The National Republican Congressional Committee picked up the $2,500 per plate tab for porn star Mary Cary, to attend Bush’s latest GOP fundraiser last night. Cary, while maintaining a pornographic web site and starring in many porn flicks, states, “I also have a brain and political aspirations.” Carey is also for legalizing gay marriage.

Part of why they earned a free seat was that she donated big to the NRCC. Carl Forti, a spokesman for the NRCC stated, “Their money was donated to the NRCC. The NRCC’s job is to elect Republicans. We’ll take that money and use it to elect more Republicans,” Forti said. I’m sure they donated much more than the $5K needed to feed them both.

“We’re not the freakish demons people make us out to be,” said Kulkis, Carey’s escort. “I’m not a creep with a coke spoon around his neck. I’m a regular guy.” Indeed.

“It would be an honor to meet (President Bush),” Carey said. “I’d like to talk to him about issues like freedom of speech and the crackdown on the adult industry. Maybe he can give me some political pointers.”

There’s only one pointer Bush is interested in giving her. The man choked on a pretzel, I’m sure he has some advice.

How dare Howard Dean point out the fact that the Republican party is a nearly exclusively white and Christian party. Despite the fact the Republicans have spent the last 40 years aligning themselves with fundamentalists, pointing out the obvious shows that Dean is a mean spirited person.

VP Dick Cheney was quoted on Hannity and Colmes wondering if Dean’s mother didn’t love him and that was making him saying these mean things. Is the lack of maternal love the reason Cheney told Patrick Leahy to go fuck himself on the Senate floor? Is the lack of love from Barbara Bush the reason why W has illegally invaded Iraq? Is the lack of maternal love the reason why the prescription drug policy screws over the elderly and benefits big pharma? Is the lack of maternal love the reason why Bush wants to create Social Security private accounts that benefit nobody but investment firms? Hello kettle, black calling.

Dean poses a problem for the Republicans because unlike most Democrats Dean is a fighter and that is just what the party needs. Let the Republicans throw up a smokescreen and try to talk about Dean while the Dems stick to the issues.

Representative John Conyers of Michigan refuses to let the Downing Street Memo be swept under the carpet. He has started a petition to deliver to the President demanding an investigation and explanation of the memo. Go to johnconyers.com and sign the petition and demand accountability from the Bush crime family.

Chairman James Sensenbrenner, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, ended a meeting and walked out during a discussion of the Patriot Act that was not going his way. As reported by the Washington Post on June 10:

“Will the gentleman yield?” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) asked.

“No, I will not yield,” replied Sensenbrenner, 61, the heir to a paper fortune who is known for a brusque insistence on decorum. He completed his reproof of the witnesses and left the Rayburn House Office Building hearing room amid a cacophony of protests from Democrats seeking to be recognized. (End Post report)

C-SPAN2 continued televising the proceedings after Sensenbrenner left the room. Is there no end to the arrogance of these people? As Sensenbrenner left, Nadler continued talking and was applauded after saying that “part of the problem is that we have not had the opportunity to have hearings on all these other administration policies that have led to abuses.”

James J. Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute said, “I think as we are lecturing foreign governments about the conduct of their behavior with regard to opposition, I’m really troubled about what kind of message this is going to teach to other countries in the world about how they ought to conduct an open society that allows for an opposition with rights.”

This is just another example of Republicans trying to stiffle dissent regarding Bush’s twisted and unbalance policies. Their terroristic tactics of control are beginning to become more and more bold. They will probably defund C-SPAN now that they have slashed PBS.

Real shocker, right? The GOP has been caught with their hand in the cookie jar yet again and they are back-pedaling faster than ever. Tom Noe, an Ohio GOP fund-raiser has showered contributions on Republicans in Ohio and beyond, including George Bush and Ohio Gov. Bob Taft. Problem is, Noe was in charge of the $55 million rare coin investment fund set up by the Ohio Workers’ Compensation Bureau. Now it turns out that at least $10 million is missing. Where did it go?…it’s not over there, it’s not under here….

Ohio Republicans are portraying Noe as just one “bad apple.” Democrats say that the scandal is a symptom of GOP corruption and self-dealing and that Noe received the state contract because of his political ties, which include raising more than $100,000 for Bush’s re-election.

Recall this is also the state that suffered Walden O’Dell of Diebold promising Republican victory and State Attorney Kenneth Blackwell disallowing over 300K of last-minuite voter registrations during the last election.

“It’s an example of the arrogance of power that comes with one-party rule,” said Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman, one of two Democrats running in 2006 to succeed Taft, who cannot seek a third term. “It reinforces the need for change in Ohio.”

The FBI is conducting an investigation into whether Noe violated federal campaign financing laws by giving money to people who then turned around and donated it to the Bush reelection campaign, which, by definition, is money laundering. And just why is the state worker’s compensation fund investing in rare coins? A state-backed retirement fund should have more stability than rare coins.

This is just another example of the twisted Republican moral values. If you want to call Noe “just one bad apple”, then what do you call DeLay? Or Blackwell? Or Katherine Harris? How far do you have to look to find one good apple? They should add a commandment, “Thou shalt not get caught”. Somebody call Alabama.