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Post by Cepha on Jul 7, 2009 8:53:57 GMT -5
Scandals since The Obama Administration from the " party of family values."  South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford Cheats on wife... Nevada U.S. Senator John Ensign Cheats on wife... Jim Gibbons Nevada Governor Cheats on wife... It's barely 1/2 a year into the Obama Administration's rule, and the party of family values seems to (as usual) have the lead in racy scandals already. Can they still call themselves the "party of family values"? I won't even go into last years scandals. I'll just stick to this one for the time being. So, what say ye about Republicans' constant failures in the "family values" department? |
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Post by cradlecathlic27 on Jul 8, 2009 1:29:48 GMT -5
Im sure there are alot more scandals that we dont know about on both sides... To be a politition you must be slightly scandalous!
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Post by Cepha on Jul 8, 2009 12:41:19 GMT -5
Im sure there are alot more scandals that we dont know about on both sides... To be a politition you must be slightly scandalous! That's why I only stuck with the proven scandals. ;D |
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Post by cradlecathlic27 on Jul 8, 2009 15:36:26 GMT -5
Oh, John Edwards...cheats on his wife.
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Post by Cepha on Jul 9, 2009 9:08:28 GMT -5
Oh, John Edwards...cheats on his wife. That's off topic. The topic here is about Scandals since President Obama took office. Edwards is last year's news. But, if you want to talk about Scandals during the Bush Administration...OK (don't get mad now, you introduced Bush era Scandals! LOL!): List of Bush Administration Scandals Enjoy:
Indicted / Convicted/ Pled Guilty* Eric G. Andell - deputy undersecretary in charge of newly created Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (previously senior adviser to Secretary of Education Rod Paige) - pleaded guilty to one count of conflict of interest for using government travel for personal causes and was sentenced to one year of probation, 100 hours of community service, and fined $5,000.
* Claude Allen - Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy- resigned, pled guilty to shoplifting from Target stores.
* Lester Crawford - Commissioner, FDA - resigned in late September 2005 after only two months on the job. On October 17th, he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts, making a false writing and conflict of interest. On February 27, 2007, Crawford was sentenced to to three years of probation and was fined $90,000.
* Brian Doyle - Deputy Press Secretary, Department of Homeland Security - Resigned in wake of child sex scandal. Doyle was arrested on April 4th, 2006 and pleaded no contest on September 19, 2006 to seven counts of use of a computer to seduce a child and sixteen counts of transmitting harmful material to a minor. On November 17th, 2006 Brian Doyle was sentenced to five years in state prison and ten years of probation. He will also need to register as a sex offender.
* Steven Griles - Deputy Secretary at the Interior Department - is the highest-ranked administration official yet convicted in the Jack Abramoff scandal. In March 2007, Griles pleaded guilty to lying about his role in the Jack Abramoff scandal. Sentenced to 10 months incarceration.
* John T. Korsmo – Chairman of the Federal Housing Finance Board from 2002 to 2004 – pleaded guilty in 2005 to lying to the Senate and an inspector general. He swore he had no idea how a list of presidents for FHFB-regulated banks were invited to a fundraiser for his friend’s congressional campaign. On the invites, Korsmo was listed as the “Special Guest.” Got 18 months of probation and a $5,000 fine.
* Scooter Libby - Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff - resigned after being indicted for lying to a grand jury and investigators in connection with the investigation stemming from the leak of Valerie Wilson’s covert CIA operative’s identity. Convicted on four of five counts, making him the highest-ranking White House official to be convicted of a felony since the Iran-contra scandal. Sentenced to thirty months imprisonment and a fine of $250,000. On July 2nd, after a judge decided that Libby would remain in prison during the appeals process, President Bush commuted Libby’s sentence by removing the thirty months in prison.
* David Safavian - former head of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy at the Office of Management and Budget - convicted of lying to ethics officials and Senate investigators about his ties to lobbyist Jack Abramoff. On October 27, 2006, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison. He is currently appealing the ruling.
* Robert Stein - former comptroller and funding officer for the now disbanded Coalition Provisional Authority, Southern Central Region in Al-Hillah, Iraq - pleaded guilty to conspiracy, bribery, conspiracy to commit money laundering, possession of a machine gun, and being a felon in possession of a fire arm. On January 30, 2007 Stein was sentenced to nine years in prison and ordered to forfeit $3.6 million.
