The Corruptocrats

Ethics: There's a 900-pound elephant in the room in Washington named Corruption. The media don't seem to have noticed it's there — because the pachyderm is actually a donkey.

When Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., was exposed in the fall of 2006 sending sleazy text messages to male teenage congressional pages, the establishment press made sure it cast a heavy shadow on the entire Republican establishment. Again and again it was noted that then-House Speaker Dennis Hastert and other congressional GOP leaders obviously knew about Foley but did little or nothing.

Where are they now that Rep. Eric Massa, D-N.Y., is undone after unwelcome sexual advances toward a junior male staffer? House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., admits to knowing of the allegations, so where are the headlines like those in 2006 warning that this and other scandals could doom Democrats this November?

And make no mistake, there are plenty of other Democratic scandals. Citing them all might provide a musical satirist like Paul Shanklin the material to do a new version of Paul Simon's "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover." Here are a few:

• President Obama's shady nomination on Wednesday of the brother of Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, a swing vote on health reform, to the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.

• The forced — but only temporary — and long overdue suspension of Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., from his powerful perch as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee many months after it became known that he failed to pay 20 years of back taxes on a Caribbean villa, on top of tax issues related to four rent-controlled apartments in Harlem used by his campaign, plus other newly revealed House rules violations.

When Nancy “I’m the Queen” Pelosi said that the Obama administration was going to clean up the swamp of corruption in DC, she was partially telling the truth.

They wanted to get rid of the tapdancer in Mens’ rooms and Email over Foley IN ORDER TO MAKE ROOM IN THE SWAMP FOR:

Charlie Rangel - singing “Mr. Taxman”
Elliot Spitzer - DC has some hot women
Van Jones - So I’m a raving communist lunatic. That’s a good qualification for being a White House czar
Kevin Jenkins - I like children
Desiree Rogers - It’s crowded under this bus
Bribees Landreu, Nelson, etc.
Gov. Patterson - Can’t you see that I’m an honest guy?
GEITNER - Tax Cheat in Chief
Dr. Ezekiel Mengele Emanuel
Rahm “Dead Fish” Emanuel
David “all my mentors were communists” Axelrod
Anita Dunn - “I Love Mao, don’t you?”
Holdren - kill the sick and useless
Gore - I’m a millionaire thanks to my fraudulent global warming businesses
John Murtha - So what if I got jobs and money for relatives and friends by getting them contracts? If you’re a sheik, show me the green.
Mayor Grevey - I liked men before I liked women, and then some.
Corzine _ I bought myself a state and then crapped it down the toilet. And you are paying for it.
Nancy Pelosi - so what if I tried to help my husband avoid wage laws on Guam, as well as to buy speculative real estate in San Francisco where the govt is planning to build things?
Jim McDermott - I still like Hussein, and Assad, and Chavez
Kucinich - I’m not crazy. I’m a Democrat.
Sen. Harkin - a fake Vietnam veteran pinko
Rep. Fortney Stark - Rangel’s successor. A rich red and wacko
All those Obama nominees who suddenly withdrew from job consideration because of skeletons on their closets
All those lobbyists hired by Obama who said he wouldn’t hire them.
All those failures at the SEC, the Fed, Treasury, etc.
Genochowski - FCC - Why did he hire a communist as his spokewoman and what is his connection to her forme boss, Robert McChesney, an avowed communist fanatic?

Yep. That cleaned out swamp of corruption has filled up really fast.

November, 2010 is our time to really clean out the swamp of corruption, starting with the Democrat Party and working up the food chain.

The last one is interesting. I don't think many people know this. From article:--

• The failure of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner since 2001 to pay nearly $40,000 in his Social Security and Medicare taxes because he worked for the International Monetary Fund, which conveniently didn't withhold those taxes as U.S. firms do.

• The Democrats' massive stimulus bill last year, practically written by the party's supporters in Big Labor, with construction projects forced to use union members and pay union wages — in spite of the fact that nonunion workers make up close to 85% of the country's construction work force.

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