Republican call: 'Class' and 'socialism'

Yo, Mark, why nothing on convicted Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu? We had multiple items on Jack Abramoff, but nothing on Hsu.
Well, here is the news that Tribune is too afraid, incapable and corrupt to cover:

NEW YORK (AP) - Longtime fundraiser Norman Hsu was convicted Tuesday of violating campaign finance laws in a case that became an embarrassment to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other prominent Democrats he courted.
A jury in federal court in Manhattan deliberated less than three hours over two days before returning the guilty verdict. Hsu, already jailed following an earlier guilty plea, showed no reaction as he was led out of court.

"I think he expected it because it was quick," said his attorney, Alan Seidler. The lawyer said there would be an appeal.

Hsu, 58, had been accused of using clients of his fraudulent investment business, including actors and other political novices, as straw donors to make thousands of dollars in campaign donations. The scheme was designed to bypass rules limiting the amount any single individual or group can donate.

During the trial that began May 12, television actress Susan Chilman testified that she given nearly $42,000 to Clinton and other Democratic candidates. Once she took out her checkbook, Hsu would simply give her a name and an amount, then later reimburse her, said Chilman, who's had roles in "Brothers & Sisters," "CSI Miami" and "ER" under the stage name Susan Pari.

Jurors also heard testimony from several other investors who recounted how Hsu showed off his political connections by decorating his home with photos of himself with marquee Democrats. One witness testified she met President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Clinton, President Bill Clinton, Sen. John Kerry, Sen. Ted Kennedy and Rep. Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island at fundraisers she attended with him.

Prosecutors played a voicemail recording of Clinton, then a senator, effusively praising Hsu for his loyal support.

"I've never seen anybody who has been more loyal and more effective and really just having greater success supporting someone than you," she told him. "Everywhere I go, you're there. If you're not, you're sending people to be part of my events. You know, we're going to win this campaign, Norman, because you single-handedly are going to make that happen."

After Hsu's 2007 arrest, the senator returned more than $800,000 to donors whose contributions were linked to him.

The defense suggested Hsu was framed by "greedy" investors who cut non-prosecution deals with the government. His attorney argued his client's decision to plead guilty to separate securities fraud charges before the trial gave him credibility.

Hsu's trial came just days after he pleaded guilty to 10 counts of wire and mail fraud, admitting that he cheated investors of at least $20 million in a Ponzi scheme.

Sentencing was set for Aug. 19.

Hmmm, Hsu, Clinton, Obama, Reid, Dudd, Gore, Murtha, Pelooni, Feinstein, Jefferson, Spitzer, Schumer, Kennedy, Blago, Urkel, et al: The true party of corruption.

So this is what the average Republican is spending his/her money on when they donate to the RNC? A resolution to re-name the Democratic party?!?!

Ha Ha Ha!

No matter how hard they tried, even Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert couldn't come up with better comedy than the Republican party is providing us with lately.

Repuglicans are completely clueless, and insulated. Not only do they not know anything, they don't WANT to know, Anything.

Besides that - what good scriptwriter would want to work for the Repugs? Their "leadership" is not going to approve anything that's remotely moderate, or intelligent sounding, or that doesn't have at least 100 cliches and inappropriate remarks.

That only leaves the really bad hacks to write the Repugs scripts. And their message becomes exactly what they want it to sound like: clueless morons.
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"We are going to take this president on with class. We are going to take this president on with dignity. This will be a very sharp and marked contrast to the shabby and classless way that the Democrats and the far left spoke of President Bush.''

Granny is a servin' Possum vittles on the fancy eatin' table. Ya'll form a line.

There's no doubt now that Druggy Limbaugh is the official head of the Republican party. Stunts like this are laughable.

Every time I think the GOP has officially jumped the shark and can go no lower than they are now, they prove me wrong and jump another shark.

When are these " Republicans " going to get serious ? Put away the comedy and discuss the issues, that matter to Main Street and stop the lying, distorting and character assassinating !! You will not gain supporters, going about it, the way have been going, for the last 8 years !! First and foremost, stop the lying, stop the distortions, against President Obama !! He never tried to deceive you, about WMD. He never sent your children off to a stupid and bogus war, then left them there, in Iraq, ill-equipped and exhausted, with tour after tour !! He never looked the other way, when it came to the Department of Veteran Affairs, which was in shambles, until the media got the story out !! In other words, he isn't a President Bush, or a Vice-President Cheney. So, there is no need to try to distort President Obama's record, and try to revise, the Dynamic Duo's record, 8 years of dismal failure !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

It is a pointless exercise to label Democrats “Socialist Democrats” unless someone is willing to explain: (1) what makes Democrats socialists, and, more importantly, (2) why socialism is bad. Until that happens, and someone believes them, the RNC’s effort will appear to be a silly resolution of a party in full retreat. The Republican Party has rarely had people with enough élan to deliver a credible, common-sense explanation of the subject, and they don’t appear to have changed their tactics. They merely assume that people ought to be repulsed, and therefore will be repulsed, by the “socialist” label; much the way they were by the “L” word in the ‘80s. They forget how short people’s memories really are.
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Actually, if the habitants of the Swamp are any reflection of the nation’s majority, I would venture to guess that most people today would welcome socialism as a perfectly acceptable approach to government and, as a consequence, to society. Every time I’ve explained socialism here, it has gotten more defenders than detractors. (Then again, a lot of people here don’t know why we have separate federal and state governments.) I could count on one hand those in the Swamp who would take issue with anything Hillary Clinton said in her speech regarding “shared responsibility for shared prosperity” that she delivered on May 29, 2007, in New Hampshire. The whole truth be told, there has been a revolutionary reorientation in social and political views over the last 30 years. It is partially the result of a horrible education system, the resulting brain drain; and partially the product of a corrupt political system that operates on plunder politics, assisted by its complicit media. Collectivism and wealth redistribution have become the new ambient vibe for our post-modern society. This is true, unfortunately, because people have neither the inclination nor intellect to challenge its basic premises. It’s like Thomas Jefferson said: “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” The problem we have now, however, is that this populist vibe is driving us toward a repetition of all the historical mistakes others have already made, and those which some common sense might help to avoid. This is why we will leave a legacy of national decline in self-imposed slavery.

The obsolete Republican party hasn't had a 'new idea' since 1861.

If the Republicans keep up this stupidity, there will be even fewer of them left in Washington after '10. That's good 'cause they don't believe in BIG government.

Replicans have engaged in class warfare since, at least, 1946.

They'll always say, when someone brings up huge tax cuts for the millionaires or the declining standard of living for most American, somethng like:

"There you go again. Engaging in class warfare."

A little snicker. They love to project.

They INVENTED class warfare.

They can dish it out, but they can't take it.

"Don't raise my taxes. I'll have to cancel that order for a yacht. Think of all the jobs that will be destroyed!?

The people that said a vote for Dems was a vote for bin Laden are talking about classless? Ha, ha, ha.

"The honeymoon is over"? What honeymoon? Pugs were wishing that Obama fail right out of the gate.

Replicans have engaged in class warfare since, at least, 1946.

They'll always say, when someone brings up huge tax cuts for the millionaires or the declining standard of living for most American, somethng like:

"There you go again. Engaging in class warfare."

A little snicker. They love to project.

They INVENTED class warfare.

They can dish it out, but they can't take it.

"Don't raise my taxes. I'll have to cancel that order for a yacht. Think of all the jobs that will be destroyed!?

If this goofy buffoon, Steele, wants to talk about honeymoons, what about George Bush's 495 honeymoon at his daddy's ranch in Crawford, TX. After the 9/11 attacks Bush took a vacation there and chickenhawk Cheney ran away to a secret undisclosed locaton, where he remained in hiding for months. We all know CIA memo's as well as classified intelligence from Israel and England regarding the impending attacks were ignored by Bush, Cheney, Rice, and many others. That's Republican style leadership.
Socialism is the new Republican buzzword. They are scared to death of it. And Mr. Steele cannot even define it.

Was this approved by Rush?

John D,

Hsu Conviction Story ran in the Trib on-line yesterday. It posted at 2:14pm. Surely you don't get your news exclusively from the Swamp do you?

Name calling in the post, however, does kind of relate to the subject of the post. Name calling is pretty classless. Point proved. Good going!

Mark, when are you going to realize that no matter how much you parrot the Democratic Party/White House line, neither they nor the New York Times will hire you?

Such self-realization would be a "rare flash of insight", to quote a Swamp columnist.

Posted by: John W. | May 19, 2009 9:37 PM

Well said- I would add that it is equally pointless to label Republicans "Conservative Republicans” given the recent history and (lack of) leadership in the party, and its lack of any consistent -coherent conservative messaging or activity. The conservative brand is being watered, (or dumbed), down by Republicans elected in hopes that they will act and vote conservatively and then develop situational amnesia when in office. Palin’s popular support was to me an excellent example of a how well a campaign based on basic conservative principles would/could do- this was validate by the level of energy spent by the left in attacking her personally .
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The current debate over which economic path this country should take is now- unfortunately- being conducted (and won) like a large marketing campaign. Words, posturing, and activity are replacing leadership and accountability for results. There are no tenets, or principles being communicated or stood for, that could pin you down later. If you can sell an idea on some squishy intended result, wrap it up in a package of feel good “I am doing this for you” rhetoric – you will get short term support-given our -rapidly shortened attention spans- and more importantly the vote.
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Denying the capitalistic economic juggernaut this country has been in the last 100 years -compared to socialistic Europe’s decline in the same time frame- is the ultimate smoke and mirror move of the left. This most recent economic downturn is not the worst one we have been in- and it certainly won’t be the last. You wouldn’t know this if you would listen to the current progressives.
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It boils down to this and relates to your point of the populist vibe- more and more people look to government as the solver of their problems and the provider of wealth and happiness...especially the younger demographic. This absolutely speaks to education-

Party Gal Bruce,

If you keep up your "self-realization" in your mom's basement, you're going to need thicker glasses.

Bruce: You have used 44 words, three commas, one period and one question mark in the comment above. What have you got against colons and semi-colons?