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	<title>Comments on: Republican resurgance in WA?</title>
	<link>http://5views.com/2008/03/14/republican-resurgance-in-wa/</link>
	<description>Right-Blogging Tacoma/Pierce/Puget Sound/Washington</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Republican By Default</title>
		<link>http://5views.com/2008/03/14/republican-resurgance-in-wa/#comment-370</link>
		<dc:creator>Republican By Default</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Andress - I think your tinfoil hat needs adjusting.  Nobody is blocking any impeachments for treason.  I'm guessing the 'bills that eliminate wrong doings' are the politically motivated bills that bash the Bush administration.  You can't impeach someone just because you don't like him or don't agree with him.  For the president and vice president the standard is "high crimes and misdemeanors".  With this administration no one has been able to make a case for either, probably because they haven't committed any (unlike our last president who lied under oath in a trial.)

If there are going to be more impeachments I'd like to see a few in the justice system.  Congress has the authority to impeach (indict) and try any civil servant.  There are debates about who that is referring to, but historically it has been taken to include judges.  As I understand it there have been over sixty judges who have been investigated for impeachment, 13 impeached (indicted) and 7 convicted.  It hasn't happened much lately, but I (and others) think it should.

The Republican party, on a national level, is saving our country from people who would spend the our generation(s) and several upcoming generations into unmaintainable debt by pushing for balanced budgets (with the exception of war).  Republicans made the move to require that debt to the Social Security fund be included in the budget, which is something that the Democrats blocked for decades.  There's a long list of reforms that Republicans in congress (and the White House) brought about since they took back control of congress in '94.  Some of those reforms dealt directly with corruption.

Everyone is concerned about corruption in government but neither party is lily-white.  Democrats have as many or more corruption scandals as Republicans.  However, a pattern I have seen is that Democrats don't care if their members are corrupt.  They continue in their committee positions with impugnity.  Republicans, on the other hand, will remove theirs from those positions (either by vote or by requesting that they resign), often for much lesser offences than their corrupt Democrat counterparts are guilty of.  

I'm not saying that there aren't any corrupt Republicans.  But they are held to a higher standard at all levels (party leadership, voters and especially the media).

What I'm describing in this post is a small power struggle within the Washington State Republican Party.  I haven't seen any outright corruption in the matter but I have seen some procedural violations of party rules that favored certain candidates.  If I saw any illegalities I assure you I would be screaming to anyone who will listen and encouraging lawsuits from those who were wronged.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Andress - I think your tinfoil hat needs adjusting.  Nobody is blocking any impeachments for treason.  I&#8217;m guessing the &#8216;bills that eliminate wrong doings&#8217; are the politically motivated bills that bash the Bush administration.  You can&#8217;t impeach someone just because you don&#8217;t like him or don&#8217;t agree with him.  For the president and vice president the standard is &#8220;high crimes and misdemeanors&#8221;.  With this administration no one has been able to make a case for either, probably because they haven&#8217;t committed any (unlike our last president who lied under oath in a trial.)</p>
<p>If there are going to be more impeachments I&#8217;d like to see a few in the justice system.  Congress has the authority to impeach (indict) and try any civil servant.  There are debates about who that is referring to, but historically it has been taken to include judges.  As I understand it there have been over sixty judges who have been investigated for impeachment, 13 impeached (indicted) and 7 convicted.  It hasn&#8217;t happened much lately, but I (and others) think it should.</p>
<p>The Republican party, on a national level, is saving our country from people who would spend the our generation(s) and several upcoming generations into unmaintainable debt by pushing for balanced budgets (with the exception of war).  Republicans made the move to require that debt to the Social Security fund be included in the budget, which is something that the Democrats blocked for decades.  There&#8217;s a long list of reforms that Republicans in congress (and the White House) brought about since they took back control of congress in &#8216;94.  Some of those reforms dealt directly with corruption.</p>
<p>Everyone is concerned about corruption in government but neither party is lily-white.  Democrats have as many or more corruption scandals as Republicans.  However, a pattern I have seen is that Democrats don&#8217;t care if their members are corrupt.  They continue in their committee positions with impugnity.  Republicans, on the other hand, will remove theirs from those positions (either by vote or by requesting that they resign), often for much lesser offences than their corrupt Democrat counterparts are guilty of.  </p>
<p>I&#8217;m not saying that there aren&#8217;t any corrupt Republicans.  But they are held to a higher standard at all levels (party leadership, voters and especially the media).</p>
<p>What I&#8217;m describing in this post is a small power struggle within the Washington State Republican Party.  I haven&#8217;t seen any outright corruption in the matter but I have seen some procedural violations of party rules that favored certain candidates.  If I saw any illegalities I assure you I would be screaming to anyone who will listen and encouraging lawsuits from those who were wronged.</p>
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		<title>By: Andress</title>
		<link>http://5views.com/2008/03/14/republican-resurgance-in-wa/#comment-368</link>
		<dc:creator>Andress</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>"A NEW ELITE GROUP HAS ORGANIZED WITHIN THE GOP" 

Tell me why these elite Federal government officials have been allowed to evolve in congress to a number that they are destroying our county. They block impeachments of those who have committed treason and they block bills that would eliminate wrong doings. They interfere when they are on committees and insist on directing large contacts to substandard and even sham government contractors. It is at a point where congress can't conduct business.

Tell me why top state and federal officials who are members of this elite group have a greater alliance to the body of this group than they do to the constitution of the United States?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;A NEW ELITE GROUP HAS ORGANIZED WITHIN THE GOP&#8221; </p>
<p>Tell me why these elite Federal government officials have been allowed to evolve in congress to a number that they are destroying our county. They block impeachments of those who have committed treason and they block bills that would eliminate wrong doings. They interfere when they are on committees and insist on directing large contacts to substandard and even sham government contractors. It is at a point where congress can&#8217;t conduct business.</p>
<p>Tell me why top state and federal officials who are members of this elite group have a greater alliance to the body of this group than they do to the constitution of the United States?</p>
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