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The Veep’s Pipeline Push

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Published Aug 23, 2008

From the magazine issue dated Sep 1, 2008

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Posted By: Krohn @ 11/02/2008 11:06:32 PM

Comment: The Wall Street crisis was planned the night of Obama's meeting at Bill Ayres home to put Obama in The White House. Together they put a beautiful plan into place.

This Strategy was first elucidated in the 1966 issue of 'The Nation' Magazine by a pair of radical Socialist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.

David Horowitz summarizes it as:

"The strategy of forcing political change through an orchestrated crisis. The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of Capitalism by overloading the Government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
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Obama begin with ACORN by funneling millions into their organization. He then trained ACORN to stage protests in banks to force them to issue risky loans or they would be threatened to face racial charges. ACORN was trained to intimidate financial institutions into giving ???Ninja??? loans to people with NO assets, NO job and NO income, who couldn???t afford these loans.

That caused the housing bubble two years ago it was by ACORN's actions they were able to destroy our credit system.

As this played out, D-Barney Frank and D-Chris Dodd were able to cover up the millions of improvident loans to these bad risky house buyers. And Barney Frank and his chums successfully were able to block all of President Bush's attempts to put a rein on this problem.

So Fannie & Freddie was forced to purchase all these failed subprime mortgages.

Then both Frank and Dodd denied that there were any problems, and refused the Bush Admin. requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and they were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting sub-prime mortgage loans almost up to the 'minute they failed'.

Democrats then blamed Bush saying it happened on his watch knowing it would hurt the Republican Party in the election setting it up that Barack Obama could use this to his advantage.

Karl Marx once compared a Revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface.

Barack Obama is that Marxist mole !
Posted By: wendydk @ 11/01/2008 11:46:09 AM

Comment: How to bring down a democracy: the steps toward totalitarian rule, in the order followed by Hitler and the Nazi Party; SEE IF THEY SOUND FAMILIAR.

1. Improvise an attack (or take advantage of an attack) on the country
2. Declare the country under attack by an enemy; real or improvised
3. Force legislation that limits civil liberties and gathers broad powers unto government
4. Brand dissenters and peacemakers as unpatriotic and browbeat them into submission
5. Keep the fear factor high to make the public easier to manage
6. Institute massive propaganda campaigns using state-controlled no-longer-free media and fear of government retribution
7. Law enforcement and government personnel and ordinary citizens are used to spy on, control and break dissent.
8. Institute the equivalent of a national homeland security department, overseen by one person with unlimited powers
9. Confiscate all firearms from the citizenry
10. Institute the mass murder and imprisonment of any who resist the new ideology.
11. Launch pre-emptive strikes into other countries in an attempt to spread the new ideology

Sound familiar? It should, its not only the direct path of Hitlers rise to power, but also parallels the events starting with and following 9/11. President Bush was very familiar with the game plan, as his Grandfather and his Grandfathers father-in-law were supporters of Hitler and Nazism, both before and after the war. (See George Herbert Walker and Prescott Bush and the Union Banking Corporation)

Of course, the Bush Administration has skipped a couple of the items on the list, but theyll get to them if their party is allowed to remain in power; it will be the only way for them to retain control over the citizenry.

The Reichstag Fire: the funeral pyre of German democracy

http://www.essortment.com/all/nazireichstag_rghx.htm

THE BEST REASON TO VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA THIS ELECTION YEAR
Posted By: C. MacLean @ 10/30/2008 8:47:34 AM

Comment: In the greater scheme of things, this isn't one of Cheney's bigger crimes. In fact, writing a letter or making a phone call isn't a crime at all. Obnoxious, to be sure, for a federal official to be instructing states what to do, but not criminal.

Now - his role in Abu Gharib, Guantanomo Bay, the Iraq war, and wire tapping without judicial oversight - those are crimes. His profiteering with Haliburton, and maybe Enron? Definitely in the criminal realm. Refusing to answer congressional subpeonas? Full blown criminal act.

If we'er going to go after the man, let's get him on his legitimate criminal behavior.

