Could some Democrats be on the DC Madam's "list"?

[bluestateguy]

I want to caution everyone to not assume that all the names will be from the Republic Party. You mark my words, if just one Democrat is named for 50 Republicans, the Republic Noise Machine will be trumping the "everybody does it" defense.

[YDogg]

1. if they are, they are

let the chips fall where they may

[WiseButAngrySara]

2. Sure to be. The list goes back to the Clinton administration. ....n/t

[LiberalFighter]

16. But Repugs were in control of Congress

They didn't try to stop it.

At least now with a Democratic controlled Congress their is an attempt to stop it. So it must had been the Repugs fault before 2007.

[WiseButAngrySara]

18. Don't know. Good point. ....n/t

[liberal N proud]

3. But the Democrats don't run around preaching moral values

like the "moral right wing"

It is about the hypocrisy

[onenote]

5. no, it will be about the individual

Its not about party. THere will be repubs who preach moral values whose names aren't on the list. And there may be Democrats who pose for nice family photos at election time whose names are on the list. The public will punish the individual hypocrisy, not the party.

[WiseButAngrySara]

8. Right. Like they did with Clinton? ...n/t

[onenote]

10. the public didn't punish the Democratic Party

[Javaman]

27. it will be the party if

it turns out that there an oddly high number of repukes on the list.

[WiseButAngrySara]

6. Precisely. "Family Values" and all of that ad nauseum. ....n/t

[acmavm]

4. The Democratic Party is made up of human beings, both

good and bad (i.e. Lieberman & Miller).

I would guess so.

[johnnie]

7. "Republic Noise Machine will be trumping the "everybody does it" defense."

Oh, they will do it anyway. I'm sure there will be some Dems on that list, but they aren't typically running around telling everyone they should be as moral as they are.

[MonkeyFunk]

9. It's almost certain

I don't know why people think only republicans have sexual secrets.

[spanone]

11. Let the light shine where it may......

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. Probably. But, divorce lawyers are bi-partisan...and shopping for new Mercedes.

[IChing]

13. Could any of the 150 hires from the Pat Robertson School of Law be on the list?

I have no doubt that some democrats are on it, but I would love to see some of these
Regent University hires on it.

[Fresh_Start]

25. wouldn't it be hysterical if Monica Goodling

is one of the ladies on call?

[IChing]

26. Well, To-buy-ass was a hypocrite and I think that many of the 150 are hypocrites

Monica Goodling a proud client

Fred Garvin: May I come in?

Ms Goodling: What for?

Fred Garvin: Well, ma'am, you see, when an attorney like yourself comes to DC to do business in the Justice Department, it's customary for the company to send a gal up to the room, compliments of Great Lakes Feed & Grain. And, well.. since you're a gal, the company sent me - Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute.

[mdmc]

14. why wouldn't dems be on the list

:shrug:

[myrna minx]

15. There are most certainly Dems on that list.

But the Dems are not screaming at the top of their lungs about how "morally" superior and holier than thou they are.

[onenote]

32. no, but they're not running around saying they support prostitution either

[valerief]

17. I'm sure Disney has removed all the rethug names. Only dems will be left. nt

[BlooInBloo]

19. Who's dumb enough to think that there *wouldn't* be any?

[GumboYaYa]

20. Do you mean "Which Democrats are on the list...."

The Republicans most certainly do not hold the monopoly on sexual transgressions.

[Madspirit]

21. Well

I don't think there is anything evil about being a hooker or about going to a hooker. The problem is, the Republithugs go around preaching "family values". (*snort*..like "hate", "racism", "xenophobia", etc...) so I love it when THEY are caught with their pants down around their ankles. LOVE IT. I just hope there are more Republicans than Democrats on the list.
Lee

[Lone_Star_Dem]

24. You get it

It's about the hypocrisy not the act.

I had a conversation with a neighbor a few weeks ago who said he supported the morality of the Republicans over the Democrats. I told him that to me it appeared the Republicans were better at wrapping morality around them as a protective cloak to hide their immoral acts, but when their actual actions were taken into account they were no more moral and even in many ways more immoral than Democrats as a whole.

The more people are exposed to the hypocrisy of the "moral right" the better.

[melody]

22. Yes, but their social policy usually isn't hypocritical

The people pumping the "dems do it, too" plank sometimes miss that point -- the issue is not sexual behavior (That's no one's
business). The issue is hypocrisy. I don't care if somebody with a rational concept of human behavior is on a call girl's list.
I do care if the list contains some Pat Robertson piglet who tries to preach to the rest of us what to do with our bodies.

[sandnsea]

23. But not the Abstinence Czar

I don't see who could be more embarrassing than that.

[Richard Steele]

28. No doubt.

[Jack Rabbit]

29. I'd be very surprised if there is not a Democrat or two on her list

On the other hand, in the general list of the groups of people which made up the DC Madam the DC Madam's clientele, one has been conspiciously missing at least so far: members of Congress. This is the one group in DC that one would be most likely to find a remotely powerful Democrat over the last several years.

Vice doesn't have an ideology. Bill Clinton had his vices, and so did Warren G. Harding. Tom DeLay is a crook, and so was Dan Rostenkowski.

In the great scheme of things, no one but ranking officials in the Bush regime took the nation to war on facts so systematically fabricated and distorted, not even LBJ with the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Now, there's a scandal.

[onenote]

30. Keep in mind that the list goes back well into the Clinton years

For example, a page from the "madam's" phone bill has been posted -- take a look at the date: August 1996 --

So I'm not sure that COngress is the only potential source of a powerful Democrat appearing on the list.

[Jack Rabbit]

31. Good point.

A power lawyer is just as likely to be a Democrat as a Republican. Until the K Street project kicked in, so was a lobbyist.

One nice thing about the K Street project is that it kept the Democrats out of mischief.