Truth Out Loud

May 24, 2006

Safe haven for bribes demanded by congress

Congress is demanding that their offices be off limits to law enforcement searches, sort of a diplomatic immunity from American law. Not that members of our elite ruling class are ever actually held to the standards the rest of us mere peons are subject to but it was never argued out loud where people could see the demand for privilege in it's brazen form. Its one thing to take privilege for granted it's another to rub it in our faces.

House Majority Leader John Boehner of Ohio told reporters Tuesday that the Congress will somehow speak to ''this issue of the Justice Department's invasion of the legislative branch. In what form, I don't know.''

''I've got to believe at the end of the day it's going to end up across the street at the Supreme Court,'' Boehner said.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert said the Justice Department had never before crossed a line that separates Congress from the executive branch by searching a congressional office while investigating a member of Congress.

Just think, the safest place to store dead bodies, bribes, drugs and other ill gotten gains may be congressional offices. I hope the word doesn't get out to those nefarious sorts on our streets and in our prisons, we have enough crooks in office as it is.

Posted by Sid at 12:57 AM | Comments (1) | Corruption

May 22, 2006

I have no idea how that $90,000 got in my freezer

The Democratic Representative from Louisiana, William Jefferson may have single handedly removed the "Culture of Corruption" issue from the Democratic arsenal by storing $90,000 of bribes in his refrigerator wrapped in aluminum foil. Beyond the obvious this seems to be a ridiculously low class trailer park method of handling cash in our modern society which is filled with front companies, futures trading and Swiss bank accounts. The only people I ever hear of handling cash in this manner are mobsters or drug dealers.

A Democratic congressman facing a bribery probe after FBI agents found $90,000 in his freezer denied wrongdoing on Monday and said he would not step down from his congressional seat.

Speaking to reporters, Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson said he could not discuss details of the pending federal investigation.

"There are two sides to every story. There are certainly two sides to this story," said Jefferson, adding, "This is not the time, this is not the forum" to discuss it.

Evidently it's all one big misunderstanding. I am sure when he explains how that money ended up in his freezer we are all going to get one big chuckle out of it.

Until then thanks for yanking the rug out from under your party. Seeing you in the news day in and day out as the poster child for base corruption is going to be priceless.

Posted by Sid at 06:22 PM | Comments (0) | Corruption