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News – Peter King (R-NY) slammed fellow Republicans for pressuring Vito Fossella (R-NY) to resign amid revelations of a drunken-driving arrest and secret love child. Fossella admitted to an affair and a 3yo daughter with the woman. Fossella was arrested on drunken driving charges after running a red light on the way to her home.

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FTA:

"He's entitled to an interval of decency without having this constant pressure coming from his own party," King said of his friend charged with drunken driving in a Virginia suburb.

HOWEVER, Democrats are never entitled to the same interval of decency. These cons need to stop thinking anything they do is ok. I know Spitzer was dealing with prostitutes, but adultry is adultry.

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Well, he is in New York where that kind of thing seems to be a political past time lol. Should the new NY gov also resign after admitting his philandering?

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I guess I'm wondering if we'll start seeing CNN do nightly chatfests about how horrible it is that the GOP is "throwing him under the bus." I wonder if we will... ;-x

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"Well, he is in New York where that kind of thing seems to be a political past time lol. Should the new NY gov also resign after admitting his philandering?"

At least David Paterson and his wife both consented and knew of these affairs during the rough patch in their marriage.

Shouldn't David Vitter (R-LA) be forced out of office for confessing to hiring prostitutes from the DC madam--the EXACT crime for which Elliott Spitzer was forced out of office? Instead, he was greeted by the GOP WITH APPLAUSE.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19795296/

"Louisiana Sen. David Vitter returned to the Capitol Tuesday, apologizing privately to GOP colleagues but refusing to take reporters' questions about the sex scandal. In a private weekly luncheon for Republican senators in the Capitol, Vitter briefly spoke and received a round of applause audible outside the room."

Your partisan hypocrisy is astounding.

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"At least David Paterson and his wife both consented and knew of these affairs during the rough patch in their marriage."

--Sadly, when Democrats forgive the transgressions of their spouses, this often seems to enrage right wingers even more than the actual sin being forgiven. Consider right wing women as well as subhuman creatures like Katherine Harris, for a moment. Note that I said, "consider" them --not *visualize* or get an image of them in your head. Now, these disgusting, ignorant servile sheep who are willing to vote for McCain (a doddering, finger-counting, imbecile who isn't even afraid to tell them he believes women deserve to be paid less than men) despise Hillary Clinton. Why? Because she had the courage to keep private her feelings about her husbands moral failings. Oh, do the wingjob women hate Hillary. Why won't she melt down in public? How dare she allow this experience to make her stronger. Damn her! ;-x

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ybdogsct:

Well at least they will have a lot of friends in hell. Although I don't think they will be applauding. LOL

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I loved this quote:

"King said Republicans "who are supposed to be his friends" should be giving the Staten Island-Brooklyn Republican "the time and opportunity to make that decision" -- whether to resign, to serve out his term but leave afterward or to stay in office and seek another term -- "himself."

--What King means is that the "liberal media" needs more time to manufacture another "controversy" about Barack Obama potent enough to shove Fossella out of the headlines for a couple of weeks (much like the Wright story did for Spitzer--albeit a little too late for him, unfortunately), and give him time to cry and bite his lower lip on cue on camera and announce he's going into rehab.

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http://www.nypost.com/seven/05102008/news/regio...

DEFIANT VITO: I CAN CHEAT AND RUN

Defying disgusted constituents and Republican leaders, disgraced Rep. Vito Fossella has told pals he plans to seek re-election.

And, shockingly, the he is feeling "pretty good" despite the public pounding he's taking over his double life, he confided to friends. He even expressed shock that other Republicans are eyeing his seat. "What's this all about?" Fossella asked Guy Molinari, Fossella's political mentor, of news reports naming potential GOP candidates. He said he was "surprised" and "puzzled" that party colleagues are being mentioned as possible replacements.

Those close to Fossella continue to support him. "Vito is surprised and emboldened by the support he's been getting. He's gotten a lot of encouragement," said Molinari. "I told him nobody is going to run a primary against him if you decide to run again."

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They eat their own, with no regrets!

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They eat their own, with no regrets! N2N you really said that after watching your own party over the last 10 weeks?

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spoken like a true member of the party of torture, preemptive war, the breaking of 800 years of accepted western law (habeas corpus) and the Constitution (eavedropping w/o a warrant! And, how much farther does your party have to put the country in debt and devalue the dollar? Oh, I didn't even mention not funding 10 million poor kids heathcare or Dumya's veto to prevent our past Sadam tortured soldiers from suing Iraq!