It's not as if there aren't plenty of real crimes to choose from.
Posted By: GregHere @ 10/29/2008 6:20:04 PM

Comment: ..................................................Birds Of A Feather Flock Together!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted By: BBIinMass @ 10/29/2008 6:00:24 PM

Comment: Why am I not surprised? I wonder what else lurks in the super-secret Cheney legacy....
Posted By: groundpounder @ 10/28/2008 6:14:16 PM

Comment: That goofy Dick Chenny. What a scream. That coniving creep is involved with anything that is remotely related to oil; Haliburton, ANWAR, Iraq, His energy task force etc. etc. Too bad that old coot is so frail. Even if he were put on trial for his misdeeds he probably wouldn't do any jail time. Too bad, he'd look smashing in prision orange. It's doubtful Stevens will spend any time in the gray bar hotel either.
Posted By: ecar @ 10/28/2008 12:57:05 PM

Comment: They can ALL see Russia from there....cha know!?
Posted By: ecar @ 10/28/2008 12:56:27 PM

Comment: Republicans...these days are Moronoss Dufumus Deluxe!
Posted By: arthur2008 @ 09/14/2008 2:28:27 PM

Comment: Cheney and Stevens are aslo linked to the "reform" team of McCain and Palin.
Posted By: Peony Tiger @ 09/04/2008 9:48:37 PM

Comment: Sarah Palin was governor at the time so what was her part in this besides asking her church members to pray for the pipeline.
Posted By: Peony Tiger @ 09/04/2008 9:47:13 PM

Comment: Sarah Palin was Governor at that time? Was was her role in this besides asking her church members to pray to the Natural Gas pipeline?
Posted By: iconperson @ 09/04/2008 12:07:26 PM

Comment: Remember: Dick Cheney before he dicks you.
Posted By: iconperson @ 09/04/2008 12:06:38 PM

Comment: Remember Dick Cheney before he dicks you
Posted By: sicandtyred @ 08/28/2008 12:08:54 PM

Comment: How is that cheney isn't put on trial?
Posted By: lynn2611 @ 08/27/2008 5:10:52 PM

Comment: All I can say as an Alaskan is, "so what?" We want a pipeline built. For a number of reasons the Producers/shippers won't commit to an all-Alaska line. They are in the process of building their own across Canada. So, learning that Vice-President Cheney added his voice to what was already an obvious decision gives me the yawns. If it upset Democrat legislators so be it; they are easily upset.
Posted By: BoGilles @ 08/26/2008 6:11:49 AM

Comment: W did not choose Dick for VP, his father did. W's legacy goes down the tube because of his father's stupidity.
Dick is what he is : a dick.
Posted By: Rolo1 @ 08/25/2008 1:22:35 PM

Comment: Ditto-Screw him to the floor with Bush and Rice underneath.
Posted By: jnakhoul @ 08/25/2008 10:11:55 AM

Comment: wait till january and screw him to the floor. no pardons necessary
Posted By: 3party @ 08/25/2008 2:46:51 AM

Comment: Compared with other events Cheney which has been involved in, this one is de minimis, a bit like accusing Hitler of shoplifting.

Tony Waters, Oregon
Posted By: Braes @ 08/24/2008 10:04:36 PM

Comment: Treason is the reason, some, have never trusted the Bush Crime Syndicate.
Paleo-conservatives have always distrusted them. Fruit rarely falls far from the tree.

In the BBC Radio Document program, The Whitehouse Coup, John Buchanan suggests President Roosevelt stopped the investigation for a political deal: "The investigations mysteriously turned to vapor when it comes time to call them to testify. FDR's main interest was getting the New Deal passed, and so he struck a deal in which it was agreed that the plotters would walk free if Wall Street would back off of their opposition to the New Deal and let FDR do what he wanted". [45]
The 2007 BBC radio documentary The White House Coup said that Prescott Bush was connected with the plot.[45]
On July 23, 2007, the BBC Radio 4 series Document reported on the alleged Business Plot and the archives from the McCormack-Dickstein Committee hearings. The program mentioned Bush's directorship of the Hamburg-America Line, a company that the committee investigated for Nazi propaganda activities, and the alleged 1933 attempt, supposedly led by Gerald MacGuire, to stage a military coup against President Franklin D. Roosevelt aimed at forcing Roosevelt to resign (or, failing that, to assassinate him) and at installing a fascist dictatorship in the United States. [5]
Pedigree: Bush was born in Columbus, Ohio to Samuel Prescott Bush and Flora (Sheldon) Bush. Samuel Bush was a railroad executive, then a steel company president, and during World War I, also a federal government official in charge of coordination and assistance to major weapons contractors.
Bush attended the Douglas School in Columbus and then St. George's School in Newport, Rhode Island from 1908 to 1913. In 1913, he enrolled at Yale University, continuing a family legacy as part of the skull and bones society; four subsequent generations of Bushes have been Yale alumni. Prescott Bush was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity while at Yale and Skull and Bones secret society.
Posted By: cerrojim @ 08/24/2008 5:57:59 PM

