Is lying and unethical behavior standard operating procedure in the republican party?
336315
Yes and they are starting to pay. DeLay just dropped out after his top aids started talking to prosecutors. Duke Cunningham is going to jail. Libbey is facing some serious charges and they are still investigating Rove. There are so many Republicans connected to Abramoff we'll be seeing trials and convictions for a long time now. \nThe Republicans will most likely lose their majorities in both houses this November. Sure there are some corrupt Democrats. The Republicans won the majority in '94 because of that. In twelve short years their corruption eclipses what they replaced by a long shot. It's time to clean house again. \nClinton lied about a private affair, which while immoral, concerned only his family. He admitted he was wrong and apologized. We're still hearing about it. Bush lied and led us into a war which has killed thousands, bankrupted the country, and $enriched Cheney and Co. He still has not admitted any mistakes or apologized to the families of the soldiers he killed.\nThis is just the tip of the iceberg. GOP=Culture of Corruption
281979
it is always about making ones party look good, republican or democrat\n\nand I don't think the governement is ever truthful due to the fact if we knew what was going on we would be scared to death.\n\nI would not want the responsibility of running the country
193742
The Consitution calls for a specific circumstance to have happened before impeachment - High Crimes and Misdemeanors must have been committed. That is why the Starr investigation went on for years and years, costing 40 million dollars: an actual crime had to be found before the pre-arranged impeachment show could begin.\n\nMost people are calling for President Bush to be impeached because 'He lied about the war!' Thanks again to the Clinton/Starr Travelling Road Show, the concept of what a lie actually is has been dreadfully skewed. Further, according to the Sundance documentary "Corporation" in a case where employees of Fox sued alleging illegal firing under the Whistleblower Statute because they refused orders to include what they felt to be erroneous information in a news telecast, a Federal Court issued a ruling in favor of Fox stating that there was no protection against this firing because "lying on television is not a crime." If what President Bush had said was indeed a lie instead of a different yet equally strongly felt opinion, because of the separation of powers he was not under any sort of restrictive oath either from Congress or any Court at the time. The Clinton "no sex" lie/opinion was illegal because he repeated while under oath as it the defendant in a related lawsuit.\n\nIf 50% of our population couldn't be bothered to get off their couches and cast their votes one way or the other in 2004, I think trying to create another fabricated impeachment crisis will only make our political process even more of a joke and make even more foreign populations look at our democratic model even more cynically.
694365
To catch some sneaky Republicans trying to "cook the votes" in favor of traditional conservatives...
1127894
There have been scandals on both sides of the aisle.  However, since there are more Republicans in office, the odds are higher that there will be more with ethical issues.  Another contributing factor is that there are no checks and balances when the same party controls both houses and the presidency.\n\nI credit the prosperity of the 90's on BOTH parties, because you actually had checks and balances in place.  With this structure the two parties keep each other in check.
729128
Ultimately, I think this is a non-partisan issue.  \n\nPreserving societal morals is a human question, not a Republican one.  \n\nTaking the vote to the states, is a good start, and wholly supported Constitutionally, under the 10th Amendment.
1110980
Primarilly;\n1. The use of false dillemmas. They make us think in terms of black and white, and that we must choose either one or the other of the two choices they have given us. For instance, the Gay marriage noise. They just use this issue to keep people self righteous and republican. The whole issue is a false dillema;\ntheres no problem here to even be solved.\n\nOr, the Republican/Democrat false dillema.\n\n\n2. Diabolization of truth and truthtellers, marginalization of truth and truth tellers\n\n3. Republicans own and operate almost all of the public media\noutlets. So they can lie and lie and lie and theres hardly anybody to stand up with a voice for truth or reason.
856630
The nation said no to leaders who defy moral and ethical values with a culture of corruption. Leaders who get indicted for taking bribes from lobbyists like Jack Abamoff and leaders who have to resign for sending inappropriate e-mails to young boys were rejected. Chickenhawk GOP leaders are the ones who've turned their backs on those who fight and give their lives for freedom. On the quagmire in Iraq soon to be former Republican Majority Leader John Boehner blames the military: "Let's not blame what's happening in Iraq on Rumsfeld... the fact is, the generals on the ground are in charge." \nRumsfeld himself said,  "As you know, you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want..."\nAmerican patriots have voted and spoken!
353775
To be fair, the party in power (particularly when said party controls all three branches of government) tends toward corruption, irrespective of which party it is. That said, yes, the republicans are very much THE ultimate party of corruption. There has been a steady flow of this sort of nefarious wrongdoing since they assumed power and it will continue until the American people wake up and throw them out of office. I have high hopes for the 2006 elections but I also had high hopes in 2004...
842986
Yes.\nThis is just another example of how Karl Rove has the Republicans negative campaigning. They have told lies about their counterparts. Over half of the Country believes Congress is doing a poor job, Bush has a 38% approval rating as of this week.\nThis many people cannot be wrong. They resort to these telemarketing schemes to lie to voters. They are even doing on TV ads. That is because they have done such a poor job, that this is the only thing left to try to win with.
585503
Lying Comes Naturally to Bush & Republicans\nWhenever Republican politicians find themselves in trouble, their automatic knee-jerk reaction is to blame Democrats. If there is nothing to blame Democrats for, they merely make something up - they lie. This is exactly what the Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman, following the lead of his boss George W. Bush, has done and is doing. He is placing the blame of the mean and punitive House immigration bill on the Democrats, when he knows that it is an outrageous lie.\n"To be anti- George Bush is to be pro-American," \n\n I think he's dangerous, and he has to be stopped." \n\nU.S. Troops Killed in Iraq Tops 2,400 <words/latestnews/index.php?id=6682>
307575
nope. how would lying and cheating be morally correct? people go to jail for those things. you lie, you go to jail, you cheat on a test, u get expelled. you cheat on your taxes, fine and jail, same principles, different situation
805377
I don't think it was a tactic because I've never known any republican to sacrifice himself for any cause...whether it be good or evil....they are generally self serving....having said that, although I don't think it was a tactic to get the pedophile vote, I think the republicans may have just gained some new voters.
1057289
Just another example of a criminal activity by a conservative talk show host. Not a problem for the conservatives as they have come to expect it, after all they voted for a convicted coke snorting alcoholic. I guess when you are a republican if you don't expect much then that is what you get.
421943
Nice question, "actions speak louder than words".\n\nSgtK, I thank all Armed forces personnel for their service to OUR country, Iraq like Vietnam was the WRONG call, I blame our flawed leadership for this decision. My FREEDOM to post my opinion without repercussion is what is also great about OUR country. I'm concerned about the amount of hysteria in the republican party which translates into paranoia and if one disagrees with the current administrations ideology, one is deemed as Un-American or a traitor. You do agree with my assessment about hysteria in the republican party don't you? Sorry to drift from the question at hand.
669121
no, but i'll go look that up now.\nthanks\n\n-Nice! \nWhy is it that when anyone points out when someone in this administration lies it's called disrespectful?  Don't you think it was disrespectful to troops to lie  and continue to lie about  why we went to war?!
1141739
It's normal if you are a Republican