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I marriedmysister in texas May 29th, 2009 6:05 pm ET

@Fitz in texas.You should know.
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Actually, no I wouldn't know, because I'm not a liberal/Democrat in government.

To Marilyn Powell in Ohio: Your post is a classic example of your elitist Liberal stupidity. Let's talk 12 months from now when you have awoken to realize how your tax and spend Democratic Party has raped our Country.

I laugh at Limbaugh daily May 29th, 2009 6:03 pm ET
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I laugh at YOU daily, "I laugh at Limbaugh daily"! You're a jerk-with-no-name!!!!!!!!!!!
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Holder will et him off like he did the B P's.

The culture of greed that grips us has no party loyalty.

To the real Sniffit,

May 29th, 2009 4:16 pm ET

LOL…this commentary section reads like there's a basement full of outsourced children hired by the GOP to post the same exact thing in 50 different ways under different names.
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So funny......You have stumbled upon something........That strategy is taken from page 5 of their Karl Rove playbook......Everybody repeat, repeat, repeat, until something sticks......Karl Rove got it from Hitler.....

What's up with the right wingers acting like the left won't accept (and punish) the guilt of democrats? Just ask how hard the door hit Daschle in the butt after they found out he was getting free limo service and not paying taxes on it. I wish I didn't have to see stuff like that about my party ( we aren't all limo liberals, some of us are just blue collar populists with our eyes wide open) but when I do, I am happy to see how quick we boot em. Jefferson should have got the boot before the money in his freezer had time to thaw, in my opinion.

@ donttreadonme, who said "We know you get most your talking points from the Huffington Post and regurgitate that vile garbage here. "

Actually, I would gladly take a lie detector test and tell you I never read Huffington. I'm dead serious. I don't. I play on here intermittentlly during work and then go home and flip on CNN or some other tv nonsense for background noise while I read or do something else. I don't like DailyKos or most of the other lean-one-way places either. I like it here because there's lots of different viewpoints, so your own posts can actually stand out if you make a good point (or a good zing hehe). If you think I'm biased for ragging on the GOP all the time, then perhaps you should take a deep breath and think about what I've said instead of just hating that it goes against what you want to hear. Like I've said, I'll stop as soon as the GOP starts behaving like adults and stops trying to take over the country with societally damaging tactics. Whether you agree with his policies or not, one thing you can't deny about Obama (and perhaps this is what rankles for you guys the most) is that he helped us think positive again. The GOP trying to ruin that will only ruin their party.

HEY DUMMIES: Visclosky ISN'T BEING INVESTIGATED. The subpeonas are for documents related to his FORMER chief of staff's past lobbying activities for the firm THAT IS under investigation.

Geez, do any of you foaming at the mouth partisan attack dogs EVER read past the headline? It is SO PITIFUL the way the anti-democrat barracudas are reduced to siezing on and conflating any molecule of possible negative issue. But then, that is what their heroes Rush, Hannity, Beck, Coulter, Savage, and all of Faux Noise does, so what can you do?

Now, is there likely some wrongdoing with the FORMER chief of staff and/or the LOBBYING FIRM? Welll, duh! It's money, it's politics, it's power. What do you think?

Wow 1 dem (that makes 2 or 3?) in trouble with the law compare to more than 7 in the republican party. Hardly the same. When you side with money and greed you are only asking for trouble... I am talking to you republicans.

Hello ED and your Republican friends who are talking about DEMS being corrupt; take a look in the mirror and you'll see Richard Cheney lied about those documents. He lied about his arrogance and Bush lied about Iraq and many other things.

No only does the Republicans lied; they caused thousands to die needlessly. Thousands more are suffering daily and will suffer for many years. Every GI that served in Iraq and their families will suffer for the rest of their lives.

Funny how you folks are talking about an issue that is "just" being investigated and no one know for sure what the out come will be.

Why not talk about your evil masters and the stench they left in their trails.

