Thursday, August 23, 2007

Those zany parade-loving Republicans!

UTAH TECH COLLEGE & G.O.P. PARADE FLOAT DEPOSITORY. A recent article in the Salt Lake Tribune reports that…
The Utah State Auditor found several misuses of public money at the Mountainland Applied Technology College, most of which illegally benefited former campus president Robert Brems and the Utah Republican Party.

…Auditors found [current campus president Clay] Christensen attempted to falsify documents in using public funds to pay for a parade float for the Utah Republican Party.

…[A]uditors slammed him for continuing with the float project even after being warned by the auditor and attorney general that it was illegal to do so….

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Was it a Jesus themed float?

Anonymous said...

If you have to ask you're oviously a secular leftist that cannot comprehend anything beyond your own self interest.

Jonathan K. Cohen said...

Non sequitur, 4:28.

Anonymous said...

Do you have no sense at all of the massive hypocrisy of many Republican politicians? Family values and theocracy, blah blah blah, but what massive liars and reprobates they often turn out to be.

Anonymous said...

You're calling the kettle black, Dumbocrat.

Jonathan K. Cohen said...

Come, now, denizens of the barnyard! Soon you'll be throwing excrement across the fence at one another. In the interests of comity, I will state this: I, a New York liberal, allow that there is more evil in Hillary R. Clinton's left thumbnail than there is in a raft of merely venal and hypocritical Republican officeholders. Now hold your peace.

Anonymous said...

So is that the conclusion we have arrived at? You're either believe in god or you're a selfish prick?

Interesting.

Anonymous said...

Now, JKC, I don't know if you're just attempting to be funny for the sake of it, or you really believe what you just said about Ms. Clinton.

Such an irresponsible comment just emboldens the little right winger types who think that making little name comments (such as we see from 7:46), constitutes some sort of argument.

What does a black kettle have to do with Republican hypocrisy, by the way?

Anonymous said...

I prefer cast iron.

Anonymous said...

Cast iron banging upside the head of a W lover sounds real good and all.

Anonymous said...

To 10:31 (Such a gorgeous name you have; reminds me of the day I was born):

Anyways, I think JKC was trying to find some sort of common element for us all to get along over. Clinton is, afterall, some sort of horrible thing most people can hate together. It's a first step :P

By the way, you yourself play the "little" name game (a little), with words like "little right wingers." I've always assumed they're the same size as me.
Or not... I am kind of big.

Anonymous said...

You are begging quite a question there, 6:51, with that assumption about Clinton. Frankly, I don't get the peculiar invective slung at this woman. I'd take her as president over any of the Republicans and almost all of the Democrats.

You got me on the ad hominem about the right wingers, but they are pretty despicable. Can't help myself. Pardon.

Anonymous said...

Prediction - the Democrats will not carry the '08 elections and we will again have a Republican president.

The leftist defeatists are failing to see the reality of the world and the American people will go with security rather than electing a pacifist sheep.

Jonathan K. Cohen said...

I was referring to Mrs. Clinton's ideological compromises, making her a Democrat of the school of Diane Feinstein. She's positioned herself farther to the right than the Democratic Leadership Council ever dreamed of being, sucking up to anti-abortionists and religious zealots, not to mention figures such as Newt Gingrich. And why? Not out of conviction, but out of a certainty that she will win the general election in that way and a fear that she will be hurt again as she was during the health care debacle. It's called "identifying with the aggressor." To me, her behavior is faithless and cynical, founded in a desire for personal power at the expense of the ideals that I and others have been keeping alive for eight years.

On the other hand, if she won and Democrats kept control of the Senate, she would probably retain the overreaching presidential powers so ignobly grabbed by Bush, and wreak vengeance therewith. Not a bad thought.

Anonymous said...

Ms. C is probably doing what she thinks she has to do to win. Without commending that strategy, if it means the expulsion of further theocratic supporters in the White House, then so be it. She will also make excellent choices for Federal judgships, I will assume.

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