Monday, February 09, 2009
Corrupt Pols #1: GOP Chair Michael Steele
This is the beginning of a new series which I feel necessary to write as we slide quickly into an economic depression brought about by the continuance of the most corrupt government ever to exist.
Clearly, there will be opportunity to unmask most of the corrupt pols who populate positions of power from the local to the federal level in America.
Let's get the ball rolling with newly-minted GOP Chairman Michael Steele, a black politician from the city of Baltimore, Maryland, who is accused of misappropriation of campaign funds, stemming from his failed Senate run in 2006.
Steele was the first African-American to hold statewide office in Maryland, winning the Lieutenant Governor position in 2002.
For a completely cynical take on this story, in which Steele is accused of paying money to a catering company run by his sister (nepotism is nearly always a tell-tale sign of dishonesty) which had earlier been dissolved, consider that Steele was recently named Chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Having campaign contribution issues hanging over him, Steele can now be easily manipulated, as surely there are other skeletons in his closet. For the most intense side of cynicism, consider the fallout when the media begins to attack "party leaders" Obama and Steele - both black men - for the ills of the nation.
One has to wonder just who is running the government, the KKK or the John Birch Society. Maybe both.
Clearly, there will be opportunity to unmask most of the corrupt pols who populate positions of power from the local to the federal level in America.
Let's get the ball rolling with newly-minted GOP Chairman Michael Steele, a black politician from the city of Baltimore, Maryland, who is accused of misappropriation of campaign funds, stemming from his failed Senate run in 2006.
Steele was the first African-American to hold statewide office in Maryland, winning the Lieutenant Governor position in 2002.
For a completely cynical take on this story, in which Steele is accused of paying money to a catering company run by his sister (nepotism is nearly always a tell-tale sign of dishonesty) which had earlier been dissolved, consider that Steele was recently named Chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Having campaign contribution issues hanging over him, Steele can now be easily manipulated, as surely there are other skeletons in his closet. For the most intense side of cynicism, consider the fallout when the media begins to attack "party leaders" Obama and Steele - both black men - for the ills of the nation.
One has to wonder just who is running the government, the KKK or the John Birch Society. Maybe both.
Labels: Baltimore, corrupt pols, Michael Steele, US Senate
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Ready for Martial Law?
According to the New York Times and other reliable sources, the Bush administration managed to slip some language into a massive Defense Department appropriations bill last October which authorized the president to declare martial law just about as he pleases.
The language gives the president sweeping powers to use the military as a domestic police force in response to a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, terrorist attack or to any “other condition.” It's that "other condition" that has Constitutional scholars and congressmen worried.
Accordingly, there is a bill now pending in the Senate, sponsored by Senators Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, and Christopher (Kit) Bond, R-Missouri, that would repeal the provisions.
The Hill provides more insight on the issue and the proposed Senate bill.
What will these people think of next?
The language gives the president sweeping powers to use the military as a domestic police force in response to a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, terrorist attack or to any “other condition.” It's that "other condition" that has Constitutional scholars and congressmen worried.
Accordingly, there is a bill now pending in the Senate, sponsored by Senators Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, and Christopher (Kit) Bond, R-Missouri, that would repeal the provisions.
The Hill provides more insight on the issue and the proposed Senate bill.
What will these people think of next?
Labels: Martial Law, President Bush, US Senate
