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(Yahoo)   Nancy Pelosi can't wait to start "draining the swamp" of lobbyists and special-interest groups. No doubt her lobbyist friends at Exxon and AmGen will be the first to go   (news.yahoo.com) divider line
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OlafTheBent
2006-12-20 1:59:53 PM  
Then she'll be up to her ass in alligators...
 
Cake Hunter [TotalFark]
2006-12-20 2:10:48 PM  
That's the worst euphemism for peeing I've ever heard.
 
Dalton Voss
2006-12-20 2:26:05 PM  
I like how the Yahoo link is used instead of the RealClearPolitics link.
 
Mordant
2006-12-20 2:40:52 PM  
Submitter, will you need to adjust your daily routine in any way after the new year in order to have time for your newfound interest in watching over our elected officials ?
 
tallguywithglasseson
2006-12-20 3:09:15 PM  
I was going to comment on this subject, but I have to go "drain the swamp".
 
tallguywithglasseson
2006-12-20 3:10:23 PM  
Ugh, I thought that sounded like a euphemism, but that just sounds gross.
 
swahnhennessy
2006-12-20 3:33:29 PM  
I'm glad Real Clear Politics has suddenly decided to become a watchdog of governmental malfeasance. No, really. I am.
 
MasterThief
2006-12-20 4:01:14 PM  
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...

/and that's the problem, isn't it?
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-12-20 4:31:40 PM  
Dalton Voss: I like how the Yahoo link is used instead of the RealClearPolitics link.

TFA:

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Scooby's'pawn
2006-12-20 4:41:31 PM  
I, for one, am looking forward to Speaker Pelosi's crusade against undue influence and corruption in Washington. Any little bit that she can clean up is less that we have to worry about. But it does seem a bit hypocritical of her if she starts playing the game herself, isn't it?

I think I'll adopt a wait-and-see attitude.
 
CheekyMunky
2006-12-20 6:12:52 PM  
Scooby's'pawn: I think I'll adopt a wait-and-see attitude.

I think there are quite a few people doing that, myself included. They've been talking a good talk so far, but I think people in general are disillusioned enough with our government at this point that they're going to demand some serious walking too. Which is a good thing, and a welcome change, if it holds.
 
fuhfuhfuh
2006-12-20 6:30:16 PM  
Opinions are like assholes...

Everyones got one and they all spout shiat.

Except for opinion columns... they're the runny diarrhea after a night of bad Mexican food.
 
DimensionalPunk
2006-12-20 6:37:00 PM  
Maybe at least she'll be competent. That'd be an improvement.
 
Descartes
2006-12-20 6:49:53 PM  
For PACs, a cool $15,000 will get you two.



Dear Nancy,
We didn't vote for change to see shiat like this.
Please do better in the future.

Love,
America
 
Craig341
2006-12-20 6:50:02 PM  
MyNameIsNotMervGriffin

http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20061219/cm_rcp/nancys_circle
 
Descartes
2006-12-20 6:58:43 PM  
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/12/19/MNGVHN29211.DTL

Just saying.
 
natewill
2006-12-20 7:43:22 PM  
I can post websites, too
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-12-20 8:02:01 PM  
Craig341: http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20061219/cm_rcp/nancys_circle

Meh. You want to see RCP next to the headline, ask Drew to make an icon for it. Yahoo has one; RCP don't.
 
TheOther
2006-12-20 8:27:21 PM  
If we wait for a clean politician to start, we're screwed anyway. Forget that whole 'he who is without sin' thing; somebody just throw a damn rock.

C'mon Nancy, make good on all that talk.
 
Aernis
2006-12-20 9:37:44 PM  
Nice "Yahoo" news link, dumbass.

What a joke.

Learn to read.
 
Car_Ramrod
2006-12-20 9:39:03 PM  
Ticket? For PACs, a cool $15,000 will get you two.

I would like to see the full invitation along with all the different pricings. Sometimes when the Congressperson I worked for held fundraisers, PACs were charged more, simply because they could give more. Of course, PAC's are only allowed by FEC rules to give a U.S. Representative $5k per election (primary and general) for $10k total per cycle. Intrigued how Pelosi's finance people are handling this.

/hated learning FEC laws
//knows it's not that hard to get around them
 
Car_Ramrod
2006-12-20 9:44:18 PM  
Nevermind, I found it in another link. It's a fundraiser for the DCCC in her honor. PAC's are allowed to give much more to them. And hey, regular folk only have to pay $1k per ticket.