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Hmmm , donnie,,,,, what you just wrote says all anyone needs to know about you. No matter what the topic is at hand you can spin it into that same said tired reply. The topic is about what's going on and my reply pointed out that your party actually is very good at eating their own as well. Stay on topic I know it's hard for you but the cut and paste post you always make about any topic , sometimes, most times doesn't fit.

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"They eat their own, with no regrets! N2N you really said that after watching your own party over the last 10 weeks?"

Speak for yourself.

http://politics.propeller.com/story/2008/05/11/...

"Republicans used the PA, IN, and NC primaries to register their unhappiness with McCain by voting for Ron Paul, Mike Huckabee, or Mitt Romney. In Penn, 27% opted for Huckabee or Paul; in N Carolina and Indiana, McCain opponents earned 23% of the vote. The Washington Times calculated that McCain had garnered no more than 45% of the Republican vote."

It's expected that a race as close as Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's would get a little chippy. That shouldn't be surprising. What IS surprising is that McCain's own party continues to chew him up and spit him out--as detailed in the article cited above.

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Which of you staunch Hillary or Obama Haters will support them if your guy or gal doesn't win? I'd say most, your argument is weak Dawgs

It's true; the Republicans do vote their displeasure from time to time, when Republicans begin to act , like Democrats while in office. What we don't do that the Dems have no problem doing is bringing up, race when you get your first chance to elect a Black man as president. We don't bring up drugs about the one we are running against from what I've seen, we also don't call each other 'racists' to win the nomination to run for President. Sure we talk about politics and say we don't agree how to run the Country (Voodoo economics) or other ways. I don't think the Republicans have looked into the personal lives of opponents in their own party like you have now.

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Talk about Chewing Up AND Spitting out! Like I said, what have the two perspective camps in the Democrat party been doing the last 10 weeks? Tall about you sitting on the proverbial High Horse Dawgie! Ask Huffington how she and her minions think on said subject.

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"I don't think the Republicans have looked into the personal lives of opponents in their own party like you have now."

Apparently, you don't remember the smear campaign run against John McCain by GW Bush supporters in the 2000 South Carolina primary. The things said about McCain back then were FAR WORSE.

Your partisan selective-memory strikes again.

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SLATE:

"Which of you staunch Hillary or Obama Haters will support them if your guy or gal doesn't win?"

Speak for yourself. After all, it is YOU who continues to post without even a SHRED of supporting documentation.

CLINTON: "I intend to do everything I can to make sure we have a unified Democratic Party. When this contest is over and we have a nominee, we're going to close ranks. We're going to be united ... The most important goal for us is to put a Democrat back in the White House."

OBAMA: "There are going to be some bruised feelings, whoever the nominee is. We are going to have to come together and remind ourselves that there is a heck of a lot bigger difference between either Senator Clinton or myself, and John McCain...I think short term, there is going to be work to do for the nominee to bring the party back together again. People feel pretty passionate about their respective candidates. I appreciate that, and I understand it."

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"Which of you staunch Hillary or Obama Haters will support them if your guy or gal doesn't win? I'd say most, your argument is weak Dawgs"

--Slater, don't confuse true Democrats with oxy Rush Limbaugh's repulsive flying monkey squadron (aka the bitter, delusional, and disgruntled wingjob electorate). In contrast to flipflopper con Republicans ("Baaa...We cain't vote fer Keeeeerry. He's a flipflopper.We cain't truuuust him. Baaaaa"), Democrats don't lie to themselves and others about their voting criteria in one election and then turn around four years later and vote for someone with the very qualities they claimed motivated their earlier voting decisions. And please don't even TRY to turn this racism HORSECRAP around on the Democratic party when it's racist white REPUBLICANS who pull out some racist sleaze at every chance they can get. Or did you think we forgot about Harold Ford or the racist crap that Bush fans used to smear McCain back in the 2000 GOP primaries?

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http://www.gallup.com/poll/105691/McCain-vs-Oba...

"Only 28% of Clinton supporters indicate that if Clinton is not the nominee -- and Obama is -- they would support McCain. That compares to only 19% of Obama supporters who would support McCain if Obama is not the nominee -- and Clinton is. The vast majority would support either Democratic candidate in the general election.

