The Strange Lack Of Interest In Democrat Corruption
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I have a complaint about the pseudo-scandal surrounding the firing of presidential appointees by the president. Alberto Gonzales, sloth that he is, didn't get enough of them.
Anyone who thinks US Attorneys in Democrat states are even vaguely interested in public corruption as it applies to Democrat politicians is just mistaken (this courtesy is not extended to Republicans, the FBI crudely raided the home of Curt Weldon's daughter only three weeks before election day in what can only be seen as an attempt to hurt Weldon at the polls.) Allen Mollohan, real estate tycoon, has not been indicted. Okinawa Jack Murtha, who steered millions to his brother year after year has not been indicted. In fact, there is no evidence the US Attorneys in those areas are even vaguely interested.
In the case of William Jefferson, Democrat, Louisiana, despite fairly conclusive evidence of receiving a bribe yet there is still no indictment.
Same, same with Dianne Feinstein.
Read on.
According to The Hill's David Keene:
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) chairs the Senate Rules Committee, but she’s also a Cardinal. She is currently chairwoman of the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies subcommittee, but until last year was for six years the top Democrat on the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies (or “Milcon”) sub-committee, where she may have directed more than $1 billion to companies controlled by her husband.
If the inferences finally coming out about what she did while on Milcon prove true, she may be on the way to morphing from a respected senior Democrat into another poster child for congressional corruption.
The problems stem from her subcommittee activities from 2001 to late 2005, when she quit. During that period the public record suggests she knowingly took part in decisions that eventually put millions of dollars into her husband’s pocket — the classic conflict of interest that exploited her position and power to channel money to her husband’s companies.
In other words, it appears Sen. Feinstein was up to her ears in the same sort of shenanigans that landed California Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R) in the slammer. Indeed, it may be that the primary difference between the two is basically that Cunningham was a minor leaguer and a lot dumber than his state’s senior senator.
The result: the deafening sound of crickets chirping.
Keene notes:
In spite of the blatant appearance of corruption, no major publication has picked up on the story, the Senate Ethics Committee has reportedly let her slip by, and she is now chairing the Senate Rules Committee, which puts her in charge of making sure her colleagues act ethically and avoid the sorts of conflicts of interest with which she is personally and so obviously familiar.
No, AGAG's sin is in not firing more US Attorneys and replacing them with people who understand that the rule of law applies to Democrat congressmen as well as to the rest of us.
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This has always driven me nuts.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
Consider rewriting and updating THIS to include the above criminals and send it to everyone you know. Oh -- and please post your rewrite here so we may do the same, if you don't mind.
But your point is taken. Its always better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
Only ignorance.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
...American Revolution, a group of colonists, dressed as Indians boarded one of His Majesty's ships and threw a few bales of tea, to which was affixed a much hated tax, overboard.
Where is the spirit of these colonists today? Buried under a proliferation of political correctness?
President Hillary is coming, and "if we don't all hang together, we'll all hang separately."
His dealings with partner Jay Brown sounds like something out of the Godfather or Sopranos. Mob ties in Nevada? Whooda thunk?
Poker. Duke was not smart, sort of like Danny Rostenkowski. Feinstein is exempt, protected, a MADE [WO]MAN in the MSM mafiosi environment.
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When taunted by a Liberal in Parliament that he was going to die "on the gallows or of a vicious social disease," Disraeli replied "That depends on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress."