…continued from yesterday

 

Representative Rick Renzi, an Arizona Republican, is currently under investigation by the FBI. Agents recently searched his house and his wife’s insurance office. They were looking for  documents that might substantiate charges that Renzi’s businesses improperly paid for his first congressional campaign. He is also being investigated for legislation he introduced that benefited a defense contractor. That contractor is a heavy contributor to Renzi’s past campaigns and also employs his father. There is also a land swap deal that Renzi was trying to facilitate that would have put a huge profit in the pocket of a friend and business partner. When accused of malfeasance in the deal, Renzi originally denied knowing his ex-business partner owned the land. Later on, he recanted that denial. Renzi has resigned from all this committee assignments and is under heavy pressure to resign from congress.

Representative David Ritter-Republican of Louisiana was named as a customer of both the D.C. Madam and a brothel in Louisiana. He’s probably in more trouble with his base than those who are stealing from the taxpayers. Through some kind of twisted logic, the Republicans in Washington are more concerned with sexual promiscuity than outright thievery. I don’t know if that’s because most of them are involved with the latter and not so much the sex! Whatever it is, I for one, would rather see these politicians fucking the hookers than the taxpayers!

While we’re at it, we don’t want to forget Bob Ney, Republican Congressman from Ohio who was convicted and sent to jail for his dalliance with Abramoff.

And then there’s the infamous William Jefferson, Democratic Congressman from Louisiana, He’s the congressman who took a bribe of $100,000 in marked money from an Northern Virginia investor who was wearing an FBI wire. This transaction was also videotaped. When agents searched his home they discovered the marked money wrapped in foil and in his freezer! Now, this happened over two years ago and not only is Jefferson still walking around a free man, he is still a Congressman! I don’t know what the hell the problem is but it seems to me that if you record a crime, both audio and video, give MARKED money to the culprit and then find that money, a few days later, in his home freezer, then you should have a case. However, no indictment has come down, no trial date has been set and Jefferson is still wandering around Washington declaring his total innocence! Go figure…

Could it be that most everyone in Washington D.C. is so god-damned corrupt that they don’t dare put a fellow politician on trial! I don’t know the answer to that question but I do know that you can be sure this problem of corruption in Washington is similar to the old adage about cockroaches – “…for every one you see there’s 80 you don’t see!”