It is unknown how many Democrats would actually vote for a Republican next fall if their preferred candidate does not become the Democratic nominee. The Democratic campaign is in the heat of battle at the moment, but by November, there will have been several months of attempts to build party unity.

Additionally, some threat of deserting the party always takes place as party nomination battles are waged, and this threat can dissipate. For example, 11% of Republicans said they would vote for the Democratic candidate if McCain does not choose a VP more conservative than he is."

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Documentation? Dawgs you always go with the "but but you have no data argument as a rebuttal" to everything! My opinion is based on current events over the last few weeks, so I'd guess for the sake of satisfying you lust for data. I'll ask you to 'remember' the various newscasts over the last 8 weeks? Now remember, this is a blog, yes it's about facts but it's also about Ideas, notions, opinions and just how one feels about a topic, there isn't always need to have data for "most humans' to understand that fact.

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"My opinion is based on current events over the last few weeks, so I'd guess for the sake of satisfying you lust for data. I'll ask you to 'remember' the various newscasts over the last 8 weeks?"

Well, if coverage is as ubiquitous as you claim it is, then you shouldn't have a problem finding data. After all, I readily produced Gallup Poll data to support my argument. Why can't you reciprocate? Are you simply too lazy or too obtuse to posit a data-supported argument?

LOL.

Typical.

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I don't need Data to have an opinion R2D2,,

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No, but you need data to have an argument.

And since you have none...

Class dismissed.

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Class Dismissed? Ah spoken like the typical liberal Professor that sees only his position as correct and could.t zip his own pants without data to support the pros and cons of walking around in public with his fly open.

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These are strong words for someone who has still YET to support his argument with ANYTHING resembling data or documentation.

LOL. Whatever you say, tough guy.

Pathetic.

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LOL tough guy? Did you feel threatened? Wow what a wus, if that's all it takes for you to feel that way. Do yourself a favor go look up some data it will make you feel better and oh so much smarter than the 'rest' of the crowd.

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You can believe whatever helps you sleep at night, sparky.

LOL.

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CLINTON: "I intend to do everything I can to make sure we have a unified Democratic Party. When this contest is over and we have a nominee, we're going to close ranks. We're going to be united ... The most important goal for us is to put a Democrat back in the White House."

(CLIONTONS) Sorry I talked about your drug use Obama, sorry we talked about racial things and sorry for putting the Rev tapes out in public Obama, now I want to 'unite' LOLOL. Yeah you go ahead and believe that. Hillary's personality may be many things, but being politically stupid isn't one of her traits. She is saying exactly what she needs to say to save face for the future being how things look bleak now. No more no less, she is already 10-steps into her political future, I'd think someone that likes to study data and crunch numbers and stats would be able to see something so clear to most ' average' Joes.

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"(CLIONTONS) Sorry I talked about your drug use Obama"

I'd like to see the source for this paraphrased quotation. Go ahead and provide a link. I'll wait, although something tells me not to hold my breath waiting.

You are obfuscating and avoiding the issue YOU brought up. The Clintons do not speak for the entire Democratic Party; in fact, as the polls demonstrate, the Clintons don't even speak for the majority of the Democratic Party.

Now do you have proof to support your assertion that the majority (over 50%) of Democrats across the entire nation (not just a particular demographic in a single state) would vote for McCain over the Democratic nominee or not? If you don't have any data to report, just say so. You only further embarrass yourself by continuing to avoid posting data to support an argument YOU RAISED.

LOL.

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Dawgie you are so into yoursef you can't even see absurd levity to make a point..... the Clintons did all those things,,,, take you face out of the data and get in the world with the rest of the folks that can see something without having to see data.

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The Hillary Clinton quote I used to support my argument was a DIRECT QUOTATION. Your work of fiction was nothing more than a farce--which is exactly what your argument is too.

What's the matter? Don't have any documentation to support your counter-argument?

Why don't you cry about it?

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Pout you really hurt my feelings you bad Dawgie you, I can't help it if you can't get out of your world of data Dawgie,,,,, here's some data for ya to look at.

http://liberalscum.com/democratsracist.html

http://www.blackconservative.net/RL.html

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200...

http://www.cppf.us/OnlineOriginals/Columns/2005...

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Your first 2 links are rants ... no backup documentation. And the majority of the "offenders" are pretty far into the past, especially Roosevelt.

Dan Rather??? what a hoot ....