I get a kick out of the blogs. When a Dem. is caught with his hand in the honey pot, the Rep. dogs are all over it, ane when it;s a Rep caught then the dems get their shot. Doesn't anyone realize that they are all for sale. Every last one of them. And those that aren't are trolling mens rooms for a little action.

What a waste of time.

As a Democrat, Visclosky's word is worthless, as the "truth" becomes what is most politically expedient for him. Therefore, any oath he takes to tell the truth will be ignored, and Democrats are not subject to perjury laws.

QED

@Fitz in texas.You should know.

Please,no polish jokes,we may offend Rush.

American can. But without CNN.

CNN is so Biased.. They make the news. Forget the abuse. Forget everything. Just abide by Mr King....

Half of you fools are commenting about him being guilty and you have no idea of what.

And can one of you idiots that think "Bush got blamed for everything" name one thing he got blamed for that he didn't actually do? Why doesn't "guilty" factor into your thinking at all. War criminal by any measure. Just becuase the Repuclican congress protected him, does not make him innocent, it makes them crimminal too.

Wow, another corrupt Democrat. I'm trying to feel surprised and shocked. Somehow I just cant do it, it's become the norm of the Democratic Corruption Party.

Oh my God!! A democrat is accused of wrongdoing? We are surely done for now. If you can't trust Democrat politicians AND Republicans, who can we trust?

and Pelosi will follow-–Pelosi went to China to escape the heat but the CIA will be all over her when she gets back.....does she think she can hide from the CIA?...guess again...she'll be looking over her shoulder from now on and better get someone else to start her car every day...

The Republicans are crooks and liars but they cover it up by going to church!

Okay folkks, read the article, he is not being charged or investigated, his chief of staff is... the warrents are for items that his chief of staff would have handled.... I didn't even see what they where investigating the chief of staff for. Stop cinvicting people before you even know WHO you are convicting and what the supposed offense is. If he was a Republican the remarks would be reversed.... Get over the partisan garbage and think for yourselves!

@ Darell Burks, who asked "What happened to due process???"

That baby went out with the bathwater. The accusation IS the conviction in our tabloid society.

Another corrupt Democrat??? Quick, blame Bush, blame Cheney, blame Republicans. Whatever happened to Pelosi's vow to have the most ethical House in history? All of a sudden Democrats have changed their tune, are shrugging their shoulders and saying it could happen to anyone. What about Change we can believe in?

Darrell,

There is no "due process" in the neo-con "christian" world.

They judge and then cite some fable from the Holy Book of Fables as the reason why everyone BUT them is quilty.

Due process of the law is not even on the neo-con radar as a concept!

@ Ken

I agree. Funny thing about being bought tho...it's lucrative. Demanding campaign finance reform is like demanding that politicians pull their own teeth out with rusty pliers.

It is an investigation people – What happened to due process???

Ken Shade, not all lobbying is bad. If there's an issue with toilet paper, say it breaks out your rear, someone lobbying the TP industry is likely to, um, well, be covering your butt. We don't need to outlaw the candy lobby or the hairdryer lobby, or whatever. It's when they lobby the big money industries that they send Tony Soprano instead of someone reasonable. And it's Lobby-IST, not lobbist, like a waiting room where they hang around waiting to tug someone's sleeve on their way out.
southerncousin, as your next-door neighbor AND a dope-smokin' liberal, I need to point out that Sniffit WAS pointing out CNN liberal bias. He was saying that by being stingy with facts, CNN encourages right-wing nuts to say things they shouldn't(although no one's listening except us dope-smokin' liberals and you drunken rightwingers).
Barb, I vote Dem usually and I can tell you that there is no such thing as a democrat party OR a publican party. Democratic or Republican is correct. Anyone who votes is a democrat, but not necessarily a Democrat. Two letters, but to us educated people they are important.

Viscosity! Says it all..

@ dontreadonme, who asked "Does your bias blind you to the fact that most posts her are senseless partisan blubber. "

I'm not biased. If you pay any attention to my posts, I generally try to cite facts unless I'm just cracking a joke. I will, however, continue to rail against the GOP until they cut the crap and start behaving themselves like responsible adults who actually care about the country, not partisan shenanigans and revenge for their loss of power.

