Archive for the ‘Waste and Fraud’ Category
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
You would have thought that Scott Brown’s election would have caused even the dimmest bulbs among Congressional Democrats to give up on showing ObamaCare down the throat of a nation violently opposed to it.
You’d be wrong.
Like some sort of ghastly, undead thing, ObamaCare has risen from the grave yet again, shambling mindlessly along the halls of congress, seeking trillions of taxpayer dollars and ever-more-elusive votes. In a way, this is the best possible result for Republicans. Instead of throwing ObamaCare to the hordes of rake-carrying peasants howling for their blood in November, Democrats seem determined to clasp the deformed beast to their bosoms in order to drag it over the finish line, even at the cost of their own (political) life. Indeed, they’re still scurrying around trying to protect their various backroom deals.
If you wanted to design the perfect storm for Republicans to retake control of the House and Senate this fall, you’d have them keep working on dragging ObamaCare across the finish line until right before the November election, when voters can do nationwide what they’ve already done in Massachusetts. Every day they keep trying to breathe life into the hdieous, undead thing brings us a step closer to that goal.
Tags:Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, ObamaCare
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
The news of Sen. John Edwards marital affairs will probably not be news to anyone who has followed the story, but the details in Andrew Young’s book The Politician seem to make him out to be an even bigger scumbag than even his fiercest critics on the right thought he was.
- Contempt for the people he claimed to represent? Check. Edwards complained about state fair appearances where “fat rednecks try to shove food down my face. I know I’m the people’s senator, but do I have to hang out with them?”
- A complete political animal with no loyalty or sense of shame or decency? Check. “Young says that Edwards would confide in him about how he thought about leaving ‘crazy’ Elizabeth, but how she plays better with American voters than he.”
- “Breck Girl” fixation on his hair? Check.
Basically, just about everything Republicans ever said about him was correct, and just about everything his supporters claimed was a lie. Edwards is just a complete slimeball, and he was almost Vice President of the United States of America.
What I wonder is: When the tell-all books on Obama come out, what are they going to reveal that’s being swept under the rug now?
Tags:John Edwards, Scumbag
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
According to left-leaning Public Policy Polling. Also, even 1 in 6 Democrats expect ACORN to commit election fraud.
Funny, all those Democratic apologists loudly claiming that “registration fraud doesn’t equal voting fraud” don’t seem to be changing the minds of voters who have to suffer the continuing indignity of only casting a single vote…
Tags:ACORN, Martha Coakley, Massachusetts, Scott Brown, Voter Fraud
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Today’s Rep. John Murtha (D-ollars)-related corruption story involves outright kickbacks from Kuchera Defense Systems Inc.:
A defense contractor with ties to Rep. John Murtha has been suspended again from bidding on government contracts, this time for paying more than $200,000 in kickbacks to another contractor turned government witness.
If you look at that CREW chart I linked to yesterday, you’ll see that Kuchera Defense Systems Inc. is part of the circle of corruption (one of several circles of corruption on that chart) for the Ervin Technical Associates lobbying firm. And which Ervin would they be technical associates of? That would be Jim Ervin, who you may remember from yesterday’s post about PharmAthene, the company to which the Obama Administration (personified by Tara O’Toole, another Murtha friend) awarded a no-bid contract for anthrax vaccines. And needless to say, just about everyone associated with Kuchera Defense Systems are heavy Murtha campaign contributors. (So many backs to scratch, and so many taxpayer dollars needed to scratch them.)
Bonus: Owner Bill Kuchera is a convicted drug dealer.
Tags:bribes, corruption, Ervin Technical Associates, Jim Ervin, John Murtha, kickbacks, Kuchera Defense Systems
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Remember Rep. John Murtha? The congressman who called his own constituents racists? You know, the John Murtha who sits as the chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee? The John Murtha whose nephew got $4 million in no-bid Defense contracts? The man at the center of the PMA Group lobbying scandal? The John Murthta who secured more than $200 million worth of taxpayer dollars for little-used John Murtha Airport?
You do? Good.
Well, guess what company got a single-source contract to produce anthrax vaccines? That would be PharmAthene, a company run by Murtha cronies Joel McCleary and James Ervin. And just who awarded the contract? That would be the Department of Homeland Security’s Under Secretary for the Science and Technology Directorate Tara O’Toole, who just happens (better sit down for this one) to be a friend of…Rep. John Murtha! (I know, it’s a shock. What are the odds?)
What would you care to bet that the same sorts of high ethical standards will be used to dole out funds for ObamaCare?
But wait! There’s still more exciting news on the Obama-anthrax front! If John Murtha’s cronies actually do succeed is producing enough anthrax vaccine, how will it be distributed in an emergency? Why, by that epitome of speed and efficiency, The U.S. Postal Service! As Stewart Baker at Skating on Stilts put it: “No one but an idiot would bet their children’s lives on that option.”
Here’s a link to CREW’s extremely informative interactive documentation of the web of corruption that surrounds Murtha, You Don’t Know Jack.
The Boot Murtha homepage may also be of interest.
Tags:anthrax, Democrats, James Ervin, Joel McCleary, John Murtha, Obama, ObamaCare, PharmAthene, Tara O’Toole
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Monday, December 21st, 2009
If there’s a theme for the Obama years, and for the Pelosi/Reid legislation Obama has embraced, it’s that of spending tremendous amounts of taxpayer dollars to accomplish almost nothing. Consider:
- The stimulus spent $787 billion dollars of taxpayer money to pretend to create fake jobs in non-existent congressional districts.
- If cap-and-trade ever makes it out of congress, it will impose hundred of billions of dollars in taxes to (maybe) lower temperatures by 0.1°C by 2100. And given that Anthropogenic Global Warming increasingly appears to be a creation of scientific fraud, probably not even that.
- And then there’s ObamaCare. It’s extraordinarily unpopular. How much will it cost? One estimate was $6 trillion, but that was weeks and untold bill revisions ago. No one knows, because no one has had the time to read all of the 2,100 page bill Harry Reid has cobbled together. Those on the right who have read significant potions believe it amounts to the government takeover of health care. And several notable doyens of the left, including Moveon.org, Howard Dean, and Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas are saying that the bill is a massive giveaway to insurance companies. Sadly, they’re both probably right. Either way, the taxpayer is still the loser.
What all three have in common?
- All are hugely expensive. How expensive no one knows, but given the vast increase we’ve seen in the cost of Social Security, Medicare, etc., my guess would be tens of trillions of dollars over the next 30 years.
- All are exteremly unpopular among the taxpayers who are being asked to foot the bill.
- All accomplish almost nothing except increase the size of the federal government and channeling money to Obama allies like ACORN and SEIU.
The way things are going, the slaughter of Democratic incumbents in the 2010 election could make 1994 look like a picnic by comparison…
Update:
Greetings Farkers!
<Troy McClure>Hi, I’m Lawrence Person! You may remember me from such Flamewars as “ObamaCare is all about choice, or rather, taking choices away from American citizens and giving them to government bureaucrats” and “From Iran to Honduras, millions of people around the world long for freedom and democracy. And wherever those seeking freedom can be found, Obama will be there…grinding his bootheel into their face”.</Troy McClure>
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And, above all, Obey the Hypnotoad!
Tags:Fark, fraud, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Obama, ObamaCare, Stimulus, waste
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
During the recession, government employees have had to make serious cutba–ha, ha, oh sorry, I could even keep a straight face while typing that. They’ve made out like bandits:
- “Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession’s first 18 months — and that’s before overtime pay and bonuses are counted.”
- 2008: there was only “one career federal worker making an annual salary of $170,000 or more at the U.S. Department of Transportation when the current recession began. Today, 18 months later, there are more than 1,600 career employees making that much.”
- “In the first six months of the year, the federal government was adding 10,000 jobs per month, and over the recession had grown the ranks of bureaucrats by 9.8 percent. The private sector, during that same period, shed 7.3 million jobs.”
- “The $448 billion appropriations bill approved last week by the House contained more than 5,000 earmarks, many of which will ultimately benefit the favored few rather than the suffering many.”
And just think of the additional billions they’ll be able to rake in for cap-and-trade and ObamaCare…
Tags:bureaucrats, deficits, fraud, Obama, waste
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
From the fine folks over at The Corner comes this wonderful, two-part story of tax dollars at work.
It seems that the Louisville African American Think Tank wanted to put on a two day “urban health summit,” and applied for, and received, a government grant. Except there seems to be a few tiny problems:
- The “think thank” in question wasn’t tax exempt, having been dissolved by the state in 2005 for failing to file annual reports.
- The board of the think tank had a, ah, “colorful” history:
- “Treasurer Theron Dunn has been arrested for theft and burglary.”
- “Secretary Terell Stoner has two full pages of charges including sexual abuse, armed robbery and assault.”
- “Yancy Davis, a director, has been arrested for drug violations, carrying a concealed weapon and child abuse.”
- Think Tank Director Rev. Gerome Sutton was once on the “Louisville’s Most Wanted” list for forging his ex-wife’s signature on her car title and failing to pay more than $30,000 in court-ordered alimony, and was also arrested for allegedly threatening to kill his ex-wife.
- Best of all: The initial $10,000 check from the state was cashed at a liquor store.
And this was from a state government. Just think: If Rev. Sutton had only applied for some of that sweet stimulus money, he’d still be receiving checks…
Tags:Democrats, Fark-ready, fraud, Kentucky, waste
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
This article by Dennis Prager nicely summarizes how left-wing policies has brought California to the verge of bankruptcy…and how Obama’s policies threaten to do that to the rest of the nation.
“The left wants America to abandon its defining commitment to individualism and replace it with a European-style nanny, or welfare, state.”
Indeed.
Tags:bankruptcy, Democrats, Obama
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
The Freedom Foundation of Minnesota brings the rocking news that the stimulus is creating jobs like mad in Minnesota!
According to the report on Recovery.gov’s own website, thanks to the Stimulus there have been 35 jobs created in Minnesota’s 57th congressional district, 6 jobs in the 14th Congressional District, 5 jobs in the 13th Congressional District, but only a measly half a job in the 11th congressional district.
Too bad Minnesota only has eight congressional districts.
Then again, maybe it’s just an honest error, and the Obama Administration accidentally included congressional districts from one of the 56 other states…
(Hat tip to Powerline).
Update 1: And Missouri.
Update 2: And Arizona.
Update 3: And New Mexico.
Update 4: And California. (The last from fellow science fiction writer Dafydd ab Hugh.)
Update 5: And New Hampshire.
Tags:Democrats, fraud, Obama, Stimulus
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