* Roger Stillwell - desk officer, Interior Department - pleaded guilty to failing to report Redskins tickets and free dinners from Jack Abramoff.
Resigned Due to Investigation, Pending Investigation or Allegations of Impropriety
* Philip Cooney - chief of staff, White House Council on Environmental Quality - a former oil industry lawyer with no scientific expertise, Cooney resigned after it was revealed he had watered down reports on global warming.
* George Deutsch - press aide, NASA - resigned amid allegations he prevented the agency’s top climate scientist from speaking publicly about global warming.
* Michael Elston - chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty - announced his resignation on June 15, 2007. Despite allegations that he’d threatened at least four of the eight fired US Attorneys, McNulty said Elston had served the Justice Department “with distinction for nearly eight years.”
* Kyle Dustin “Dusty” Foggo - appointed executive director of the CIA, the agency’s third-highest post, in October 2004 - resigned and was ultimately indicted on bribery charges related to the Duke Cunningham scandal.
* Alberto Gonzales - former Attorney General - resigned without explanation amidst investigations of the firings of U.S. Attorneys, the politicization of the Justice Department, warrantless surveillance, and the torture and mistreatment of detainees.
* Monica Goodling - former Justice Department liaison to the White House and senior counsel to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales - resigned on April 7, 2007 amidst the investigation of the firings of U.S. Attorneys.
* Michelle Larson Korsmo - deputy chief of staff, Department of Labor - Helped her husband (see John Korsmo, above) with his donor scam. Quietly left her Labor plum job in February 2004, about two weeks before news broke that she and her husband were the targets of a criminal probe.
* Howard “Cookie” Krongard - former State Department inspector general — accused of not properly investigating State Department contractor fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan; of retaliating against whistleblowers in his own office; and of not telling the truth about his knowledge of his brother’s ties with Blackwater, a State Department contractor. Faced with a possible perjury investigation, Howard Krongard resigned on December 7, 2007.
* Julie Macdonald - former deputy assistant secretary for fish, wildlife and parks at the Interior Department - resigned in May 2007 after an “inspector general’s report found she had improperly leaked information to private organizations, bullied staff scientists and broken federal rules.” The Department of the Interior is investigating many of her decisions regarding endangered species; so far seven have been overturned.
* Paul McNulty - Deputy Attorney General for the Department of Justice – resigned, after questions about his involvement in the U.S. attorney firings and his testimony to Congress about the firings.
* Richard Perle - Chairman, Defense Policy Board - resigned from Pentagon advisory panel amid conflict-of-interest charges.
* Susan Ralston - assistant, White House - resigned amidst revelations that she had accepted thousands of dollars in gifts from Abramoff without compensating him, counter to White House ethics rules.
* Janet Rehnquist - inspector general, Department of Health and Human Services - resigned on June 1, 2003 in the face of an investigation into her alleged efforts to block a politically dangerous probe on behalf of the Bush family.
* James Roche - secretary, U.S. Air Force - resigned in the wake of the Boeing tanker lease scandal, after it was revealed he had rather crudely pushed for Boeing to win a $23 billion contract.
* Kyle Sampson -former chief of staff for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales - resigned amidst the investigation of the firings of U.S. Attorneys.
* Joseph Schmitz - Inspector General, Defense - Resigned amid charges he personally intervened to protect top political appointees.
* Bradley Schlozman - resigned from his third and final post with the Justice Department after accusations of actively politicizing the department. He’s currently under investigation by the Department’s inspector general.
* Thomas Scully - Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - shortly after Scully resigned in 2003, an investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services inspector general found that Scully had pressured the agency’s actuary to underestimate the full cost of the Medicare reform bill by approximately $100 billion until after Congress passed the bill into law. Scully was also hit with conflict of interest charges by the U.S. attorney’s office for billing CMS for expenses incurred during a job search while he still headed the agency. He settled those charges by paying $9,782.
* David Smith - deputy assistant secretary for fish, wildlife, and parks, Interior Department - resigned on July 21, 2006 after shooting a buffalo and accepting its skeletal remains and meat as an illegal gratuity. He eventually paid over $3,000 for the dead buffalo, but only after the internal inquiry had commenced. The Department of Interior inspector general also noted in a May 16, 2006 report that Smith’s involvement in the designation of Houston as a port of entry for imported wildlife in order to benefit a friend was inappropriate.
