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aggiesal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 05:51 PM
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Bush White House Broke Elections Law, Report Says
Edited on Tue Jan-25-11 05:55 PM by aggiesal
Monday 24 January 2011

by: Eric Lipton | The New York Times News Service

Washington - The Bush White House, particularly before the 2006 midterm elections, routinely violated a federal law that prohibits use of federal tax dollars to pay for political activities by creating a “political boiler room” that coordinated Republican campaign activities nationwide, a report issued Monday by an independent federal agency concludes.

Read more at:
http://www.truth-out.org/bush-white-house-broke-elections-law-report-says67148

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What did you expect from a pig, but a grunt.

Does this surprise anyone?
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cutlassmama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 05:53 PM
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1. Nope. Just surprised it took this long to come out.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 05:58 PM
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2. Surprised they're even bothering.
Since no one is going to do a fucking thing about it.
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 06:00 PM
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3. Karl Rove ran the RNC out of the West Wing of the White House
All this official stuff conveniently comes out just as the federal statute of limitations is coming up.
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 06:58 PM
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4. And here's a pic of him in the WH on election night '04
Manning the phone banks

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RufusTFirefly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 07:09 PM
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5. What's the big deal? After all, it's only the law!!
Time to move on.

:sarcasm:
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 07:18 PM
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6. Well, it's time to look forward now, not backward you know.
:silly:
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Fly by night Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-11 07:03 AM
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7. If Bush, his brain and his SC(R)OTUS flying monkeys hadn't broken election laws, ...
... our country would have been cursed with only one Bush in the White House (Poppy).
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-11 07:17 AM
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8. Shit! They did that in 2000 and everyone knows it
Then the Supremes selected Bush and here we are, broken.
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