> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Michael, here's inspiration for more Kwame Kilpatrick gear. > > http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,399382,00.html > > The poor man is just another victim of a judiciary that does not > understand that as a D, some rule just don't apply to him.
Speaking of which: http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2008/08/06/opinion/358085.txt A D.C. District Court judge last week scheduled Sen. Stevens' trial for Sept. 24, about a month after a primary that will decide whether he may run for re-election as a Republican and 41 days before the election. By contrast, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics' wheels of justice are turning painfully slowly. Since June, the committee, with jurisdiction over a mere 100 people, supposedly has been deliberating on the case of Sen. Christopher Dodd. As a Democratic member of the Senate Banking Committee in 2003, he accepted cut-rate loans from Countrywide Financial, which had dealings before the committee, under a VIP program that was unavailable to the public. The sweetheart loans will save the senator $75,000, and he has returned the favor by writing legislation, recently signed by President Bush, that is expected to save Countrywide's successor and frequent Dodd campaign donor Bank of America $20 billion by transferring its worst subprime mortgages to taxpayers. Yet the committee says it won't decide the Dodd case until after the election. Heaven forbid the Democrats suffer the same sort of embarrassment the Republicans will endure from the Stevens corruption trial. But if an overwhelmed U.S. District Court can deal with all the complicated Gitmo cases and still have time for a full-blown, high-profile trial involving a U.S. senator, why is it going to take months for the committee to rule on what a layman would consider an open-and-shut case of a serious ethics violation, and arguably a criminal violation, by Sen. Dodd? - - - And I need not mention how the media treats, say, Larry Craig's hypocritical indiscretions compared to, say, the Breck Girl's (John Edward's). There are DEFINITELY "two Americas" where political corruption scandals are concerned. - Bob > > -- > Larry Miller _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