Anybody believing ANY politician, including Obama, is'nt in it for their own self serving needs instead of serving the country is an idiot.

@ southerncousing, who said "Let me mention a couple of names Carville & Begala"

Rollins, Dobbs, Navarette, and I'm blanking on the last name of the hispanic GOPer with the mustache...Alex C____? I forget. Heck, even Glenn Beck was here for a while regurgitating GOP talking points and acting like his typical meatheaded self. And yes, I listed Dobbs there even though he claims he's independent because he's in it with you fools with your fear-mongering about 2nd Amendment gun rights. I put his show on when I get home from work just to yell at him and get the stress out.

@ Sniffit

THANKS FOR THE INPUT. Something needs to be done to stop them from buying OUR representatives.

Just one more liberal CROOK.

Why are the standards on the left so low?

Sniffit May 29th, 2009 4:16 pm ET
LOL…this commentary section reads like there's a basement full of outsourced children hired by the GOP to post the same exact thing in 50 different ways under different names. -------------

One could come to same conclusions when reading any post regarding anything Repub. Does your bias blind you to the fact that most posts her are senseless partisan blubber.

We know you get most your talking points from the Huffington Post and regurgitate that vile garbage here. So please stop being such a hypocrite.

Wow just wow this is politics people. Politics=corruption. Even though their are laws to block this sort of thing. We have no idea what happens behind closed doors. Both Democrats and Republicans are evil its always been a matter of picking the lesser evil. Their is no good party here understand that.

I am a registered democrat and if he has done wrong then he has be treated like every other person.

And just recently it was the Republicans in handcuffs. Welcome to the reality of American politics: corruption will alway be there and will come in all persuasions. Throw out the bums and get a new set of bums. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

People howl and yell about all these surface issues, but the real game of politics is which group of insider pigs gets the biggest slop-fest at the trough.

The rest of us are rubes.

Screw you Matt M.

Culture of Corruption.

Hope and Change.

Most corrupt in History.

Worst President in History.

Once a crook, always a crook.

In other words, if Visclosky isn't charged with a criminal offense then he is "cleared" of wrongdoing! What a misrepresentation of the burden of proof in a criminal trial. Too bad Visclosky's constituents don't hold him to a higher standard of ethics than just not being convicted of a crime.

I don't know why this is a surprise to anyone. There will be more stories about corrupt dems because they are the majority. Then, the pendulum will swing (remember Abramoff?), and the GOP will get hit.

It happens all the time. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Right now, the dems have absolute power, so they are going to act stupid thinking that they are uncatchable. There are more to come, with Murtha probably being the next to fall.

In the end, GOP or Dem, all think they are made of teflon, which is why we see the same scandals over and over again.

Sniffit@you are a dope smokin' lib if you don't see CNN bias. Let me mention a couple of names Carville & Begala, idiot, they run CNN and have a morning consult with the White House Chief Staff. That being said, I know Pete Viscloskey and he really is an honest politician.

TO: This is 'typical:

Your Chrysler dealership conspiracy holds no water. 80% – 90% of the Chrysler dealerships were owned by Republicans who donated to the Republican party. So wouldn't it make sense that the majority of those being closed were owned by Republicans who donated to the Republican party? Research before posting......

Funniest part of all of this? Nothing about having these documents subpoenaed means he's corrupt. Documents are frequently subpoenaed from innocent parties when investigating someone else. CNN has intentionally kept the article incrediblly vague to encourage the idiocy we're seeing from the GOPers. One might, at first blush, think that makes CNN biased towards them...but then again, the GOPers are only hurting themselves with their nonsense, so who knows.

When a corrupt Republican politician gets caught it's someone else's fault. When a corrupt Democrat politician gets caught they all do it. How "holier then thou" can you get.

Just how STUPID does one have to be to try and frame this issue as a partisan issue just to beat up on democrats? Apparently, there is no shortage of stupid people posting here! I wasn't aware that ALL our republican politicians were honest and up-right citizens, but thanks for setting me straight on that point.