* John Tanner - Voting Rights Section Chief, Justice Department - resigned in December of 2007 and moved to the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices. Already under suspicion for aiding efforts to politicize the voting section, the bumbling proponent of voter identification laws angered lawmakers with his comments that such laws actually discriminate against white voters because “minorities die first”. Even more impressive was his apology for the comment. The DoJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility is currently investigating his travel habits and those of his deputy.
* Sara Taylor - Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Political Affairs at the White House, where she was Karl Rove´s top aide - resigned amidst the U.S. attorneys investigation and other probes of Rove´s alleged politicization of the government.
* Ken Tomlinson - Board Chairman, Corporation for Public Broadcasting; member, Broadcasting Board of Governors - resigned at the release of an inspector general report concluding he had broken laws in spending CPB money to hire politically connected consultants to search for “bias” without consulting the board. At BBG, a separate investigation found he was running a “horse racing operation” out of his office, and continuing to hire politically-wired individuals to do “consulting” work for him. After being nominated and serving another term, he finally stepped down from that spot earlier this year.
* Carl Truscott - Director, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Bureau - resigned. A report by the Justice Department’s inspector general found that Truscott wasted tens of thousands of dollars on luxuries, wasted millions on whimsical management decisions and violated ethics rules by ordering employees to help his nephew with a high school video project.
* Paul Wolfowitz - World Bank President - resigned in May 2007 after a committee report found that he broke ethics rules by giving his girlfriend a substantial raise.
Nomination Failed Due to Scandal
* Linda Chavez - nominated, Secretary of Labor - withdrew her nomination in January 2001 amidst revelations that an illegal immigrant lived in her home and worked for her in the early 1990s. Chavez blamed what she said were the “search-and-destroy” politics of Washington.
* Timothy Flanigan - nominated, Deputy Attorney General (also Alberto Gonzales’ top deputy at the White House) - withdrew his nomination in October 2005 amidst revelations that he’d worked closely with lobbyist Jack Abramoff when he was General Counsel for Corporate and International Law at Tyco, which was a client of Abramoff’s.
* Bernard Kerik - nominated, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security - withdrew his nomination amidst a host of corruption allegations. Eventually pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor relating to improper gifts totaling tens of thousands of dollars while he was a New York City official in the late 1990’s. Subsequently, on November 8, 2007, Kerik was indicted on sixteen counts for bribery, tax fraud, and false statements with a maximum sentence of 142 years and more than $5 million in fines. Kerik has pleaded not guilty. For a rundown of Kerik’s myriad indiscretions, check out TPM’s Ultimate Kerik Scandal List!.
* William Mercer - the former associate deputy attorney general and US Attorney for Montana - withdrew his nomination to be the permanent number three official at the Department of Justice on June 22, 2007 due to his role in the U.S. attorney firings.
* Hans von Spakovsky - Commissioner, FEC - nomination to another term after his recess appointment failed due to allegations that he’d worked at the Justice Department to suppress minority voter turnout.
Under Investigation But Still in Office
* Stuart Bowen - Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) - was once admired for his successes while investigating allegations of waste and fraud in Iraq, but now employee allegations have prompted four government investigations into the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR).
* Lurita Doan - Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration - still in office, despite investigations by both the Office of Special Counsel and the House oversight committee that found that Doan had “crossed the line” by suggesting that the GSA use its resources to help Republicans get elected.
* Alfonso Jackson - Secretary of Housing and Urban Development - following reports that Jackson told a business group in April 2006 that he once canceled a contract after the contractor criticized President Bush, an investigation by the HUD inspector general found that while Jackson told his deputies to favor Bush supporters, there was “no direct proof that a contract was actually awarded or rescinded because of political affiliation.” A second, criminal investigation was triggered in part by Jackson’s claim before Congress in May 2007 that “I don’t touch contracts.” That probe, now before a federal grand jury, has turned up evidence that Jackson may indeed have touched contracts - and steered them towards friends.rinf.com/alt-news/politics/list-of-bush-administration-scandals/2148/ |
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Post by cradlecathlic27 on Jul 9, 2009 14:05:50 GMT -5
Thats fine...
