Congressional “Special Rules,” and “Sorry not Sorry”

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“Hey Boys that’s where our money goes…..”

“Congress’ a corker, scoundrels all over
We buy them everything to keep them in style.
perverted proclivities, we pay the liabilities,
Hey boys that’s where our money goes…”

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When it comes to harassment, sexual or otherwise, members of congress enjoy, special “Rules of Engagement,” to be envied by every pervert and bully in the school yard.  Per unique code of conduct rules enacted in 1955, here’s how it works:

A claimant has 180 days to file a complaint by calling the Office of Compliance obtaining a special password to access the complaint form. The claimant then spends one month in counseling and another month in a mediation phase. The process is confidential for both involved parties, an entire congressional office tasked with ensuring that cases are not handled in the courts.
Once a mediation settlement is reached, the claimant is paid off.  No silly, not by the office of the abuser, but by a, “special U.S. Treasury fund,” i.e. tax payers

Per the Washington Post, between 1997 and 2014 the U.S. Treasury fund paid for 235 workplace violation settlements for a sum total of $15.2 million. And it’s all kept secret with unsuspecting taxpayers on the hook for payoffs meant to protect House and Senate members, and, in some instances, their staffers.

Those very pious House and Senate members of both political stripes, current and past, had better take great care as they pile on to those not so fortunate to have laws created for their own, personal protection. When men like Harvey Weinstein, previously seen as too big to fall, are dropping like flies.

As social media sites are lighting up with trends like, #MeToo, they better be well-confident their own behaviors have been above reproach.

The latest abuser De jour is Senator Al Franken. His fall from grace, if he ever had any, is actually being helped by Al Franken. Last May the senator’s book, “Al Franken, Lion of the Senate,” was published.  Among the revelations in his book was his, “sorry… not sorry,” story.

During his very contentious 2008 senate run, Franken’s past threatened to disenfranchise female voters. It involved his “work” at SNL and a 2000 article he wrote for Playboy entitled, “Porn-o-Rama.”  Al’s brand of perverted humor included a skit he wrote whereby commentator, Leslie Stahl, would be drugged, dragged into a closet and raped.  While unconscious, she would then have pictures taken while being posed in odd positions.  Funny?

The comic turned politician had no intention of apologizing. He believed by doing so, the apology would, “sell out my career … who I’d been my entire life.”  But Franken’s coveting of a senate seat trumped his personal beliefs, vulgar as they may be, and he did what most politicians learn to do early on in their political careers, he lied. Fingers crossed firmly behind his back, he said, “sorry … (not sorry).

And so now, Senator Al Franken presents hat-in-hand, with yet another hollow apology for his vulgar, perverted behaviors.

And of course, the moral of the Al Franken story is, in politics, it pays to lie … and to cheat.  Franken won that 2008 senate seat in Minnesota by 312 votes with the help of 1,099 votes illegallycasted by convicted felons.


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michaelrbuley
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michaelrbuley
6 years ago

How much longer will we the people put up with this b.s.? Theft, corruption, sexual depravity, on and on and on it goes. THESE people represent us? They represent America? No … We are being betrayed daily, hourly. Minute by minute.

Judyann Joyner
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Judyann Joyner
6 years ago
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Mr. Buley, We The People who have been in the trenches over the past many years, fighting with our every breath have long known theft, corruption, depravities have abound in Washington DC. But even we didn’t know just how bad it has become.

The government has grown ever bigger, stronger, more omnipotent. Leftist ideologies have spread throughout every vessel of our nation like an ever metastasizing cancer but, until We The People finally, at long last, had the privilege of voting for a president not, “one of them,” even we did not realize the breadth of the betrayals. When say, “them,” I refer to the wholly perverted Democrat Elitists, the mostly perverted Republican Elitists the latter of which, IMHO, are worse.

We all know where Democrats are coming from. In their every thought and deed, their every initiative is dedicated to achieve their ultimate goal, the utter transformation of America into a single party, Marxist style of government. But Republican Elitists, the Good Ole Boys, they beat their chests every election cycle, proclaiming themselves as solid and good Conservatives…the day after elections, they join with their DNC pals trouncing on Conservatives biting the very hands which feed them. They are the Great Betrayers.