Most Corrupt Politicians of 2009

Original Post on Desk of Brian: State of the Nation by Brandon Jones at DeskofBrian.com

No real surprises on this list.

 

The same old names just keep showing up over and over again.

 

#1 - Christopher Dodd, recently retired Senator from Connecticut headlines the list as Dodd continued his shady past with backroom deals with Countrywide, Fannie and Freddie Mac and now, undervalued property in Ireland which is leading to a new investigation.

 

#2 - Republican John Ensign (pictured here) ranks number two as Judicial Watch site a NY Times article which aptly summarizes the Ensign scandal:

 

"The Justice Department and the Senate Ethics Committee are expected to conduct preliminary inquiries into whether Senator John Ensign violated federal law or ethics rules as part of an effort to conceal an affair with the wife of an aide."

 

#3 - Barney Frank: Fannie and Freddie Mac -- nuff said to quote Marvel Comic Books.

 

#4 - Timothy Geithner's tax evasion and ties to the AIG corruption lands the Treasury Secretary in the top five.

 

#5 - Eric Holder, the Attorney General arbitrarily decides what to investigate and what to sweep under the rug.

 

#6 - Jesse Jackson Jr./Roland Burris: How much for the Senate in 2010? Seriously, how much?

 

#7 - President Obama and #8 - Nancy Pelosi - nothing needs to be added here.

 

#9 - Recently deceased John Murtha and the PMA seven, a defense lobbyist group that has finally been shut down. Murtha's family was receiving millions along with the PMA earmarks.

 

#10 - Charles Rangel - has he paid his taxes? That's all I'll say.

 

 

The list is hardly shocking. Previously Republicans graced the Top Ten board proving what little "Change" President Obama actually brought to Washington.

 

What interesting is if you look at the older lists, Judicial Watch did a great job of including stories and corruption that we're still discussing today.

 

Same corruption, just with different letters after their names.

 

 

 

2009 Most Corrupt Politician List

 

2008 Most Corrupt Politician List

 

2007 Most Corrupt Politiican List

 

2006 Most Corrupt Politician List

Brietbart to AG Eric Holder: Investigate ACORN or we'll release more

Recently the courts were defending ACORN's Constitutional right to receive Federal Funds after they've been allocated. Despite some outrage and justified frustration, Breitbart's BigGovernemnt.com has announced more to come if Eric Holder, the Attorney General doesn't investigate ACORN.

Thanks to Brian, who sent me this, because I don't watch Hannity and would have overlooked it:


Breitbart: There’s a lot of hypocrisy and the dust has settled for ACORN and at the end of the day they’ve recognized that Eric Holder, the Attorney General, has not initiated an investigation into ACORN after we now have seven tapes. There were five initially that came out, ACORN was defunded by the Senate, was defunded by the House, lost it’s link to the Census; while all that damage occurred, Congress didn’t come in to investigate them, obviously not the Attorney General’s office, and they’ve now realized let’s get back into business because they realized that the dust settled and they were not being investigated, it was Hannah, James, and me who were being investigated, that’s why we’ve been forced to offer this latest tape.

(NOTE: that would be James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles who posed as a pimp and prostitute to film these videos -- BBJ)

Hannity: Are you saying, Andrew, that there are more tapes?

Breitbart: Oh my goodness there are! Not only are there more tapes, it’s not just ACORN. And this message is to Attorney General Holder: I want you to know that we have more tapes, it’s not just ACORN, and we’re going to hold out until the next election cycle, or else if you want to do a clean investigation, we will give you the rest of what we have, we will comply with you, we will give you the documentation we have from countless ACORN whistleblowers who want to come forward but are fearful of this organization and the retribution that they fear that this is a dangerous organization. So if you get into an investigation, we will give you the tapes; if you don’t give us the tapes, we will revisit these tapes come election time.

Hannity: This is a blockbuster, what you’re saying here. You guys have more tapes, you’ll release them before the election, that could have a big impact on the election, obviously…



I don't care for the blackmail, election time threat, but the point is loud and clear: they have enough to investigate and prosecute individuals in ACORN.

They have not.









http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/20/breitbart-to-ag-holder-investigate-acorn-or-well-release-more-tapes-just-before-2010-election/

ACORN "singled out" and keeps Federal Funding: http://brandon7221.blogspot.com/2009/12/acorn-singled-out-federal-funding.html

ACORN Connections Obama - Patrick Gaspard: http://brandon7221.blogspot.com/2009/10/another-acorn-falls-from-obamas-tree.html

Obama lies about knowing ACORN federal funded: http://brandon7221.blogspot.com/2009/09/during-president-obamas-media-tour.html

Original videos broke: http://brandon7221.blogspot.com/2009/09/you-make-difference.html

ACORN's "DUMP SCANDAL" in which the San Diego discarded massive amounts of documents prior to investigation: http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/23/breaking-san-diego-acorn-document-dump-scandal/