I just brought up edwards cause he is still in the current news. His wife was just on Larry King
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Post by Cepha on Jul 10, 2009 14:43:36 GMT -5
Thats fine... I just brought up edwards cause he is still in the current news. His wife was just on Larry King John Edwards is "not" a politician anymore. He is a private citizen. This thread was about politicians. Not private citizens. |
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Post by cradlecathlic27 on Jul 10, 2009 14:56:42 GMT -5
ok, well then your long post of people no longer in office counts?? lol
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Post by Cepha on Jul 10, 2009 15:19:39 GMT -5
ok, well then your long post of people no longer in office counts?? lol Next time read the thread topic before you lose that famous temper of yours! LOL! I specifically worded it like that so that there'd be no confusion! LOL! Can't we just focus on the new & fresh corruption? LOL! |
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Post by cradlecathlic27 on Jul 10, 2009 17:57:15 GMT -5
What i meant was that.... you said this thread is about polititians not private citizens...well, most the people in the list above are now private citizens like edwards.
OK, im done.. this is stupid
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Post by alfie on Jul 12, 2009 16:35:04 GMT -5
Why aren't any of these Republican politicians being offered T.V. shows like Democrat Blagdovovich from Illionois?
Then there is Hilliary Clinton. Rumors are she is gay but the press has never mentioned that. Why wasn't that brought up during the primaries?
Also she's lucky she didn't go to prison for insider trading like Martha Stewart.
And what about Vince Foster? It's no secret that he was murdered by the Clintons.
Then you have Barney Frank another gay blade who basically ran a gay house of prostitution out of his home using tax money.
Jesse Jackson fathered a child out of wedlock but that was no big whoop according to the left wing media. And he's a preacher.
And what about Bill Clinton and his dirty dealings in Dubay?
Then there is Timothy Geithner who hasn't paid back thousands of income taxes he owes.
What about Nancy Polucci spending a million dollars every time she flies to California? She should not be allowed to use a government plane.
Nan also knew about waterboarding but got out of those charges.
The Acorn scandal is the only reason Obama won the election. If you noticed some of the stimulus money is going to fund Acorn. Wonder why Obama wants to do that?
There's more scandals involving democrats then republicans but the press doesn't hoot and hollar about them like they do when the republicans screw up.
Remember president Kennedy and how no one knew he was a womanizer?
Finally the expectations are so much higher for Republicans than Democrats that no one blinks an eye when a democrat is corrupt.
By the way 10% of the stimulus package is unaccounted for and don't tell me it was given to the Republicans.
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Post by cradlecathlic27 on Jul 12, 2009 17:32:57 GMT -5
Yeah, something to investigate...how many people were killed that were Bill Clintons x-friends in the political world? There was a show on tv about it, long time ago so i dont remember what channel.
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Post by cradlecathlic27 on Jul 12, 2009 17:35:45 GMT -5
Opening a new thread on this...just because it IS pretty interesting! Kinda scary really!
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Post by Cepha on Jul 13, 2009 8:24:00 GMT -5
What i meant was that.... you said this thread is about polititians not private citizens...well, most the people in the list above are now private citizens like edwards. OK, im done.. this is stupid Not yet you aren't! None of the people mentioned in the topic of the thread are were private citizens! And those mentioned "after" you chose to bring up people from the past weren't private citizens when they were caught! LOL! |
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Post by Cepha on Jul 13, 2009 9:08:40 GMT -5
Why aren't any of these Republican politicians being offered T.V. shows like Democrat Blagdovovich from Illionois? Because Republicans are the most hated Party in America right now. Rumors say that a space craft landed in Roswell too.  ;D Lucky? No...just "good"! The Clintons are untouchable!  Yeah, I wonder if he and Dick Cheney's gay bladess daughter "Lez", oops! I mean, "Liz" ever march together at the rallies?  Hey, at least he wasn't "crusing" men's bathrooms for sodomy like your boy Larry Craig!  Hey, at least he didn't try to sell our Port's Security to these guys AFTER 9/11 like Bush! www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/24/AR2006022400765.html Oh yeah? Guess who else hasn't paid their taxes? Yep! You got it! LOL! The GOP's cheerleader!  All Speakers get that! LOL! Hey, better than that hypocrite Newt Gingrich who while impeaching The President for being "dishonest" was cheating on his own wife! LOL! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/gingrich-admits-to-affair-during-lewinsky-scandal-439574.htmlReally? Somehow, The CIA nor The GOP hasn't put forth one shred of evidence that she did...in fact, The CIA did put out documents PROVING that they DID lie to Congress! Oh yeah, I'm sure it wasn't the overwhelming "White" vote that he got from all those women that wanted to "sleep" with him, huh? At least, that's why you said he won the last time, hey? LOL! Really?  Republican Sex Scandals Dwarf Those of Democrats www.salem-news.com/articles/october172007/repub_scandals_10_17_07.phpHmmm...maybe "that's" why only 27% of Americans still call themselves "republicans"?  Remember president Kennedy and how no one knew he was a womanizer? Exactly! Because The Dems don't walk around boasting about being the party of "family values" while pursuing boy "pages" in D.C. or tapping their shoes under the bathroom stalls for other men or worse!  Our President isn't "counseled" by a Homosexual Drug Addict Evangelical Pastor like Bush was on "matters of faith"! (In French Accent...) "How du you say...Ted Haggard?"  LOL! No, you have it backwards, only 10% of the package has been spent! LOL! |