Comment: I support drilling 100%, but then I'm a Dentist. Oh, they mean for oil. Yes, lets do that too! When it has an effect in 9 or 10 years the environment will be to far gone for anyone to continue to worry about. We will have cheap gas to put in our hermatically sealed cars to protect us from pollution and carbon dioxide gases. Yep, we'll stand there at the pump with our gas masks on reveling in $2.50 per gallon gas. What, you actually think you will see $1.50 per gallon again!

Folks the genie is out of the bottle. Don't expect these greedy bastards to try to put it back in. You will never see gas below $2.50 ... never. But, John McCain may see two or three more houses.

Oh, when you are arrested and detained on no charges for a month or two; when you lose your home; when people finally give up and hit the streets with violence; you won't need to gas up anyway because it will be too dangerous to go out.

We had to fight the first King George to create this Nation. By God, we will do it again if necessary.
Posted By: cerrojim @ 08/24/2008 5:46:37 PM

Comment: George Bush ... perhaps the most corrupt and morally bankrupt President in or Nation's history. Dick Cheney ... perhaps the most corrupt and morally bankrupt Vice President in our Nation's history.

John McCain ... their only chance to win and continue existing fascist policies. If he wins, the entrenched right wing cadre they have placed throughout government with illegal hirings and firings, discrimination and intimidation will coninue unabated: torture is good, there is no such thing as habeas corpus, the constitution doesn't really mean anything, greed is the only American value, F the world and, if you are not with us, ... F you.

God help us.
Posted By: klebrun @ 08/24/2008 5:02:06 PM

Comment: Appeasement: to yield or concede to the belligerent demands of (a nation, group, person, etc.) in a conciliatory effort, sometimes at the expense of justice or other principles.

Appeasement, in an effort by a Democratic congress to work with the right wing, is a futile and self destructive act. Ignoring the corruption of the Cheney/Bush administration will only reinforce the mind set of the right wing and eventually lead to the collapse of our democratic system. We learned the hard way with Nazi Germany.

A priority of a Democratic congress should be to clean up the corruption of the Cheney/Bush administration, even if George was kept out of the loop by Cheney to give George deniability.
Posted By: bluesgutter @ 08/24/2008 4:48:47 PM

Comment: Dick Cheney linked to something illegal? I find that hard to believe.
Posted By: libbylynn @ 08/24/2008 4:30:59 PM

Comment: Actions of the Bush Administation and their cohorts appears to be unraveling on a daily basis. It will only be a matter a time before all of their misuse of government status, time, and money is exposed.The American people (no matter what your political affiliation may be) need to be very concerned how they will vote. We do not need four more years of politicians ripping off the middle class and wasting money while ordinary citizens struggle to keep their homes paid for and food on the table for their childre.God help us all!
Posted By: funkdome @ 08/24/2008 4:25:57 PM

Comment: Yawn. More vague attacks on Republicans. Big shocker.

Newsweek is a partisan rag.
- Posted By: klebrun @ 08/24/2008 6:47:07 PM
  
  Comment: Fundome - if you are smoking some really good stuff, didn't your mommy tell you that it is only polite to share.
- Posted By: marshaborror @ 08/24/2008 5:06:33 PM
  
  Comment: Everything looks "vague" in the shadows. But when shown in the light of day becomes clear. The entire Bush administration does everything in the shadows.
Posted By: wildlifeusa @ 08/24/2008 4:24:27 PM

Comment: It is time that congress listen to the people. PUT CHENEY, BUSH AND COMPANY IN JAIL!!!!
Posted By: BrownFoxNine @ 08/24/2008 4:18:38 PM

Comment: Wow, all I know is that Biden ripped McSame a new one yesterday with the 7 kitchen table s comment. very nice!

