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Shady Dem drops out of Illinois lieutenant guv bid

By Michelle Malkin  •  February 7, 2010 09:51 PM

DLTDHYOTWO!*
See ya:
Scott Lee Cohen, the pawnbroker whose surprise victory in last week’s Democratic lieutenant governor primary was followed by scandalous revelations about him, quit the race tonight during the half time of the Super Bowl, saying he didn’t want to “put the people of Illinois in jeopardy in any way.”
Cohen made the tearful announcement at [...]

Obama Transportation Sec’y Ray LaHood’s high-speed rail slush fund

By Michelle Malkin  •  January 18, 2010 05:21 PM

Grabby hands.

House ethics committee foxes guard the corruptocrat henhouse

By Michelle Malkin  •  January 11, 2010 09:55 AM

Guess how many members of Congress — a swamp teeming with tax cheats, conflict of interest-laden wheeler-dealers, and corner-cutters– have been punished by the House ethics committee?

Zero, zip, nada:
Nearly three years after Congress approved sweeping ethics rules to “drain the swamp,” as incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it, no member of Congress has been [...]

SEIU Watch: More workers revolt against power-grabbing Purple Shirts

By Michelle Malkin  •  December 30, 2009 05:00 AM

“It was anything but SEIU.”

Beltway Christmas: Cash for corruptocrats

By Michelle Malkin  •  December 23, 2009 09:30 AM

My column looks at the year in Washington political bribery. And what a year it was for the Beltway’s reverse Santa Clauses, who are suspended simultaneously in mental states of denial and indignation. Democrat Sen. Mary “Louisiana Purchase” Landrieu defended her payoff while declaring that she “can’t be bought.”Democrat Sen. Tom “Iowa Bounty” Harkin dismissed [...]

Culture of Corruption: Michelle Obama edition

By Michelle Malkin  •  December 14, 2009 03:59 PM

Back on June 12, I detected Michelle Obama’s fingerprints all over the Americorps IG scandal and flagged the First Lady’s former chief of staff-turned-Americorps senior adviser, Jackie Norris.
So, this is no surprise via Byron York:
Congressional investigators looking into the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin have discovered that the head of AmeriCorps met [...]

People in “fat cat”-infested houses shouldn’t throw stones

By Michelle Malkin  •  December 14, 2009 12:36 PM

Meow.

The Demcare bribe list

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 20, 2009 11:17 AM

Payoffs from A to Z.

Culture of corruption: Holder, terrorists, Covington & Burling

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 18, 2009 02:00 PM

Update: 11/19 9am…Holder hedges on GOP request for disclosure/recusal information…

Attorney General Eric Holder, Team Obama’s Dirty Dozen (get your trading cards here)
If you’ve been paying attention, you already know all about AG Eric Holder and his DOJ staff’s national security conflict of interest as senior partner with Covington & Burling — the prestigious Washington, D.C. [...]

How do you say “You lie!” in Mandarin?

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 18, 2009 09:20 AM

Obama’s double-talk on dissent.

Chicago developer/Olympics bid pusher found dead; Update: Three prominent Windy City politico suicides in two years

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 16, 2009 12:30 PM

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Michael Scott’s name came up several times during the Obama-lympics 2016 debacle. He was one of many Chicago cronies who stood to gain from the bid.
The local papers in Chicago sniffed out his conflicts of interest as an Olympics committee member who was also involved in trying to develop a for-profit real [...]

Chicago Way story of the day: Crony job for Farrakhan’s son

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 12, 2009 12:41 PM

This is how they roll in Barack and Michelle Obama’s Chicago. The 26-year-old son of Nation of Islam chieftain Louis Farrakhan gets a $63,000 government job as a “business manager” in C(r)ook County after the Nation of Islam-endorsed C(r)ook County Board president, Todd Stroger, wins his seat.
The local Fox affiliate pressed Stroger on the patronage [...]

The Chicago way: “Why are we having a fire sale on everything in the city?”

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 26, 2009 12:55 PM

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, desperate for cash to prop up his bankrupt and broken city, will lease anything. Parking meters. Airports. Now, water.
A constituent asks: “Why are we having a fire sale on everything in the city?”
Because everything’s for sale in the city…
If the parking meter deal put a bad taste in [...]

Radical SEIU lawyer’s NLRB nomination clears Senate committee

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 21, 2009 02:21 PM

President Obama has nominated the SEIU Purple Shirts’ associate general counsel, Craig Becker, to a slot on the National Labor Relations Board. Today, the Senate HELP Committee cleared him through on a 15-8 vote without a hearing. GOP Senators Mike Enzi (for whom Becker served as a labor counsel) [correction: the GOP NLRB nominee Brian [...]

Victory against Big Labor: Home health providers reject SEIU, AFSCME power grab

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 19, 2009 04:56 PM

Over the past two weeks, I’ve reported on the grass-roots revolt by home health providers against the SEIU and rival AFSCME in Illinois.
SEIU-endorsed Gov. Pat Quinn signed an executive order in June approving collective bargaining by “individual providers of home-based support services” — effectively busting open the doors of private homes for the Purple Shirts [...]

