Most Corrupt Politicians List is out! Guess Who's on it.

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, has released its annual Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians for 2009. It includes some pretty big names! One year plus into the era of Hope and Change, we are seeing a lot of the same ol', same ol'. (Note: Political corruption is not exclusively for old white guys.)

A sampling:

1. Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT): This marks two years in a row for Senator Dodd, who made the 2008 "Ten Most Corrupt" list for his corrupt relationship with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and for accepting preferential treatment and loan terms from Countrywide Financial, a scandal which still dogs him. In 2009, the scandals kept coming for the Connecticut Democrat. In 2009, Judicial Watch filed a Senate ethics complaint against Dodd for undervaluing a property he owns in Ireland on his Senate Financial Disclosure forms. Judicial Watch's complaint forced Dodd to amend the forms. However, press reports suggest the property to this day remains undervalued. Judicial Watch also alleges in the complaint that Dodd obtained a sweetheart deal for the property in exchange for his assistance in obtaining a presidential pardon (during the Clinton administration) and other favors for a long-time friend and business associate. The false financial disclosure forms were part of the cover-up. Dodd remains the head the Senate Banking Committee.
2. Senator John Ensign (R-NV): A number of scandals popped up in 2009 involving public officials who conducted illicit affairs, and then attempted to cover them up with hush payments and favors, an obvious abuse of power. The year's worst offender might just be Nevada Republican Senator John Ensign. Ensign admitted in June to an extramarital affair with the wife of one of his staff members, who then allegedly obtained special favors from the Nevada Republican in exchange for his silence. According to The New York Times: "The Justice Department and the Senate Ethics Committee are expected to conduct preliminary inquiries into whether Senator John Ensign violated federal law or ethics rules as part of an effort to conceal an affair with the wife of an aide…" The former staffer, Douglas Hampton, began to lobby Mr. Ensign's office immediately upon leaving his congressional job, despite the fact that he was subject to a one-year lobbying ban. Ensign seems to have ignored the law and allowed Hampton lobbying access to his office as a payment for his silence about the affair. (These are potentially criminal offenses.) It looks as if Ensign misused his public office (and taxpayer resources) to cover up his sexual shenanigans.

Read the entire list here.

Poll: BS Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters

Deval Patrick for President

Could this be Obama's vice-president? He certainly likes the way Patrick writes speeches! Notice how he flubs the quote, pauses, and then decides to continue anyways? Funny.

In college, when you write something without citing proper sources, this is known as plagiarism. Usually, they make a big deal about it. Obama obviously didn't think he'd get caught and he obviously wanted to take the credit for saying these things or he would have said, "I like a saying my good friend Deval Patrick has said..." or something to that effect. Patrick is a supporter and I'm sure he was honored to be quoted, even if he didn't get the credit. This should be a red flag to anyone looking at this race objectively, but obviously the Obamamaniacs think their candidate can do no evil. See Part 1 and Part 3 here. (He also like John Edwards.) In Barack Obama, we are seeing the emergence of a BS artist par excellence. You can enjoy his speeches all you want, but he needs a lot more scrutiny or he will screw you and me. (You can quote me on this.)

Huckabee: The Lord loves a cheerful receiver

Trouble for the Bush Library?

From librarian.lishost.org

A group of Methodists is stepping up efforts to force a church vote in July on whether Southern Methodist University has the right to lease out land for the George W. Bush Presidential Library and policy institute….

Rev. Andrew Weaver, an SMU alumnus who is spearheading a fight against the land deal from New York, said he hopes to force a vote at a regional meeting in Dallas in July and persuade delegates not to ratify the mission council action.

Professors at Southern Methodist University who are worried about plans to create a George W. Bush policy institute there have said that they don’t want a partisan center to hurt the institution’s academic reputation.

Faculty critics say that although many of them disagree with President Bush’s policies, they would not object to a library-oriented archive and museum — and they say that in discussions with professors, the university has discussed a vision for such a Bush center. But creating an academic center with a specific goal of boosting the Bush image and agenda strikes many professors as antithetical to a university’s academic values.

YouTube - Ron Paul Considered

Carl Cameron: "Ron Paul knocked it out of the ballpark."

Ron Paul Goes to the Zoo

Fun little video—check it out!

A Push-Poll Scandal?

For anyone not yet convinced that Huckabee hasn't earned his nickname "The Huckster", check this out from Newsweek:

"A nonprofit group accused of using aggressive telephone 'push-polling' to attack opponents of GOP hopeful Mike Huckabee shares major donors with Huckabee's official presidential campaign, according to government records.
Common Sense Issues is a tax-exempt group registered in Delaware whose organizers have acknowledged the use of controversial telephone polling tactics to promote Huckabee's presidential bid—and allegedly to trash the campaigns of the former Arkansas governor's rivals. The nonprofit also helped set up and run Trusthuckabee.com, a Web site that was involved in front-line efforts to recruit and mobilize Huckabee supporters to turn out for the Iowa caucuses.
Rival candidates have criticized Common Sense Issues's tactics, questioning whether the group's ties to the Huckabee campaign are really arms-length—as required by federal law. The Huckabee campaign has distanced itself from Common Sense Issues, renouncing its support and joining his rivals in calling for investigations into the nonprofit's activities."