http://useurl.us/126
Posted By: ifjed @ 08/24/2008 4:18:33 PM

Comment: Is anyone surprised that Dick Cheney was probably involved in Stevens' crimes?
Posted By: wildlifeusa @ 08/24/2008 4:13:13 PM

Comment: http://www.businessvideonews.com/view_news_link.php?nlid=52214&p=1
Watch this and see what Cheney and company is doing to other countries.. Now you will know why so many hate this country.
Posted By: Sporty @ 08/24/2008 4:09:54 PM

Comment: All this corruption , thief of our democracy and economy is taken place because the American citizens have lost their backbone and will to fight for their rights , constitution ,democracy and their country...
Posted By: wildlifeusa @ 08/24/2008 4:09:34 PM

Comment: Cheney needs to go to jail as well as Rove and Bush. They are the most corrupt, anti americains of all.
Posted By: Sporty @ 08/24/2008 4:06:53 PM

Comment: Why are Americans not bitiching about Bush , Cheney & McCain keep given our contracts and jobs to Britain and other foreign countries. Why are we in a recession , well how in the .... can you just keep given our contracts (tax money) to foreign countries and keep buying their prioducts and exist.
American Citizens are crazy as ... for excepting this BS , they no longer have any backbone to stop this corruption and destruction or our country
These a... stole our election in 2000 and have never stop stealing our democracy and country ever since.
Posted By: the rog1 @ 08/24/2008 2:43:04 PM

Comment: Surprise? I think NOT! But where is the public outrage? Elect McCain and you keep the Cheney oil boys in office. Had enough?
The Rog
Posted By: Seldomseen @ 08/24/2008 1:48:42 PM

Comment: You won't catch Cheneyburton at anything illegal. Not as long as he has influence over Junior and sucks up to GHW Bush who once was the head of the CIA. Heck, Cheney's still on Haliburton's payroll.
- Posted By: Braes @ 08/24/2008 10:03:16 PM
  
  Comment: Or the Chenhole knows pardons are in the desk.
Posted By: maverik @ 08/24/2008 1:47:24 PM

Comment: Here you go, Cheney the oil man involved in another oil deal. I wonder if he drinks oil instead of water.
Posted By: nails @ 08/24/2008 1:46:08 PM

Comment: hallelujah brother!

torture. preemptive strike n a us non threatening nation. dead and defaced american en and women. non support for our troops - rhetorical support ONLY. the
politicization of the Justice Department. upsetting the balance of powers. and.... presidential signing statement whereby Mr. Bush OF ALL PEOPLE can ignore a law
if it suits him and general buffoonery. If he went back on the sauce and Mr. Cheney's heart gave out this nation and our world would be infinitely better off. How
tragic is that.
- Posted By: C. MacLean @ 08/24/2008 3:05:52 PM
  
  Comment: What makes you think Bush hasn't gone back on the sauce, or that he ever got off it in the first place?
  
  Bush looks, acts and sounds like a belligerent, bellicose drunk to me (or at the least, a dry drunk - google dry drunk, and see what you get).
  
  If it looks like a duck...
  - Posted By: Braes @ 08/24/2008 10:02:49 PM
    
    Comment: Bush is permanently fried. His brain has always been crap.
Posted By: Seldomseen @ 08/24/2008 1:45:13 PM

Comment: Let's start with George H.W, Bush. At one time he was the head of the CIA, so Junior knows the in's and out's very well. Jr assumes he is above reproach regardless of the consiquences of his illegal acts. Cheney was H,W,'s secretary of state during his one term as President. Who do you think is running the office of president of the United States? C
Posted By: AKEngineer @ 08/24/2008 1:35:07 PM

Comment: Read Pipeline facts at http://alaska-gas-pipeline.blogspot.com/
Posted By: AKEngineer @ 08/24/2008 1:33:35 PM

Comment: http://alaska-gas-pipeline.blogspot.com/
Posted By: C. MacLean @ 08/24/2008 1:06:11 PM

Comment: The VP wrote a letter to a State Legislature urging them to pass a bill. All this proves is that Cheney is an oil man with no scruples, which we already knew, but unfortunately, it doesn't prove he violated any laws (other than the laws of decency, which he has been violating for decades)

If you want to catch Dick Cheney in the act, take Deep Throat's advice: follow the money. It will be his greed, not his indecency, that will ultimately prove his undoing and send him to jail, which is where he belongs. Get the IRS after him - they caught Capone that way, and they should be able to catch Cheney the same way, since both are arrogant, immoral, evil men who believe themselves outside the law.

