GOP Launches TV Ad Against Congressman Tim Mahoney

It makes me proud to be an American to see Republicans still know how to pounce on a carcass and claim a win.

a) This is not that same as Foley who was trying to get it on with a lot of young men who are underaged in nearly every state, just not in DC which has a disgusting law which puts 16 year olds legally into the crosshairs of serial predators like the former Congressman. In fact, notwithstanding, what Republicans say in their talking points, Foley contacted one of the young men from Florida when he was 17 and in California where the age of consent is 18. I'm a resident in CA so I know. I don't know what the age of consent in Florida is, but when the state released information earlier this year that Foley wouldn't be charged, they made a point of declaring the reason to be that the statute of limitations had run out. That shows there were actual laws broken by Foley.

Mahoney's case involves a man and an adult woman.
This happens all the time.
Often times it takes a young woman or man years to figure out the cues that will tell him or her that the person with which he or she is enamored is a jerk.
This male female game is a whole different thing than having a House Representative try, for years, to set up sexual encounters with teens who, like I said would be underage in most states in the union.

Palin is too afraid to face the press and answer tough questions. Therefore her only option is hide behind the podium and name call.

She should go back to Alaska.

That Nancy Pelosi certainly is good at cleaning up the culture of corruption. Rohme Emmanuel knew about this and said nothing. According the Mahoney perv Emmanuel just wanted to get past November 4th. These representatives act like they are on spring break. No wonder the country is going to hell in an handbasket. We have a right to demand a little better on both sides of the isle. Foley should have child preditor engraved on his head. We don't have to worry about this guy because he will slither off to whatever rock he came out from under.

If fair for the goose(Foley) then so for the gander (Mahoney).
I see attacks on lobbyist and attacks on ethics violations on other people not remotely associated with this particular case.

There are good lobbyist that bring products and services and new ideas from all sorts of companies useful to all of us and bad ones that sell a phoney bill of goods that cost taxpayers money and benefit legislatures with free gifts and travel.
There are good earmarks that bring money for special needs that benefit communities greatly but also bad earmarks to businesses and companies that could afford to do the improvements themselves.

Lobbyist and earmarks are a fact of life, so we should do all we can to insure that they openly disclose the projects and thepeople involved.

BUT

Foley was a creep and so is Mahoney. It has nothing to do with McCain, Palin, Obama or Biden.

In 1993, President Clinton launched strikes on Saddam Hussein’s regime in response to Iraq’s alleged plot to assassinate former President Bush. At the time, Sen. John McCain staunchly supported striking Iraq:

I support the Presidents decision to launch this action against Iraq in response to Saddam Hussein’s failure to comply with United Nations resolutions. His continued failure to comply with international law merits a condemnation of the world and this decisive action by the world community.

It is thus particularly ironic that William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who heads McCain’s presidential transition team, was involved in a lobbying effort on behalf of Saddam Hussein around the same time as Clinton launched strikes against Iraq “to ease international sanctions against his regime,” as Murray Waas reports today on The Huffington Post:

Talking points that Timmons produced for the lobbyists to help ease the sanctions, for example, were reviewed ahead of time by [Saddam aide Tariq] Aziz, [lobbyist Samir] Vincent testified in court. Proposals that Timmons himself circulated to U.S. officials as part of the effort were written with the assistance of the Iraqi officials, and were also sent ahead of time with Timmons’ approval to Aziz, other records show.

Beginning in 1992, Waas adds, Timmons “worked closely with the two lobbyists, Samir Vincent and Tongsun Park, on a previously unreported prospective deal with the Iraqis in which they hoped to be awarded a contract to purchase and resell Iraqi oil. Timmons, Vincent, and Park stood to share at least $45 million if the business deal went through.” On September 19, 1991, however, McCain said Iraqi oil revenue should “go to the people that need it”:

KING: But the U.N. did approve today his selling of oil. I think they’re going to let him sell a billion and a half dollars worth of oil this winter. Did that surprise you?

Sen. McCAIN: No. There are starving people in Iraq and the American people and people throughout the world want to make sure that children don’t die. The key to it, though, is to make sure that those revenues don’t go to Saddam Hussein but they go to the people that need it. That’s what we’ve got to make sure of.

The people who were supposed to receive the benefits of Iraq’s oil, however, ended up being people like Timmons. Did McCain know Timmons was “palling around” with Saddam’s friends?

Jake, just imagine what would happen if this was the headline today:

OBAMA TRANSITION CHIEF AIDED SADDAM HUSSEIN IN LOBBYING EFFORT

Palin is an embarrassment.

ALASKA's own Anchorage Daily News printed a blistering editorial on Palin, calling her response to the State Legislature's Troopergate report "Orwellian":

"Sarah Palin's reaction to the Legislature's Troopergate report is an embarrassment to Alaskans and the nation.

She claims the report "vindicates" her. She said that the investigation found "no unlawful or unethical activity on my part."

