THE MANY FACES OF MASS CORRUPTION

Here in the “Cradle of Liberty” we’ve been condemned to what I term “Mass Corruption”. It’s the staphylococcus necrosis of corruption making the old Tammany Hall (also a Democratic contrivance) look like a Boy Scout meeting.

Within the last year we’ve had:

1. State Senator Dianne Wilkerson caught on tape stuffing money into her bar after taking a bribe from an undercover Fed.

2. Boston City Councilor (Chuck “Truth to Power” Turner) caught taking bribes on tape and then crying racism.

3. Another State Senator (James Marzilli) arrested for 5 counts of sexual assault (including asking a 60 year old woman at a bus stop “Do you have a landing strip or an afro?”) but receiving full pay and benefits while ignoring his official duties only to resign after the first of the year adding thousands to his state pension. Eight months later this scumbag hasn’t even come to trial yet!

4. The resignation of the Speaker of the House (Sal DiMasi) after numerous allegations of graft and influence pedaling.

The resignation of Sal DiMasi is particularly interesting. The prior two Speakers were removed from office after Federal convictions for tax evasion (see earlier Geitner column) and illegal gerrymandering of federal districts. Let us not forget that the President of the Senate is only one person removed from Billy Bulger. Bulger’s brother Whitey remains the FBI’s #2 Most Wanted, just behind Bin Laden. Mr. DiMasi, re-elected to the speakership by 135 of 160 possible votes only three weeks ago, in under investigation for using his influence in getting the state to pay $13 million for a bogus software package from a large corporate contributor. There’s also the matter of a THIRD mortgage on his condo given to him by his accountant who also happened to be an unregistered lobbyist for a ticket agency wanting to influence legislation. Besides defending small time mob figures early in his career, DiMasi’s biggest contributions to the Commonwealth were his autocratic strangling of one of Governor Patrick’s few good ideas, casinos in Massachusetts. Think that legalized gambling minght have hurt the business of of few of his old clients in Boston's North end? DiMasi was elected by fewer than 9000 voters in his district yet wielded near dictatorial powers across the entire state. He used his heavy handed tactics to squash a popular ballot initiative to amend the state constitution so as to preclude gay marriage ”rights” invented by the real legislature in Massachusetts, the judiciary. Initially he refused to even permit the legislature to vote on the petition. Only after the petitioners threatened to bring disbarment proceeding against to horde of lawyers which clutter the body of the House (breaching their oaths to uphold the Constitution which required that a vote be taken) was a sham vote conducted which scuttled the process. The rationale was that it would muddy the political waters in a Federal election year. Of course, that totally justified torpedoing any effort at democracy. Not that that’s unusual here in the People’s Republic. Why it was less than a decade ago hat the citizens of Massachusetts voted themselves a repeal of a Dukakis era “temporary” increase in the income tax only to be told by the legislature that it would not be implemented anyway. (This was the work of the prior Speaker, Tom Finneran. Now disbarred as a cionvicted felon, Finneran hosts a crappy radio talk show on WRKO.) Add this tidbit to DiMasi’s indictment; just in case Question # 2 (repeal of the Mass Income Tax) had passed last November, DiMasi made it known to one and all that he would see to it that the repeal would not be enforced or that the tax would be reinstituted the next day. Gee just like his crooked predecessors did with the seat-belt law repeal, TWICE!

Gee, do you think if we got a petition together to amend he Constitution so as to make President of the State Senate and Speaker of the House, staewide elective offices, the solons would let us do it? Term limits? Nevermind. They're too busy figuring out whether they want to raise the gas tax 100%, the sales tax by 2%, or BOTH. Where's Guy Fawkes when we need him!

TWO FACED FED

So let me get this straight, the head of the New York Federal Reserve, supposedly financial genius, the man now the Secretary of the Treasury, forgot to pay his taxes? How is it that anyone forgets to pay taxes? Sure, almost half of the country doesn’t pay any Federal income tax at all but anyone working at any job knows what happens on April 15th.

Tim Geitner has ZERO excuse for gaming the system and is an outright TAX CHEAT! If you or I failed to pay over $43K in income tax, or accepted reimbursement for taxes, WE NEVER PAID, our sorry asses would be in JAIL not sitting in the seat of the Secretary of the U. S. Treasury. So now we can all look forward to having our tax laws enforced by somebody who didn’t feel the need to pay them himself. PERFECT. A stunning choice President Obama! This is an appointment which falls comfortably within the liberal imperative,

“Do as I say, not as I do!”

