Comments on: Fraud by Write-Out? Don Young’s Extra Ordinary Earmark

By: Sen. Stevens Seeks to Set Up Fund Connected to His Official Duties in the Senate: To Defend Him on Corruption Charges « JONATHAN TURLEY

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:11:25 +0000

[...] Stevens and Young have long been cited as two of the most dishonest operators in Congress, click here and here. [...]

By: Senator Ted Stevens Indicted — At Last « JONATHAN TURLEY

Senator Ted Stevens Indicted — At Last « JONATHAN TURLEY — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:52:01 +0000

[...] Stevens and his family, Alaskans continued to return him to Washington where he and colleagues like Don Young tarnished the reputation of both houses. He is now a criminally indicted defendant, though the [...]

By: Clinton Seeks $2.3 Billion in Earmarks « JONATHAN TURLEY

Clinton Seeks $2.3 Billion in Earmarks « JONATHAN TURLEY — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:42:58 +0000

[...] appropriations go through the standard public appropriation process. As noted in the Young scandal, here, members use earmarks to generate contributions and grab public funds in power plays in [...]

By: mespo727272

mespo727272 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:23:12 +0000

dunder:

Thank you for pointing out the speck in the eye of the Democrat while missing the log in the Republican’s. I have no political affiliation and I cannot help but be appalled by the corruption rampant in both parties. Excusing one bit of corruption because the perpetrator ostensibly* shares your ideology makes you look irredeemably partisan, and undercuts any basis for morality or ethics in your comment. What I have noticed about the right-wing and its champions like Limbaugh, Hannity, and O’Reilly is their obsessive need to demonize the other side to excuse the foibles of their own. I saw no such public pandering by Democrats in the Jefferson scandal. It does the right-wing no credit to align themselves with thugs, simply because they are “their” thugs.

* It’s been my observation that the only shade of ideology that the crook shares is green.

By: dunder

dunder — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:05:05 +0000

But, but, but Nancy Pelosi said if we elected Democrats to power in 2006 they would END earmarks! It was right there in the first 100 hours committment they sold America on….right there….