MICHELLE MALKIN is at it AGAIN

[Sebass1271]

THIS WAS POSTED ON FREEPERLAND. they are having a field day with this.

The Democrat Culture of Corruption
12/10/08 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:29:36 AM by Maxstake

The Democratic Culture Of Corruption By Michelle Malkin December 10, 2008 Editor's Note: The following column contains language that may be offensive.

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Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi can stop clucking now. For the last three years, Democratic leaders cheered GOP ethics woes. Dean accused Republicans of making "their culture of corruption the norm." Pelosi touted cleanliness as a liberal virtue. But with the eye-popping pay-for-play and bribery case against Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich topping a year of nationwide Democratic scandals, the corruption chickens are coming home to roost.

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald called the breadth and depth of charges against Blagojevich and his Democratic Chief of Staff John Harris "staggering." That's an understatement. Anything that breathed was a potential shakedown target. It's the Chicago way. Democrat Blago's so dirty he'd hit up a children's hospital for money. Oh, wait. He's accused of doing that, too.

Democrat Blago allegedly conspired to use his power to appoint President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat as a bargaining chip for financial payment. He explored trading on that authority for an appointment as Health and Human Services secretary or as an ambassador or for installment in a cushy union position. (He discussed his trading scheme with an unnamed "SEIU (Service Employees International Union) official" and unnamed "various consultants" in Washington.)

According to the criminal complaint released yesterday, he also tried to leverage his influence over the sale of Wrigley Field (owned by Tribune media company) in an attempt to get Chicago Tribune editorial writers who called for his impeachment fired -- which illustrates the very perils of media/government entanglements I warned about in my newspaper bailout column last week. His wife, Patricia Blagojevich, was apparently in on the thuggery, too. Taking a break from her first lady duties advocating "on behalf of women and children," she is heard in taped discussions about the Chicago Tribune/Wrigley Field deal telling a governor's aide "to hold up that f**king Cubs sh*t. ... F**k them."

Pelosi, champion of women as political cleaner-uppers, was unavailable for comment.

Fitzgerald says President-elect Obama was not implicated in the plethora of charges against Democrats Blago and Harris. The national media went out of their way to absolve him, too. But declaring Team Obama's hands clean -- especially with Blago crony and indicted Obama donor Tony Rezko in the middle of it all -- is premature. (And if you're wondering why I keep putting "Democrat" in front of the accused corruptocrats, it's because the mainstream newspapers can't seem to remember to identify their party prominently the way they do when Republicans are nabbed.)

Chicago's Fox affiliate reports that Obama Chief of Staff and Chicago hometown heavy Rahm Emanuel was the catalyst for the Blago takedown and suggests Rahm-bo tipped off the feds. If so, this raises more questions than it answers about who on the transition team may have talked to Blago and his shakedown artists about what and when. Needless to say, if it were the Republican Bush administration tied to the Blago bust, the White House press corps would be frothing like a pack of Michael Vick's pit bulls.

Democrats and the media can no longer rest on the old rationalization that Blago is an exception to the "we're cleaner than thou" rule. 2008 was the year of Democratic Reps. William "Cold Cash" Jefferson, Charlie "Sweetheart Deals" Rangel, and former Detroit Mayor Kwame "Text Me" Kilpatrick. It was the year Democratic Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson got caught stuffing bribes from an FBI informant down her shirt. It was the year 12 Democratic leaders and staffers in Pennsylvania's state Capitol were stung in a massive corruption scandal involving cash, sex and abuse of public office. And it was the year of multimillion-dollar embezzlement scandals at Democratic satellite offices of ACORN and the SEIU.

The Democrats have met the culture of corruption, and it looks like it ain't just elephants among the jackasses soiling public office.

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Michelle Malkin is author of "Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild." Her e-mail address is [e-mail]

[EFerrari]

1. She's such a idiot. "They did it, too" is just an admission of guilt.

[blondeatlast]

2. GOLLY NO! Mickey Mouse said something bad about Democrats?

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn...

[griffi94]

3. typical black and white conservative thinking

since there is some corruption among democrats it's ok for the repubs to be as corrupt as they want to be.
the repubs elevated corruption to an art form, and it did indeed seem to be the norm.
also, for the most part, it seems like the democrats want to root out their dirty officials where the repubs
just want everyone to shut up and not ask any questions.

they remind me of a bunch of 3rd graders "it's not my fault, they did it too"

[Jennicut]

4. Rahm said he never tipped off the feds either, duh

[chelsea0011]

5. Unlike Malkin, we don't mind frying our own if need be.

[zorahopkins]

6. Uuhy Do You Post This Stuff Here?

Honestly, uuhy do you post this garbage here?

No one cares at all what that uuingnut Malkin has to say.

I do not understanding posting her rants here on DU.

Note: In protest of the continuing occupation of OUR Uuhite House by the illegal and totally corrupt Bush/Cheney regime of thugs and cronies, I REFUSE to use the letter betuueen "V" and "X'. Instead, I use a "double u", as in "Uuhite House".