Feinstein's Non-Ethics

When it comes to ethics in the manner in which she conducts herself as a U.S. Senator, Dianne Feinstein, D-CA, has none.

Remember that this is the woman who admitted that she carries a handgun for protection, although she would deny that right to tens of millions of Americans. And this is the woman, who, as the ranking member of a Senate panel that awards government contracts on behalf of the military, made sure that multi-millions of dollars of government contracts were funneled to her husband's business.

Now, it seems, the Senator is at it again:

On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband's real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms.

Mrs. Feinstein's intervention on behalf of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was unusual: the California Democrat isn't a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs with jurisdiction over FDIC; and the agency is supposed to operate from money it raises from bank-paid insurance payments - not direct federal dollars.

Of oourse, never once has the ethically-challenged Senator been investigated by the Senate for corruption. Since 2006 her cronies have controlled Congress.

DASCHLE WITHDRAWS

2 in one day. Tom Daschle becomes the 2nd Obama nominee in a day to withdraw their name from consideration for a Cabinet post.

It seems that the ethics-challenged Obama Administration is having difficulty nominating persons of respectable reputation to the government.

At least the 2 who departed today have enough dignity and self-respect to withdraw their names from consideration rather than drag the U.S. Government down with them into the cesspool.

If only Eric Holder and Timothy Geithner had the same dignity and self-respect.

2 More in the Democrats' 'Culture of Corruption'

There is no doubt that the present Administration and Congressional leadership is the most corrupt in modern history. But now we can add 2 more to the Democrats' culture of corruption.

Tom Daschle, former U.S. Senator and Obama's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, has 'tax issues' that may effect his confirmation for the job.

Excuse me, I am wrong on that. The Democrats who run the place will embrace him with open arms just as they did the quintessential tax cheat, Timothy Geithner, who now runs the IRS.

And then there is the case of the wife of the point-man in the House who intends to prosecute Bush administration officials for 'war crimes.' Rep. John Conyers' wife, Monica, is under investigation for corruption.

America had to drag the bottom of the swamp to come up with these bozos. They are quickly becoming a joke--nothing more than cartoon characters in a thug film fest.

Obama's Tax Cheat Confirmed at Treasury

Republican Susan Collins, who is certainly no conservative, said it best when she stated, 'I cannot vote to confirm a tax cheat as head of the U.S. Treasury.'

It seems that in the days of 'hope and change' and a 'new day in Washington,' about the only thing one can depend on is that the faces change. Neither Obama nor the Democrats have been interested in avoiding corruption, that's for sure.

Today the U.S. Senate voted 60-34 to confirm Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary.

This comes in spite of the fact that Geithner did not pay his taxes. Obama's contention that it was 'an insignificant oversight' is simply false. The sum was substantial, and the man who will oversee the IRS and tax collections should know tax policy from top-to-bottom, particularly when it comes to his own taxes.

In spite of his confirmation, however, Geithner faces significant opposition...just not enough to deny him the job in this new day of the Democrats' culture of corruption.

Yet Another Scandal Rocks Obama Team

With the announcement by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson that he is withdrawing his nomination to be Barack Obama's Commerce Secretary, the Obama team has been rocked with yet another scandal.

Never before in modern history has an administration been so thoroughly defined by corruption and scandal, even before the new team officially takes office.

Despite those who are willing to give Obama the benefit of the doubt on the Blagojevich scandal, the fact remains that we have yet to see all of the evidence that continues to be collected by federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald on the alleged scheme to sell Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder.

It would be the height of naivete to believe that neither Obama nor his staff chief Rahm Emanuel had contact with Blagojevich concerning the seat, since it belonged to Obama, and since all three are part of the infamous Chicago political machine.

In addition, it is odd that most of Obama's closest longterm associates and friends are of dubious reputation at best.

And then there is Norman Hsu, who could very well further taint the careers of both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton before his trial is over. Hsu's Ponzi scheme to raise money for Obama and Clinton could implicate both.

Now we discover that Bill Richardson, Obama's nominee for Commerce Secretary, is under a federal investigation for corruption.

Obama and the Democrats clearly have a culture of corruption at present. And the Obama team will take office under a heavy cloud of suspicion.

Name-Dropping

I am going to engage in a bit of name-dropping--names that have been in the news of late. Let's see how many you recognize.

Rod Blagojevich. Rahm Emanuel. William Jefferson. Tony Rezko. Eliot Spitzer. Chris Dodd. Charles Rangel.

There are many more I could drop, but I will stop there because these are the most noteworthy.

Do you notice anything in common about these individuals other than they are involved in politics in some way and they each have been implicated in serious corruption schemes?

If you answered that each are Democrats you would be correct. But you wouldn't know it by watching or listening to the mainstream media. The MSM has perpetrated a self-imposed conspiracy of silence concerning the Party affiliation of any corrupt politician who is engaged in scandal who also happens to be a Democrat.

Funny that a mere 2 years ago this very same media, with the very same personalities reporting the news, constantly referred to a Republican 'culture of corruption' when speaking about Larry Craig and Mark Foley.

Funny also that the major Republican scandals that year involved sex and not the far more serious issues of selling Senate seats, squandering taxpayers' money, or making illegal, under-the-table deals with mortgage brokers.

But now that it is the Democrats' turn to take the heat on corruption issues far more serious than someone's sexual indiscretions, the mainstream media suddenly play dumb at the very least and at the very worst contend that it is 'no big deal,' as PBS' Jim Lehrer actually had the gall to say about the Blagojevich scandal.

No story in the news today depicts any more clearly the glaring bias of the media when it comes to reporting political corruption. If a Republican goes bad, it is front-page news that he/she is a Republican and that the Party is up to its neck in a 'culture of corruption.' But when a Democrat goes bad, you are lucky to discover the person's Party affiliation without doing some digging.

An essay at Newsbusters entitled 'What About the Democrats' Culture of Corruption?' fills in all the details of this travesty of journalism in our time.