Tag Archives: Gov. Mark Sanford

Jun 25 2009

UPDATED: South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admits affair! Top 10 Democrat Sex Scandals

“I’ve been unfaithful to my wife,” Sanford said at a state capitol news conference hours after he returned to the country from a visit to his mistress in Argentina.

It began very innocently,” he explained, saying he had known the woman for eight years.

But the relationship with somebody he only called a “dear, dear friend” developed into an adulterous relationship in the past year.

“I’ve let down a lot of people — that’s the bottom line,” Sanford said. Read More

Top 10 Democrat Sex Scandals in Congress

Information compiled from the Washington Post, “Congressional Sex Scandals in History,” and other sources.

1. Sen. Teddy Kennedy

2. Former Rep. Mel Reynolds

3. Former Rep. Gerry Studds

4. Former Rep. Wayne Hays

5. Former Rep. John Young

6. Former Rep. Fred Richmond
7. Former Sen. Brock Adams

8. Rep. Barney Frank

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.)
In response to a story in the Aug. 25, 1989, Washington Times, Frank confirmed that he hired Steve Gobie, a male prostitute, in 1985 to live with and work for him in his D.C. apartment. But Frank, who is gay, said he fired Gobie in 1987 when he learned he was using the apartment to run a prostitution service. The Boston Globe, among others, called on Frank to resign, but he refused. On July 19, 1990, the ethics committee recommended Frank be reprimanded because he “reflected discredit upon the House” by using his congressional office to fix 33 of Gobie’s parking tickets. Attempts to expel or censure Frank failed; instead the House voted 408-18 to reprimand him. The fury in Washington was not shared in Frank’s district, where he won reelection in 1990 with 66 percent of the vote, and has won by larger margins ever since.

9. Former Rep. Gus Savage

10. Sen. Daniel Inouye

Bill Clinton and John Edwards is two more!

Gov. Sanford at least is a better man than Bill Clinton and John Edwards who lied about their affairs! Gov. Sanford answer all the questions that the media asked him about the affair! And he apologized asap to the people were as Bill Clinton deny his affair and I don’t remember him apologizing to the people for dirtying up the Oval Office! The liberals will have a hay day with this story, but I tell you they have no room to talk…just ask John Edwards!

LINKS:

(1) Bastard By Michelle Malkin

(2) Bad taste award By Michelle Malkin

(3) Hypocrisy by conservative09

Jun 5 2009

Palin: Obama Trying to ‘Control the People’

In a speech in Anchorage this week, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin charged that the government is planning to “bail out debt ridden states” so it can “get in there and control the people.”

Palin said that the programs the administration had unleashed “fly in the face of principles” and “defy Economics 101,” according to a report by CNN.

“Since when can you get out of huge national debt by creating trillions of dollars of new debt?” Palin charged. “It all really is so backwards and skewed as to sound like absolute nonsense when some of this economic policy is explained.”

“We need to be aware of the creation of a fearful population, and fearful lawmakers, being led to believe that big government is the answer, to bail out the private sector, because then government gets to get in there and control it,” she said. “And mark my words, this is going to be next, I fear, bail out next debt-ridden states. Then government gets to get in there and control the people.” Read More

More force to control!

Supreme Court ordered Gov. Mark Sanford to Request Stimulus
South Carolina’s Supreme Court ordered Gov. Mark Sanford on Thursday to request $700 million in federal stimulus money aimed primarily at struggling schools, ending months of wrangling with legislators who accused him of playing politics with people’s lives.

The nation’s most vocal anti-bailout governor had refused to take the money designated for the state over the next two years, facing down protesters and legislators who passed a budget requiring him to. While other Republican governors had taken issue with requesting money from the $787 billion federal stimulus package, Sanford was the first to defend in court his desire to reject the money.

But he said Thursday he will not appeal the Supreme Court ruling and plans to sign paperwork to request the money Monday. Read More

And now Obama control at work!

Stimulus Aid Favors Welfare, Not Work, Programs

Remember the “shovel-ready” projects lined up for all that stimulus money? It turns out social spending, more than construction, is hitting pay dirt in the huge federal effort to turn the economy around.

Most of the roughly $300 billion coming directly to the states is being funneled through existing government programs for health care, education, unemployment benefits, food stamps and other social services. Read More

American people are coming under control of government fast!

Benefit spending soars to new high

Benefits, such as Social Security, food stamps, unemployment insurance and health care, accounted for 16.2% of personal income in the first quarter of 2009, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reports. That’s the highest percentage since the government began compiling records in 1929.

In all, government spending on benefits will top $2 trillion in 2009 — an average of $17,000 provided to each U.S. household, federal data show. Benefits rose at a 19% annual rate in the first quarter compared to the last three months of 2008. Read More

Is this what you voted for? If so I think you could have done better!

Jan 23 2009

Political Interference Seen in Bank Bailout Decisions –

In December OneUnited got a $12 million injection from the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. One apparent factor: the intercession of Rep. Barney Frank, the powerful head of the House Financial Services Committee.

Mr. Frank, by his own account, wrote into the TARP bill a provision specifically aimed at helping this particular home-state bank. And later, he acknowledges, he spoke to regulators urging that OneUnited be considered for a cash injection.

Bankers, regulators and politicians complain of a secretive and opaque process for deciding which banks get cash and which don’t. The goal of aiding only banks healthy enough to lend — laid out by the Treasury when the program began — clearly seems to have shifted, but in a way that’s hard to pin down and that the Treasury has declined to explain. Part of the problem is that some powerful politicians have used their leverage to try to direct federal millions toward banks in their home states. ”It’s totally arbitrary,” says South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford. “If you’ve got the right lobbyist and the right representative connected to Washington or the right ties to Washington, you get the golden tap on the shoulder,” says Gov. Sanford, a Republican.

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Already some dirty politics getting into your tax money! Obama isn’t protecting our money to good now is he, when he allows the politicians to give it out to their favorite banks and who know who else!