Money for pimps, not New York

[Gary Sisco]

Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Friday, June 2, 2006 8:49 a.m. EDT
Peter King: I'll Probe CIA 'Orgies'


House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King is lashing out at his fellow Republicans in Washington.

This comes after Homeland Security Czar Michael Chertoff cut anti-terrorism funding for New York City. King warned Thursday morning that unless the cuts are restored, he'll launch an investigation into what he called "orgies" involving CIA agents at the Watergate hotel.

"[The cut] to me raises very serious questions about the judgment and the sincerity of the Department [of Homeland Security] and everything they do," King told WABC Radio's John Gambling. "If they can't get something like this right, how can we trust them to get anything right?"

The New York GOP member then threatened: "So I am going to be investigating them from top to bottom and one clear example is this whole scandal with [ex-]Congressman Duke Cunningham, which has now unfolded to include orgies at the Watergate hotel."

Last month, a top advisor to former CIA Director Porter Goss was forced to resign after admitting that he attended poker parties at the Watergate arranged by a lobbyist-friend of Cunningham's, where published reports claimed that prostitutes were present.

But there have been no allegations that anyone engaged in "orgies."

Still, an angry King vowed to blow the lid off the alleged scandal, saying it involves "prostitutes and booze and gambling and CIA agents."

"People were driven to the Watergate hotel for these orgies in limousines," King claimed. "The limousine company is owned by a convicted criminal that lost their previous contracts with school districts because they were incompetent. And the Department of Homeland Security gave them a $21 million contract to drive their top officials around Washington."

The New York Republican continued to fume: "They could find $21 million to give to a company owned by a criminal which drives around pimps and prostitutes, and they cut $80 million for the city of New York.

"That says to me a lot about their judgment," he added.

Responding to King's complaint, Homeland Security spokeswoman Tracy Henke told Gambling that New York City had received $568 million in federal security funding since 2003 - on top of the $20 billion in reconstruction aid earmarked to help rebuild lower Manhattan in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.

[willy]

I thought News Max had been thoroughly discredited by the liberal establishment here?

[Scott Dolan]

Good lord, Gary.

At least there's a possible direct tie-in to the orgies, via pimps & hoes, and the NY funds from HS.

[Gary Sisco]

I'm not a liberal so I don't care.

Not a conservative, either, so I don't care.

I just like to watch the corruption ooze as they chew each other up.

Well, actually, that's not true. I consider myself a libertarian with a conscience today, so a conservative in part at least but in the traditional meaning of the word. The only rag I read regularly is The Economist. The people who call themselves conservatives in the US today are really far-rightists, whether they know it or not. Some are actually rightist revolutionaries, know it or not, and most of them do. They're not seeking to conserve anything -- in particular individual liberty and limited, constitutional, republican government, which they clearly despise. They're seeking, largely successfully, to overthrow a constitutional order of limited government, checks and balances and so forth. "Unchecked executive power" as it's called in America, which country's language is almost always composed of euphimisms, in this case for fascism in an American guise. Which is what untrammeled executive power is, by any name and it don't smell sweet.

They forget, as statists always do, that once an *institution* -- the presidency being one example -- is invested with power, it has that power still once they are out of power and someone else in. They'd have had conniption fits had Clinton sought ten percent as much power as Bush has been handed on a platter, for example. And will in any case when someone else they don't like wins the office, which is of course always a distinct possibility.

Really, today, more than anything else, the politics I despise the most is statism. I don't care what flag it claims to fly. Statism is statism.

But Bush handles power so nicely, much better'n Clinton.

[Gary Sisco]

The great thing is that you use exactly the right avatar.

tsk tsk