Breaking News: The Mother of All D.C . Sex Scandals?

ABC has "the list" that includes White House officials

ABC has obtained a list of "thousands of names" of clients of a Washington, D.C. escort service whose owner has been charged by federal prosecutors with running a prostitution operation.

"There are thousands of names, tens of thousands of phone numbers, and there are people there at the Pentagon, lobbyists, others at the White House, prominent lawyers — a long, long list..."
-Brian Ross, ABC News

By refusing to accept the plea bargain offered to her, escort service owner Deborah Jeane Palfrey is going to trial and naming names. She is scheduled to appear Monday in U.S. District Court and will be interviewed by ABC’s 20/20 on May 4. She is the subject of a front-page story in the Sunday Washington Post.

Deputy Secretary of State Randall Tobias, the so-called "AIDS Czar" - the Bush administration official charged with combating worldwide prostitution just resigned because of his fetish for prostitutes. Tobias oversaw a controversial policy advocated by the religious right that required any US-based group receiving anti-AIDS funds to take an anti-prostitution “loyalty oath.”

It will be interesting to see how many more Republicans this scandal takes down - a real great image for the 'party of family values' that went after Bill Clinton, impeaching him for lying about an affair when he had a 68% approval rating, and because of his leadership, America was in much better shape than it is now.

The Republican Culture of Corruption - They're dropping like flies

File this one under "Republican moral values"

Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias resigned Friday, one day after confirming to ABC News that he had been a customer of a Washington, D.C. escort service whose owner has been charged by federal prosecutors with running a prostitution operation. Tobias was a strong proponent of the Bush administration’s abstinence-only policies. Tobias also oversaw a controversial policy advocated by the religious right that required any US-based group receiving anti-AIDS funds to take an anti-prostitution “loyalty oath.” (More on Republican sex crimes).

File this one under "criminals investigating criminals"

Senior Justice Department official Robert E. Coughlin II, deputy chief of staff for the criminal division, which is overseeing the Department’s probe of Abramoff resigned as investigators in Coughlin’s own division ratcheted up their investigation of lobbyist Kevin Ring, Coughlin’s long-time friend and a key associate of Abramoff.

Run down of Republicans convicted or under investigation


This is a short list and does not include lobbyists, congressional aids, CEOs, contractors, war profiteers or many of the others involved in the vast umbrella that has become know as the Republican Culture of Corruption.

(A nice photo of our President with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. President Bush said of Abramoff, "I don't know him").

• Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.)
• Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Fla.)
• Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.)
• Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.)
• Rep. Gary Miller (R-Calif.)
• Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.)
• Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.)
  
• Former Rep. Bob Beauprez (R-Colo.)
• Former Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.)
• Former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-Calif.)
• Former Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas)
• Former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.)
• Former Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-Nev.)
• Former Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.)
• Former Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.)
• Former Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio)
• Former Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.)
• David Safavian -US General Services Administration - convicted criminal
  
• Ernie Fletcher, Governor, KY - Indicted for official misconduct
• Scooter Libby, Chief of staff for VP Cheney - Convicted for perjury
• Bob Taft, Governor of Ohio, Convicted of ethics violation
• Claude Allen, Advisor to the President, convicted of shoplifting
• Mark Dennis Zachares, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
• Karl Rove - Advisor to the President, U.S. Office of Special Counsel investigation
• Richard Cheney - Vice President, Articles of Impeachment presented
• Condoleeza Rice - Secretary of State, subpoenaed by House Oversight Com.
• George Tenet - Ex Chief CIA, asked to testify before House Oversight Com.
• Robert E. Coughlin - Justice Department official, resigned - Abramoff scandal
• Randall L. Tobias - Deputy Secretary of State, resigned - sex scandal
• Alberto Gonzales - Attorney General, investigated by House Oversight Com.

The hypocrisy of James Dobson, Newt Gingrich, and the Religious Right

James Dobson, who is considered the most politically powerful evangelical figure in the country, supports Newt Gingrich for president. Dobson said that Gingrich was the “brightest guy out there” and “the most articulate politician on the scene today.”
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Dobson, who heads "Focus on the Family" states in the very first sentence of the welcome on their website:

"If there's one word that sums up the essence of Focus on the Family, it is commitment."

Let's remember that Gingrich, the man Dobson supports for President, pressed his wife Jackie for a divorce while she was in the hospital for cancer surgery. According to L.H. Carter, his campaign treasurer, Newt said of Jackie: "She's not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer."[7] Newt refused to pay alimony or child support.[8] (More on Newt's exemplary family values here).

That's Dobson's definition of family values and commitment? Newt also admitted cheating on his wife while pursuing Bill Clinton on impeachment charges for a sexual affair.

UPDATE:
Gingrich calls foreign language: "the language of living in the ghetto":

"We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto" - Newt Gingrich

Nearly all foreign college students speak English fluently, along with a few other languages. Hmmm... I guess they must be from the ghetto. Funny how these students from the ghetto are academically out performing American students in fields like medicine, engineering, and computer science.