Quick Call The New York Times

Almost immediately after Senator John McCain had the nerve to use his cell phone on a possible campaign item from the Senate cloakroom, the New York Times was all over it. Surely they'll be all over Senator Dick Durbin for what appears to be a far more significant abuse. And there's proof of it at the link.

In his video presentation to the YearlyKos convention in Chicago, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL),the second-ranking Dem leader in the Senate, appears to have violated Senate ethics rules. Dick Durbin either broke Senate ethics rules by improperly using the Senate seal on a campaign video, or he used official resources to produce the video and then his campaign used that video.

From the NY Times piece on McCain:

About 3 p.m. Tuesday, Senator John McCain ducked off the Senate floor, entered the Republican cloakroom and took out his mobile phone. Just hours after accepting the resignation of his two top campaign aides, he was making a conference call to his top fund-raisers to urge them to keep up the fight.

Senate ethics rules expressly forbid lawmakers to engage in campaign activities inside Senate facilities. If Mr. McCain solicited campaign contributions on a call from government property, that would be a violation of federal criminal law as well.

Comments

[old trooper]

Term limits would have both of these clowns out of office decades ago.
Career politicians of either have no ethics.

[old trooper]

*Either Party*

[wardmd]

The problem is NOT the lack of Term Limits legislation - we, the people, already have the ability to kick these clowns out of office every two, four, or six years (depending on the elected office); the problem is that there are FAR TOO MANY PEOPLE who are ALLOWED to vote, who CLEARLY have no intellectual capacity to understand the consequences OF THEIR VOTE.

As to the matter being addressed in this posting, I say these two (and other) clowns be kicked out of office (ESPECIALLY McCain - who has the audacity to lecture US on Campaign Finance Reform, and then go and violate other election rules [laws?]).

[TheSpartan]

So who gets to decide who is smart enough to vote? Should we institute a literacy test? Oh, wait...I think that's been tried already.

[wardmd]

Well - sort of... For ONE thing, since one MUST be (A) a Citizen to VOTE, and (B) to be a Citizen one MUST demonstrate "English proficiency", perhaps publishing the ballots in ENGLISH ONLY might be a good start...

Seriously, though... It is NOT the language that one speaks, but the gullibility of the American Electorate (probably a result of the indoctrination by the liberals in our public school system) which is mostly to blame.

Remember there is something like 10% of the American population which BELIEVES that Elvis is still alive, and that if he is send a letter, he will receive it.

Then, factor in a recent French version of “Who wants to be a millionaire”, where the contestant could not answer “What revolves around the Earth?” He asked the audience for THEIR choice, and 56% selected THE SUN (these bright individuals are part of John Kerry’s “Global Test”?) – I doubt that this “intellect” is limited to the French…

You really want THESE people canceling out YOUR vote? Why?