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What Barack Obama should have said when Hillary attacked him:
Barack Obama missed a golden oppor tunity during the Democratic debate the other night.
Hillary Clinton archly accused him of having represented a Chicago slumlord while practicing law - and Obama immediately went on the defensive.
The Illiniois senator blathered on about a church group that had partnered [...]

Culture of corruption.

“Patriotism,” Democrat style.

What’s it all about, Alcee?

Justice long delayed, but justice nonetheless. The Supreme Court has the final word on the case of Seattle Dem Rep. Jim McDermott’s leaking of the contents of an illegally recorded cell phone conversation between former House speaker Newt Gingrich and Rep. John A. Boehner:
U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott says he’s disappointed the U.S. Supreme Court [...]

Still just a “coincidence?”

“Coincidence.”

“Coming clean.”

So fresh and so clean.

Sour grapes: “The prize is not necessarily an enviable one”.

South Jersey sewer.

The stench in Texas.

What a waste.

Cleaning the GOP’s house.

Dirty Jersey.

“Most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history.” Snort.

After all this time, Ted Stevens’ infamous Bridge to Nowhere might finally lead somewhere…perhaps a jail cell next to fellow GOP corruptocrat Duke Cunningham.

Bipartisan CYA in the Duke Cunningham scandal.

Is DiFi dirty? In January, I linked to Metroactive’s extensive investigation of Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s conflict of interests as a member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee who voted for appropriations worth billions to her husband’s firms.
Looks like Metroactive’s work may have had an effect. They report on Feinstein’s resignation from the subcommittee yesterday:
SEN. Dianne [...]

Over at Hot Air with lots o’ links.

Credit: David Lunde
As I note in today’s Vent, this still-unfolding tale underscores what a joke the Department of Homeland Security is. The mess involving the Shirlington Limousine company, the alleged prostitute shuttle service which got millions in government contracts despite a shady financial record and an even [...]

My latest column on the Democratic dumpster diving campaign by two of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s former opposition research staffers, who abused Maryland GOP Lt. Gov. Michael Steele’s Social Security number to obtain his private credit report, is up. (Thanks to Hugh Hewitt for coining the scandal name.) Excerpt:
Law enforcement officials are taking this criminal intrusion [...]

John Fund reports on the swamp of corruption in Louisiana. An excerpt:
Last year, Lou Riegel, the agent in charge of the FBI’s New Orleans office, described Louisiana’s public corruption as “epidemic, endemic, and entrenched. No branch of government is exempt.”
Louisiana ranks third in the nation in the number of elected officials per capita convicted of [...]

That was the headline I wrote a few years ago for a column on a big teachers union’ scandal in Washington, D.C., which occurred while the MSM was having seizures over the purported looting of Iraqi antiquities. The Iraqi looting story turned out to be largely bogus, as you know. Meanwhile, the D.C. embezzlement scandal [...]

AP neglects to mention the party affiliation of Tennessee state senator John Ford, who resigned after being placed under house arrest in an FBI corruption sting. Hint: he ain’t a Republican. (This earlier AP story I linked to posted at the NY Times has now rectified the omission.)
Update: Ranting Right Wing Howler does a compare [...]

Hot political story of the day is out of the Volunteer State. Huge FBI corruption sting–dubbed “Operation Tennessee Waltz“–has resulted in the arrest of four state legislators, including the uncle of recently announced Dem U.S. Senate candidate Harold Ford. State legislator John Ford apparently threatened to kill an undercover FBI agent. (Indictments posted in [...]

AP’s got the scoop on two Democratic congressmen, not just beleaguered GOP Rep. Tom DeLay, who received travel expenses initially paid by lobbyist Jack Abramoff on his credit card or by his firm. The Dems are Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, who like DeLay, says he was unaware of the payments and Rep. Bennie [...]

Hasn’t gotten much attention, but the political scandal in San Diego is huge. Joe Gandelman has a good round-up of news following Mayor Dick Murphy’s resignation last week. Two city councilmen face trial this week on corruption charges that stemmed from an FBI investigation into a local strip club. The city is grappling with a [...]

They are still finding uncounted ballots in Washington state from last fall’s gubernatorial election. (Hat tip: Gerry at Daly Thoughts)
Related: According to the King County Journal, Dino Rossi is ruling out a run for U.S. Senate against inumbent Democrat Maria Cantwell in 2006. He was considered the GOP’s best hope. (Hat tip: Doverspa at Red [...]

The Washington Times reports:
Stephanie Tubbs Jones, an Ohio Democrat who sits on the House ethics committee, took a 2001 trip to Puerto Rico that was paid for by a registered lobbyist firm — an apparent violation of the chamber’s ethics rules — according to documents that she filed with the House clerk.
A spokeswoman for Mrs. [...]

The Bush administration will not let Education Department investigators interview current and former White House officials about the hiring of commentator Armstrong Williams, Rep. George Miller asserts.
Legally, the White House is on solid ground, according to Alan Morrison, a former U.S. attorney and a law professor at Stanford University. “The inspector general has no right [...]