Fox: DeLay violated rules, "but some think the problem is the rules"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155709,00.html

REP. MARTY MEEHAN, D-MASS.: The scandal is not just that some people may have broken the rules. The rules themselves are a scandal.

JEFF BIRNBAUM, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, let's take what they forbid and what Tom DeLay apparently is caught up in. They forbid registered lobbyists from paying for travel, which did apparently happen. Here we see Tom DeLay. He was paid for by a lobbyist who was close to DeLay, Jack Abramoff, a trip to the United Kingdom, both to London and to Scotland. That's not permitted. Also, it's not permitted, a registered foreign agent, meaning a lobbyist for a foreign country, cannot pay for a trip. And that clearly happened for a trip that DeLay took to South Korea.

HUME: Now, do the rules require that the member of Congress be aware of where the money's coming from?

BIRNBAUM: Yes. That is the heart of DeLay's defense here. A member of Congress cannot knowingly accept the payments that we just discussed. But Tom DeLay said he knew nothing about it. In either case...

BIRNBAUM: He thought the money was coming from — in the Korea case - - an organization that was not a registered foreign agent. He didn't think it was a foreign agent. And from the money that was paid, put at least on a credit card that Jack Abramoff had, he thought all of that money was coming from a nonprofit think-tank, a research institution, that Abramoff was a board member of. So he thinks that he can get let off the hook, even though he has these technical violations of the ethics rules.

[RandomKoolzip]

1. What is it with all these high school nerds becoming republicans?!

Is getting revenge on the cool liberals THAT important to them?

[Jade Fox]

2. Yes. They are that pissed.....

Revenge of the Nerds X: The Rise of the Neocons.

[7th_Sephiroth]

4. i was in a hotel, across the hall from a rent-out-able meeting room

i had to get to sleep early and be up at 6 for work, nope, the local college rethuglicans decided to rent the room and throw a wild kegger i complained, they wouldent do shit, hotel staff wouldent do shit so i had them all arrested

[skypilot]

3. "...some think..."

Yeah, just like "some people say...". Sounds familiar. Typical FOX bullshit.

[kliljedahl]

5. Beat me to it, had that exact same thought

Best section of "Outfoxed" IMHO



Keith’s Barbeque Central

[King Coal]

6. That bastard even looks like a Nazi.

[leesa]

7. Ahhh...the notorious "some think"

[Ganja Ninja]

8. Clinton had sex with an intern but some people think ...

the definition of sex is the problem. :sarcasm: