The Dems are always whining about President Bush's abuse of power. "Culture of Corruption" became one of their favorite descriptive phrases for the Bush administration and Republicans.
Remember Russ Feingold's goofy Internet video, the one that FactCheck.org ripped apart?
Sen. Russ Feingold's leadership PAC sponsored an Internet video making an unfounded suggestion that President Bush is being urged to eavesdrop "on anybody who has the nerve to disagree with [him] - court order or not."
A Feingold spokesman says the ad is a parody. Funny or not, it makes an accusation for which there's no evidence.
Feingold himself says in the video that "our country hasn't stood for this kind of abuse of power in 200 years." We think he's forgetting such things as FDR's forced internment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans in World War II, and Lincoln's summary jailings of Confederate sympathizers.
How lame!
Then there was this from Hillary Clinton:
Senator Hillary Clinton castigated President Bush and Washington Republicans today as mad with power and bent on marginalizing Democrats during a speech to 1,000 supporters at her first major re-election fund-raiser, which netted about $250,000.
Mrs. Clinton, who is running for a second term in 2006 and is widely described as a possible Democratic nominee for the presidency in 2008, said that her party is hamstrung because Republicans dissemble and smear without shame and the news media has lost its investigatory zeal for exposing misdeeds.
And from Harry Reid:
“I am deeply concerned to learn that the White House has once again put its partisan agenda ahead of the needs of the American people. By repeatedly editing government documents on global warming to cater to the special interests, the Bush administration has once again shown that it will abuse its power by any means necessary.
“What concerns me most is the pattern of behavior this incident points to... .
“It is time for the Republicans and the President to stop their abuse of power and focus on the needs of American people. Democrats believe it is time to cleanse Washington and restore the commonsense center to fight for the priorities of American families.”
I could go on and on and on... .
It's nauseating, and this is just a tiny sampling of the libs' insanity.
The Dem mantra, led by mad Dr. Dean, has been "Culture of Corruption" and "abuse of power" since Bush started his second term. That has been their message. It's all negativity, always on the attack. The Dems have nothing positive to offer the American people. They want power back at any price.
Similarly, Governor Jim Doyle will pay any price to get reelected. He's another shameless Dem who's willing to lie and cheat and virtually sell his soul for political power.
If you want to find REAL CORRUPTION, if you want to witness power being abused, then look at Wisconsin state government under Jim Doyle.
The corruption and dirty tactics are everywhere.
On Wednesday, the ugliness got uglier.
Brookfield -- The state Elections Board on Wednesday told Republican gubernatorial candidate U.S. Rep. Mark Green to return $467,844 in donations from political action committees not registered in Wisconsin - money Green had transferred from his federal campaign fund in 2005.
On several 5-2 votes, the board upheld a complaint from the non-profit Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, which said Green's transfer of cash from his federal fund to a state fund violated a rule the board adopted last year.
Four Democrats on the board were joined by a Libertarian in voting against Green. Two Republicans on the board sided with Green.
"This is really a victory for voters," said Mike Buelow, research director for the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. He said the decision paves the way for giving the public a better understanding of who is contributing to Wisconsin candidates.
Right. "A better understanding of who is contributing to Wisconsin candidates." That makes me gag.
And are voters getting a better understanding of how Doyle awards contracts?
Are voters getting a better understanding of Doyle's tactics to get campaign contributions?
That understanding would be a victory for voters. It would be a victory for clean government.
..."Today's decision is emblematic of the corruption that has invaded state government under Jim Doyle," Green campaign manager Mark Graul said in a statement.
Although there were predictions that the fight will end up in court, Graul told a reporter that he did not expect to ask a judge to set aside Wednesday's orders.
Instead, Graul said, the Green campaign will tell the Elections Board the $467,844 has already been spent.
Elections Board Executive Director Kevin Kennedy said that response won't fly.
"Part of the penalty is, you shouldn't have accepted it, you've got to give it back," Kennedy said.
If no one blinks, this may have to be settled in court.
Graul said the Elections Board has allowed candidates for state and federal office to move donations between state and federal campaign accounts for 28 years, and the Green campaign simply followed those precedents.
As usual, precedent only matters to Dems when they're talking about Roe v. Wade.
Wednesday's board decisions were "orchestrated" by Doyle and his aides, Graul said.
"That decision was made before those folks walked into that room today," Graul said, referring to votes by the four Democratic appointees.
...[Sherwin Hughes, Doyle's designee on the board,] called the votes "bipartisan," since the four Democrats were joined by Libertarian Party designee Jacob Burns.
What a really stupid comment! A Libertarian voting with the Dems is hardly bipartisan.
...Burns said no one from the Democratic Party or any Doyle aide had met with him or tried to influence his votes.
Two other appointees of Democratic Party leaders on the board, Carl Holborn and Kerry Dwyer, declined to comment.
That's strange, REALLY strange.
Why would they decline to comment?
It's a very straight forward question. Were you told how to vote or not? Yes or no?
Based on past patterns of the Doyle administration's behavior, you have to wonder what sort of promises or favors Holborn and Dwyer received for their votes.
...The board votes reversed a 2001 decision that allowed Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, who was then a member of the House running for governor, to convert about $327,000 from his federal fund to his state account to help finance his campaign for governor.
A complaint over Barrett's transfer of the money came from the campaign of Doyle, the then-attorney general who won the election. The Elections Board dismissed the complaint in 2001.
Ah, yes. Tom Barrett.
Read about his gubernatorial campaign finances here.
Barrett, circa 2001
Last week, the board's legal counsel had recommended that the Green transfer be allowed because of transfers allowed since the 1990s. The governor's race is expected to be the most expensive in state history, with Doyle expected to spend up to $12 million.
The board voted against the advice of its own counsel!
How can one not conclude that politics were at play?
...Rick Wiley, executive director of the state Republican Party, called the Elections Board's actions a partisan move.
"The fact that they have singled out Mark Green and not demanded that Tom Barrett return his cash shows how vindictive Doyle's appointees to the Elections Board (have) become," he said in a statement.
Joe Wineke, chairman of the state Democratic Party, decried the assessments by Republicans, noting that the two GOP board members who voted sided with Green. He said Doyle's supporters did not predetermine the outcome.
Wineke said the Democratic Party would take the matter to court if Green did not pay up and prosecutors did not act.
"We're not going to sit here and let Mark Green violate the law," he said.
Again, GAG! Double gag!
Mark Green responded with this statement:
Defying the advice of its own attorney and 25 years of precedents, the Wisconsin State Elections Board voted Wednesday to retroactively change it's rules governing the transfer of federal campaign funds to a state accounts. In response to the Board's decision, Mark Graul, campaign manager for gubernatorial candidate Mark Green, issued the following statement:
"Today's decision is emblematic of the corruption that has invaded state government under Jim Doyle. Under Jim Doyle government decisions are made to benefit his campaign interests - while the taxpayers get the short end of the stick.
"Jim Doyle's allies on the State Election Board defied their own attorney's legal advice, state law and basic principles of fairness in their effort to help the struggling campaign of Governor Doyle. The Election's Board action is literally trying to change 25 years of rules two months before Election Day - to affect only Mark Green.
"Mark's campaign will continue to abide by state law and the State Elections Board's rules - as we have from the start of this campaign. On November 7th, voters will have the opportunity to reject Jim Doyle's corrupt brand of politics in favor of Mark Green's hopeful vision for a brighter future for our state."
That's a great statement.
It highlights the character of Jim Doyle and his minions. Lack of character would be more accurate.
There's no question that the board's decision was pure politics. The question is: How much did Doyle pay to get it?
It's time to reject Doyle's dirty government.
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