Writing a letter isn't illegal. Writing a check and accepting same from criminals and terrorists, is.
Posted By: madashellwithW @ 08/24/2008 1:05:19 PM

Comment: I am encouraged, to see more and more, WAR CRIMES and the BUSH Admin. used in the same sentence.From my limited research, torture is grounds for WAR CRIMES. Not to mention all of the other stuff we are not aware of. Let justice roll down like a FLOOD.
Posted By: madashellwithW @ 08/24/2008 12:58:32 PM

Comment: I
Posted By: Vroussos @ 08/24/2008 12:33:26 PM

Comment: Cheney is a criminal as well as Bush, Condoleeza Rice, Rumsfeld, and the rest of this administration. They all need to be charged with war crimes and corruption, and tried in a public forum. The sooner the bettter
Posted By: thrutheseasons @ 08/24/2008 12:14:05 PM

Comment: Another dot connected. Anymore dots and the lines will be drawn for us.
Posted By: anthonycaole@gmail.com @ 08/24/2008 12:08:45 PM

Comment: Thank you, Senator Stevens, for doing everything in your power to wake up the Alaska Legislature about the need to act quickly on the Alaska Gasline project; Alaska needs the gas now, as does Canada and the Lower 48, and God knows our country needs the energy security.

Could it be that Stevens was more concerned about Alaska and the Lower 48's fate, than that of VECO's, as is alleged?
Posted By: marshaborror @ 08/24/2008 12:08:04 PM

Comment: How do you know when Bush, Cheney and Rove are lying?....Their lips are moving. And then there is the, little discussed but already passed into law, REAL ID ACT!!!!!!! Why don't we just skipped the required microchips in our National ID cards and get tatoos on our forearms! Can anyone say 666?
Posted By: baracus2008 @ 08/24/2008 12:03:28 PM

Comment: This country is in trouble if the American people don't wake up and realize it. The Republicans always talk about they don't want judges who legislate from the bench yet they have someone like Rush Limp telling him that if the judges are not pro-life then he can forget it. What is that if it's not legislating from the bench. Women should really be careful if they decide to vote for McCain because they might soon find themselves using clothes hangers again.
Posted By: Leia Skywalker @ 08/24/2008 11:54:54 AM

Comment: Cheney, Bush, Clinton, Obama, Mcain...they're all part of the same power-hungry, elitist group who wants to enslave the population and control all the wealth...and all the oil. It really doesn't matter if there is a Democrat or a Repulican in the Whilte House, because they all have the same agenda. With the Patriot Acts, the Military Commissions Act, and countless others, Bush and his cronies have destroyed our Constitution and are bringing about a police state. Even MSNBC commented that Bush is ushering in a "police state." This is Nazi Germany, not our once great American republic. From Operation Northwoods in the 1960s to the Project for a New American Century in 2000, our government has a long history of using government-sponsored, false-flag terror attacks to sufficiently scare us into giving up our freedoms in the name of national security. 9/11 was a prime example. Watch "9/11: The Decent into Tyranny." Google it. Understand that foreign heads of state, members of our military, members of the current and former presidential administrations, and countless other experts at all levels have gone on the record and stated that 9/11 was not accomplished by radical Muslim extremists, but rather by those within our own government. The CIA actually TRAINED the supposed 9/11 terrorists who flew those planes into the WTC! Treason at the highest orders. And the bin Laden family was rapidly flown out the USA right after 9/11, even when Americans were not allowed to fly?
Please visit www.infowars.com and www.prisonplanet.com and learn more.
- Posted By: Braes @ 08/24/2008 10:01:36 PM
  
  Comment: You are right, they have trashed it. This might be the last chance to wrest it back.
- Posted By: Leia Skywalker @ 08/24/2008 1:53:29 PM
  
  Comment: Note: Sorry, Alex Jones' book is 9/11: The Decent into Tyranny...watch the documentary film "9/11: The Road to Tyranny."
Posted By: I read eevrything @ 08/24/2008 11:54:22 AM

Comment: And these criminal have the power to send your children to kill and die 12,000 miles away, what a crock of sh*t we live in.
Posted By: I read eevrything @ 08/24/2008 11:47:37 AM

Comment: Where's the outrage from the other lawmkers? Oh yeah they all have their own skeletons so they can do nothing to protect the people. CRIMINALS...all of them.

