Abramoff didn't work just with Republicans. He oversaw a team of two dozen lobbyists at the law firm Greenberg Traurig that included many Democrats. Moreover, the campaign contributions that Abramoff directed from the tribes went to Democratic as well as Republican legislators.
Among the biggest beneficiaries were Capitol Hill's most powerful Democrats, including Thomas A. Daschle (S.D.) and Harry M. Reid (Nev.), the top two Senate Democrats at the time, Richard A. Gephardt (Mo.), then-leader of the House Democrats
By the end, seven of his lobbyists were Democrats.....But Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.) ran second, with $128,000 in the same period.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/02/AR2005060202158.html
Libby was a scapegoat.
Joe Wilson outed Plame, and she was non-covert anyway.
Walter Reed is symptomatic of the massive bureaucracy, a hallmark of Democratic (and 'moderate' Republican) governments.
I don't know much about Mark Foley. Was he the guy on Kids in the Hall?
Torture-first, define torture. In the same tirade master political commentator Rosie O'Donnell says SKM was held in the 'torture' filled prison since 93, she says he looks great. Second, I don't think the Geneva conventions apply to terrorists, and third, if the 'other side' slices nonmilitary POWs heads off with machetes, the Geneva conventions shouldn't apply to them.
War - regardless how you feel about it, this is a relatively inexpensive war, both in terms of loss of life and monetary costs. No rations of sugar or metals, the women don't have to learn riveting, no gas rations.
The reason I'm ashamed to be voting R is because there are very few true conservatives or 'hardcore' Republicans in any office. About the only conservative things GWB has really done in office has been cutting taxes (which of course is good) and initiating a solid aggressive attack on Al Qaeda and Iraq/Saddam, though I will admit it's started to flounder in the last year or so (of course when the mainstream press has been saying 'Vietnam!' and 'failure!' and "we're losing!" and trying to do their part to hurry that along ever since day one, I'm actuallly pretty surprised it's going as well as it has been.) The times he's offered a hand across the aisle, it's been taken and stomped on, and he needs to quit being mr. nice guy.
What really concerns me is how the ultraliberal moveon.org wing of the democrats is getting so much power and control over the democratic party as a whole. Of course, I guess this ties into what I said above--to ultraleft people like Pelosi and the vocal Hollywood left et al, GWB *is* "far right".
EZB : re: your sig: Amendment. And I wish Feingold had thought about 'liberty' before he usurped the First Amendment by penning that monstrosity of a 'reform' act.