Reply #12: The Repos really don't want to go here with this quid pro quo standard [View All]

[donkeyotay]

Kilborn said that, without requiring prosecutors to prove a deal, most campaign contributions could be considered crimes.

Tommy "who?" Delay detailing the amount and distributions of checks - apparently not quid pro quo.

Westar, where the freakin board turned in the guys for what they thought was quid pro quo. I don't know if those guys got prosecuted.

Billy Frist, and the incredible largess of the Republican Rubberstamp Congress funding the pharma boondoggle, and the lucrative monopoly on hospital supply.

Jack "I don't know the man, biblically" Abramoff, who got a pesky prosecutor removed, generous and important not only to Repos in general, but a pioneer to the man in the Rose Garden Holdings.

Noe, another pioneer, profiting through patriotic campaign contributions, not bribery.

Personally, I think campaign contributions ARE bribes. Why else would corporations make them? But that's just me. I don't think the GOP wants writing a check to their favorite representative and the favor returned to constitute a crime. Up until now, the standard has been that you have to have a copy of their signed contract of collusion - an impossible standard. Same standard should apply for dems. No wonder this judge can't cough up a transcript of the trial.