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My syndicated column today gives you a handy overview of all the president’s campaign finance bundlers — many of whom were spotlighted in Culture of Corruption. The Washington Times and USA Today shed more light on the money men and women with access to the White House. Same old, same old.
The Obama White House: Bundlers’ [...]

There’s a new website dedicated to exposing White House senior adviser/Chicago consigliere/real estate mogul Valerie Jarrett.
Call her out.
Policing Obama’s culture of corruption takes eternal vigilance.

Stephanie Villafuerte, evader.

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 [...]

So, the GOP leadership is waking up to Team Obama’s “Chicago-style politics.”
Here’s GOP leader John Boehner condemning the White House heavy hand.
I was in the Windy City last night for the United Republican Fund’s 75th anniversary. URF is committed to electing conservatives to office and I was impressed with the number of fresh, young conservative [...]

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 [...]

President Obama with Anita Dunn, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, and Robert Gibbs (via White House Flickr stream)
My syndicated column today follows up on yesterday’s Fox News Derangement Syndrome post. Who has Obama stocked his communications shop with, you ask? Beltway flacks for corruptocrats. Meet some of the key people behind the White House war on [...]

Legacy.

Can Charlie Rangel please stop committing new ethics and financial transgressions so the House Ethics panel can finish all the old investigations first?!
Word is just breaking on the Hill that the House ethics committee has once again expanded its probe into his corruptocracy:
A House committee voted unanimously Thursday to expand its investigation into New York’s [...]

The Congressional Black Caucus loyalty oath:
I pledge allegiance, to racial identity politics, no matter how much my corruptocrat colleague of color stinks to high heaven.
The Hill: Congressional Black Caucus comes out strong for Rangel.

Birds of a feather.

The House is scheduled to vote today on a resolution to remove corruptocrat Charlie Rangel from his Ways and Means chairmanship.
Make sure your congressional reps are on board. Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.
From GOP Rep. John Carter’s office:
Carter Joins New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Buffalo News, Minneapolis Star-Tribune in Calling [...]

Check out the latest Rasmussen numbers measuring the American public’s mood:
For nearly two years, economic issues have held the top spot in terms of importance among voters.
But the latest national telephone survey shows that 83% now view government ethics and corruption as very important, placing it just ahead of the economy on a list of [...]

When I worked in Seattle covering corporate welfare and city government, I became strange bedfellows with a diverse alliance of libertarians on the right and Ralph Naderites on the left who oppose “public-private partnership” deals between developers and statist Democrat AND Republican politicians.
These “public-private partnership” scams inevitably involve tax-increment financing gimmickry to siphon off tax [...]

GOP Rep. John Carter is not letting this go.
Keep the heat on the Democrat Culture of Corruption:
New Rangel Financial Violations Demand Removal from Ways and Means Chairmanship
(WASHINGTON, DC) – A month after House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-NY) admitted failure to report nearly a million dollars in assets on federal disclosure forms, the [...]

Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of the New York Times’ call for dirty Democrat Rep. Charlie Rangel to resign amid mounting ethics and tax evasion scandals.
U.S. Representatives John Carter (R-TX) and Steve King (R-IA) marked the anniversary on the House floor — and contrasted the Democrats’ furor over GOP Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst with their [...]

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 [...]

Government affairs.

The Democrats bloodied Republicans with the “culture of corruption” cudgel.
Republicans are finally performing some political jujitsu.
Keep repeating it and don’t give them a pass:
Action Demanded on Rangel/Geithner Tax Violations
(WASHINGTON, DC) — While Democrats continue their plan for a federal takeover of the nation’s healthcare industry, new revelations show they are incapable of effectively managing even [...]

Charlie Rangel puts a whole new twist on walking-around money.
He doled it out to Ethics Committee Democrat members walking around on the Hill.
And it’s paying off.
WCBS-TV reports:
CBS 2 HD has learned of more alleged back-door dealings and political power peddling by Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel.
The reigning member of Congress’ top tax committee is apparently “wrangling” [...]

Just got the news from Regnery this afternoon: Culture of Corruption is #1 on the New York Times best-seller list for the 5th week in a row.
Bottomless thanks again to all of you who have bought the book, shared it, spread the word, and used it as a resource to create real Hope and Change [...]

The corruptocrat from Louisiana is fighting to keep every last scrap of his ill-gotten gains — and he has enlisted his lawyer daughter to help.
Via NOLA.com:
Forrmer U.S. Rep. William Jefferson and his wife, Andrea, have filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection as the convicted ex-congressman prepares for a forfeiture hearing in his federal corruption case.
William [...]

When he’s not race-baiting, he’s tax-evading and excuse-making.
And always getting away with it.
The latest? He “forgot” to disclose between $500,000 and $1 million in unreported wealth.
Meticulous Man of the People:
Rep. Charles Rangel failed to report as much as $1.3 million in outside income — including up to $1 million for a Harlem building sale — [...]

The New Mexico Republican Party is asking pointed questions about the DOJ’s decision to drop charges against crony Democrat governor and failed Commerce Secretary nominee Bill Richardson.
It was “killed in Washington,” we’ve been told.
Who killed it and why?
Show us the sunlight, Team Obama:
ALBUQUERQUE—In response to news reports that high-level Washington DC officials in the U.S. [...]

“It was killed in Washington.”

Got the news from my publisher this afternoon that Culture of Corruption will top the New York Times best-seller list at #1 for the 4th week in a row. You can catch me tonight around 9pm-ish Eastern on Hannity on FNC, where I launched the book a month ago.
Reminder that you can buy shattered O [...]

Man, the updates to Culture of Corruption just keep piling up. Here’s another one for my Clinton and Money Men chapters:
The U.S. attorney in New York on Tuesday charged a New York investor and major Democratic fund-raiser with a $74 million scheme to defraud Citigroup Inc (C.N).
Hassan Nemazee, 59, was charged with one count of [...]

“Resource.”

Just got word that Culture of Corruption will top the New York Times best-seller list for the third week in a row.
Thanks again for continuing to support the book and spread the word!
You can catch me on Hannity tonight on FNC at 9pm Eastern and on Fox and Friends tomorrow at 7:15am Eastern talking about [...]

Read this illustrated guide from Doug Ross on why you shouldn’t:
Spread the word.
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