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Oh no Judd Gregg is also a laughable failure now, after deciding to become a communist for Obama the other day. What a French Gay! Let’s examine the evidence, HMM?
WASHINGTON — An ex-aide to Commerce Secretary nominee Judd Gregg is under investigation for allegedly taking baseball and hockey tickets from a lobbyist in exchange for legislative favors.
Jack Abramoff, explicitly! Oh well, sucks to be that former aide of four years ago.
The revelation comes at a particularly bad time for President Barack Obama’s administration, a day after he had to defend his selection process because two high-profile nominees withdrew due to tax problems.
Not really.
It also points to the challenges confronting a president who promised to end Washington’s insider dealings but who has hired mostly Washington insiders.
Yeah, no.
The senator said in a statement he was unaware of the investigation until he was contacted by the Justice Department.
“Prior to this, I was not aware of any improper acts by the former staffer in question. He left my office more than four years ago due to issues completely unrelated to those brought to light by this investigation,” Gregg said.
Gregg said he had received written notice that he is neither a subject nor a target of the investigation, and he added his office “welcomes the opportunity to be helpful.”
Well. Maybe we should spend more time discussing how this ruins Obama’s entire administration, somehow. Shall we?
Former Gregg aide caught up in lobbying scandal [HuffPo]
What the HuffPo doesn’t understand is that trying to find an untainted Senator is a bit like trying to find a whore that doesn’t have the herp.
Hey someone needs to ask Judd about how he “won” the lottery….
“Prior to this, I was not aware of any improper acts by the former staffer in question. He left my office more than four years ago due to issues completely unrelated to those brought to light by this investigation,”
Yeah, probably the buttsecks…
Maybe if they started playing around with words like “blowjob”, “meth”, “boxes of money” and “broke down in tears” we’d have a scandal here I could wrap my give-a-shit-o-meter around
Obama should elevate the terror level to red, then he can do whatever the fuck he wants and nobody can call him on it. Has he been high for the past eight years or something?
quoth teh Raven: how good is the buttsecks in Congress?
Does every photographer in America have a pull down “Library” screen?
We know those are the aren’t real books, man.
How much longer must we endure this monster shaming our country? No, not Obama — I’m talking about Howie Mandel.
Fuck it, I change my vote to Juan McCain.
Good Christ! What the fuck is Rahm doing, it seems like Sarah Palin is doing the vetting. Also.
Haven’t we all been involved with shady people in the past? Take famous Senator John McCain, who dealt almost exclusively with an inner circle of associates for five and a half years of his career that were all admitted members of the Vietcong army and some of whom were actually complicit in torture
The Borgen Project has some good info on the cost of addressing global poverty.
$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
$550 billion: U.S. Defense budget
SayItWithWookies: Murder. That’s Howie Do It, bitch.
mattbolt: yes, but John McCain is Jesus’ own war hero from heaven, plus he hangs out with sarah palin.
O.K. but I think a far more sinister clue to have emerged is that the nominee is named Judd and someone else named Judd, namely Ashley Judd, has been criticizing America’s sweetheart Sarah Palin. See?! See?! Secret socialist. Quod est demonstratum. We’re through the looking glass people.
Gurkman: Not as good as in the back of a 97 Buick in SF, but adequate.
HuffPo bending over backwards to appear all journalisty and showing they are not afraid to attack BHO when he merits it, too. In other words, more spineless Democrats who don’t understand that there is no such thing as objectivity, there are always more than two sides to any story and that this is a propaganda war and UR NOT HALPING. Kind of like when they were all self-congratulatory when they reported Hopey’s “bitterz” comment.
NICE TRY HUFFPO, but we still don’t take you seriously. Nor are we likely to anytime soon, especially with drivel like this showing up daily, not to mention the stealing and such of others’ news stories.
Jesus H. Christ. That is some pathetic fucking writing and reaching on HuffPo.
HuffPo has been Huffing Pole.
That is all.
I suppose he could just appoint feral children to the cabinet, but it’s hard to get a report on the trade imbalance from your commerce secretary when he refuses to stop playing with his own feces.
I thinking Judge Dredd and Sly Stallone when see his name. Please help me!
jagorev: bingo!
Obama should declare a do-over. Take the oath one more time and start from scratch. Nothing he can do will make much difference anyway so he might as well try to save face.
atsegga: I think you intended to say: “Hockey tickets for favors doesn’t do anyone a favor. The Millenium Buttsecks project can end world hunger for only $30 Billion. And also.”
Hockey Players have Very wide stances.
DagNabbit: word, it looks like he just got done not getting any word in edgewise on Hardball. I just wish they could have gone the extra mile and got that New England sailboat picture tucked in somewhere.
Is Michael Vick eligible to be nominated for any high advisory position? That way we could have a crazy amoral shitheel influencing policy at the highest level without it being described as “politics as usual.” I’m also tired of political operatives being described as pitbulls. It’s time there were some actual pitbulls stalking the halls of the White House, to keep things honest.
It’s only a matter of time ’til the male hookers or computer ped-porn show up….
El Pinche: Instead, I’m thinking Judd Nelson and The Breakfast Club.
Cause at this point, we’re ALL in detention! Yeah, it suckz. Especially for Hillary [Ringwald] cause she’s not prez and stuck with the rest of us.
If Hopey set it straight to his followers to ignore all this BS, i.e., “we can run this place by theory, but by experience” (oops, I think that could be where the problem lies??). Meh.
All we need now is the Obama faceplant video on The YouTubez.
mattbolt: furthermore, many of them were known gay homosexuals.
anyway, what i take from this is that abraham jackoff gave someone aids…or did i read too quickly?
Newsflash: Irredeemably corrupt Washington unsalvageable, says Obama; bombing to begin in five minutes.
wait, remind me again why i’m supposed to care about what some former aide who didn’t get appointed to anything, did to score some sports tickets?
mattbolt: yeah…Hockey tickets? Does it count as a bribe if you take them politely and then throw them away?
mattbolt: lovely!
shortsshortsshorts: Win.
As for this, ZOMG HOW WILL THEY GET THE TAINT OFF HIS SEAT??? ARE WE EXPECTED TO HAVE A TAINT-BASED COMMERCE DEPARTMENT??? IT’S INSAAAANE, THIS GUY’S TAINT!!1!1!!