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Here's a recording of one of these polls! Where's Ron Paul?

John McCain, the Admiral's Son

From the US Veteran Dispatch:

"When two U.S. Army enlisted men were captured by the Viet Cong in 1963, they were plunged into an ordeal that would prove to be a relentless trial of body and spirit by torture. Once they were finally freed, however, their trials began all over again, when their statements critical of the U. S. Vietnam policy landed them in a military court facing a capital offense for violating the military Code of Conduct by 'aiding the enemy.'

But, if your name is John McCain and your father and grandfather were famous admirals, violating the Code of Conduct by 'aiding the enemy' translates into fodder for a political career, book deals, and adulation bordering on sainthood.

Even though news reports of McCain collaborating with the enemy continued from the time he was captured in 1967 through 1970, the Navy never considered prosecution as an option.

Instead, Pentagon pencil pushers chose a political spin that lifted McCain, the former POW turned U.S. Senator, up to a glorified pedestal where he sprouted a halo and wings and became America's 'POW-hero' and today a presidential candidate."

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Doubting McCain

Great article! From To The Point News:

"it's hard to trust a man who is drunk - not with booze but with his ego. A man ego-drunk past the 3rd stage of drunkenness, and into the 4th.

Perhaps you have heard the joke about the 4 stages of drunkenness. The 1st stage is, 'I'm handsome!' The 2nd stage is, 'I'm rich!' The 3rd stage is, 'I'm bullet-proof!' The 4th and final stage is, 'I'm invisible!'

A 72 year-old geezer still thinks he's a dashing fighter pilot, 'Ace' McCain. That was his Navy nickname, not because he shot down enemy aircraft, but because he was a 'reverse ace,' having destroyed five of his own airplanes.

He's rich because he dumped his crippled wife who raised his kids and waited for him during his years of captivity to have an affair with then marry a hot young blonde with millions from her millionaire father - millions that financed his run for office.

He thinks he's bullet-proof because his career is built upon a pose of being not just a war hero, but more of a war hero than any other war hero. And he is so ego-drunk that he thinks all the skeletons in his closet are invisible."

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The Crying Game

Please Note: There are no references to Hillary being a man in this video. (She has been known to cry for a few votes, though.)

If this campaign were a jet...

...McCain would crash it!

John McCain: No, You Can't

Okay, here come the parodies!

It's Official: John McCain Is a Joke!

This is just the tip of the iceberg. It's a good thing we'll have a brokered Republican Convention.

Is John McCain Electable?

What Awaits Senator McCain, if elected

If the swift boat vets was effective, wait until everyone hears about "Songbird" McCain
Wow, lots of interesting info on McCain. If even a fraction of this is correct and can be corroborated, McCain will never, ever be elected.

Montana Paper Eats Crow, Apologizes to Ron Paul Supporters

From the Montana Kaimin:

"Last night, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul won more delegates than any other candidate at the Missoula County Republican Caucus. Despite the now obviously high levels of support, the Montana Kaimin did not run a single article on Paul, nor did we include him in our election prediction scorecard.
To Paul supporters in Missoula, and specifically at the University of Montana, the Montana Kaimin regrets this omission.
In excluding Paul, we stifled both his message and supporters. Cutting people out of the political process is anything but democratic, as several readers have correctly pointed out."

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Comment on RP Speech in WV

I hate to say this, but some people are finding out about Ron Paul and his ideas a day late and a dollar short. Here's an interesting article on the Texas congressman's speech to the West Virginia delegates at their GOP convention yesterday.
Here was my comment:
"The idea of Letters of Marque and Reprisal came out on September 12, 2001, the DAY AFTER the attacks in NY and Washington. Read here: http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=755
Ron Paul is on the ball! These other candidates are a bunch of clowns! Also, Ron Paul is anything but an isolationist. He is the only one who wants to trade with Cuba and with any other country that would want to trade with us. No other candidate had the political balls to say this in Miami, including Fred Thompson who favors cuban cigars. Lets stop borrowing money from China to give to Israel and Pakistan! Lets stop being the world's policemen. It costs us too much and gives us nothing in return except the contempt of the world."

Heard on the Internet

I'm not sure who originally authored this line, but it wasn't me. Still, it's a hoot.

McCain wears Depends. Huckabee depends on McCain and Romney depends on Huckabee dropping out. Who wins? Depends.

Ecuador wants military base in Miami

NAPLES (Reuters) - Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa said Washington must let him open a military base in Miami if the United States wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador's Pacific coast.

Correa has refused to renew Washington's lease on the Manta air base, set to expire in 2009. U.S. officials say it is vital for counter-narcotics surveillance operations on Pacific drug-running routes.

"We'll renew the base on one condition: that they let us put a base in Miami -- an Ecuadorean base," Correa said in an interview during a trip to Italy. "If there's no problem having foreign soldiers on a country's soil, surely they'll let us have an Ecuadorean base in the United States."
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