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Girlfriends and Double Standards, Before Max Baucus there was Paul Wolfowitz.
wsj ^ | 12/6/09 | staff

Posted on 12/06/2009 6:42:46 PM PST by Nachum

Here's a poser: Suppose a public official is accused of recommending his girlfriend for a promotion, though he was the one who first flagged the potential conflict of interest and officials had refused to let him recuse himself from decisions about the woman. Should he lose his job?

That's precisely what happened in 2007 to Paul Wolfowitz, who was run out of the World Bank on the pretext that he had given his girlfriend a raise. In fact, Mr. Wolfowitz had made bank officials aware that his girlfriend already worked at the bank before he accepted the job as president, and bank officials had raised no objection to the job change that removed his girlfriend from any direct reporting to Mr. Wolfowitz. The ethical uproar was a politically convenient excuse, fanned by the media, to oust Mr. Wolfowitz when his real offense was that he was too hard on corruption.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: double; girlfriends; standards

1 posted on 12/06/2009 6:42:46 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Who has that “Their corruption doesn’t count” graphic?


2 posted on 12/06/2009 6:46:28 PM PST by rlmorel (We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
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To: Nachum

and why are the cowadrly GOPers not screaming about this??? can’t blame the rat-wingers for this crap- they get away with it and are never taken to task by “our” party...


3 posted on 12/06/2009 6:53:11 PM PST by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: God luvs America
LOL, they are probably a step away from someone spilling the beans on them. The old don't throw rocks when you live in a glass house.
4 posted on 12/06/2009 7:10:20 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: Nachum

Sen. Tim Johnson’s (D-SD) son was recently appointed US District Attorney for South Dakota. A coincidence?


5 posted on 12/06/2009 7:31:17 PM PST by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: Nachum

Never heard that before.
My, who does control the present controls the past controls the future.
Nostradamus has been replaced by Orwell


6 posted on 12/06/2009 7:38:21 PM PST by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: The Great RJ

msm only cares about republican scandals.


7 posted on 12/06/2009 8:26:01 PM PST by genghis
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To: God luvs America

Or - Wilbur Mills (D-Ark., Chairman of something or other at the time) and Fannie Fox - in Washington, DC, no less!


8 posted on 12/07/2009 3:22:06 AM PST by jamaksin
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