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1. #1
   On July 29th, 2009 at 9:37 am, tiredofit08 said:

   it would be interesting to see what her credit rating is…

2. #2
   On July 29th, 2009 at 9:37 am, Misscheryl said:

   is now the subject of a House ethics probe

   Reminds me of the old adage. Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see.

   Call me cynical.

3. #3
   On July 29th, 2009 at 9:40 am, Flyoverman said:

   On July 29th, 2009 at 9:37 am, tiredofit08 said:

   it would be interesting to see what her credit rating is…

   Countrywide does not care.

4. #4
   On July 29th, 2009 at 9:49 am, Ragspierre said:

   The city PEOPLE declared the [Member of the] House a public nuisance on one occasion and “blighted” on another.

   Or maybe “a blighter”…

5. #5
   On July 29th, 2009 at 9:51 am, JohnnyD said:

   This made me chuckle. From the LA Times article:

   The independent Office of Congressional Ethics was created last year to answer critics who said the House was reluctant to investigate its own members. Its board consists of eight members, half appointed by the House speaker and half by the minority leader. They cannot be federal employees or lobbyists.

   Among the members is former congresswoman and L.A. County Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke. She declined to comment about Richardson.

   If the panel determines there should be further investigation, it can turn its findings over to the House Ethics Committee.

   Can you say “Dead End”?

   And then this little gem:

   Neighbors finally complained in e-mails and letters to Richardson, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic officials, but to no avail.

   Ya think? If Pelosi doesn’t care if she is liked, then why should she care about this? They are just rabblerousers!

   Misscheryl, call me cynical too! Nothing will happen to this deadbeat.

6. #6
   On July 29th, 2009 at 9:59 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

   House ethics? Is that something new? Perhaps Chris Dodd can get her a sweetheart deal from Countrywide.

   The city declared the house a public nuisance

   Because a Democratic CongressCritter lived there ? Can they declare the Capitol Building a public nuisance? The entire City of Chicago and states of Delaware and Taxachucetts? Now if we can just get James Carville to refer to Rep. Laura Richardson as “trailer trash” Bell Clinton can flash her.

   Good morning Misscheryl the Cynical

7. #7
   On July 29th, 2009 at 10:04 am, Misscheryl said:

   Good morning to you too AZ and to all those brave conservatives out there!

8. #8
   On July 29th, 2009 at 10:13 am, spaceycakes said:

   Of course nothing will happen to her. She’ll get a paid trip to Hong Kong where she’ll stock up on fake Louis Vuitton handbags & cheap cognac.

9. #9
   On July 29th, 2009 at 10:26 am, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

   Completely OT:

   Who will tell Michael J. Fox it is time to die?

10. #10
    On July 29th, 2009 at 10:44 am, cactusjoe said:

    The clowns in Washington are killing the free enterprise system, a system that relies on trust to operate. How can someone pay for a house, record the deed, and then have this house confiscated? I can understand how this happens in a socialist country… oops … I think that I just answered my own question.

11. #11
    On July 29th, 2009 at 10:49 am, happy2behere said:

    Often off topic, Ed.

    As for Richardson, California voters deserve the politicans for whom they vote. Yet another reason I left SoCal years ago. I’m happy to be in back in Colorado, from an overseas trip.

12. #12
    On July 29th, 2009 at 11:10 am, right_on said:

    Well, finally, finally, her Sacramento foreclosure scandal is now the subject of a House ethics probe.

    DON’T HOLD YOUR BREATH…ethics probe, uh huh….

    She will be found innocent of “intentional misdoing,” and the mortgage industry will get the majority of the blame. She might get a “slap on the wrist,” but she won’t be relieved of committee assignments. The house majority needs all the support they can muster right now.

    The “real” ethics committee will be the voters in her district. We’ll see if they’re up to the task, but I doubt it. They were uninformed enough at the onset to elect her…that (D) holds a lot of power in SoCal.

13. #13
    On July 29th, 2009 at 11:11 am, Teddy Kennedy said:

    Errah, in the Peoples Republic of Montgomery County Maryland I believe libtards will take your home away for not shoveling the snow off the sidewalk or cutting your grass. Seems they need to pass more laws there in Cawleeefornya. How unprogressive, it’s amazing anyone would want to live like that.

14. #14
    On July 29th, 2009 at 11:26 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Who will tell Michael J. Fox it is time to die?

    Oh I enjoy seeing the twit shake. Normally I would have sympathy but he was less than honest. But if someone must tell him can I borrow the name SendMe_SendMe?

    But putting him down “with End of Life Dignity” would fit in nicely with ObamaCare and a few of his Czars wouldn’t it? That or have him move in with Democrat deadbeat Rep. Laura Richardson and Miss Hillary

15. #15
    On July 29th, 2009 at 11:28 am, battleaxe said:

    Don’t get your hopes up. Freezer Jefferson served out his term with no repercussions despite having been caught red handed with bribe money in his freezer.

16. #16
    On July 29th, 2009 at 11:30 am, hawkeye54 said:

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    By Michelle Malkin • July 29, 2009 09:30 AM

    Regular readers are familiar with Democrat deadbeat Rep. Laura Richardson. (See here for all previous posts.) She’s the Democrat congresswoman who defaulted six times on her home loans and has left a trail of unpaid bills in her wake.

    Well, finally, finally, her Sacramento foreclosure scandal is now the subject of a House ethics probe. Via the LA Times:

    U.S. Rep. Laura Richardson’s rundown Sacramento house, which became the scourge of the neighborhood and a sore point with an investor who thought he had bought it out of foreclosure, has drawn the interest of a House ethics panel.

