instead of huntin' and fishin'

a whole 'lott'a somethin goin on round here.........round here........somethin' goin' on round here...........
why don't you concentrate on properly armoring the vehicles our service people use in the middle east (if you're not going to bring them home WHERE THEY BELONG)

There's Always a Way
Exemptions From Ethics Rules Allow Lawmakers to Accept Almost Anything

........A lushly produced video on DVD arrived in lobbyists' mailboxes all
over Washington this summer. In it, Sen. Michael D. Crapo narrates what amounts
to a sales pitch for them to pay $2,500 each to party with him later this month
in beautiful Sun Valley, Idaho.
"We shoot all day. We fish all day. We ride
horses all day. And then we finish the day with the best barbecue in the West,"
the Idaho Republican boasts. "Frankly, I think this is the best event in the
country."........

.....In recent months, the patchwork of rules has prompted new ethical
questions. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) has asked the ethics
committee to determine whether he wrongly took trips abroad paid for by
registered lobbyists. And Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.), a senior
member of the House Appropriations Committee, is facing a federal grand jury
probe into his relationship with a defense contractor on whose yacht he lived
rent-free.........

and on and on and on and so it goes........