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My fellow world citizens what do I do about the culture of corruption in congress today, do I continue to ignore it and blame Bush for everything wrong in the world or do I tackle the issue as I promised during the campaign?
New York Rep. Charles Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is under investigation for, among other things, failing to report income from his Caribbean villa. Meanwhile, Sen. Christopher Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, got sweetheart deals from subprime lender Countrywide and has yet to adequately explain his too-good-to-be-true deal on his million-dollar "cottage" in Ireland, which he may have gotten in exchange for finagling a pardon (from President Clinton) for a felon. Oh, Dodd also secretly protected those AIG bonuses that raised such a ruckus last month.
Rep. Jack Murtha of Pennsylvania, Nancy Pelosi's moral authority on military matters during the Iraq war, has been revealed as a kleptomaniac of sorts, delivering as much of the federal budget as possible to various cronies and lobbyists.
John Edwards, who had an affair even as he was scoring Oprah-points as the supportive husband during his wife's battle with breast cancer, is being investigated by the feds for the improper use of campaign funds. It looks like the silky haired champion of the little guys may have used their donations to bribe the alleged "baby mama" into silence.
And it would be a shame to let it pass that Obama's Senate seat was put up for sale by the then-Democratic governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, and Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is under investigation for trying to buy it.
But you know what? We ain't seen nothing yet. For starters, the real corruption isn't what the media are ignoring or downplaying as isolated incidents. It's what the media are hailing as bold, inspirational leadership. The White House, as a matter of policy, is rewriting legal contracts, picking winners (mostly labor unions and mortgage defaulters) and singling out losers (evil "speculators") while much of the media continue to ponder whether Obama is better than FDR.
If a Republican administration, staffed with cronies from Goldman Sachs and Citibank, was cutting special deals for its political allies, I suspect we'd be hearing fewer FDR analogies and more nouns ending with the suffix "gate."
Take Obama's "car czar," Steven Rattner. According to ABC's Jake Tapper, Rattner is accused of threatening to use the White House to smear a Chrysler creditor if it refused to back the administration's bankruptcy plan. He's also connected to a massive pension fund scandal involving the investment firm he used to run. One allegation is that conspirators used investments in the low-budget movie "Chooch" to expedite their alleged chicanery. Chooch, by the way, is Italian slang for "jackass," which just happens to be the Democrats' mascot.
More to the point, political corruption is inevitable whenever you give hacks -- of either party -- too much discretion over public funds. Businesses look to Washington for profits instead of to the market. The thing is, this has become the governing philosophy of the Democratic Party, from banking and cars to healthcare and now student loans. The federal government is taking over, and the culture of corruption inevitably trickles down. That in itself should be a scandal. Call it "Choochgate."
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lol goldberg
Whoah whoah whoah. Tap the breaks lil' Barry.
You're not Bush™, it's all good my man.
Then it is answered. Clam laughs at author and Faith recognizes I'm not Bush. So my fellow citizens then congress shall live above the law and trust of the American oops I mean World citizens.
How does one make income from a Caribbean villa?
And cherry picking investigations is disingenuous.
Who is Maxinne Water's husband?
Why does ACORN receive government funding?
Are you insulting me your grand leader? I too have a history of cherry picking waterboarding memos come to mind.
You are not Obama. You suck.
I know I suck. On Mic e's long muscular arms and ....
Now get to work I have taxes to collect.
Could you show me the latest federal ACORN funding bill?
They have received an estimated $53 million since 1970 and are positioned to receive up to $4 billion out of the ulus bill through use of the Community Development Block Grant program.
That was not my question.
Could you show me the latest ACORN funding bill?
The last one that was passed?
What be dis...
H.R. 1388
and an amendment produced by Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) prohibiting ACORN from receiving funds was voted down...weird.
Again, that was not my question.
Could you show me the latest ACORN funding bill?
The last one that was passed?
Earmarks are not bills. You know that. They get money. Get over it.
You're pathetic Chump.
Could you show me which earmark gave money to ACORN?
So you're saying you can't find any.
Can we compare parties to see who's worse?
Pfffffff....even Goldberg was over-reaching with the Edwards affair (who cares?) and Blagojevich was just doing what every politician does, he just got greedy and caught....
So I guess it's OK when Dems are corrupt?
Sure, when Repubs get caught they step down, when Dems get caught it is downplayed.
Here we go. The source is the Enquirer, but they were right the first time about this story so I'm posting it....looks like Mrs. Edwards has opened a can of worms....
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And you thought the John Edwards sex scandal couldn't get seamier.
The ex-senator's former lover - furious at being portrayed as a stalker in his wife's media tour - reportedly is taking revenge and will allow a paternity test for her baby after all.
Rielle Hunter previously refused to allow DNA testing on baby Frances, born in February 2008. Edwards, even after the admitted affair, insisted he wasn't the father.
NY Daily
Oh this should be enjoyable. Edwards was the ultimate sleazebag trial lawyer so seeing him further humiliated will be fun.
There is a downside to screwing starry eyed New Agers.
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