When Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) appears before the judge today to say he’s sorry for taking Jack Abramoff’s bribes, will he finally resign from Congress? That and other news of the day in today’s Daily Muck.
Won’t have Bob Ney to kick around anymore.
Update: Actually, it turns out that we’ll have at least a “few weeks” more of kicking.
Rep. Chris Shays (R-1990s): Abu Ghraib a ‘sex ring‘, not torture.
I really used to think Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT) was a pretty reasonable guy. Not in the party I prefer and voting for the wrong leadership in the House, but a reasonable enough guy.
But I don’t see how you call Abu Ghraib a ‘sex ring’ rather than ‘torture’.
Does he think the Iraqis in those pictures were a bunch of swingers?
Question: Should Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) not be expelled from the House of Representatives now that he has pled guilty to repeated instances of bribery, public corruption and other bad acts?
Yes, needless to say, he says he’s going to resign in a “few weeks“, according to his lawyer. And he’s not on the ballot for reelection.
But just as a matter of principle, shouldn’t someone who has said in open court that he accepted bribes in exchange for services as congressman just be booted? Not, hang around until the end of the year to finish up his congressional business?
Sen. Allen’s (R-VA) name shows up on a court record in 1974. An arrest? An unpaid parking ticket? Is there more than one George Felix Allen in Virginia?
We’re trying to find out more.
And then there were two? The Justice Department is “looking into allegations” relating to a rafting trip that Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) took with two Congressional pages in 1996.
Boehner: Dems should be punished at the polls for not reporting our GOP pedophilia sooner.
Shays tries to clear up ‘sex ring’ gaffe; doesn’t do that well.