Robert Paehlke @ 244

That is truly astonishing…the particular biker gangs now working with his party’s leadership…[could be]drug dealers or wanted criminals. What do the police think of this blessing given to biker gangs by the nation’s leaders and the still-governing party?

I know in FL, where I live, relations between the biker gangs and Republican politicians are quite cozy and have been for a long time, as R politicians generally are strong gun-rights and anti-tax supporters.
Not painting with a broad brush. Just the way it is.

Republicans were the ones pushing deregulation of the “Nutritional Supplements” industry…stripping the FDA from regulating things like ephedrine and pseudephedrine…the precursors to CRYSTAL METH.

That, of course, opened the door to every biker gang in the country making a fortune by running the home-labs making Meth. So of course they are gonna funnel that money back to the “ANTI-REGULATION” Republicans.

Check out the sordid tale of Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-CA) and his main campaign contributor back in the late 1990’s…a convicted meth dealer who started selling pseudephedrine over the counter as a “weight-loss” dietary supplement called “Metabolife”. Remember those “Burn That Fat Off” Ads?

Lot’s of people thought that Metabolife’s main clients were simply reprocessing the ephedrine for making methamphetamine…which was precisely what the owner of Metabolife did before he became a “wholesaler”. But 155 people are believed to have died from using the drug “legitimately”.

Bilbray received over a hundred thousand doallars in illegal campaign contributions from employees of Metabolife, and after his election he pushed legislation to handcuff the FDA enforcement. But after redistricting Bilbray lost his seat…and became a lobbyist for…Metabolife!

Then last year he ran for, and won, “Duke” Cunninghams seat…after the latter resigned in the Mitchell Wade/Wilkes bribery scandal

http://www.quackwatch.org/14Legal/blevins.html http://archive.salon.com/healt…..print.html

Ron D, that was the last year I was aware of that the republicans were not in control of any branch of government and surreptitiously injecting their agenda into the public domain.

I think you are correct, and would support your proposal.

Once again proving facts have a liberal bias I guess.

Mornin’ Joe showing papers front pages now:

Bush wants $50 billion more for Iraq.

NYT: Republicans, what’s next?

And the picture: A soldier holding his weapon over his head as he moves through the brown river water. Kinda says it all:

…and we’re chin deep in the big muddy, and the big fool says to push on….

Why won’t the press ask just how Bush is going to pay for this.
Why won’t the press point out that even Milton Friedman the “cough” great conservative economist calls Debt a tax that has to be paid in the future.
Why won’t the Democrats threaten to tax trust funds like the Bush family trust fund to pay for the war?
You have to hit Bush personally in order to show you mean business, consequneces that affect him personaly are the only reality he will respond to.
Empathy with others is not something he understands manipulating trusting people is his only skill he does not have the emotional inteligence Karen Hughes claims he has.
Sociopaths undersand how to manipulate others emotions but that does not mean he has any devloped emotions or real understanding of them.
He can push peoples buttons the same way a little kid flicks on a switch to turn on a light, the kid does not have to understand electricity to do this.

karen allen @ 85

In OH-02, Mean Jean Schmidt…called in her biker goons to scare and threaten the peaceful anti-war protesters.

That is truly astonishing…the particular biker gangs now working with his party’s leadership…[could be]drug dealers or wanted criminals. What do the police think of this blessing given to biker gangs by the nation’s leaders and the still-governing party?

I know in FL, where I live, relations between the biker gangs and Republican politicians are quite cozy and have been for a long time, as R politicians generally are strong gun-rights and anti-tax supporters.
Not painting with a broad brush. Just the way it is.

karen allen @ 85

In OH-02, Mean Jean Schmidt’s district, there was also a protest outside of her local office on Monday and Tuesday. She, too, called in her biker goons to scare and threaten the peaceful anti-war protesters. Is this a Reich-wing trend? Break the bones of your constituents with biker chains?

That is truly astonishing and a great deal should be made of this. Bush should be asked if he approves of the use of bikers by Republican Representatives and Senators and whether the particular biker gangs now working with his party’s leadership are also drug dealers or wanted criminals. What do the police think of this blessing given to biker gangs by the nation’s leaders and the still-governing party?

See my comment @ 202 above, this informatiion is new

Are they just trying out their newly privatized law enforcement folks to see how effective they are? If the military can be privatized, why not the police as well? Welcome to paranoia times under a full moon.

Why aren’t these tough bikers enlisting?

I wouldn’t be surprised to find out the Army’s been actively recruiting them