To Dem's, tax money is not anyones money, its like monopoly money, it can be spent at will on anything
Member Number of Trips in 2007
Barney Frank, D-MA 86
Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-OH 83
Maxine Walters, D-CA 74
Harold Ford, D-TN 71
James Clyburn, D-SC 70
Joe Biden, D-DE 65
Jim McDermott, D-WA 60
John Breaux, D-LA 59
Barbara Lee, D-CA 58
George Miller, D-CA 54
Danny Davis, D-IL 52
Elijah Cummings, D-MD 52
Donald Payne, D-NJ 51
Dennis Kucinich, D-OH 51
Rick Boucher, D-VA 49
Howard Berman, D-CA 49
Jesse Jackson, D-IL 47
Arthur Davis, D-AL 47
Joe Lieberman, I-CN 46
HT: Fred
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why didn't you also quote from the article that trips are only 28% as many and 38% as much money as in 2005 when the gop was the majority in both houses.
Ok - fine. It's amazing how you conviniently ignore Representative Rick Renzi's (a Republican from Arizona) indictment!! Well...I understand that you are more interested in picking on the 'other side'! ;-)
"To Dem's, tax money is not anyones money, its like monopoly money, it can be spent at will on anything"
This is a true statement. However, your article talks about Dems taking trips financed by private interests, which in itself isn't wrong. Perhaps there is something my neo-caveman brain is missing!
This list is BS. I can't get your source's original source link to open. And, more importantly, the list includes Harold Ford, who lost his race for Senate in 2006 (and therefore was not in Congress in 2007) and John Breaux, who did not run for re-election in 2004.
So I call BS.
Okay, now that I can get legistorm to load, I see that it is BS. When you say your list is the number of trips in 2007, that is false.
I realize you were just relying on what Tapscott wrote, but had you clicked through yourself, you would have seen that he was clearly either confused or lying. He links to a table that seems to list all travel dating back years. You can even see that Legistorm noted Ford's and Breaux's no longer being in Congress, which Tapscott (in)conveniently ignored when he copied the list. You complain about Barney Frank taking 86 trips in a year, but when you click on Frank's name it lists trips going back to 2000. That averages out to 12 or 13 a year, not the 86 that prompted a snarky "how many weeks in a year" comment.
The bottom of the chart lists "644 results," which should have been another tip-off to you and Tapscott that it's not just 2007 data, given that less than 540 members of Congress served in 2007 (I forget how many special elections there were). For example, click on the "G" at the top and you can see that Wisconsin's most recent ex-Congressman, Mark Green, is still on the list as having taken two junkets of his own (and approved 16 total).
In the end, Tapscott seems to have been inspired by the Legistorm press release about 2007's travel being reduced to go to their website and try to find one way to sort the data to show Democrats in the worst light. He then lied or made an easily-caught mistake in trying to claim that the list he copied only covered 2007. And you fell for it, Game, when a quick check of the source material would have shown you just how wrong Tapscott was.
nice work, jay!
Jay, you still owe Fred D. and the game apologies. You are unethical and a complete Democrat mouthpiece and stooge.
You just can't take it that Democrats are corrupt spendocrats in the pockets of special interests.
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