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I called him a wretched dog last month, and he continues to live up (er, down) to the label.
We now know that Nevada Republican Sen. John Ensign enlisted his parents to pay off his mistress/former campaign staffer and her husband/former intimate family friend/Senate employee to the tune of $96,000. Yeah, he bollixed up his own [...]

A whopping two people have contributed a whopping $75 to the new campaign to unseat NY GOP Rep. Peter King because he called Michael Jackson a “low-life” and a “pervert.”
HuffPo is promoting this lost cause.
Shamon!

Nearly 4 in 10 Americans say their views are growing more conservative, according to a new Gallup poll:
Despite the results of the 2008 presidential election, Americans, by a 2-to-1 margin, say their political views in recent years have become more conservative rather than more liberal, 39% to 18%, with 42% saying they have not changed. [...]

Who railroaded the Amtrak inspector general?
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
Watchdogs are an endangered species in the Age of Obama. The latest government ombudsman to get the muzzle: Amtrak inspector general Fred Weiderhold. The longtime veteran employee was abruptly “retired” last month –just as the government-subsidized rail service faces mounting complaints about its meddling in [...]

Introducing the GOP’s Cap-And-Tax 8…

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti
I listed them earlier tonight, but am breaking out a separate post to spotlight them again.
The 8 cap-and-tax Republican turncoats again are:
Bono Mack (CA) (202) 225-5330
Castle (DE) (202) 225-4165
Kirk (IL) (202) 225-4835 (And he’s seriously considering running for Senate!)
Lance (NJ) (202) 225-5361
LoBiondo (NJ) (202) 225-6572
McHugh (NY) (202) 225-4611
Reichert [...]

I don’t find anything funny about the Sanford affair. It’s the mom in me thinking about four handsome boys on Father’s Day weekend abandoned by their stupid, selfish father, who was busy tanning with his mistress in Argentina. Heart-breaking. Yes. Nauseating. Yes. Maddening. Yes. Funny? No.
Cruel derision crude humor are to be expected of the [...]

Unlike other self-esteem-lacking wives of cheaters, Jenny Sanford shows real courage, class, and dignity in her statement to the press — and in her decision NOT to stand by her adulterous husband at his public confession.
Godspeed, Mrs. Sanford. Via McClatchy:
I would like to start by saying I love my husband and I believe I have [...]

It’s the only fitting word for a man who abandons his wife and four sons on Father’s Day weekend to indulge his “overdrive” on an Argentinian fling.
Mark Sanford: Bastard.
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If you missed Sanford’s rambling, surreal disaster of a press conference, consider yourself lucky.
He had a hell of a lot more passion and pathos for his mistress [...]

The Right’s best legal minds have been exposing radical leftist Stuart Koh, President Obama’s State Department legal adviser nominee, for months.
On Wednesday morning, the Senate votes.
From the folks at No Koh:
Harold Koh has been nominated to be the State Department Legal Adviser, a position that would make him the voice of the United States around [...]

I weighed in on the Ensign affair early this morning.
Just in: Ensign will resign his GOP leadership post as head of the Republican Policy Committee.
Only one word to add to what I’ve already said:
Good.

Ugh. What a wretched dog. GOP Sen. John Ensign of Nevada cheated on his beautiful wife — the mother of his three children — with a campaign aide who was married to one of his Senate staffers. He rode his high horse as a guardian of marriage and Promise Keepers. And then he only admitted [...]

Down the drain.

Slush fund.

Community service, Obama-style.

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 [...]

Culture of corruption.

Jury selection is now underway in the William “Cold Cash” Jefferson corruption trial. My syndicated column today revisits the case as a new Rasmussen poll shows Democrats losing to Republicans on ethics and corruption.
Cold cash, hot Democrat mess
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
Remember William “Cold Cash” Jefferson? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Clean-Up Crew hope [...]

It’s so rare to hear a Hollywood dissident speak as candidly as Jon Voight did last night at the NRSC-NRCC fund-raiser last night. Brave man. Here’s the clip. And thank you, too, Mr. Voight!

Eeenteresting (via City Room, hat tip–The Anchoress):
Republicans seized control of the New York State Senate on Monday, in a stunning and sudden reversal of fortunes for the Democratic Party, which controlled the chamber for barely five months.
A raucous leadership fight erupted on the floor of the Senate around 3 p.m., with two Democrats, Pedro Espada [...]

Photoshop: Suitably Flip
Finally. Nearly four years after FBI agents discovered nearly $90,000 in purported bribe money stuffed in Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson’s freezer, the Democrat is finally going on trial this week. He faces 16 federal bribery and public corruption charges. NOLA sums up:
While the “cold cash” came to symbolize the case on the Internet [...]

I gave you a heads-up last month about the coming $108 billion IMF bailout.
Sens. DeMint and Coburn have been watchdogging the foreign giveaway.
What’s the latest? The Democrats are trying to tack the foreign bailout to the emergency war supplemental bill!
A glimmer of encouraging news: It’s not just fiscal hawks who are balking at this [...]

Politico pimps for Playboy.com.

Saw this yesterday in the Denver Post. Restaurants in the Mile High City are fried over the latest tax grab:
Colorado Restaurant Association Big Cheese Pete Meersman is afraid the city of Denver’s Department of Revenue is jumping out of the frying pan and into the fryer.
At issue? During some recent restaurant-industry audits, the city has [...]

So, the president is going to tell us who his computer security czar soon.
Let’s hope it’s not the same person who ran the Obama campaign’s grossly insecure online credit card donation operations.

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, [...]

Two items from today’s CYA Congress:
1) House Democrats block Republican call for probe of Pelosi
There was political theater, drama, but no surprise ending on Thursday on a topic involving spies, torture and truth in the Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives.
Republicans again ripped into Speaker Nancy Pelosi for accusing the CIA of misleading Congress — and [...]

From the most ethical Congress ever, yet another investigation into Democrat cronyism. Sister, sister (via Roll Call):
The House ethics committee is reviewing whether the chamber’s rules were broken when Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.) put three of Rep. Loretta Sanchez’s (D-Calif.) aides on her own payroll in late 2006 because of a budget shortfall in her [...]

Regular readers will remember Mauricio Celis.
Guest-blogger See-Dubya was on the Friend of Hillary’s trail in January 2008, tracked his Mexican money laundering ties and bizarro police impersonation antics, and reported on his indictment.
Today, he was re-sentenced to 10 years’ probation for impersonating a lawyer. It’s the Demo-crook wrist slap of the day:
A judge threw out [...]

The House Republicans are not letting up on Nancy Pelosi. Good.
GOP House Leader Boehner says put up the evidence that the CIA lied or apologize:

And the House GOP Conference is pounding the Democratic culture of corruption: “Tonight, House Republican Conference Secretary John Carter will lead Special Orders live on CSPAN to review where we are [...]

Several Utah media outlets report tonight that GOP Gov. Jon Huntsman will step down and accept President Obama’s nomination as US ambassador to China.
Governor Jon M. Huntsman Jr. will resign and accept an appointment as ambassador to China, ABC 4 has confirmed.
A press conference has been called for Saturday morning at the White House to [...]