    The Office of Congressional Ethics contacted real estate investor James York, who bought Richardson’s house at a foreclosure auction last year, only to have Washington Mutual take it back after he had recorded the deed and return the house to the congresswoman.

    The office also has interviewed at least two of the Long Beach Democrat’s Sacramento neighbors, asking about their efforts — and their expenses — to tidy up the front- and backyards of Richardson’s two-story house. The city declared the house a public nuisance on one occasion and “blighted” on another
    Most ethical House ever, right, Speaker Pelosi?

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    #1On July 29th, 2009 at 9:37 am, tiredofit08 said:
    it would be interesting to see what her credit rating is…

    #2On July 29th, 2009 at 9:37 am, Misscheryl said:
    is now the subject of a House ethics probe
    Reminds me of the old adage. Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see.

    Call me cynical.

    #3On July 29th, 2009 at 9:40 am, Flyoverman said:
    On July 29th, 2009 at 9:37 am, tiredofit08 said:

    it would be interesting to see what her credit rating is…
    Countrywide does not care.

    No doubt, she’s one of thier VIP clients.

17. #17
    On July 29th, 2009 at 11:31 am, SpeakEasy said:

    A little harsh on Michael J. Fox here. I wouldn’t take glee in anyone’s suffering. And I always liked his movies. A little Christian charity never hurts.

18. #18
    On July 29th, 2009 at 11:39 am, hawkeye54 said:

    On July 29th, 2009 at 11:31 am, SpeakEasy said

    Actually, not harsh on hi. Follow the link and read the American Spectator article to see what could be in store under ObamaCare for him and those less prominent who suffer like him.

19. #19
    On July 29th, 2009 at 12:04 pm, dan708 said:

    But Michelle, you mean to tell me that you didn’t think a House ethics probe would ever happen?!

    sarc off/

20. #20
    On July 29th, 2009 at 12:06 pm, purealchemy said:

    Hey, all you pikers!
    We’re doing a marathon on the thread for “Don’t Taze Me Bro’” on previous entry page.
    Trying to hit 3,000 messages in a thread.
    You have nothing better to do, right? LOL

21. #21
    On July 29th, 2009 at 12:13 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

    Stuff like this falls under the left’s consistent m.o. which is the end justifies the means. We can over look ethics issues as long as in doing so we, the left, has the majority. Or with health care, we can totally screw many many many Americans out of health care and destroy the health care industry if in the end we, the left, have more power and control over American citizens.

    The only trick with these folks is to pay attention to what the real “end” is. Once you see the real end, the rest becomes self evident.

22. #22
    On July 29th, 2009 at 12:50 pm, bradley said:

    Why was this corrupt idiot GIVEN a second home loan when she’d already defaulted on ONE? And to get SIX is beyond idiotic, it’s criminal. She should get some jail time. But, knowing the Democrats, they’ll blame the mortgage lender, saying they “misled” her, and she’ll skate scot free.

23. #23
    On July 29th, 2009 at 12:56 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    But, knowing the Democrats, they’ll blame the mortgage lender, saying they “misled” her

    But, of course they did…after all,she’s a liberal, a minority and a woman! 3-in-1 automatic victim.

24. #24
    On July 29th, 2009 at 1:15 pm, Misscheryl said:

    But, knowing the Democrats, they’ll blame the mortgage lender, saying they “misled” her boooosshh”

    FIFY

25. #25
    On July 29th, 2009 at 1:29 pm, DesertLover said:

    The term “house ethics” qualifies as an “oxymoron” in a congress full of “morons”?

26. #26
    On July 29th, 2009 at 1:58 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On July 29th, 2009 at 10:26 am, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:
    Completely OT:

    Who will tell Michael J. Fox it is time to die?

    Good point. And Patrick Swayze, etc. etc. Every life is precious and worth fighting for. (I don’t count those on death row in that statement, however.) If the government has the POWER to determine who lives and who dies based on age or other criteria…isn’t that playing God?? They’d better be very very careful. God does not suffer fools for long. And trying to imitate God is very foolish.

27. #27
    On July 29th, 2009 at 1:58 pm, Savage24 said:

    A House Ethics probe of a democrat is about as useless as boobs on a boar.

28. #28
    On July 29th, 2009 at 5:20 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    only to have Washington Mutual take it back after he had recorded the deed

    Isn’t this illegal?

    And her run-down, ill-kept house is simply a reflection of the current state of the US House…

29. #29
    On July 29th, 2009 at 6:58 pm, infidel4life said:

    I heard a radio interview a year ago on this with the slimy Ms. Richardson. She fits right in with the Pelosis and Boxers, et al, — just another lying bimbo Dem that belongs in prison rather than Congress.

30. #30
    On July 29th, 2009 at 8:46 pm, cabrerski said:

    House ethics is in the same category as perpetual motion. Nice idea to aspire to but it ain’t ever gonna happen.

31. #31
    On July 29th, 2009 at 8:51 pm, simcoe said:

    House Ethics Committee reaches conclusion:

    After a thorough investigation, we don’t believe she has any.

    However, we’re not quite sure because we can’t find anyone who does to compare her with and it’s very difficult to prove a negative.

32. #32
    On July 30th, 2009 at 12:53 pm, theporch said:

    Here is another approach.
    Keep these Urls handy and use them often.

    http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

    http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml