Democrats are stealing us blind, and they are only getting started.
Here's how the Democrats “drained the swamp” and ended the Republicans’ “culture of corruption” on Capitol Hill: Roll Call recently reported that three top Democrats on the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee got more than $100 million in earmarks for clients of the PMA Group, an Arlington-based lobbying shop run by their former chiefs of staff.
The earmark recipients coincidentally (we are supposed to believe) donated $542,350 during the first half of this year to the ethically challenged trio — Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., and Rep. Peter Visclosky, D-Ind. This cozy arrangement is apparently OK under the House’s new ethics rules. “Unless you can demonstrate a quid pro quo, it’s hard to prove campaign contributions were made to yield an earmark,” Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, told The Examiner.
Ellis says the only reason former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, R-Calif., was convicted on bribery charges was because “he was dumb enough to write it down.”
Still, it’s hard to believe anything good about these slimy deals. Bloomberg.com reports that Visclosky sponsored a $2 million defense earmark for the Samueli Institute for Information Biology, founded by California billionaire Henry Samueli and his wife, Susan, who are among the Indiana Democrat’s top donors. But the foundation — which studies “alternative medicine” such as yoga, the medicinal use of magnets, and using homeopathy to fight bioterrorism — is not in Indiana. Its headquarters are on King Street in Alexandria, in Moran’s district. But Moran, Murtha’s point man in his unsuccessful run for House Majority Leader, also sought a $1 million earmark for the Samueli Institute in the 2008 defense appropriations bill. This was after Moran pocketed $20,000 in donations from Samueli family members. Guess who lobbies for the Institute? The PMA Group, of course.
Although such arrangements are unconscionable, they are a template for Democrats on the take.
When Democrats pass their trillion dollar tax increase, the opportunity for theft will be on a scale we can't even contemplate.
Hey, you voted for them--hand over your wallet.
By the way, "rich people" now make $100,000.00 a year according to Democrat proposals...
You get taxed so Democrat politicians can get fat and happy.
Posted by Mick Stockinger
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