Sen Feinstein caugh with mitt on cookie jar

[FlyFish]

Not to cut and paste too much but it seems that this leader of the party of compassion and ethics has been the ranking Dem of a committee that has given over a billion dollars in contracts to companies controlled by her husband.  Oops

This blurb from "the Hill", hardly a right-wing source...

""If the inferences finally coming out about what she did while on Milcon prove true, she may be on the way to morphing from a respected senior Democrat into another poster child for congressional corruption.

The problems stem from her subcommittee activities from 2001 to late 2005, when she quit. During that period the public record suggests she knowingly took part in decisions that eventually put millions of dollars into her husband’s pocket — the classic conflict of interest that exploited her position and power to channel money to her husband’s companies.

In other words, it appears Sen. Feinstein was up to her ears in the same sort of shenanigans that landed California Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R) in the slammer. Indeed, it may be that the primary difference between the two is basically that Cunningham was a minor leaguer and a lot dumber than his state’s senior senator.""


Now, I thought the Dems were frowning on this sort of thing.  In fact, during the campaigns last fall I was made to understand that the Culture of Corruption was a Republican thing.  Interesting...and how the hell did contracts this big not get awarded to Halliburton?  Cheney must have been asleep at the switch.


Rationalization, deflection, and spin for our left leaning cousins welcomed...

[anacostiakat]

:rotf: 

[esqted]

Earmarks are the single most corruptive force in politics.

[Rooster]

Was watching some show, can't remember what one. 'And what happens to little kids who lie?'
'They grow up to be Democrats!'
I LMAO @ that one!!!