I don't care that much about politicians personal lives, but anytime someone has a skeleton in the closet they can be blackmailed. I was a personal reference a few years ago for a friend getting a security clearance and many of the questions that I was asked were aimed at making sure no one could blackmail him. IMO this a solid reason that we should demand pols be squeaky clean.
what's the surprise here?? He was exposing what part of the body liberals use for decision making.
Idiot.
WTF is with all these guys? How stupid do you have to be to text pix of yourself doing insanely embarrassing stuff? Esp after the CL guy in NY got caught....
He has let down all the left that looked to him as a liberal bombast to counter the idiot teabag loudmouths on the right. Sad.
Should he resign? Does he carry himself as some holy Xian family values moral authority like so many on the R (who like to dabble in the whores and teh gaysecks)? No? Then don't care. Plenty of others stay in office and survive. He will too, but a shell of what he could have been.
Why is there a fight over who are bigger whores, D's or R's? Stupidest argument ever created.
The only real shocker is when a pol doesn't cheat on his wife. Both are shameless. You both lose.
True. How many Congresscritters WOULD you leave in a room with under-aged girls, if it comes to that?I wouldn't leave him alone in a room with underaged girls.
I watch the coverage on all networks last night. I have to ask how can Fox News maintain any credibility when Hannity said when Republicans are involved in scandel the leadership calls them and they resign, completly ignoring David Vitter?? None of the so called guests on the other side called him on it.
Congressman Weiner's prepared statement was probably good for him, but the Q&A following may have been a mistake; I would wager there are now any number of Conservative bloggers trying to locate an under-age girl willing to say that she exchanged 'inappropriate communications' with the congressman.
As bad as his admission was, the new questions opened may lead to worse.
That was a big security loophole for security clearances when homosexuality could be used for blackmail.
Of course, it kind of feeds its own bigotry if it happens - the same 'moral degeneracy' explains both the homosexuality and the confidentiality breaking. Can't trust them!
Actually, come to think of it, Bradley Manning is gay - clearly you just can't have gay people given clearances.
What exactly has Christie done that is so bad?
Christie has been accused of using his office's role in crafting deferred prosecution agreements to award lucrative federal monitoring positions in no-bid contracts to friends, supporters, and allies.[21] Questions first arose after Christie awarded a multimillion dollar, no-bid contract to David Kelley, another former U.S. Attorney, who had investigated Christie's brother, Todd Christie, in a 2005 fraud case involving traders at the Wall Street firm, Spear, Leeds & Kellogg.[22][23] Kelley had declined to prosecute Todd Christie, who had been ranked fourth in the investigation-initiating U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) complaint among twenty traders who earned the largest profits for their company at the expense of their customers. The top three were indicted, as were eleven other traders.[24]
Christie also faced criticism over the terms of a $311 million fraud settlement with Bristol-Myers Squibb. Christies office deferred criminal prosecution of the pharmaceutical company in a deal that required it to dedicate $5 million for a business ethics chair at Seton Hall University School of Law, Christie's alma mater.[29][30] The U.S. Justice Department subsequently set guidelines forbidding such requirements as components of out-of-court corporate crime settlements.[31]
On August 25, 2010 it was announced that New Jersey had lost out on $400 million in federal Race to the Top education grants due to a clerical error in the application by an unidentified mid-level state official.
d three points higher than New Jersey.[67]
In response to the decision, Christie criticized the Obama administration by saying,
This is the stuff, candidly, that drives people crazy about government and crazy about Washington... the first part of it is the mistake of putting the wrong piece of paper in, it drives people crazy and, believe me, Im not thrilled about it. But the second part is, does anybody in Washington, D.C. have a lick of common sense? Pick up the phone and ask us for the number... thats the stuff the Obama administration should answer for. Are you guys just down there checking boxes like mindless drones, or are you thinking? When the president comes back to New Jersey, hes going to have to explain to the people of the state of New Jersey why hes depriving them of $400 million that this application earned.[68]
On August 26, the U.S. Department of Education released a video showing that the budget issue had been specifically raised at a meeting with Christie's Education Commissioner Bret Schundler, contradicting Christie's claim that the federal government had not informed them of the error. In response, Gov. Christie asked for Schundler's resignation, saying that Schundler had misinformed Christie of the facts of the situation.
Schundler maintains that he told Christie the truth, and that Christie is misstating what actually occurred.[69]
The New Jersey Education Association rebuked Governor Christie by suggesting that the Governor's rejection of a compromise worked out by Schundler with the Teacher's unions on May 27 was to blame. The rejection of the deal with the teachers union meant that the state had little more than three days to complete the grant applications, which were due on June 1. By Christie's own accounting, the state lost 14 points due to the lack of widespread union support for the reforms.[66]
Where did I say anything about homosexuality? I was speaking in general terms about any information a politician would not want to become public.
Thread derail much?
He's not that big a deal so he can probably just lie low and let it blow over.
all part of the liberal culture of erection. I'm sure bill clinton is proud and envious.
In addition to all these ethically suspect shenanigans, there're also these futher ethically suspect shenanigans:
Every scum bag trader is indicted except Christie's brother and then Christie just happens to given the investigating attorney a lucrative, NO-BID contract:
Hmmmm: :hmm:
Christie administration fucks up, loses funding, and then Christie "misrepresents," possibly several times, what actually happened:
The above are just three additional ones culled from his Wiki.
Again, there are multiple additional instances of his shady behavior listed in my first link, several of which are quite serious indications of misfeasance and malfeasance, indeed.
In addition to all these ethically suspect shenanigans, there're also these futher ethically suspect shenanigans:
Every scum bag trader is indicted except Christie's brother and then Christie just happens to given the investigating attorney a lucrative, NO-BID contract:
Hmmmm: :hmm:
Christie administration fucks up, loses funding, and then Christie "misrepresents," possibly several times, what actually happened:
The above are just three additional ones culled from his Wiki.
Again, there are multiple additional instances of his shady behavior listed in my first link, several of which are quite serious indications of misfeasance and malfeasance, indeed.
Trollin' Trollin' Trollin'... keep your Perky Trollin'... Perhaps we could pull Probabililantialism into the thread as well? Or whatever your insane rant from ATOT was called. I swear you will be posting about having to fill out a form to buy vinegar soon.