Third link: what is the source of Howard Dean's supposed comment? None is provided.

Fourth link: I don't care for a lot of what those 2 do and say. While they say they are Democrats, they are NOT politicians (and neither is Dan Rather). The focus of the article is about politicians IN office.

Rather thin on the documentation, I think ....

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SLATE:

"here's some data for ya to look at."

I can't believe this is the best you can dig up. liberalscum.com, blackconservative, and answers.yahoo are the most reliable sources you can muster? LOL. And exactly where in those articles is the data proving that most Democrats would vote for McCain if their preferred candidate was not nominated? LOL

What a testament to the education of a typical Republican.

Pathetic.

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What a testament to the education of a typical Republican.

Pathetic.

Man what an arrogant Ahole you are Dawgie. Your mom must be proud. You must be the guy that's still mad, because the football players had all the pretty girls fawning over them. Yeppers I ain't too much edumacated but iffn being so means living in your world I'll pass. You have a great life Dawgie.

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Is this the best you can muster?

LOL.

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I can think of one thing that will unify the dems after their dust settles.

"McSame"

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...NeoConArtist fave game..."Heads I win,Tails you lose"... followed closely by "52 Pickup"...(game they recommend for Liberals: Russian Roulette...)

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Lets' see the classless ones want their guys to be to have ongoing affairs with a love child involved.

Yet Bill was a national disgrace for gettina BJ?

Yeah OK. Cons mean con men. Lets try this, kick him out of office. For conduct unbecoming a representative of the United States. Drunk driving. Affair. No class. No anything except concern for himself. Typical con.

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Yep ... the Republicans impeached Clinton for lying about sex.

And bloggers like aniokly continue to portray Clinton as so immoral.

But when a Republican participates in 'immoral' behavior, its no big deal ...

Hypocrites ...

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These comments come from his holiness Peter King - who lead the charge to impeach Clinton - Clintons sperm should have ended up at the cleaners - Fossella's ended up walik& talking

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Hehe...I think some people forget how tenacious the GOP is where the Clintons are concerned. Even if the DNA evidence had been cleaned up, sooner or later Ken Starr, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Larry Craig, David Vitter and the wingjob media would've cooked up some other phony scandal. We'd hear all about how Monica's dry cleaner's 8 year-old son's best friend was baptized at a church that was next door to a concert hall where Bin Laden's niece once sang an Arabic version of God Bless America. Can't you just see the Washington Times front pages for weeks on end? "Lewinsky Loosely Linked to Dry Cleaner Linked to Al Qaeda" or "Clinton Administration Neglected to do Background Search on 8 year-old 'Terrorist' Sympathizer: Impeachment Hearings to Begin Monday." ;-P

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You guys know something? The Rs usually toss thier shamed ones out, the Dems promote theirs.

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More from the Family Values people after this message from General Electric...

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Is that why Hastert did nothing about House ethics after either the Foley or Abramoff scandals? You haven't thrown out the Repug congressmman who pled guilty to fooling around in the Minnesota rest room! More right wing denial of facts from you slate.... totally typical of you hypocrites!

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slate: Then explain shrub, cheney, gonzo, wojo, rice, rummy, hell I will run out of space if I continue

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Deleted - was placed wrong by propeller!

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SLATE:

"The Rs usually toss thier shamed ones out, the Dems promote theirs."

Is that so?

http://www.nypost.com/seven/05102008/news/regio...

"Those close to Fossella continue to support him. 'I got every indication that he plans to run again,' said Guy Molinari. 'He's not just inclined to run. He plans on running. Vito is surprised and emboldened by the support he's been getting. He's gotten a lot of encouragement. I told him nobody is going to run a primary against him if you decide to run again.'"

Don't forget David Vitter (R-LA) who received APPLAUSE after confessing to hiring prostitutes--the SAME crime for which Elliott Spitzer (D-NY) was forced out of office.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19795296/

"Sen. David Vitter returned to the Capitol, apologizing privately to GOP colleagues. In a private weekly luncheon for Republican senators, Vitter briefly spoke and received a round of applause audible outside the room."

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Slate others beat me to my questions and posted proof that the R's don't shame their own out of the party.

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slate:

Wake up man your having a bad dream. You are confusing the parties.

The R's have continuosly had the fouled up administrations in the past 40 years.

So you really need to think about what you claim.

The party line means nothing to me except a bunch of people willing to goosestep along.

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