FBI operative investigating the VP affair and

Rove hung him out to dry once he figured it out? Would explain the mass of silence.

Could happen :shrug:

[tuvor]

3. Where's Boxer? Not resting on her roses, I hope. n/t

[donheld]

27. Ms Boxer was very busy today

She, no doubt, couldn't find the door hidden by all the roses.

[Goldmund]

4. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1239626

[Dr Fate]

5. What does Dean say about all this? n/t

n/t

[ElectroPrincess]

6. This should be front page news tomorrow and EVERY day

thereafter until we know WHY this pseudo-journalist was given access to POTUS. Again, we don't have an opposition party. I'm voting left libertarian or green until these gutless wonders *really hurt* enough to grow a spine.

[Pale_Rider]

7. Might have something to do with a sex-ring ...

... in the Beltway. Who knows whose name will pop up in some little black-book.

http://tbrnews.org/Archives/a1376.htm

[TheFarseer]

10. (cough) Santorum (cough)

[Andy_Stephenson]

52. Took the words right out

of my mouth.

[burythehatchet]

55. poor choice of words

[Jacobin]

20. It's exactly like when a whorehouse gets busted in New Orleans

BIG story in the papers, round up the prostitutes, threaten to prosecute them and THEN...........................

>

>

>

Wait for it

>

>

Prostitute's lawyer goes to visit the district attorney with the girls' little black book and starts reading the names in the book to the DA behind closed door, (half the lawyers in town, several judges, lots of doctors and business people)

All of a sudden........the girls get a fifty dollar fine and the house opens back up down the street.

I think you are right. They are protecting the congresscritters.

[CatBoreal]

8. Sounds like Gannon/Guckert has some dirt on...

Dems as well as Repugs.

Hmmmm........

[LSparkle]

9. We're falling into their trap!!!

The seedy sex angle is exactly what the Rethugs think this is all about (and how they're able to dismiss this as a "non-story")! Instead of just reacting to their FRAMING (God, how I'm starting to hate that "term of art") of the story, we need to push the fact this fraud got WH clearance and had access to * while everyone is so paranoid about national security and legitimate journalists are kicked away like flies! How can our reps be so stupid as to fall for this manipulation? DON'T WE HAVE ANY ORIGINAL THOUGHTS ANYMORE or are we just reacting to THEIR version of reality? Aaarghhhh!

[zann725]

11. Then it's up to US to keep the story alive!

Kick!

[LSparkle]

16. Absof***inglutely!

[Carni]

12. OMG These people burn my butt

FREAKING IDIOTS!

[ClassWarrior]

13. That's an awfully broad brush you're wielding there, Huck...

...when you say, "DEMS don't want to investigate the whore."

Your news source says "Democratic senators." That could be TWO. I would appreciate not being lumped in with these apparent cowards... who aren't even named in your source, by the way.

NGU.

[fooj]

14. I want an inquiry! i don't give a damn who else is implicated!

I don't care about the sordid sexual liasons in DC! I care about taking down this filthy, dirty, disgusting administration! If someone gets caught in the cross-fire...so be it!

[pa28]

15. I hope this is not true.

I'd hate to see the Bush W.H. to escape accountability yet again. Damn, no wonder they are so arrogant.

[Dave Reynolds]

17. Two words...

Client List.

[Kashka-Kat]

18. so don't investigate the whoring then, just nvestigate all other

legal & ethical violations

DUH!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

19. Please write to Tell Frank to keep up his Investigation -- Here

Use this address in NJ so they will read it and use the subject "Congrats Request" - just sounded like something someone has to read every day !



It is a Bed and Breakfast in Cape May:

The Brass Bed Inn

719 Columbia Avenue
Cape May, New Jersey 08204

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1590141#1590141

[Name removed]

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[Jacobin]

23. Yes. I'm sure that is very likely

welcome to DU

[blue neen]

47. See post #10.

[Al-CIAda]

22. Our reps SUCK, We starve lose our jobs, and they skip along.

while the thieves and criminal STEAL our future.

