Freedom Fries - #51

#51 BOB NEY
FORMER CONGRESSMAN FOR THE OHIO 18TH

You ever notice that some of the most sanctimonious bastards are GOP cocksuckers in the Congress? Seriously. The Democrats do some bad shit too but they aren't there calling themselves the 'party of family values' and decrying the immorality of the other party. But the GOP cocksuckers do it all the time.

Take the case of Rep. Bob Ney.

Ney represented the Ohio 18th. Pissed off by France's disbelief of then Secretary of State Colin Powell's performance at the UN when he said there were WMDs in Iraq, Ney, who is in charge of the House cafeteria, orders it to change 'french fries' and 'french toast' on the menu to 'freedom fries' and 'freedom toast.' No vote was necessary, which was good because Ney probably would have lost it.

But then a funny thing happened. The pro-war tide turned and GOP cocksuckers could no longer count on symbolic acts like 'freedom fries' to intimidate the opposition; not when thousands of kids were getting killed in Iraq and billions of dollard were being spent there and those stubborn WMDs wouldn't show up or there was no link between al-Qaeda and Iraq, other than the Arabic version of "Hi, how ya doin?"

Even worse, Ney got indicted for conspiracy to defraud the United States. At first he tried to brazen it out, but when he found out that the FBI had his former chief of staff, Neil Volz, singing like a canary, he pled guilty to doing 'official acts' on behalf of Abramoff, which included trying to insert four amendments into a 2002 election reform bill to benefit Abramoff's clients and helping another Abramoff client win a multimillion-dollar contract to provide wireless communication services to the U.S. Capitol. In return, Ney received trips, expensive meals, skybox tickets to sporting events, and thousands of dollars in gambling chips

Ney's attorney's worked like dogs to get him 27 months in jail but the judge disagreed and gave him 30 months, a $6,000 fine and two years probation instead.

[UPDATE: Ney only served 21 months in the Slammer and eight months after he got out started a talk radio show in West Virginia.]

S. Olson

S. Olson