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Post by cradlecathlic27 on Jul 13, 2009 11:21:37 GMT -5
HOWEVER much has been spent is NOT working... LOL!!! And his approval rate is DROPPING! HA
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Post by cradlecathlic27 on Jul 14, 2009 13:10:53 GMT -5
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY): The Chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, Rangel coughed up $75,000 in unpaid back taxes on rental income last year. The House ethics committee is investigating whether Rangel fulfilled all of his disclosure requirements related to that property, among other issues. In June, the panel launched another investigation of whether a Caribbean trip Rangel and four other Democrats took amounted to an improper gift.
Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-IN) and Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA): Three top Democrats are linked to the scandal surrounding the PMA Group, a lobbying group that closed its doors earlier this year after being raided by the FBI in February. The New York Times reported then that top lobbyist Paul Magliocchetti was suspected of funneling “bogus” campaign contributions to Murtha, Visclosky and Moran, in exchange for directing more than $100 million to PMA clients. Rep. Visclosky had admitted being subpoenaed in May by a federal grand jury, and temporarily stepped down as Chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on energy and water development.
Ex-Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA): Jefferson lost a run-off election late last year after investigators found $90,000 in cash stuffed in the congressman’s freezer. In January, NBC made brief references to the charges against Jefferson in a profile of his successor, Republican Joseph Cao. Jefferson’s bribery trial — prosecutors say he received $400,000 in bribes to help orchestrate business deals in Africa — began on June 9, but the networks have yet to mention the case.
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Post by Cepha on Jul 15, 2009 9:55:19 GMT -5
HOWEVER much has been spent is NOT working... LOL!!! And his approval rate is DROPPING! HA What do you mean it's not working? The rate of unemployment has dramatically slowed down. The stock markets are up way more than when he took office. Housing starts are back up. Corporations that accepted the Stimulus money are paying it back in record time and are profitable again. And that's all within the first 6 months. Remember, this is a 2 year plan and he's already getting monies lended out back. Why do you see it differently? It can't be judged until 8 more months from now. He can't undo in 6 months what it took George Bush to mess up in 8 years. He's good, but nobody is "that" good! LOL! |
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Post by Cepha on Jul 15, 2009 10:19:51 GMT -5
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY): The Chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, Rangel coughed up $75,000 in unpaid back taxes on rental income last year. The House ethics committee is investigating whether Rangel fulfilled all of his disclosure requirements related to that property, among other issues. In June, the panel launched another investigation of whether a Caribbean trip Rangel and four other Democrats took amounted to an improper gift. Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-IN) and Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA): Three top Democrats are linked to the scandal surrounding the PMA Group, a lobbying group that closed its doors earlier this year after being raided by the FBI in February. The New York Times reported then that top lobbyist Paul Magliocchetti was suspected of funneling “bogus” campaign contributions to Murtha, Visclosky and Moran, in exchange for directing more than $100 million to PMA clients. Rep. Visclosky had admitted being subpoenaed in May by a federal grand jury, and temporarily stepped down as Chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on energy and water development. Ex-Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA): Jefferson lost a run-off election late last year after investigators found $90,000 in cash stuffed in the congressman’s freezer. In January, NBC made brief references to the charges against Jefferson in a profile of his successor, Republican Joseph Cao. Jefferson’s bribery trial — prosecutors say he received $400,000 in bribes to help orchestrate business deals in Africa — began on June 9, but the networks have yet to mention the case. Why do you keep posting scandals from "before" Obama became President? That's off topic. 
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Post by cradlecathlic27 on Jul 15, 2009 11:32:36 GMT -5
I googled democrat scandals 2009...this is some of what i got!
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