Say It Ain't So??

A Google request via Ace. It looks like the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan's office and he was in the Senate during the time frame. The link is dead so I did a screen cap below. Here is the search page.

David Corn is looking for a number in the DC Madam scandal.

For those looking for a pattern, the first number after the 224 prefix is a 9--just like the first Senate number. This call was made on October 1, 1999 at 4:12 pm

202-224-9557

elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1976; reelected in 1982, 1988, and 1994 and served from January 3, 1977, to January 3, 2001;

Comments

[Scrapiron]

Oooooop's.

[James]

Talk about "defining deviency down".

Coulda been an advisor or anyone in his office, too, though.

[Kevin Sullivan]

I would like to think that Danny Pat was too intelligent to call a hooker directly from his office.

[Bridget]

What was that about a great deliberative body?

But seriously, nobody should be too surprised to hear about bad behavior by senators. Still, the disappointment never ends...

[Bill Adkins]

Dan, you're desperation is showing. It's the hypocrisy, stupid, not that some one paid for a piece of ass - it's the hypocrisy - you know, it's what the Republican Party stands for.

[Pesky]

Here is the archived page via wayback machine

http://web.archive.org/web/20020714020326/http://www.gsenet.org/library/11gsn/1999/gs90228-.htm

and here is the text of the paragraph

Alternatives to dumping are available but have not been addressed in
Long Island Sound. The Ocean Dumping act states that dumping in the
water is the last resort, all other alternatives must be exhausted.
The bad precedent established by the actions of these New England
agencies threatens all national waters. Senator Daniel Patrick
Monyhian has joined the fight. In a scathing letter to Army Corps of
Engineers' Chief of the Regulatory Branch, Joe Seebode, Monyhian
wrote, "I believe that (the Corps) has violated the spirit of the law
by combining the permits. The Senator has also asked for a detailed
explanation from the Corps regarding the criteria used to dump
material at a site not formally designated under the law. To commend
Senator Moynihan call (202)224-9557.

[Ripper]

So I'm sitting here looking at the records. Corn keeps talking about them as if they're the calls she received.

They're not. They're calls she made. On that call, the originating number was 707-648-1500.

Sure, a lot of them might be her calling clients back. But some of them are going to be her ordering pizza, calling about a car for sale, even calling a Senator's office to ask for tickets to tour the White House.

[Mike]

Greetings,

Hypocrisy? I don't think so, if you want to go that route, we can talk about:

Representatives that actually have sex with interns verses those that just think / talk about it.

A President that really obstructed justice and perjured himself

A President that committed sexual harassment in the work place

A President that had sex with 'movie' stars while married

The lists on both sides are long enough for you to dismount your high horse now.

This war is to important. I won't lose it because he couldn't keep someone couldn't keep their zipper up.

Regards,

[tally]

"oh dear, someone in my office did it" - isn't going to work. we shall see which rats can at least take responsibility for their actions.

[tally]

the live one's that is.

[Hugh Beaumont men do]

Well, he could of jerked off in the bathroom. Instead, he did what most
healthy men do......seek female companionship.

When this country grows up in it's sexual attitudes, these stories will not even register a blip on the radar.

[Warren]

I don't have the time to look into this but didn't Chris Matthews work for Moynihan during this period of time?

[John Tabin]

Warren, Matthews worked for Tip O'Neil. It's Tim Russert who worked for Moynihan.

[mikem]

"It's the hypocrisy, stupid"

Oh good. Now we get to hear liberals claim that Moynihan had already outed himself as a dirty old man who loved the young hookers. Anything for the "high ground", eh?

[John]

I expected them to only find and identify republicans because since democrats never profess to be moral they do not have to be held to any standards.

[Donald Zeiter]

Why does everyone only raise the hypocrisy issue with Republicans? Did I miss the plank in the Democrat's platform arguing for elimination of vice laws? Did DPM introduce legislation to change the prostitution laws? It seems to me that Moynihan and Vittert were equally quiet about whether prostitution should be legalized.

[chris]

Wow, you redneck detectives really found something, huh! In the future, you 26%ers might consider going after people who are either a. sitting senators or b. alive. Winning that 'war' in Iraq wouldn't hurt either. Good luck with that!

