Stuff that democrats don't want you to know about.


Here then is the list of former Democratic members of Congress who were convicted or pleaded guilty to major offenses between 1992 and 1999:

As Mark Twain said, Congress is the American Criminal Class.
Geoff Metcalf listed these shining examples of the Clinton Administration Legacy
Most democrats are not very good at history. Combine that with their love of smear tactics and you get examples of proud ignorance like these:
Another example of sleazy democrats in action.

Jessie Jackson has added former Chicago democratic congressman Mel Reynolds to the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's payroll.

Reynolds was among the 176 criminals excused in President Clinton's last-minute forgiveness spree. Reynolds received a commutation of his six-and- a-half-year federal sentence for 15 convictions of wire fraud, bank fraud and lies to the Federal Election Commission.

He is more notorious however, for concurrently serving five years for sleeping with an underage campaign volunteer.

This is a first in American politics:
An ex-congressman (a democrat) who had sex with an unaged subordinate won clemency from a president (a democrat) who had sex with a subordinate, then was hired by a clergyman (a democrat) who had sex with a subordinate.

His new job? Youth counselor. Is this a great country or what?

Don't forget that the so-called Rev. Jackson was paying his mistress hush and child support money (a 6 figure sum) out funds collected by his so-called "non-profit" organization.


CD Harris on the modern democrat party:
There's a reason why this site always refers to Loyal Opposition as the "Democrat party" not the "Democratic party": They have become a profoundly anti-democratic entity over the last thirty years or so. No party that so persistently - and proudly - uses the courts rather than the legislative process to force its policy preferences on an unwilling public can legitimately lay claim to the title "democratic." No party that so consistently sells out ordinary working people for the benefit of self-appointed special interests deserves to be called "democratic." And no party that wails and moans about "counting every vote" while working feverishly to prevent military absentee ballots from being counted, or third party candidates from even appearing on the ballot, has any right to wear the "democratic" mantle.

Here is another fine example of a congressional democrat:
Former Rep. Frank W. Ballance Jr. of North Carolina, who cited ill health in resigning from Congress in June, was indicted on federal fraud and money-laundering charges yesterday in connection with a drug and alcohol counseling program he founded. The 62-year-old Democrat was indicted along with his son, Garey Ballance, a state judge, who was charged with not filing a tax return in 2000, the Associated Press reports. A stinging state audit last fall found that the John A. Hyman Foundation was riddled with conflicts of interest and had made $325,000 in questionable payments. The foundation has received $2.1 million in state money since 1994, thanks in part to the elder Mr. Ballance.

For fair play, I'll include an example of a democrat coming to his senses and being honest.

Eric Axelson sends the following to the OpinionJournal:

As a Democratic elected official in the 1980s I had a similar response to any of Ronald Reagan's initiatives. I can recall a sinking feeling as the stock market took off in late 1982, worrying that Reagan would get credit. Or being peeved that the Grenada invasion was so successful. Or that Reagan engineered the tax reform that Bill Bradley and Dick Gephardt had staked out. And conversely, when the Iran-contra scandal blew up I was delighted that Reagan would be brought down a peg (although Oliver North pretty much cleaned the clocks of the lawyers and congressional inquisitors in his testimony). The bottom line for us partisan Democrats back then (as now) was that if it was good for Reagan (even if also good for the country) we opposed, belittled, quibbled, nattered and otherwise sought to diminish.

It was only well after Reagan had left office that I began to see how successful and far-reaching his policies actually were. In the 1990s I began to annoy my leftist friends by stating the obvious, that Reagan was the most successful U.S. president since FDR. And it was only a relatively short ideological journey (helped along by Clinton's feckless policies and corruption) to embrace the policies of President Bush that are engendering freedom in places that have known only tyranny.


From my blog
Fellow Massachusetts resident Jay Tea points out a shining example of a Massachusetts democrat:
Senator Dianne Wilkerson has a spotty record with regard to money. She once served six months under house arrest for failing to file her state and federal income taxes. She's been sued over unpaid loans and bills. She's been fined for prior violations.

This time, though, the state looked at her campaign's books and are kinda curious about $80,000 her campaign's spent over the last two years. It looks like she's been spending contributions on such things as pizza, groceries, "consultant fees" to her sons, and about $18,000 in unspecified "reimbursements" paid directly to her personal bank accounts.

The Boston Herald summarizes her career nicely:
She has been subjected to a series of highly publicized financial problems: failure to pay federal and state taxes and her student loans; stiffing vendors, including her own attorneys, out of tens of thousands in fees; and violating a federal judge's order of house arrest in 1998. She has been re-elected to the state Senate six times.
Diane Wilkerson finally left the Massachusetts state senate after being arrested in a federal corruption scheme for taking bribes. She had to stuff the $100 bills the federal agent gave her in exchange for promised illegal actions on her behalf in her bra, since her purse was already full of $100 bills she had obtained in earlier "constituent meetings" earlier that day.
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