Excuse me, but this whole John Conyers thing stinks really bad!

[carolinalady]

I'm watching CNN and they are doing an "expose" on Conyers utilizing an aide to babysit his children. What gets me that one of those people was a lawyer for God's sake! If it was true, what kind of lawyer would put up with that? Surely she would know how to get it stopped. The fix is in.
ed to add link: http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/12/griffin.conyers/index.html

[rodeodance]

1. so am I must be 5 minutes so far --refering to women as 'servants"

[rodeodance]

2. now that talked of nanny stuff, they are onto Conyers using staff for pol-

ital stuff-campaign stuff.

[rodeodance]

5. reporter has been trying to talk to him for two weeks he said.

[rodeodance]

11. now says more like 3 weeks.

[rodeodance]

13. Drew is the reporter and Host said she will be looking for a follow-up

[spanone]

3. Swiftboating of Conyers...it's been on for about 7 or 8 minutes.

Boy the media sure knows a story when theay smell one.

[dogday]

4. The Democrats need to form a quick response

team to defend others against these attacks in the media.. Someone needs to come out now and beat down these charges, and they need to stick together... This is not the first swift-boat in the ocean and it sure as hell won't be the last....

[rodeodance]

17. It would be best if it came from Conyers (esp if this has been going on

for 2-3 weeks). They do not like being ignored.

[carolinalady]

27. 2-3 weeks ago-wasn't that about the time the Pukes started

sending out dire warnings to the Sheeples that if they vote for the dems they will impeach their beloved "Commander-is-Chimp"?

hmmmmmmmm.....
:think:

[formercia]

6. OH, God, better charge him with War Crimes

(sarcasm) :evilgrin:

[rodeodance]

7. is this the first time that cnn has aired this?

[carolinalady]

16. apparently it was first aired on Paula Zahn-do not know when

[AX10]

8. Swiftboating from the right wing again?!?

:eyes:

This crap is getting old Pubbies.

[Plaid Adder]

9. Is that all they got?

Come on. They can make up better shit than that!

Yeesh,

The Plaid Adder

[Swamp Rat]

14. Silly, ain't it?

:eyes:

[rodeodance]

20. one women said she was ordered to help with campaign stuff. This is

serious stuff folks-.

[marmar]

10. I can't believe they're still running that story...

In Conyer's district in Detroit, the story surfaced in the media for a few days, then quickly disappeared when they realized it had no legs. Something tells me Sith Lord Rove has been busy.

[CottonBear]

29. This seems to be a two year old, debunked non-story. n/t

[Kagemusha]

12. Any excuse is enough when someone challenging power is concerned.

And the media wants to be liked. Powerful motive there.

[kentuck]

15. It's fairly obvious...

Repubs are looking 6 to 8 months down the road. If they lose the House, John Conyers will be in charge of the impeachment hearings against George W Bush. Start tearing him down now so he will not be the leader of the Committee or he will otherwise be unable to investigate the Bush Administration.

[CottonBear]

18. I saw a CNN "report" on this "story" this morning about 10:30 EST.

I was shocked. This seems to have come out of the blue.

My take: The GOP knows that the Democrats will retake the congress in 2006 and they don't want Mr. Conyers to be chair of the judiciary committee. They remember that both he and Mr. Rangel were involved in the Watergate hearings.

edit: Oops! kentuck beat me to it!

[rodeodance]

19. so, they have aired it at least twice (that we know of)-also was in press

yesterday.-on cnn website.

[CottonBear]

23. I didn't hear anything yesterday.

Does Conyers have young children or is this supposed to have taken place years ago?

I call bullshit on the whole stinking mess.

[rodeodance]

31. one women talked of changing diapers, -but i can not get a handle on

when this took place.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

21. Are you saying Conyers hired right-wing staffers that are trying to frame

him?

[carolinalady]

35. I'm saying that IF this happened-it was a long time ago-found

a picture of him on his website with Clinton and his children were pretty old by then-Why does this get "exposed" right now?

http://www.house.gov/conyers/news_biography.htm

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

37. That's another story altogether.

You'd have to ask CNN that one, because the reports were filed 2 years ago. I don't know why CNN decides this is a story now.

[Tinksrival]

22. WOW this is HUGH!1!!!11 seriously investigative reporting!1!1!!!

Laughable, really!

Their "expose" is a total "joke"!!!

[rodeodance]

24. said complaint in in the ethics committee a while ago but nothing happened

[rodeodance]

25. Quest on said there is a 'gentlemens agreement" not to bring charges

against each other. --a truce.

[BlooInBloo]

26. Why should they stop going after our reps?

DU has already proven that Democrats are almost completely unwilling to stand up for their representatives when under attack from the right...

They won't stop until WE make them stop - and that means defending our representatives against smear attacks.

[fooj]

30. Right on!

Peace.

[BlooInBloo]

33. Can't complain about them not representin for us......

.... if we won't represent for them after all....

[WI_DEM]

28. how about an expose on Bush lying about the causes of war?

Nah, it's much better to have one on an anti-war congressman who let an aide baby sit his kids.

[MadMaddie]

32. I was watching too....It's mind boggling.....this is all they have

to swifboat...

[rodeodance]

34. dare I say this -she was a women working for a powerful man. But I wonder

if she was a lawyer at the time (maybe)--i believe they said 'legal counsil'

[Avalux]

36. Meanwhile, Tom DeLay is being considered for OMB post.

:crazy:

[fooj]

38. I heard that, too. Is that CRAZY?

:banghead: