Nancy Pelosi ( yeah, I know, AGAIN! ), lambasted the Republicans for being nothing but crooks. Her silence on the Democrat Culture of Corruption has been deafening. This weeks’s scandal? Dianne Feinstein.
Dianne Feinstein had been on the Military Construction Appropriations committee for six years. During four of those years, Perini Corporation and URS Corp were MAJOR recipients of the largess that is the Military Construction Appropriations committee. The good folks of California were often critical, and surprised, at Feinstein’s support of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. They never bothered to ask why very much tho. Feinstein’s husband’s company, Perini, received $500 million in Iraq and Afghanistan contracts. Now, we can assume Nancy Pelosi knows Dianne Feinstein pretty well. We can also assume Pelosi knew what Feinstein’s husband did as well. What we can also assume is Nancy said NOTHING during the entire time Feinstein was lining her pockets with BILLIONS in federal money. Feinstein was profiting off the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts very overtly while Nancy Pelosi and the DNC constantly harassed Dick Cheney for once being an employee of Haliburton. And why do you suppose Nancy kept her mouth shut during all this corruption?
| Date | Amount | Recipient |
| 09/20/2002 | $350,000 | DSCC/Non-Federal Unicorp Assoc |
| 03/31/2003 | $25,000 | Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte |
| 04/30/2002 | $20,000 | Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte |
| 10/28/2004 | $10,000 | Democratic Party of South Dakota |
| 10/23/1995 | $10,000 | Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte |
| 12/05/1999 | $7,500 | DSCC/Non-Federal Mixed |
| 09/15/1998 | $5,000 | Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte |
| 05/01/2000 | $5,000 | DSCC/Non-Federal Unicorp Assoc |
| 12/05/1999 | $3,750 | DSCC/Non-Federal Mixed |
| 06/14/1999 | $2,000 | Lieberman, Joe |
| 05/10/2004 | $2,000 | Farmer, Nancy |
| 08/06/2004 | $2,000 | Salazar, Ken |
| 03/18/2005 | $2,000 | Byrd, Robert C |
| 09/26/2006 | $2,000 | Whitehouse, Sheldon |
| 06/01/2004 | $1,000 | Daschle, Tom |
| 06/01/2004 | $1,000 | Daschle, Tom |
| 06/21/2002 | $1,000 | Bradbury, Bill |
| 06/20/2002 | $1,000 | Daschle, Tom |
| 06/20/2002 | $1,000 | Daschle, Tom |
| 06/01/1998 | $1,000 | Kerrey, Bob |
| 06/01/1998 | $1,000 | Kerrey, Bob |
| 06/15/1998 | $1,000 | Nixon, Jay |
| 06/15/1998 | $1,000 | Nixon, Jay |
| 02/13/2000 | $1,000 | Northern Californians for Good Govt |
| 01/23/1999 | $1,000 | Northern Californians for Good Govt |
| 10/15/1997 | $1,000 | Northern Californians for Good Govt |
| 08/22/1997 | $1,000 | Daschle, Tom |
| 08/22/1997 | $1,000 | Daschle, Tom |
| 07/10/1996 | $1,000 | Northern Californians for Good Govt |
| 03/20/1996 | $1,000 | Minnick, Walt |
| 10/25/1996 | $1,000 | Strickland, Tom |
| 10/20/1995 | $1,000 | Dodd, Christopher J |
| 08/15/2001 | $1,000 | Strickland, Tom |
| 08/15/2001 | $1,000 | Strickland, Tom |
| 07/26/1994 | $1,000 | Hyatt, Joel |
| 04/09/1993 | $1,000 | Willie Brown for Assembly |
| 02/23/1994 | $1,000 | Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte |
| 02/23/1994 | $1,000 | Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte |
| 03/31/1999 | $1,000 | Gore, Al |
| 06/30/1999 | $1,000 | Lieberman, Joe |
| 03/23/2000 | $1,000 | Nelson, Ben |
| 07/06/2004 | $520 | America Coming Together |
| 03/01/2000 | ($1,000) | Kerrey, Bob |
| 06/30/1999 | ($1,000) | Lieberman, Joe |
| 04/19/2005 | $26,700 | Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte |
| 03/31/2004 | $25,000 | Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte |
| 10/22/1999 | $6,605 | DNC Services Corp |
Because Howard Dean, who was screaming the loudest about Republican corruption, was taking money from the Feinsteins as fast as he could stick his hands out.
Yes folks, the entire Democrat Party was profiting from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars while Koz and all the other sheep harped on the Republicans profiting in ways they could never prove. There it is folks, in black and white. It’s overt. It’s obvious. It’s undeniable. What it also is, is cmpletely ignored by CBS, The New York Times, LA Times, etc. etc. etc.. You name a major media outlet, they’ll be on the ignoring this issue list as well. So, people like me have to rely on Rush Limbaugh and Michele Malkin. Some blogs are taking a little credit because Feinstein resigned from MILCON this week. She really didn’t have any reason to stay on MILCON any longer tho, her husband sold out of Perini and URS two years ago. Now, a lot of people will dismiss the credibility of this story because I cite Rush and Michele. I’m sure that couldn’t make Nancy, Howard, and Dianne any happier.
It just amazes me how people like Dan Rather could look the country in the face and blame it all on Dick Cheney, knowing the entire damn time it was Feinstein and the Dems making all the money off the deaths of our soldiers. And ya wanna know something else? It was that same MILCON committee shelling out billions to Feinstein at Feinstein’s direction that failed to provide adequate body armor to our troops in Iraq. And, it was that same MILCON committee handing out billions to Feinstein at the direction of Feinstein that failed to provide adequate health services to our troops that the media is whining about now.
Can we assume my "investigative" abilities are that much superior to CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, Fox, the LA Times, the NY Times, or even the BBC? Or, can we assume that because Dianne Feinstein is an uber-liberal Democrat woman from California they all chose to look the other way while she profited off the deaths of our soldiers?
Regardless, there’s a LOT of explaining that needs to be done by Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, and Howard Dean. However, I doubt CBS, ABC, NBC, or CNN will time to squeeze this topic in while they continue to dedicate every waking second to Gonzales firing a bunch of lawyers.
This lady is nuts. I ran down a laundry list of then Heinz-Kerry’s comments during the election. She hasn’t stopped since. The most recent contribution is thus:
Anyone here want to hack into the "mother machines" just to prove her right?
Disclaimer: I served as a counter for a local candidate in the last election. The votes are recorded on computerized machines, the results printed out, and those results called into county clerk’s office for official tabulation. The only time those machines are online is to update the software, which has nothing to do with the election process. I don’t know what percentage of the country those machines represent, but I do know they are very popular. As both a programmer and political "consultant", I know once again Teresa Heinz’s conspiracy theory is nutty.
29
Nov
During the 2004 Presidential election, John Edwards reached what I perceived to be the all-time low in political pandering by promising that if elected, they would have people like Christopher Reeve walking again. It was one of the few events of the race that just truly disgusted me.
Well, I may have been premature in my disgust. John Edwards may have known something. For, no sooner than the election’s over, and Bush hasn’t even been sworn in yet, we have this:
OK, this is the ultimate explanation of what is going on and what is going to happen. I wish I had done this a lot earlier to save Dan Rather a lot of heartache. For that, I apologize.
The following chart is gleaned from MSN Money and is the top retirement states in the country from first to last. I have also taken the most recent electoral prediction from Electoral vote dot com. Combining the two, you get the following information:
| DE | $0 | $543 | $133,010 | $0 | $543 | Kerry |
| AK* | $0 | $1,032 | $240,000 | $0 | $1,032 | Bush |
| KY | $0 | $274 | $163,160 | $840 | $1,114 | Bush |
| SC | $0 | $518 | $127,730 | $1,000 | $1,518 | Bush |
| NY | $0 | $912 | $120,490 | $1,120 | $2,032 | Kerry |
| MI | $0 | $1,312 | $116,900 | $840 | $2,152 | Kerry |
| MS | $423 | $362 | $113,410 | $1,400 | $2,185 | Bush |
