Cenk is physically my ideal type of guy. I wanna bang the shit outta him. I love his personality & brains too. (His politics on the other hand....)

BTW most of the guys I have dated have been physically fit and tall. My last one looked like Lenny Kravitz.

But i wanna get the fat hairy guy. I'd be fucking the shit outta Cenk.

What up brunette fatties how come you don't ask me out?

DC is not a state.

She's a NON-VOTING delegate to the house, and not in fact a member of congress at all, despite the Democrats' desire to pretend otherwise.

Anyone bribing her is wasting their money. Evidently, whoever she was calling to try to shake down in this recording knows what she is.

-jcr

"Anyone bribing her is wasting their money. "

Not necessarily. As I understand it, Congress generally defers to the D.C. delegate on matters of District adminstration. There are probably a lot of city contracts that turn on her word.

I've heard this before. When was this phone call made?

Found it: 2010.

A favorite point of El Rushbo:

It's not the illegal activity in the government that is so disheartening, it is the legal, matter-of-course activity that disgusts people.

She has no floor vote. I believe she does have floor privileges and can serve on committees. The last is worth more than a floor vote.

@John C Randolph: "She's a NON-VOTING delegate ..."

true as it goes for the full House floor votes, but she is allowed to sit (and vote) in the committees with full weight of her senority i.e. actual chairmanship or ranking member of a committee, and thus can control or influence the legislation that comes out of committee; therefore, bribing her er.... 'legalized bribing' her... can be rather lucrative for rent-seekers and other cronyisms.
You should really educate yourself John on just how your government works.

From now on, whenever I hear the word 'contribution,' I will think 'bribe.' Thanks, Eleanor, for clarifying this.

What gets you is as follows:

1. What does she need with campaign contributions?

a. General election contests in the District are pro-forma unless a grandee runs as an independent. None of her last seven opponents got more than 9% of the vote

b. She has only had three primary contests in 23 years in office. Only the very first was at all competitive. The others got less than 11% of the vote.

2. William Proxmire was famous for spending three-figure sums on his re-election campaigns. He said most members of Congress could do this, but they prefer not to.

3. At one time, a member of Congress could abscond with unused campaign contributions as a retirement purse. Is this still the case, and if not, was she grandfathered?

4. The broad is 76 years old. She has had 27 years on the federal payroll. She should have rights to an agreeable pension by now. (She was on the staff of the ACLU at one point and had patronage at two different law schools. She has actually never worked in private practice nor had any professional engagement with aught but 'civil rights law')

I find her pitch utterly convincing. I'm sending her 25 cents (that's right: two bits) and ask how much influence that buys.

The tape is at least three years old. She said she was chariwoman, not ranking member of the sub-committee. The Democrats have been out since Nov 2010.

This is so ingrained at all levels of government employees. I work part time at an office supply store. Teachers get preferential treatment when it comes to loyalty rewards and quantity limits on deep discounted sale items.

While I happened to be ringing up a teacher’s purchase, I routinely asked her if she needed any paper conveniently on sale and located at the checkout counter. Her reply (which I hear quite often): “No thanks, I steel it from work.”

Here I am working two jobs to help put my kids through school and she flat out tells me to my face that she is stealing from me – Not a clue how immoral that is.

I can't stand the Young Turks. That male newscaster, whoever he is, is the world's biggest pompous douchebag.

You want to know a tell-tale sign of a pompous douchebag? When he tries to smile and it looks more like a sneer.

It's prpbab;y a coincident but E H Norton appeared in s long 'softball' interview on national public TV's evening news just tonight (21 August '13}, with the lead chubby black gal who fronts it. Most of it was about now very old civil rights victories. She complained about home rule for D.C. and no representation (like a state). The thought flashed through my mind that President Hussain might say, "I could have had a mother just like her." Heh.