Another Scandal About To Break? Investigative Reporter Hints About Mobbed Up Dem

The Atlantic ^ | 03 Aug 2007 | Marc Ambinder

[tlb]

Overheard on Thursday's Talk Of The Nation on NPR: investigative reporter Dan Moldea said he and Nation's David Corn are shopping around a completed story about a "Democratic leader who is mobbed up."

Moldea did not elaborate but hinted that the story would break soon.

[metesky]

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Okay

:O)

[gulfcoast6]

Just pick one, they all meet that status,

[thepresidentsbestfriend]

They might have meant Rudy G perhaps....I did here rumors about homosexuality in his past??? could this be it? And he is a democrat.

[Red Badger]

Dick “Turban” Durbin........

[GWB00]

Carl Rove recently told a group of Republican congressmen that they lost the majority because of the corruption more than the Iraq war. (i.e. Cunningham and Foley.

IF in fact this is the case, you would have to imagine the Dems would be all over this weeks raid of Senator Steven's home and linking it with Republicans.

However, earily, this was not the case. Maybe more is known about this story and its impending affects on the Democrats.

Also, my hope it would be Schumer. To modify a quote from one of the biggest jerks to ever roam Washington, "I want to see Shumer Frog-marched out of the Rayburn Senate Building"

[leadpenny]

How much did the Kennedy mob connections hurt them?

Well, there was Dallas.

[Leisler]

Reid, lifelong nickname, “Pink(y)”. Go figure.

[normy]

I doubt you would be shocked if the guy is Obama. This would be right in line with Clinton politics. Not that Obama wouldn’t deserve outing if he was “mobbed up” but the timing and the messenger would stink of Clintonistas.

[sportutegrl]

Actually, Spitzer gets my mobbed up vote.

[Non-Sequitur]

Harry Reid is the natural choice but I'll go on a limb and suggest Obama. The purity of a former Illinois legislator has never been questioned, nor even mentioned. The coup de grace against a Hillary annoyance.

Probably not Obama. The Chicago mob wouldn't trust a black politician to do anything. I think you're more likely right on Reid. Nevada. Vegas. Mob. Politics. They all go together.

On the other hand, who are the leading Dem politicians from New Jersey these days? After Tony Soprano got wacked, the mob may need all the political juice they can muster.

[Vinnie]

I can’t believe David Corn would go after a dim. I remember him from the Clinton years. One disgusting dim lackey.

If he is going after a dim, my guess it is a candidate. Who’s his pick for pres? Hillary?

If that’s the case I pick O’Bama.

[Sacajaweau]

Spitzer was my first thought, too. Have a feeling that investigating his present scandal led to bigger and better things.

[ml/nj]

Moldea wrote a book about the death of Vincent Foster. Moldea thinks Vincent Foster killed himself. That's really all you need to know.

ML/NJ

[ontap]

They are all mobbed up! They belong to the biggest mob there is”The Democratic Party”.

[JDPendry]

Reid was quite conciliatory in his comments about the FBI raid on Stevens’ house. Asking us not to jump to any conclusions. I thought that was odd. I expected Reid to be all over that one.

[SauronOfMordor]

Moldea wrote a book about the death of Vincent Foster. Moldea thinks Vincent Foster killed himself.

Sounds like a Clintonista. Makes it more likely that the target is Obama

[BCrago66]

Dan Moldea is a slimy character; he’s the former right-hand man of Larry Flynt. I’d scrutinize the evidence closely before lending credence to his story, even if the story is against someone I don’t like.

[unixfox]

Oh gosh!! Please tell me that Ted Kennedy or John Kerry are finally going to get their comeuppance.

Don't count on it, these people protect their own at ANY cost.

[bert]

Add to that a drug king who loses $126 million in Vegas in what has to be a laundry scheme.

[EDINVA]

Frankly, it could be damned near any of them. Or any R for that matter. The mob has infiltrated deeply into every aspect of American society far more than most of us realize.