Archive for the 'Corruption' Category

30
Dec

Blago picks Burris to succeed Obama

Illionois Governor/Criminal Rod Blagojevich [D] will choose African-American former Illinois Atty. Gen. Roland Burris to replace President-elect Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid [D-NV] and the Democrats have promised not to seat anyone chosen by Blagojevich and I don’t think that will change. Blagojevich clearly tried to outmaneuver Reid by choosing [...]

12
Dec

Jackson Was to Host a Fundraiser for Blago

The days for Jesse Jackson, Jr.  aren’t getting any better.
The Chicago Tribune has reported that Jesse Jackson Jr. was planning to host a fundraiser to raise $1 million for Gov. Rod Blagojevich to boost his US Senate bid chances with the corrupt Goveror.
That meeting led to a Blagojevich fundraiser Saturday in Elmhurst, co-sponsored by Nayak [...]

11
Dec

Obama, Reid Call For Gov. Blagojevich to Leave

President-elect Barack Obama has called on Illionois Governor Rod Blagojevich to resign after being charged with trying to sell his relacement to the United State Senate.
Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said Gov. Rod Blagojevich needed to step down because “under the current circumstances it is difficult for the governor to effectively do his job and serve [...]

08
Dec

Haliburton is Evil

The Birmingham Star is reporting that KBR, a former subsidiary of Haliburton, is accused of some pretty treasonous and awful things.
In one class-action suit Joshua Eller, a civilian who worked for the U.S. Air Force in 2006 at the Balad air force base northeast of Baghdad, alleges KBR ‘knowingly and intentionally supplied to U.S. forces [...]

27
Oct

Stevens guilty on all 7 counts

A jury convicted Alaska Republican U.S. Senator Ted Stevens on all 7 counts relating lies Stevens told in connection with free gifts and home renovations he received from an oil contractor.
The Senate’s longest-serving Republican, Stevens was found guilty on all seven counts of making false statements on Senate financial documents.
The verdict throws the upcoming election [...]

23
Sep

John McCain loves Bermuda

And the American companies that hide their profits in Bermuda’s offshore banks love John McCain.

16
Sep

John McCain’s friends are not your friends

A great new MoveOn.org ad skewers John McCain for his ties and indebtedness to lobbyists.

11
Sep

John McCain’s revolving door

The man who says he’s made a career of fighting pork and corruption in government, is, you will not be surprised to know, a complete hypocrite.
John McCain has pledged that, if elected president, he would end the revolving-door practice of administration officials leaving office for lucrative lobbying jobs.
In an interview with Politico, the Republican senator [...]

10
Sep

Bush admin gets worse and worse

The Bush administration’s Department of the Interior is a den of corruption and prostitution and drugs.
Government officials handling billions of dollars in oil royalties engaged in illicit sex with employees of energy companies they were dealing with and received numerous gifts from them, federal investigators said Wednesday.
The alleged transgressions involve 13 Interior Department employees in [...]

09
Sep

Sarah Palin still full of crap, part 1

Sarah Palin, whose non-stop claims to be fiscally responsible have been a centerpiece of her campaign with John McCain, has once again been revealed as a total fraud.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a “per diem” allowance intended [...]

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