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Interactive Bushies Gone Wild
« on: May 13, 2007, 01:53:25 PM »
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Bushies Behaving Badly
An illustrated guide to GOP scandals.
By Holly Allen, Christopher Beam, and Torie Bosch
Updated Friday, May 11, 2007, at 12:36 PM ET

For an interactive feature on the recent scandals of the Republican party, click here.
Having a hard time keeping track of all 10,000 GOP scandals? Between fired U.S. attorneys, deleted RNC e-mails, sexually harassed pages, outed CIA agents, and tortured Iraqi prisoners—not to mention the warrantless wiretapping, plum defense contracts, and golf junkets to Scotland—you could be forgiven for losing track of which congressman or Bush administration flunky did which shady thing. Renzi—now, was that the guy with the skeezy land deal? Or the woman Paul Wolfowitz promoted?

We're not saying that Democrats never do anything shady. (Cash-stuffed freezers come to mind.) But as the saying goes, with great power come great opportunities to screw up royally. And if your memory is as hazy as ours, you could probably use a handy refresher.

For an interactive feature on the many scandals of the Republican party, click here. For a text version, click here.

Holly Allen is a Slate Web designer.
Christopher Beam is a Slate editorial assistant.
Torie Bosch is a Slate copy editor. She can be reached at torie_bosch@hotmail.com.

Article URL: http://www.slate.com/id/2165783/
Copyright 2007 Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Co. LLC
Scandal URL:
http://slate.com/features/2007/scandal_guide/scandalmap.html

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Re: Interactive Bushies Gone Wild
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2007, 02:38:12 PM »
We're not saying that Democrats never do anything shady. (Cash-stuffed freezers come to mind.) But as the saying goes, with great power come great opportunities to screw up royally.

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« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2007, 02:46:13 PM »
We're not saying that Democrats never do anything shady. (Cash-stuffed freezers come to mind.) But as the saying goes, with great power come great opportunities to screw up royally.

Yup- It is an honest & balanced article.

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« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2007, 02:52:11 PM »
There were a lot of scandals during the Clinton adminsitration. It seems almost every day they did something sleazy. Even Clinton on his way out pardoned terrorists and Marc Rich. And the Dems have the gull to put another Clinton up for 08. Dems keep voting these shady people back into office.

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« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2007, 03:34:06 PM »
The dems have the power on the hill, yet the likes of jefferson and murtha still are there. Hardly sounds lke draining the swamp to me.


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« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2007, 03:50:45 PM »
There were a lot of scandals during the Clinton adminsitration. It seems almost every day they did something sleazy. Even Clinton on his way out pardoned terrorists and Marc Rich. And the Dems have the gull to put another Clinton up for 08. Dems keep voting these shady people back into office.

Bill Clinton was  almost as bas as we are is truly a weak suck defense, but when that is all you have, go for it, O guess.

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« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2007, 03:54:27 PM »
The dems have the power on the hill, yet the likes of jefferson and murtha still are there. Hardly sounds lke draining the swamp to me.



You can only name two dems while the scandal map has 20 'pubes and the article alludes to hundreds more and that is conservative( Pardon my French)

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« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2007, 04:08:27 PM »
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You can only name two dems while the scandal map has 20 'pubes and the article alludes to hundreds more and that is conservative( Pardon my French)

They just got back into power. and the use of friends jets rule is ripe for abuse. I'm confident the dems will catch up.


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« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2007, 04:11:36 PM »
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You can only name two dems while the scandal map has 20 'pubes and the article alludes to hundreds more and that is conservative( Pardon my French)

They just got back into power. and the use of friends jets rule is ripe for abuse. I'm confident the dems will catch up.



The last time , it took them 40 years to do it. It only took you crooks only about 12. I am sure corruption just comes more naturally to the businessman's party.

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« Reply #9 on: May 13, 2007, 08:28:03 PM »
Don't know where you are getting 40 years.

LBJ came into office dirt poor and left one of the wealthiest men in DC. All on a government salary. Imagine that.

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« Reply #10 on: May 13, 2007, 09:51:41 PM »
Don't know where you are getting 40 years.

LBJ came into office dirt poor and left one of the wealthiest men in DC. All on a government salary. Imagine that.


I was of course referring to control of the Congrass. Pres's never serve for 40 years , cheese.

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« Reply #11 on: May 13, 2007, 10:00:16 PM »
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I was of course referring to control of the Congrass. Pres's never serve for 40 years , cheese.

Of course you were.

LBJ was both a congressman and a senator during those years of dem control.

He must have been a shrewed investor.


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« Reply #12 on: May 13, 2007, 10:38:42 PM »
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I was of course referring to control of the Congrass. Pres's never serve for 40 years , cheese.

Of course you were.

LBJ was both a congressman and a senator during those years of dem control.

He must have been a shrewed investor.



You guys just cant stand to not have all the money, can you? Many of the truly rich are liberals. It is mostly Repub heirs and phony wannabees that tout Repub pull yourself up by your bootstraps bullshit and want to keep everyfuckinthing for themselves.

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« Reply #13 on: May 13, 2007, 11:23:59 PM »
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You guys just cant stand to not have all the money, can you?

It's not about the money.

It is about the joy of pointing out the hypocrisy from holier than thou types like you.


Isn't that your schtick?



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« Reply #14 on: May 13, 2007, 11:50:42 PM »
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You guys just cant stand to not have all the money, can you?

It's not about the money.

It is about the joy of pointing out the hypocrisy from holier than thou types like you.


Isn't that your schtick?




It is obviously the money. That is all you greedy pricks care about. Money & tax cuts & fuck the rest of you. We can use a little of ours to do at least a little good rather than destroy the world in pursuit of more.