[Grovenet] Damn those hemroids!!!

Wed Oct 11 20:46:18 PDT 2006

The difference is that the Republicans have a President in office who can do
the explaining from a national pulpit. 

President Bush reminds me of a story I heard years ago about an ambitious
up-and-coming young executive who wanted his boss' job, so he launched an
under-the-table campaign to replace him. 

On the day his boss was finally fired, the boss grabbed the youngster and
led him aside. "Look," he said. "No hard feelings. In fact, I've left some
important advice for you in my desk. Just dig it out when you feel you need
it!"

"Yeah, right..." the young exec thought, and stalked off. 

Some months later the young exec found himself in deep trouble as all his
fancy plans were failing to produce results. He was facing a meeting with
the board of directors and dreading it, wondering what to say, when he
remembered what his old boss had told him. He dug out two envelopes his boss
had left behind in his desk, marked "open this first" and "open this next". 

In the first envelope was small slip of paper that said, "Blame everything
on me". 

"Whoopee!" the young exec thought, and happily went into the meeting where
the strategy worked perfectly. He was excused of all blame for the
department's failing results. 

Many months later the young exec found himself in the same predicament as
his lack of true skills had again brought is abysmal results to the
attention of the board. But this time he didn't skip a beat. There was still
another envelope in this desk. 

Shortly before the meeting he opened up the envelope. Inside was another
small slip of paper that said, simply, "Prepare two envelopes."

President Bush is trying Envelope One about 7 years too late, saying his
real troubles are the result of President Clinton's various policies.

Soon he'll have to start work on Envelope Two. 

Ron D'Eau Claire 

-----Original Message-----
From: grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com [mailto:grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com] On
Behalf Of Steven
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 8:10 PM
To: Forest Grove local interests list
Subject: Re: [Grovenet] Damn those hemroids!!!

Yes, I was pointing out how irate some folks get when THEIR party gets
slammed.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com [mailto:grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com]On
> Behalf Of allnutt
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 4:08 PM
> To: Forest Grove local interests list
> Subject: Re: [Grovenet] Damn those hemroids!!!
>
>
> Is there a point to this?
>
> Are you trying to point out the similarity to the Oregon legislature 
> hawaii trips?
> (The deal was likely legal but it wasn't properly reported?)
>
> Are you trying to point out similarities to the Abramoff bribe 
> scandals that ousted Cunningham, Ney, and by extension Delay and a few 
> others?
>
> Are you trying to  point out excessive deals that congress people get 
> and all they do is report stuff once they are caught? (We could fill 
> the ether with those kinds of stories.)
>
> Are you trying to say there was a brothel on the land with pages and 
> perverts so this should be a sex scandal so it can capture the 
> attention of the sex obsessed masses?
>
> Do you know of grovenet lurkers who live in Reid's state and are you 
> trying to convince them to throw the bum out?
>
> Are you trying to point out that Reid hangs up the phone during 
> interviews the way Cheney hangs up the phone during interviews with 
> writers?  (Though this doesn't say that Reid started using expletives 
> first the way Cheney did a couple of weeks ago.)
>
> Are you trying to point out that Reid goes for the ones of millions as 
> opposed to crooked contractors who go for tens of billions and 
> deriding democrats for being small bit players in the big league graft 
> games?
>
> There's lots of criticism here for Reid, I just don't get which one 
> you're aiming for.
>
> Katie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven" <NoSpam03 at comcast.net>
> To: "Forest Grove local interests list" <grovenet at rdrop.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 1:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [Grovenet] Damn those hemroids!!!
>
>
> > Here's another one. I've removed the first two paragraphs just to be 
> > consistent. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/11/D8KMJ8I00.html
> > The Nevada Democrat's deal was engineered by Jay Brown, a longtime
> friend
> > and former casino lawyer whose name surfaced in a major political
> bribery
> > trial this summer and in other prior organized crime investigations.
> He's
> > never been charged with wrongdoing _ except for a 1981 federal
> securities
> > complaint that was settled out of court.
> >
> > Land deeds obtained by The Associated Press during a review of 
> > Reid's business dealings show:
> >
> > _The deal began in 1998 when Reid bought undeveloped residential
> property
> > on
> > Las Vegas' booming outskirts for about $400,000. Reid bought one lot 
> > outright, and a second parcel jointly with Brown. One of the sellers 
> > was
> a
> > developer who was benefiting from a government land swap that Reid 
> > supported. The seller never talked to Reid.
> >
> > _In 2001, Reid sold the land for the same price to a limited 
> > liability corporation created by Brown. The senator didn't disclose 
> > the sale on
> his
> > annual public ethics report or tell Congress he had any stake in 
> > Brown's company. He continued to report to Congress that he 
> > personally owned the land.
> >
> > _After getting local officials to rezone the property for a shopping 
> > center, Brown's company sold the land in 2004 to other developers 
> > and Reid took $1.1
> > million of the proceeds, nearly tripling the senator's investment. Reid
> > reported it to Congress as a personal land sale.
> >
> > The complex dealings allowed Reid to transfer ownership, legal 
> > liability and some tax consequences to Brown's company without 
> > public knowledge, but still
> > collect a seven-figure payoff nearly three years later.
> >
> > Reid hung up the phone when questioned about the deal during an AP 
> > interview last week.
> >
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