Cronies' deals may have put GIs at risk(Duke Cunningham)

[RedEarth]

Cronies' deals may have put GIs at risk
By George E. Condon Jr.
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE
December 1, 2005

WASHINGTON – Rep. Randy Cunningham's dramatic fall from power represents more than just a historic case of personal corruption unprecedented in the long history of the Congress. It is also betrayal on a grand scale.

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By steering contracts vital to the Iraq war effort to cronies, he may have put those troops at greater risk by judging contracts more for what they would do for him than for the military.

That – even more than his manifest dishonesty, personal bullying of opponents and slight legislative record – may turn out to be the most shameful legacy of the now-disgraced Republican.

"This is nauseating at so many levels," said Norm Ornstein, a veteran congressional scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. What Cunningham, a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, did, said Ornstein, "is worse than just taking money. It is taking money and undermining everything he presumably stood for."

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The House historian reports that 9,869 men and women have served in Congress since the country's founding, and just under a dozen have been convicted of accepting bribes. But none could match Cunningham for audacity.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20051201-9999-1n1assess.html

[Loonman]

1. Crumb bum

I hope he's careful in the shower.

[cascadiance]

2. Maybe shower activities were his ultimate "closet" goal! :)

http://ec.gayalliance.org/articles/000063.shtml

[Loonman]

3. He could slip, fall and paralyze himself

Like some paralyzed GIs.

Boy, that'd sure make me sad.

:sarcasm:


I'm not as mad about what he did moreso about how the asshole blubbered like a baby because he got caught, not because he's sorry.

[WhiteTara]

4. What? The AEI has found some

scruples? Are pigs flying in space? Maybe Ornstein is a human plant in that organization of two legged animals?

[Wilms]

6. They're positioning themselves for the post-Bush/Repub era.

Kristol was interviewing last week trying to sound like a bystander to the failed ME policy.

Talk about :puke:

[WhiteTara]

9. yes, I believe that they are trying to pretend that

they weren't in on all this. But I say send them all to the Hague.

[MindPilot]

5. Wow! The UT tells the truth about a republican?! Without blaming Clinton?

Must be real cold in hell today! :wow:

The editors must have taken the day off to let that one slip by.

[0007]

7. I wanna see the Duke in prison and not in some club med like

Fort Grant Arizona where the Watergate peckerheads played golf.

[brentspeak]

8. I hope that public indignation over war profiteering

doesn't stop with Cunningham's conviction. There's a ton more out there, a lot of it tied to the current inhabitants of the White House.