Anita Dunn: A corruptocrat flack and a Mao cheerleader

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 15, 2009 07:53 PM

President Obama with Anita Dunn, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, and Robert Gibbs (via White House Flickr stream)
Earlier this week, I spotlighted White House interim communications director and chief Fox-basher Anita Dunn’s career-long commitment to flacking for one of the Beltway’s most entrenched and crooked creatures, Tom Daschle.
I also noted that Dunn is married to Obama [...]

Obama’s Treasury money men: “Counselor” is the new czar

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 14, 2009 10:15 AM

Same old, same old.

An illustrated guide: All the president’s Olympic cronies

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 30, 2009 05:05 AM

Photoshop: Paul Croteau
My syndicated column today — reprinted below with added links, pics, and info — gives you a rundown of the Obama cronies inside and outside the White House who stand to gain the most from the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid.
Chicagoans of all political stripes who oppose massive government funding of Mayor Richard [...]

Olympic-sized boondoggle: What Valerie Jarrett and Michelle Obama are up to

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 18, 2009 09:59 AM

Cronies.

Culture of corruption: Blago’s dead fundraiser and Team Obama

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 14, 2009 11:00 AM

You know about Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
But have you ever played Six Degrees of Roddy Blago?
Take any Blago corruption story, and you can link it to Team Obama in six easy steps or less.
Watch.
Over the weekend, Rod Blagojevich’s former chief fundraiser, Christopher Kelly, died after his girlfriend found him over his car wheel in [...]

SEIU and the “persuasion of power;” Update: St. Louis thuggery on tape

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 6, 2009 11:44 PM

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In May, I told you how the Service Employees International Union’s $61 million investment in Barack Obama paid off with cabinet appointments, executive orders, key personnel slots, and legislative goodies.
Now, the SEIU thugs are looking out for The Boss. In Tampa, Florida and St. Louis today, the Purple People turned out to [...]

Culture of Corruption Watch: Blago-gate rolls on

By Michelle Malkin  •  May 26, 2009 05:23 PM

Three items for you:
* John Ruberry tracks the latest Blago-gate revelations concerning a Burris-Blago brother wiretap first reported by the Chicago Sun-Times. More from WaPo and NYTimes.
* The Associated Press reports that Rahm-bo and Blago traded phone calls over a $2 million state school grant. No word on the F-bomb count.
Birds of a feather…
Oh, [...]

“The Blagojevich Enterprise”

By Michelle Malkin  •  April 2, 2009 11:02 PM

That’s the name of the Rowdy Roddy Blago criminal racket that the feds came up with in their indictment today.
Legal Insurrection has a handy rundown: Blago meets RICO.
I think it’s safe to say Blago and his hair were not happy today.

Earmark-zilla: FutureGen boondoggle grows even bigger

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 11, 2009 04:20 PM

The FutureGen near-zero emissions “clean coal” plant earmark championed by corruptocrat Rod Blagojevich and Democrat No. 2 Dick Durbin was the largest single earmark in the porkulus package. Sen. Tom Coburn fought to strip it out. He lost.
Now, we learn that the project has ballooned in cost to an estimated $2.3 billion.
Hey, good thing [...]

Burris, Blago, and a deadbeat son

By Michelle Malkin  •  February 26, 2009 11:15 AM

Just when you think Blago-gate can’t get any slimier, along comes another corruption angle on the story. This one involves embattled Sen. Roland Burris’s son, who — get this — serves as an Illiniois senior housing authority counsel despite facing foreclosure on his own home.
And you wonder how we ended up with a tax cheat [...]

Question the timing: Durbin supports Burris ethics probe

By Michelle Malkin  •  February 18, 2009 12:00 PM

Hmmmm. Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin took time from his Greece junket to comment on the Senate ethics probe now under way into Roland Burris’s possible perjury:
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says he believes the testimony Roland Burris gave to Illinois lawmakers about his appointment to the U.S. Senate was incomplete and a Senate ethics investigation [...]

Sen. Roland Burris in hot water: GOP demands resignation, perjury probe; Update: Burris blames questioner for not asking him about Rob Blago; Reporters laugh at Burris

By Michelle Malkin  •  February 15, 2009 04:20 PM

Uh-oh.

The”tiny” trillion-dollar Turbaconducken you don’t care about

By Michelle Malkin  •  February 13, 2009 09:05 AM

I filed today’s syndicated column on Turbaconducken before the final conference report was FINALLY posted on the House Rules Committee website late last night. Guess what’s back in the bill? Money for stadiums and museums. You’ll recall that GOP Sen. Tom Coburn’s amendment striking stimulus spending on things like Harry Reid’s Mob Museum passed. [...]

The golf cart stimulus

By Michelle Malkin  •  February 9, 2009 02:54 PM

Tee time.

“Why exactly are you here?”

By Michelle Malkin  •  February 3, 2009 10:28 PM

Laughingstock.

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