The Watergate hotel has recently been the site of a NEW scandal; certain "Military-Industrial" contractors are being investigated for possible bribery of C.I.A. and Pentagon officials... involving "Poker-Parties" held at the Watergate hotel. The "poker parties' have been said to have included free food, drinks, and "prostitutes". No names of the alleged-prostitutes have yet surfaced, but the investigation has included hotel employees and employees of the "limo-service". It now has "come-to-light" that the owner of this "Limo-service" is a convicted-felon, with a VERY long list of criminal convictions and arrests. It has also been discovered, that this same "Limo-service" has received a Multi-million-dollar contract from F.E.M.A.and the Department of Homeland Security(worth more than 23MILLION DOLLARS)!!!!!! Where is the "mainstream" media coverage of this?? Has FOX news "aired" this latest scandal in "OUR" so-called-democracy?? Perhaps it is no coincidence that The C.I.A. now has a NEW director??? Where is the Congressional "Ethics-Comittee?"....(You remember... the comittee which CHANGED it's own rules to avoid investigating Tom Delay and Bill Frist!!) These LYING, THIEVING bastards HAVE GOT TO GO!! It has "come-to-pass", that being a politician in Washington has become a "License to steal, and lie!"... The ONLY way to stop such corruption, is to DEMAND "Public-funding" of ALL Federal elections. The cost of such funding is FAR less than the hidden-costs of such corruption, and the costs involved in investigating, indicting, and prosecuting their crimes. WRITE YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS!! DEMAND THAT SUCH REFORM BE LAW!! DEMAND THAT CANDIDATES IN THE UP-COMING CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS PURSUE SUCH CHANGES!! MAKE "PUBLICALLY-FUNDED ELECTIONS" PART OF THE DEMOCRATIC-PARTY-PLATFORM!! This is an issue which an "average" citizen can "sink-their-teeth-into", not some phony "red-herring" like "Gay-Marriage", "Social-Security-investment-accounts", or "Stem-cell research"!! The fiscal incompetance and corruption of the Republican Neo-Cons affects EVERY American, for GENERATIONS TO COME!! Democrats are NOT exempt from the "corporate-kleptocrats"" Lobbyist and "consultant" money corrupts ALL phases of Federal Government, at all levels. NO progress is made when the ONLY "'driving-force" in government is corporate-greed. No "enlightened-policies" ever become reality when the "profit-motive" outweighs logic, reason and "common-sense". It's time that "common-sense" was a little MORE "COMMON"!!
- posted by Dave @ 9:33 PM