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(Photo of Northeastern University rally sent in from reader Scott T.)
On Sunday night, Public Policy Polling (swing state specialists) released the latest stunning numbers in the Massachusetts Senate race. Martha Antoinette Coakley is hemorrhaging independents and the enthusiasm gap is widening as the Bay State heads into the January [...]

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 [...]

Reid’s “Macaca” moment.

Harry Reid thinks you’re a racist for opposing the government health care takeover. He’s using your money to pay off Demcare wobblers. Nevadans are getting sick and tired of him. His fellow Democrats are dropping like flies.
And tomorrow, Dingy Harry will be in Las Vegas for a health care event. Organizing for America is [...]

Charter member of the Team Obama Culture of Corruption
During the Christmas break, corruptocrat Sen. Chris Dodd held a press conference hailing the Senate government health care takeover bill. But he couldn’t distract from the stink of his ethics scandals and his mounting unpopularity at home.
A prescient constituent heckled him during the press conference:
“You’re not gonna [...]

“You’re not gonna get re-elected.”

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 [...]

Keeping score.

If you are a normal person, today was a day for family, faith, football, and holiday get-togethers.
While you’ve been busy this Sunday before Christmas, the Senate has been hurtling toward a cloture vote on Demcare.
As I noted early this morning, the Senate will proceed to a cloture vote on the Reid-Baucus-Dodd-Harkin amendment at 1:00am [...]

Sellout Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) got his Cash-for-Cloture Christmas present early: Special Medicaid expansion subsidies for his state ($45 million for starters over the next decade). The budget-strapped governors of every other state in the union ought to be crying foul.
*Update: CBO now says Nelson’s Cornhusker Kickback will cost $100 million for Nebraska. Vermont and [...]

I noted Barney Frank’s cave-in to CBC demands for a $6 billion payoff on the House Dems’ financial industry power grab yesterday.
Well, the “reform” package passed this afternoon 223-202 with all Republicans and 27 Democrats voting no.
The roll call vote is here.
Democrat Rep. Barney Frank’s counterpart in the Senate, corruptocrat Sen. Chris Dodd, is shepherding [...]

If you want breathless, celebrity tabloid treatment of the first Obama White House state dinner — who wore what, who came with whom, what they ate — go somewhere else. This is a closer look at the cronies, czars & corruptocrats whom Obama wined and dined last night.
- SEIU president/top White House visitor Andy Stern [...]

Weekend at Harry’s.

He’s pulling out the stops in Washington with a swine flu power grab and a “financial reform” bill to distract from his ethics quagmire, but corruptocrat Sen. Chris Dodd isn’t fooling home state voters.
Continuing his year-long slide in the polls, the latest numbers show Dodd falling further (h/t DrewM at Ace of Spades HQ):
Connecticut Sen. [...]

Hold still. It’s gonna hurt.

Hmmm. The Associated Press reports that several financial giants in New York received swine flu vaccine doses while other at-risk residents continue to wait in long lines for limited supplies:
Some of New York’s biggest companies, including Wall Street giants Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, received doses of swine flu vaccine for at-risk employees, drawing criticism that [...]

Transparency my foot.
In its typically bass-ackwards way, the Democrat majority has released the 1,500-plus Baucus health care bill…a week after passing it in committee.
Here it is in PDF form.
But don’t invest too much time reading it.
Because in the Dems’ typically non-transparent way, it’ll be melded, molded, and amended behind closed doors:

It’s important to remember that [...]

“Reckless.”

Culture of corruption.

My column last week on Pay Czar Kenneth Feinberg spotlighted his declaration of authority to retroactively “claw back” CEO compensation packages offered by TARP recipients that he deemed “excessive.”
Reuters reports today that His Highness the Special Master of Compensation himself has raked in some hefty compensation packages:
The “pay czar” tasked by the U.S. government with [...]

“It was killed in Washington.”

“…you should have exercised more vigilance.”

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Dodd and Obama: Corrupt birds of a feather
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
Everything you need to know about false Hope and Change can be found in one picture: The image of President Obama embracing embattled Sen. Chris Dodd.
The embattled Democrat is in deep doo-doo over his Countrywide sweetheart home loan deals, corporate bailout cash, [...]

They lied.
They lied.
They lied.
Let’s repeat that one more time:
They lied:
Despite their denials, influential Democratic Sens. Kent Conrad and Chris Dodd were told from the start they were getting VIP mortgage discounts from one of the nation’s largest lenders, the official who handled their loans has told Congress in secret testimony.
Both senators have said that at [...]

Ever since we saw Up, our family has made a game of giving out “Cone of Shame” awards. Thought it would make a great blog feature, too.
The inaugural award winners:

Barbara Boxer, for last week’s naked display of liberal condescension, vapidity, and tone-deafness in her “I’ve got a black person’s report right here!” rejoinder to National [...]

Sen. Chris Dodd is an unrepentant crony Democrat caught up in multiple sleazy scandals, hypocrisy, and lies that have turned off his constituents and his own local party leaders.
Sen. Orrin Hatch is the vice chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
What the hell is Sen. Hatch doing praising Dodd as “one of the better Senators [...]

Well, this is one hurdle down on the road to socialized medicine. Time to ramp up the resistance, folks.
The NYTimes is thrilled to report:
Voting on strict party lines, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee approved a bill on Wednesday to revamp the nation’s health care system, as Democrats said that the legislation held [...]

Chris Dodd’s cottage in Ireland, a joint purchase facilitated by crony contributor and convicted insider trader Edward Downe, is magical.
Watch it magically appreciate:
A new appraisal more than doubles the value of U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd’s Irish cottage, a vacation home that is the subject of an ethics complaint by a conservative group that questions if [...]

Asshats In Government.

I mentioned in my liveblog of the POTUS/TOTUS show that President Obama got testy when asked by Ed Henry why his administration took so long to respond publicly to the AIG bonus botch. RCP clipped the video:

OBAMA: “It took us a couple of days because I like to know what I’m talking about before I [...]