[Squid]

Twenty-six percenters, eh? That makes us a minority, Chris, and by the rules of your side we are to be protected, nay, elevated.

Perhaps you and your brethren should spend more time trying to understand the root cause of our discontent, and less time picking on us poor minority folk.

[Good Lt]

"In the future, you 26%ers might consider going after people who are either a. sitting senators or b. alive."

This, coming from a 16%er. Go DemCong!

[Bart]

Mike - The question of hypocrisy is important in Clinton's transgressions. What, he's a Democrat, so there's no hypocrisy? Think again.

Democrats spent decades trying (justly) to elevate the crime of sexual harassment in the workplace as a serious afront to women's right not to be viewed as mere objects for the pleasure of male bosses. Clinton ran roughshod over those protections, labeling accusers as "nuts and sluts" and, he did it with the full approval and connivance of the very feminist leaders who had pitched such a fit over the relatively minor, even quaint in retrospect, peccadillos of a minority candidate for the US Supreme court. This was hypocrisy on as grand a scale as has ever been witnessed in the history of the Republic.

[Purple Avenger]

"It's the hypocrisy, stupid, not that some one paid for a piece of ass"

Moynihan was of course a major advocate of hooker patronizing and detractor of traditional values labeling them "outdated". Pretty sure I saw that on a Wiki page somewhere...

[AliG]

Make sure you look at the Wayback Machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/20020714020326/http://www.gsenet.org/library/11gsn/1999/gs90228-.htm

[IslamoLlama]

"For those looking for a pattern, the first number after the 224 prefix is a 9--just like the first Senate number."

Wow. With staunch evidence like that, you're a scant three digits away from nailing him. I mean, its either Moynihan or 999 other people. And, seriously, what are the odds? I also appreciate how you keep on trying to bust balls on dead guys. I can't wait till some wingnut starts insisting that Lady Bird Johnson's number is on the list too, because if you flip the 6 over to a 9... omg!

[Assistant Village Idiot]

People keep hitting the "Republican hypocrisy" button because it feels good. Moral judgements are easy and pleasant to make when you only look at one side.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

This, coming from a 16%er. Go DemCong!

Posted by: Good Lt | Thursday, July 12, 2007 at 10:09 AM

Brilliant! There are nearly as many republics in congress as democrats...most people support their own congressional representatives.

on topic: the republic party touts itself as the "family values party" hence the hypocrisy comments.

democrats or no prize either, imo.

[IslamoLlama]

"The phone number for GOP political operative/conservative pundit, John (Jack) M. Burkman Jr. - Principal J.M. Burkman & Associates, Arlington, VA - appears in the database of phone records of the ‘DC Madam.’ From the phone logs: 2006-01-15 18:44 1.00"

Ouch. There goes another scalp.

Who is John (Jack) Burkman Jr? Why, only one of Ann Coulter's numerous pimps, of course.

"On MSNBC’s Scarborough Country, Republican strategist Jack Burkman, echoing right-wing pundit Ann Coulter, whom he was defending, declared that “within hours of those [World Trade Center] towers going down,” the wives of victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks “were ready to make money and exploit this tragedy!”"

Ouch. I guess after giving all that head to America's favorite Cruella DeVille look-alike, he wanted to get some back.

[Mike]

Greetings,

Bart, I agree with you. I was attempting to respond to Bill Adkins. I will try to be clearer. When I see Democratic officials departing the scene for adultry, cronyism, theft, bribery, misc sexual acts and graft, then and only then will I listen to charges of hypocrisy from the left.

Regards,

[Richard]

Dan, you're desperation is showing. It's the hypocrisy, stupid, not that some one paid for a piece of ass - it's the hypocrisy - you know, it's what the Republican Party stands for.

Bill, I guess being a Democrat means never having to say you are sorry!

[Heather]

"When I see Democratic officials departing the scene for adultry, cronyism, theft, bribery, misc sexual acts and graft"

I think you mean "departing the scene because of...." the adultery, cronyism, etc. is why they're there in the first place! :)