If I stole a candy bar I'd get punished, they still a trillion dollars and get coddled for life.

Corruption is everywhere in this country, starting at the whitehouse. DO SOMETHING about it you HONORABLE, DISTINGUISHED piles of crap, I mean lawmakers.
Posted By: I read eevrything @ 08/24/2008 11:43:14 AM

Comment: I want to see the Bush whitehouse in the worst federal prison we have. And we all thought that "justice is blind" meant things were fair. It really means that justice is blind to the criminal actions of the people in power.
Posted By: mrorep @ 08/24/2008 11:27:34 AM

Comment: This whole crew is full of dirtbags, starting at top. Cheney & Bush should have to serve time because of how they abuse power.
Posted By: babyboomer! @ 08/24/2008 11:02:41 AM

Comment: Corrupton are tools for lost men. Are you surprised?
Posted By: Braes @ 08/24/2008 10:26:59 AM

Comment: I believe that the Chenhole has not covered all of his tracks, because he expects pardons. Or has arrangements in Dubai, like Halliburton. The Bush crime family and associates make the Gambinos look like parish priests, by God. (Forgive me Father, they are just that filthy...)
41 and 43 will be protected for life by sovereignity. We will never hand over an ex-president to face any charges on anything, ever. In fact, I would scream if someone tried.
The cure is to stay out of the Bushes, and be wary of Airport bathrooms.
Posted By: zemo @ 08/24/2008 10:06:21 AM

Comment: The system is broken, it allows for politicians to be corrupted. Cheney, Bush, et.al., have taken it to a new extreme that is all. Of course, it is not acceptable, but what can one do? Vote for change? That is a farce; as long as the two mafia groups control the system, change will only be an empty promise. Until we, the American people, seize command of our government, we vote only for the least dangerous evil.
Posted By: sicandtyred @ 08/24/2008 9:49:52 AM

Comment: Why isn't cheney being tried along with stevens? what did stevens promise cheney to write this letter?
cheney doesn't doanything that doesn't benefit him.
Posted By: sicandtyred @ 08/24/2008 9:48:19 AM

Comment: How come cheney isn't being indicted with stevens? what did stevens promise him to have him write this letter?
Posted By: zemo @ 08/24/2008 9:40:05 AM

Comment: As the song goes: "They are all the same, the sluts and the saints".
Dream about changes, but until the system gets reformed there will be only talk of changes - the promised that will never be fulfilled. Of course, Chenney and Bush have taken it to a new level of corruption and they got away with it, there are above the justice we all would like to have.
Posted By: jcgrim @ 08/24/2008 9:19:02 AM

Comment: Another day, another example of Cheney meddling in govt business to serve his personal interests. What a shameless example of a public servant. How many times has he answered a reporter's question about his questionable behavior with "I can't comment on an ongoing investigation"? Too many to count.

If Justice was withholding that letter, there's no telling what else they've buried to cover this lying, corrupt VEEP.
Posted By: jcgrim @ 08/24/2008 9:18:14 AM

Comment: Another day, another example of Cheney meddling in govt business to serve his personal interests. What a shameless example of a public servant. How many times has he answered a reporter's question about his questionable behavior with "I can't comment on an ongoing investigation"? Too many to count.

If Justice was withholding that letter, there's no telling what else they've buried to cover this lying, corrupt administration. Maybe
Posted By: baracus2008 @ 08/24/2008 8:54:55 AM

Comment: Deception, misdirection and propaganda, this is the Republican way. These people have been pulling this same wool Bull S@#$. over the American citizens eyes for years. I hope that people wisen up and vote for change. Dich Cheney is a criminal, George Bush is a criminal and John McCain is dishonest. Who in the world if they had something to change after 10 years would say drilling for oil. Please.
Posted By: Birbal @ 08/24/2008 8:04:35 AM

Comment: I can't wait until Democrats are actually placed in office from where they can finally start the machines needed to put the current corrupt administration in jail.
Posted By: Birbal @ 08/24/2008 8:02:49 AM

Comment: I can't wait until Democrats are placed in office from where they can actively start the machines to have the current corrupt administration placed in jail.
Posted By: Karenn1 @ 08/24/2008 8:01:40 AM