It really is quite interesting to see how many PAC's give to so many people. Tray is a great place that gives lots of giving info for everyone and anyone.
 
revskippy
2006-12-20 9:49:02 PM  
I need to make a macro of this for every political thread about congress for the next 6 months...

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"

If ANYTHING involving how the political machine itself works changes within 2 years I will be profoundly shocked. (that being all the special interest groups, lobbyists, PaCs, and of course the two major parties)

No smart dog ever pisses on the leg of the person who feeds it.

/humping it, on the other hand...
 
ShutTheFarkUp
2006-12-20 10:39:39 PM  
Corvus

No matter who is in control, the republicants or the democraps, they will all be corrupt. If thats what you were implying.
 
Bugs_Bunny_Practiced_Psychological_Warfare
2006-12-20 10:58:11 PM  
It would have been better just to post the link to the SF Examiner instead. At least we have the lesser of the two evils now.
 
Hibno
2006-12-20 11:28:28 PM  
I'm just going to get on my knees and pray we won't get fooled again.
 
CogentSpirit
2006-12-21 12:30:11 AM  
revskippy: No smart dog ever pisses on the leg of the person who feeds it.

It would work if they take away the need to feed from the lobbyist's teat. Like people have said wait and see. She's already shaken things up by a) leading democrats to a win even though most people generally dislike her, and b) putting the froshes in good seats.
 
skyrous
2006-12-21 1:15:21 AM  
McCain, feingold campaign finance reform was suppose to fix the money problems in election politics... It wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. By the way it was bipartisan legislation that democrats supported more than republicans and EVERYONE who voted for it raved about what a great thing they just did.

Just like that law, lobby reform will be 1 page banning lobbyists from being within 100 ft of a member of congress and 736 pages of exceptions to the rule. And everyone who votes for it will declare it a "huge victory for honest politics" and mysteriously years later when the lobbyist still run washington not a single reporter will ever ask them why it failed to accomplish anything. If I ever heard any reporter take John McCain to task for the failure of the law that bears his name I would probably drop dead from shock, and if I survived I would subscribe to whatever media outlet that reporter worked for and read them everyday.

There are two things that democrat voters and republican voters have in common.

1. both sides believe that the people they vote for are honest and the other side is corrupt.

2. by virtue of point 1 it's pretty obvious that both democrat and republican voters have shiat for brains.
 
BudTheSpud
2006-12-21 2:38:00 AM  
Wow, replace a few words for a Canadian politics spin!

"I love Liberals blaming things Hypothetically that Conservatives WILL do in the future.

Hahahaha it's so funny. Keep living through the looking glass guys.

Blaming Conservatives for things they havn't even done while ignoring what the Liberals DID.

Liberal Party: The party of OTHER people's responsibility."

Haha! Polar opposites! That's what we are!
 
DWT Samus
2006-12-21 5:29:15 AM  
Car_Ramrod
/hated learning FEC laws
//knows it's not that hard to get around them

F'reals man. When I was doing finance for one of the campaigns I was on, we'd constantly get people calling up because they wanted to donate like $220,000, when we told them that the max donation for a statewide campaign is $22,300 they'd send in 10 maxed out checks from 10 different employees of their company, or members of their family. Really easy way around campaign finance laws.

When I was snooping around a while back I noticed that Abramoff had given Bush's re-election campaign a few hundred grand through various members of his family.

But campaign finance bored the crap out of me, so I started doing doing Advance work (aka, come to work drunk, bribe people, hit on chicks, piss off the other campaign and hang out with celebs)
 
captainktainer
2006-12-21 9:41:52 AM  
DWT Samus: F'reals man. When I was doing finance for one of the campaigns I was on, we'd constantly get people calling up because they wanted to donate like $220,000, when we told them that the max donation for a statewide campaign is $22,300 they'd send in 10 maxed out checks from 10 different employees of their company, or members of their family. Really easy way around campaign finance laws.

Um... you realize that you've just admitted to committing a felony by accepting those checks? Knowingly accepting money donated in violation of campaign finance laws is a federal crime. Has been since the 1920s. Passing money on to friends and family with the express purpose of subverting campaign finance limits is a violation of federal election law.

Wait... crap. Sorry. That's federal, not state. Even still, at the federal level that crap's already illegal.
 
Nemo's Brother
2006-12-21 5:59:36 PM  
If this headline had had a 'Republitard' in it, there would be thousands of posts by now. Farkers are strangely silent when it's for their team, though.

/hate hypocrits of all kinds.
 
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