Mark Sanford Tries to Block Release of Ethics Report

Par for the course, huh!

In Texas, Gov. Perry didn't want anyone to find out Texas had executed an innocent man... so he fired the chairman and two members of the state's Forensic Science Commission, two days before the commission was to hear evidence that Texas executed an innocent man!!

And what did the person Perry selected to replace the Chairman do... you guessed it.. THe canceled the hearing, at which an arson expert was to present a report critical of the arson analysis that led to the conviction of the man, Cameron T. Willingham, who was executed in 2004 after being convicted of setting a 1991 fire in which his three children died.

Governor Perry, who was in office at the time of the execution, has expressed confidence in Mr. Willingham's guilt.

Turns out the Texan "arson expert" wasn't an expert!!

Maybe the 'expert' can be tried for manslaughter??

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/us/01brfs-GOVERNORFIRE_BRF.html?_r=1

What do you mean "We can no longer blame Bush"?

Nothing other than an apology from him and jail time for Cheney will wash away their serial lies and crimes.
Polanski should be punished, no question, but Bush/Cheny's crimes are worse, and they should be punished more severely

Bush and Cheney really did nothing wrong.If you have any knowledge of war and how things work with it and the intel world you would know that nothing was done wrong.I'v been on both sides ex special forces in nam and NSA.How in the hell do you think their going to get the enemy to talk?by giving them milk and cookies?Sorry but the game just doesnt work that way.If they were to punish them they would have to go back deacdes and punish every other president both demo and reopub for doing the same things.This go's on even in peace time when we capture enemy agents terrorists etc.They force them to talk thats how it works.At least what we do is not life threatening.You cannot say the same about those that capture our people.Now what they do really is torture.The vast majority of MIA'S found in IRAQ were dead and their deaths were from torture and them not talking.Obviously you have never been involved in a war or experienced first hand what really go's on during one.Nothing about it is nice and it's not suppose to be.Nothing will change as far as this go's no mtter how much people complain so get use to it and quit crying about it.You proboly have never been involved in this type of thing,if you had you just might see things much diferently than you do now.99 percent of the ones that cry about waterboarding etc being so bad havn;t the slightest idea as to what their even talking about because they have never been in a war or have never been taken prisoner or have freinds that have been nor do you and the other seem to realize what the enemy does to our people when they are captured.it is not a pretty picture needless to say and a far cry from what we do to those we capture

This is no great surprise. Mark Sanford has been walking both sides of the line for a long time now it seems. He was the most outspoken critic of anyone (except himself, of course) who even LOOKED like they were crossing the ethics line. He was almost abusive with his staff over anything he didn't approve of or see a need for. Every person on his staff was forced to tow the ethics line (as they should) by him (while he was apparently ignoring every ethics line he encountered) and now he wants the details of his ethics violations to be kept secret. But turn around is fair play. Even if they don't officially release the report, someone will leak the details of it...just watch. He stabbed too many people in the back and treated too many people like sub-human to have any real political friends in SC at this point. He's created this mess, so it's very hard to feel sorry for the man. And this latest stance of his, wanting to hide his violations from the public, is just the icing on the cake. He's a complete and total hypocrite and finally, he is fully exposed as such. So report or no report, he is still fully exposed for what he's done.

I BELIEVE THE DEMOCRATS MUST DO A BETTER JOB OF EXPLAINING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, JUST WHAT THEY MEAN BY A PUBLIC OPTION.

PERHAPS THEY COULD PUT CNN AND MSNBC, AMD OTHER INTERESTED MEDIA OUTLETS, ON THE JOB OF EDUCATING A DISINTERESTED PUBLIC, OF THE GOOD THAT MIGHT BE ACCOMPLISHED WITH A PUBLIC OPTION.