[Disturbed]

24. The focus should be Falon...

and how this guy was connected to the RW.

[cestpaspossible]

25. Rawstory.com

always seems to have the most inflammatory new story on any topic, but their accuracy does not always match their temperature.

[ClassWarrior]

26. I repeat, "Edgewater Joe," who are "THESE PEOPLE"...

...whom you're blanket-condemning in capital letters??

Huh?

No answer?? Just shootin' from the hip, Buckaroo??

NGU.

[Edgewater_Joe]

29. "Congressional Democrats" Is Who "THESE PEOPLE" Are

You know, the folks we voted for to allegedly represent our interests?

[ClassWarrior]

30. Yeah, but which ones?? Or how many? All of them???

Don't know? Wow, that's credible.

NGU.

[LittleClarkie]

34. It's sort of an aimless outrage isn't it

in that it's not pointed in any one direction, but is sort of a blanketing shake of the fist.

I got a similar feeling watching people shout "Fight!" at Kerry in regards to the vote.

I felt like asking, and maybe I did ask, how they wanted him to fight. The call seemed to be "do something" like Gore "did something," with no details on what Kerry could do that was different from what Gore had done, since what Gore had done didn't work.

Back to the Congressional Dems. Kind of hard to call the offending parties when one doesn't know which ones are the most culpable. Do we email them all? Just Lautenberg, since he was the original one to call for an investigation?

[ClassWarrior]

35. Yup, Clarkie. Makes you wonder some folks' motives in damning...

...all the Dems in one fell swoop. Interestingly, many of those same folks never say boo about the real enemies, the Radical RW.

NGU.

[Edgewater_Joe]

37. Why Bother Attacking "The Real Enemy"

... when the people you need to attack them won't do it?

And if you want a party where you don't criticize the members of your own party, be a Repunk. It's a prerequisite for them - but not for us.

[ClassWarrior]

39. Now point me to where I said Dems shouldn't criticize members of...

...our own party. You can't. Because I didn't.

I said it's plainly irresponsible to slam the entire party based on a speculative report that names no names.

You claim above that "THESE PEOPLE" (in all caps) are Congressional Democrats. But your news source cites Democratic Senators. So which is it? Senators or Congresspeople? Or are we supposed to damn our Congresspeople because some of something our Senators may or may not have done - but we're not sure?...

:silly:

As Clarkie asks above, if this is about holding members of my own party accountable, HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE IF I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO - IF ANYONE - IS TO BLAME??

So tell me, what IS the purpose of this thread?

NGU.

[LittleClarkie]

53. We could be kind and say it's because we're harder on family

or we could be not kind as say they appear to have "other" motives.

[in_cog_ni_to]

28. Oh come on!!!!!!!!! Those assholes spent 8 years

fixated on a damn BLOW JOB and the Dems don't want to delve into a scandal colored by sexual allegations???????????? What the hell is wrong with these people???

[HR_Pufnstuf]

31. Names please?

Which democratic senators have cooled?

We don't accept unnamed sources in the new media.

"Other senators, according to another Democratic Senate aide."

blah blah blah.



;)

[borg5575]

32. Maybe it's because some of these same senators...

availed themselves of this guy's services.

However, if they did I can't understand why. The guy is a dog. They could find much better than him.

[ClassWarrior]

36. Prove it.

If you can't - and you can't, because NO SENATORS WERE NAMED - then that's fucking irresponsible, and you owe all of us Democrats an apology.

NGU.

[borg5575]

57. Obviously I can't prove it.

That's why I said "maybe." I am just speculating about a possible reason why many Democratic senators don't seem to have the balls to want to go after this story. I realize that there may be another explanation as well.

I also noticed that another poster in this thread said the same thing that I did and then later deleted it, so it's not as if I am the only one who has considered this possibility. After all, everyone is human and as we know from history both Democrat and Republican office holders can from time to time become embroiled in sexual scandals.

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[robbedvoter]

38. They are right - after all - no blue dress is involved. It wasn't the sex

it was the blue dress - everyone knows that!