@ Ken Shade, who said "outlaw the giving of anything that can be construded as a gift or payment from any person or persons that represent or ar tied to any company or business."

A. It is already against th elaw to bribe and give gifts.

B. You can't tell corporations they can't donate to campaigns, etc., because the SCOTUS has interpreted the Constitution to protect donations as a matter of free speech.

C. You CAN limit the amount of donations. This is where it's at. Large corporations and interest groups are able to sway politicians so heavily because they are capable of giving far more than your average individual. The key in terms of campaign finance reform lies in finding a way to limit the amounts of donations to prevent money from determining how "loudly" people and corporations are talking to their representatives, so that the substance of what is being said can move to the forefront.

Does anyone really believe that if the Republicans had the same vetting process now in use that NO REPUBLICAN would be identified as cheating? C'mon you're really not that STUPID, are you?

The reason so many dems are under investigation is because, unlike rethugs, when there's an allegation of wrong-doing, the dems investigate.

I agree with Ken Shade why are lobbyists allowed to bribe our representatives? Why is campaign fund raising even allowed from outside the representative district? All contributions either from corporations, Wall Street, banking, unions, lobbyists, etc…should be banned. Only money raised from the people they are representing should be allowed. People not businesses and with a limit, it is time to stop having every election go to the person who can raise the most money.

I am shocked and chagrined, a corrupt Lemocrat?

"The chickens have come home to roost".

The Liberals are out cashing the Government checks before the banks close, but I will help them out here:

It's Bush's fault

It's Palin's fault

Haters, bigots, Rethuglicans....................

There you go, you can go do nothing now, you are all set, I got your back.

CNN, where is the story of the Republican car dealers that are performing MUCH, MUCH better than non-Republican car dealers but are LOSING their business just because they are registered as Republicans or donate to Republican causes????

Can you people spell?

LOL...this commentary section reads like there's a basement full of outsourced children hired by the GOP to post the same exact thing in 50 different ways under different names.

These are not the droids you're looking for...

@ Fair is Fair & Barbara

Democrat or Republican, they all have some kind of legal woes. I don't think that none of them outweigh Bush's, Cheney's, Rice's, Roves', Rumsfeld's or Gonzales' though.

Corruption in Washington shows no party allegiance or ideological affiliation. They're all crooks at one level or another.

just like Pelosi, Murth, and Harmon, the democrats will turn a blind eye and say this is a "distraction."

Doesn’t it seem like a disproportionate number of Dems are in hot water for corruption?

Another dirty Dem....*yawn*.....not news.........

No news here...just another corrupt democrat to join the long, long list of other corrupt democrats.

Now you have Four! And they all agree with each other. Where is the conflict???

Another democratic politician breaking the law... yawwwwwn...

LOBBIST, LOBBIST, LOBBIST. Why are lobbist even legal? Are representatives not elected "By The People" to represent the people? If that is the case then why do our elected officials get so much money from lobbist representing businesses? To me they are simply buying our elected officials because they perform acts that usually only benefit big business.This is all wrong. Pass a federal law that outlaws all lobbying of public officials except in public hearings where they can voice their opinions just as the citizens do and outlaw the giving of anything that can be construded as a gift or payment from any person or persons that represent or ar tied to any company or business.

Another D-Crook

Nothing to see here

a corrupt democrap???????????? no waaaay.....next you will be telling me there is gambling in Casa Blanca

Visclosky has returned thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the firm and its employees, who were among his biggest financial supporters.

so if i stole stuff from a store and then returned it to the store no crime was committed? and all is good?

Boy. Everyday I read about a Dem under investigation. Funny I thought they were more ethical than the republican party. We have one senator who is black. Out of 100 men and women only one is black and he is getting resady to be booted. Who will the blacks blame. Bush? Ceny? How about the democrat party? they are starting to eat their own.

A democrat with legal issues? Now how can that be? This must be a mistake. CNN – check your sources. I refuse to believe this until President Obama appoints a czar to oversee the investigation.