The Democrat culture of corruption takes charge

Don Surber:

AP finally reported Democrats take the Senate, which means that body’s majority leader will be Harry Reid. He was the mentor for Dario Herrera, the Clark County commissioner who is now serving 4 years+ in the federal hoosegow for being corrupt. Before Herrera got tangled up in Strippergate, he helped out Reid by overruling the zoning board and upping from residential to commercial some property owned by a shell company. That quadrupled the property’s value, netting Reid $1.1 million in profit.

Nancy Pelosi will be the richest House speaker ever. She will appoint as head of intelligence a federal judge who accepted a $150,000 bribe. Alcee Hastings was impeached, ran for Congress and sat on his behind long enough to gain the seniority necessary to be the next intell head.

Her Ethics Committee chairman could be Alan Mollohan, who is under federal investigation for a kickback scheme in which he created five nonprofit orgs back “home” (well, in West Virginia) staffed by friends and former staff members. He fed those orgs a quarter-billion in federal money. They contributed to his campaigns.

If Mollohan is still too toxic for that duty, he will still head a subcommittee in appropriations, alongside William Jefferson, who will head the trade subcommittee. Jefferson knows all about trade having stuffed $100,000 in cold cash from Nigerian officials in his freezer. Jefferson faces a runoff election in Louisiana

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Even the NY Times notice the Dems corruption in its tribute to Pelosi. If Pelosi puts Hastings in charge of the intelligence committed she will be admitting that the Democrats culture of corruption theme was cynical instead of substantive.