Comment: So corruption is O K if intension are honorable. Wow this is political perversion.In other words all you can why'll you can, if you don't somebody else will.God bless the founding fathers for this freedom.Or did they mean something else?
- Posted By: Birbal @ 08/24/2008 8:06:31 AM
  
  Comment: Are you for real? Do you really believe this crap?
Posted By: onepoker @ 08/24/2008 4:28:36 AM

Comment: Yea it would be a crime for the VIce president to push an infrastructure building agenda. Oh wait thats his job. You guys who think this is some how illegal are idiots that is what politicians do they try and get stuff done that helps their constituents.
- Posted By: sicandtyred @ 08/24/2008 9:55:04 AM
  
  Comment: Bat guano. alaska isn't cheney's constituents. If most of the representative do something for their constituents they probably took monies from social security.
  - Posted By: gary123456 @ 08/24/2008 4:34:32 PM
    
    Comment: And here I thought that all US citizens were the constituants of the President and the Vice- President. Here is one case of many where Bush and Cheney are trying to get more energy at a lower price for all of the people whereas the Dem leaders rejoice when the supply is short and the price increases. Isn't this the reason for Pelosi's actions in shuting down the House of Reps?
Posted By: NO2WAR @ 08/24/2008 3:00:15 AM

Comment: Ted Stevens and Dick Cheney- just doing the bidding of the Bush Crime Family.
- Posted By: onepoker @ 08/24/2008 4:35:22 AM
  
  Comment: You know this is a two way street. Nancy Pelosi pushed for Tboone pickens plan even though she is personally invested in his companies. This is what politicians do its not corruption. They believe in something so they advocate it and push for it in any way they can. Now the guy taking money is inappropriate but Dick Cheney was just doing his job and you can be sure he didn't take any money for his part.
  - Posted By: enlighteninglad @ 08/24/2008 10:42:07 AM
    
    Comment: Blatant corruption is still corruption. That's why there are suposed to be conflict of interest laws. Politicians pushing agendas that they have a monetary stake in is WRONG. Its insider trading to the Nth degree.
Posted By: NO2WAR @ 08/24/2008 2:58:44 AM

Comment: Ted Stevens, Dick Cheney, all doing the bidding of the Bush Crime family.
Posted By: RO in Reno @ 08/24/2008 1:16:03 AM

Comment: Well it should come as no surprize.
First of all thats what Cheney does in his secret office is run the oil business, You may think he separated from the oil business but the fact is he just moved his Haliburton office to the white house.
Second payoff's and bribes are a way of life in the oil business.
This is just business as usual.
Posted By: NotNowImBusy @ 08/24/2008 12:11:22 AM

Comment: I thought the Dems were supposed to be the mischevous and crooked ones...........atleast thats what Fox News told me?????

Cheneys a robot so it makes sense he would push this issue....
Posted By: NotNowImBusy @ 08/24/2008 12:08:50 AM

Comment: I thought the Dems were supposed to be the mischievous and crooked........at least thats what Fox News told me????
Posted By: RangerDan @ 08/23/2008 9:54:01 PM

Comment: Dick Cheney is the most dangerous man on this planet!!!!!
- Posted By: Braes @ 08/23/2008 10:29:05 PM
  
  Comment: Anything related to a member of the Bush crime family, like a chenhole, needs to be suspect.
Posted By: RangerDan @ 08/23/2008 9:44:38 PM

Comment: I fear Bush and his merry band of criminals are going to pull a Putin and by hook or crook try to remain in power after the election.
- Posted By: onepoker @ 08/24/2008 4:37:35 AM
  
  Comment: That is not going to happen Cheney is planning a nice retirement and Bush has had enough of this crap. The only ones we are likely to see again are Condi Rice (possibly as NFL commissioner) and Karl Rove because he loves the game too much to go away.
Posted By: RangerDan @ 08/23/2008 9:42:00 PM

Comment: di did dididididididididid
- Posted By: RangerDan @ 08/23/2008 9:56:48 PM
  
  Comment: oops!
Posted By: tygirl @ 08/23/2008 9:26:18 PM

Comment: I don't know why anybody would be surprise, this is why the Republicans are doing everything they can to keep OBAMA out of the white house. They do not want to give up their power. They reped our constitution, they comit war crimes, they steal, lie and cheat, and bribrey shouldn't be any surprise.
- Posted By: onepoker @ 08/24/2008 4:44:02 AM
  