Like disgraced former Massachusetts state senator, Dianne Wilkerson (her returns fell behind her filing cabinet for several years leading her to fail to file only her Massachusetts returns), Geitner joins the Rouge’s Gallery of “leaders” who are unrestrained by the laws which they make for others to follow. This all smells like the same aristocratic horse manure that led to the birth of this country in 1776! Two sets of laws formulated by a ruling class. The rest of us can rely upon their “Noblesse Oblige”. George III must be laughing in his grave.

There are no Obamaphiles present at this address, but I take great pride in today's' events. Ignoring ACORN and MSNBC for the time being, I believe that the free election of a black person as President of the United States is a major milestone in our history. Let us all wish him good judgment and better results for his success could be our salvation. Should the Obama Presidency veer left seeking the "Worker's Paradise", it might be another generation before a person of color gets to hold the Nation's reigns. Let's all hope that Obama is a Ford F-150 in the guise of a limousine liberal. And pray that no conservatives on the Supreme Court pass away in the next 4-8 years!

The greatest aspect of today's ceremonies however is the peaceful transition of power. Bush wasn't using the military to hang on for a 3rd term. No Cheney led Haliburton conspiracy to overthrow the process. No mass executions of the opposition from the 2 million Obamanites gathering in the Capital. Simply by playing by the rules, America reaffirms it's principles and ours.

God Bless American and long live the Republic!

Well faithful readers it's Monday morning and time once again for

My weekly rants-

On Obama: I’m actually marginally pleased about his efforts thus far. Of course I’m not a “stimulus pkg” kind of guy and Leon Panetta to lead the CIA is an obscene joke. I’m told that there will likely be mass resignations by June ’09. We’ll see. I’m hoping that Obama is a master politician, ergo, willing to feed the liberal media machine while doing the “right thing” in the background. Maybe Panetta will just be a figurehead to shut up Reid, Pelosi, the Daily Kos and Move-On.Org. Gitmo gets renamed, Disney South and the terrorist scum still get to meet Allah early. I hope all the "virgins" look like Rosie O'Donnell.


Mandatory Military Service: I've begun to wonder if the Israelis are correct in making every able bodied man and woman serve in the military. It’s always the non-military guys who either start the damn wars in the first place or think that every war is to be fought by some kind of etiquette. There are really no rules in war. You either kill the other guy or he kills you. There’s no whoopies or do-overs, if you make a mistake you’re just dead, or worse! I love “24” (started again last night) because in it wars are waged by bureaucrats but fought by soldiers. Generally the carnage of war is blamed on those who suffer from it the most. Wars are generally caused by weakness and insecurity as often as by money and power. If the bureaucrats had to live the brutality of combat for a single day, they’d all shut the hell up and we’d have a far more peaceful world.

Return to Camelot, NOT: No excitement over Caroline Kennedy. I could find a better Senatorial candidate in the Monkey Jungle. She can’t speak, has no issue, and has ZERO qualifications to hold any office above Boston City Counsel. I could care less that she seems very unsteady on her feet or looks like 70 with a broken nose. (Man I remember her from a dance at Concord Academy and she was kind of cute from 20 yds away – LOL) That the same people who crucified Palin as unqualified, mocked her attractiveness and characterized her a blithering idiot, now champion the cause of this empty vessel, galls me to no end. The media love to rave about Republican hypocrisy on “family value” issues (Larry Craig, et als) but practice not what they preach when it come to virtually any Democrat (Barney Frank, Gary Studds, Chris Dodd, Bill Clinton, John Murtha, etc). How sad.

Blago's Bluff: Governor "Blago" and the end run - Clever move by "Hot Rod" in appointing an otherwise untainted black man to the Senate. The liberals can't say no to any black other than Clarence Thomas unless he/she opposes gay marriage or wants vouchers to get their kids out of a NEA dominated public school system. SO "Blago" gets to stick his dirty finger in the face of America and Harry Reid sucks it clean. WOW, what a pillar of fortitude. Of course only a complete fool would expect to find any backbone in the "World's Most Exclusive Club".

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'Nuff said,

Your friendly neighborhood Libertarian