[DulceDecorum]

56. How about a blue shirt?

Or Bob Novak's broken hip?

[Arkana]

40. If the Democrats let this die

I will officially leave the party forever. Seriously. They need to wring this for everything it's got.

[ClassWarrior]

41. If I had a nickel for every post I've read threatening...

...to leave the party, I'd have the equivalent of a Halliburton sweetheart deal. Seriously.

NGU.

[Arkana]

49. NOTE: Edited for sounding radical

I will have to concede that one...I guess I'm a victim of something I hate the most--reactionary politics. But come on--why would the Democrats just let them get away with this?? Like I said--wring it for everything it's got!

[ClassWarrior]

50. Okay. Fair enough.

I'm just sick of certain posters who run around whining about all of our defeats, and whining even louder about all of our victories. And thanks to these disruptors, it really gets my hackles up every time I hear someone threaten to "leave the party."

On top of the fact that leaving the party - and forfeiting whatever control you may have to make things better - is the worst possible thing you could do if you truly hold Progressive values and want to make a Progressive future happen for America.

Rather, our rage and frustration should compel us to burrow further into our party and destroy the rot from the inside. The only player who never scores is the one who refuses to step up to the plate.

NGU.

[ClassWarrior]

51. LOL - RESPONSE TO EDITED POST...

Why do you believe that the Democrats would let them get away with this? Because a news site reports that? And doesn't even give the names, much less the number, of the offending parties?

Remember, the Radical RW loves it when we doubt our own. The only way they can succeed is by dividing us.

And I didn't think your original post sounded so radical. <LOL>

NGU.

[John_H]

42. I love the way dem bashing DUers believe every mediawhore

no matter how tenuous the story--what, did this reporter poll every senator to get their views on a Gannon investigation?

[rodeodance]

43. Some Dems ARE demanding an investigation LOOK

this was posted on DU a few days ago.

NYT - Conyers & Slaughter demand investigation of Gannon in Plame "leak"


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/11/politics/11gannon.htm... ?

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February 11, 2005
Democrats Want Investigation of Reporter Using Fake Name
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

Two Democrats in Congress are pressing for investigations into how a Washington reporter who used a pseudonym managed to gain access to the White House and had access to classified documents that named Valerie Plame as a C.I.A. operative. The Democrats, Representatives John Conyers Jr. of Michigan and Louise M. Slaughter from Rochester, wrote yesterday to Patrick Fitzgerald, the independent prosecutor appointed in the Plame case, seeking an investigation into how the reporter, James D. Guckert, who used the name Jeff Gannon, had access to classified documents that revealed the identity of Ms. Plame.

<snip>

The Democrats also wrote to the Secret Service seeking an explanation of how someone using a pseudonym was cleared to enter the White House daily press briefings as well as a presidential news conference last month. They said in their letter that allowing such a person in "appears to deviate significantly from heightened security measures you have employed recently."

<snip>

Scott McClellan, the White House press secretary, told reporters yesterday that Mr. Bush did not know who Mr. Guckert was. Mr. McClellan said that Mr. Guckert entered the White House under his real name and "like anyone else, showed that he was representing a news organization that published regularly, and so he was cleared two years ago to receive daily passes, just like many others are." Mr. Guckert was denied credentials to cover Capitol Hill, where press gallery workers said that his application indicated Talon was not his main source of income and that they could not verify its legitimacy.

Karl Frisch, a spokesman for Ms. Slaughter, said: "This is a guy who could not get credentialed by the House or the Senate press galleries, and yet managed to get into the White House and question the president" and have access to a top-secret document. He added: "To imply he has no connection to the White House is just not credible."

[rodeodance]

44. we can email Senators to ask them to join Conyers (address below)

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

[txaslftist]

45. Ah never knew that feller...

Why is that when Bush says he doesn't know something he's immediately believed?

Tell you the truth, I believe him myself.

[rodeodance]

46. cause Bush is that ol' slap on the back, pat on the bald head sort of

creature that people get seduced by.

[txaslftist]

48. I thought it was just that he's credible as an idiot.