Her response is either astoundingly ignorant or downright Orwellian.

Page 8, Finding Number One of the report says: "I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act."

In plain English, she did something "unlawful." She broke the state ethics law.

Perhaps Gov. Palin has been too busy to actually read the Troopergate report. Perhaps she is relying on briefings from McCain campaign spinmeisters.

That's the charitable interpretation."

Sarah Palin, whose reformer image took a hit in a report concluding she abused her powers to settle a family score, has skirted state ethics rules before for personal benefit and used her office to help friends and supporters, according to an Associated Press review of records.

Palin's first try at statewide office, after six years as mayor of Wasilla, was an unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor in 2002. To raise money, she improperly used her City Hall office and equipment, city records show. A year later she would make headlines by blasting a fellow Republican for, among other things, improperly using his government position to boost his campaign.

Then, in 2006, Palin won the governor's race with a vow to reform state ethics. But in less than two years, she has repeatedly taken actions that violated her own stated standards for ethical behavior if not state law. In the process, the Republican vice presidential nominee has become much like the old-school politicians she attacked during her rise to power.

Some examples:

She pummeled opponents for giving oil companies and other businesses too much control of state government. Yet she appointed the founder of an engineering firm that received $6.8 million in state business as head of the transportation department.

She has accepted dozens of gifts worth tens of thousands of dollars since taking office, including two free trips last year that she failed to report on disclosure forms, despite criticizing state legislators for the gifts they take.

She is under another investigation, accused of misusing her office to campaign against a voter referendum calling for tighter mining regulations. Her husband, Todd, has accepted free trips from a mining company to look at their proposed new site.

Another ethics complaint, unresolved, accuses her staff of finding a state job for a friend and campaign contributor.

Jake, THIS is today's BREAKING NEWS:

William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.

The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein's government.

Matthew Dowd, a prominent political consultant and chief strategist for George W. Bush's reelection campaign hit John McCain on Tuesday for his choice of Sarah Palin as vice president.

Dowd proclaimed that, in his heart of hearts, McCain knew he put the country at risk with his VP choice and that he would "have to live" with that fact for the rest of his career.

"They didn't let John McCain pick the person he wanted to pick as VP," Dowd declared during the Time Warner Summit panel. "When Sarah Palin got picked instead of Joe Lieberman, which I fundamentally believed would have given John McCain the best opportunity in this race... as soon as he picked Palin, that whole ready versus not ready argument was not credible."

Saying that Palin was a "net negative" on the ticket, he went on: "[McCain] knows, in his gut, that he put somebody unqualified on the ballot. He knows that in his gut, and when this race is over that is something he will have to live with... He put somebody unqualified on that ballot and he put the country at risk, he knows that."

McCain better dunk and hide:

William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.

The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein's government.

Last night on the Colbert Report, conservative writer Kathleen Parker repeated her conclusion that Palin is not qualified for the GOP ticket.

BUT - she also revealed that some White House officials have told her that they agree:

COLBERT: Now but you said you got emails from people in the White House who secretively –

PARKER: Did I say that?

COLBERT: Yes you did. You said you secretly got emails from people in the White House but you wouldn’t name who they were, who said that they agreed with you.

PARKER: That’s correct.

Devastating??

Now, what about McCain's affairs? Once a cheater always a cheater....

wow tough ad

that ones going to hurt thats for sure

see when you have real dirt on someone, you can smash them with it just like this

but john mccain has nothing on obama so he keeps trying to make all these tangential ties that are so ludicrous...

when you bring up guilt by association... you cant help but be guilty of it too...

mccain has just hired this guy

William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.

The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein's government.

not to mention his iran contra ties, keating five ties, his wifes continued keating ties, sarah palins ties to... well everything lol

stupid move for mccain to do this if he had anything on obama he could run an ad like the one above... but he doesnt he instead skirts around a non issue while rome burns

way to be presidential mccain

oh and great selection for VP... shes the second most qualified person to run this country

HAHAHAHAHAHA

crazy doesnt even begin to describe it

"...to paraphrase Ronald Reagan, I didn't leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me."

- Christopher Buckley, author and son of late conservative icon William F. Buckley, in a phone interview with the Austin American-Statesman.

In a piece for the Daily Beast, Buckley explains today how he was fired from the National Review, the magazine his father founded, for endorsing Sen. Barack Obama for president.

Shame on the National Review, the Conservatives' PRAVDA.

McCain Transition Chief Aided Saddam Lobbying Effort

At Political Wire, Taegan Goddard is running the story as well.

So.... this is going to be serious.

You betcha!

Jake,

Mahoney is a disgrace! Is all over for him. We aren't happy in Florida.

Another news that is floating around today is about the Rvd Jackson and his comments "if Obama wins the Zionist will lose influence and the pro Israeli agenda will be over.

Those news are not good.

They're really reaching now.....

Jake-When you gonna post something on Jesse Jackson's speech today???
"Obama's America"