  Comment: What we don't want to give up is our freedom and our free markets. The constitution is fine and intact. The war crimes were greatly exagerated and perpetrated by individuals who have been imprisoned. The only one who wants to steal is Obama who wants to steal from the oil companies. The lies were mistakes not lies the cheating didn't exist. Bribery well that guy is now being prosecuted but the case is iffy and it may turn out to not really be a bribe at all. These people were old friends and yes its a high amount of money for the average american but it is not unusual for Millionaires to help out a friend with a sizeable gift. The problem comes from the appearance of a quid pro quo arrangement and if that is the case well this senator is cooked as he should be.
  - Posted By: enlighteninglad @ 08/24/2008 10:37:45 AM
    
    Comment: As long as there are enablers like you who will excuse this type of behavior the system will never change and corruption will flourish.
Posted By: ghostcommander @ 08/23/2008 7:38:47 PM

Comment: Well, well, weel, it seems that Mukasey's Justice Department is the CYA man for cheney.
Posted By: lewerhart@hotmail.com @ 08/23/2008 6:25:48 PM

Comment: The Democratic minority managed to push the AGIA through the Alaska legislature in Juneau last week. I guess they must have joined the thousand year Reich you ill informed idiots are talking about. Allen has been convicted for over six months by the Bush Department of Justice. I guess you folks in the lower 48 must be a little behind the times. PS. You will know when i drive by you my bumper says " Let the Bastards Freeze in the Dark" LEW E. Anchorage AK>
Posted By: Rich Monk @ 08/23/2008 6:06:38 PM

Comment: Greed. The Republican Christian Nazi Party of Greed. Go pray at Church for the almighty " GOD" of Superstition to fill your bank accounts with gold. Time to round up Cheney, Bush and all his working buddies and haul them off to prison for a long "time out".
Posted By: Rich Monk @ 08/23/2008 6:02:33 PM

Comment: The Republican Christian Right Wing Extremist Party of Greed will do anything to make money. Lie, cheat, steal, whatever it takes. $100 million is not enough. $1 billion is not enough. $10 billion is not enough. $500 billion is not enough. Hunchback Cheney leading the pack. Greed consumes everything and then they go to Church and pray that "God" the Superstition was good to them!!! You can convince most humans of anything. "There will be Blood".
Posted By: patco13 @ 08/23/2008 5:57:10 PM

Comment: Please that is exactly how things are NOT supposed to work. Stevens gets $250K bribe money. calls in Cheney to stick his federal nose into local politics? Talk about rationalization. We have really gone around the bend here
Posted By: patco13 @ 08/23/2008 5:54:56 PM

Comment: Legislators are NOT supposed to get $250K from the exact people who the legislation will benefit. That is called briery. legislators are supposed to represent all the people not just the ones they get money from. Those type of legislators are called Republicans and they will be in the minority come January
Posted By: Jess Wonderin @ 08/23/2008 5:53:10 PM

Comment: Well gee whiz - can't a frickin "oil man" help a greasy political hack? After all what's a little grease between old pals . . . it's only the little people that can't take advantage of these sweetheart deals . . . think ol'Cheney will help me with a house, you know drop a note to those crazy bankers wanting "good credit"???
Posted By: JohnnyJumpUp @ 08/23/2008 5:10:16 PM

Comment: Good Lord. This is what elected officials are SUPPOSED to do, work to move along projects and concepts that are beneficial to their constituents. It would also be helpful if you had any knowledge of Alaska politics. For example, it would be worth investigating that at the time of the letter, there were and still are 2 competing gas line proposals and the success of either depends on the stance of the Alaska Legislature regarding taxes and royalties.

The proposed gas line is now estimated to cost $30 BILLION, making it the single most expensive private construction job in world history. The success of this project is crucial to the future of this state and the country. Do us all a favor and do a little research. You know, news gathering and reporting.
- Posted By: Braes @ 08/23/2008 10:28:01 PM
  
  Comment: Repblicorruption.
  - Posted By: sicandtyred @ 08/24/2008 9:59:40 AM
    
    Comment: Hugh cost for the pipeline. I would guess that halliburton would get the no bid contract.

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