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Senate Panel Admonishes Torricelli for Accepting Gifts

The Senate Ethics Committee on Tuesday “severely admonished” Democratic Sen. Robert Torricelli of New Jersey for accepting gifts from a campaign contributor and businessman that the lawmaker aided.

So, Robert Toricelli is a lying, cheating, unethical toilet treat- enough so that his fellow sewer trout on the Senate Ethics committee could not gloss it over. That means at least 1% of the Senate is hopelessly corrupt- so if we apply the same reasoning the Democrats and the NY Times used during the recent corporate scandals, we should ba ble to tar and feather the entire Senate. Seems fair, doesn’t it? When less than 1% of the corporate world is exposed as lying scum, we have a national stroke and write new laws to police their behavior. One percent of the Senate is now officially a snake- better call in business leaders from across the country to re-write the Senate ethics rules.

I doubt this will happen.

The willow is too close to the house.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Cancel the cowardly WaPo and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

Let me file that under fuck it.

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

T R E 4 5 O N

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

No one could have predicted…

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

It looks like winning debates is a black job!

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Senate Panel Admonishes Torricelli for