| WY* | $0 | $1,007 | $141,680 | $1,200 | $2,207 | Bush |
| NV* | $0 | $1,346 | $165,620 | $980 | $2,326 | Bush |
| CO | $248 | $1,141 | $212,240 | $1,008 | $2,397 | Bush |
| GA | $66 | $1,388 | $162,000 | $980 | $2,434 | Bush |
| LA | $225 | $600 | $129,800 | $1,680 | $2,505 | Bush |
| ID | $399 | $1,424 | $145,950 | $1,000 | $2,823 | Bush |
| VA | $26 | $1,964 | $139,270 | $870 | $2,860 | Bush |
| IL | $0 | $1,761 | $86,680 | $1,105 | $2,866 | Kerry |
| CA | $148 | $1,669 | $165,640 | $1,085 | $2,902 | Kerry |
| AZ | $479 | $1,309 | $141,670 | $1,134 | $2,922 | Bush |
| OR | $777 | $2,160 | $139,330 | $0 | $2,937 | Kerry |
| IN | $1,013 | $1,236 | $117,690 | $700 | $2,949 | Bush |
| HI | $1,274 | $939 | $357,310 | $800 | $3,013 | Kerry |
| AL | $948 | $323 | $125,850 | $1,800 | $3,071 | Bush |
| UT | $786 | $1,190 | $150,340 | $1,320 | $3,296 | Bush |
| TN | $0 | $1,666 | $145,510 | $1,650 | $3,316 | Bush |
| NC | $455 | $1,845 | $194,380 | $1,030 | $3,330 | Bush |
| OH | $243 | $2,300 | $136,010 | $805 | $3,348 | Bush |
| OK | $817 | $900 | $90,940 | $1,675 | $3,392 | Bush |
| FL** | $160 | $2,284 | $131,680 | $980 | $3,424 | Bush |
| WA* | $0 | $2,322 | $156,280 | $1,120 | $3,442 | Kerry |
| TX | $0 | $2,332 | $152,000 | $1,155 | $3,487 | Bush |
| MA | $872 | $1,991 | $260,850 | $700 | $3,563 | Kerry |
| IA | $461 | $2,324 | $123,020 | $840 | $3,625 | Bush |
| CT | $234 | $2,561 | $125,330 | $840 | $3,635 | Kerry |
| SD | $0 | $2,565 | $131,750 | $1,080 | $3,645 | Bush |
| MT | $2,339 | $1,392 | $145,880 | $0 | $3,731 | Bush |
| MO | $589 | $2,263 | $140,860 | $1,065 | $3,917 | Bush |
| DC | $2,119 | $1,036 | $245,740 | $805 | $3,960 | Kerry |
| MN | $1,383 | $1,608 | $139,320 | $980 | $3,971 | Bush |
| KS | $1,114 | $1,506 | $91,930 | $1,360 | $3,980 | Bush |
| WV | $1,661 | $1,192 | $104,240 | $1,200 | $4,053 | Bush |
| NM | $897 | $1,946 | $329,610 | $1,288 | $4,131 | Bush |
| NB | $994 | $2,345 | $115,180 | $910 | $4,249 | Bush |
| ND | $635 | $3,194 | $144,570 | $840 | $4,669 | Bush |
| R.I. | $1,156 | $2,831 | $134,680 | $980 | $4,967 | Kerry |
| ME | $813 | $3,604 | $153,490 | $700 | $5,117 | Kerry |
| AR | $2,241 | $1,620 | $117,370 | $1,325 | $5,186 | Bush |
| NH | $0 | $5,279 | $193,090 | $0 | $5,279 | Kerry |
| MD | $1,238 | $3,483 | $275,560 | $1,000 | $5,395 | Kerry |
| VT | $1,057 | $4,065 | $124,320 | $700 | $5,822 | Kerry |
| WI | $1,320 | $3,926 | $159,690 | $770 | $6,016 | Kerry |
| NJ | $87 | $5,788 | $148,800 | $840 | $6,715 | Kerry |
| PA | $0 | $6,551 | $112,330 | $840 | $7,391 | Kerry |
Seven of the ten cheapest places to retire are for Bush. Eight of ten of the most expensive places to retire are for Kerry. See a trend here? The average Bush supporting state pays $3,125 a year, the average Kerry state pays $4,097. That’s a little over 30% more. That’s why the "tax and spend liberal" label is not working for Bush. The voters in states supporting Kerry already know it and apparently are fine paying more taxes. The voters in states that don’t want to pay taxes are already voting for Bush for the most part and therefore he’s not picking up anything new. The only odd one out in the Top 10 is Colorado. Delaware and New York never vote Republican, so they don’t really count. I wouldn’t be surprised if Colorado didn’t come around.
The second incredibly useful piece of information is that the average owned home value for Bush is approximately $152,000. The average owned home value for Kerry is $160,000. Kerry’s selling himself as the "every day guy". However, the "every day guy" with a more "normal" valuation of $155,000 is definitely closer to Bush than Kerry. I see this as another indicator that Bush will win. We’ll see soon enough, but there are a lot more people under the valuation norm than there are above it. Bush is apparently appealing to those moreo than Kerry.
As much as the Dems have always accused the Republicans of pandering to the wealthy, that little chart of mine sure seems to shoot a hole in that theory. And, I was assume as well, explains what’s happening to the Democrats on a national level.
( **** This is an update of a previous post with the states updated only to reflect the actual election results. *** )
5
Nov
The anti-Bush crowd hung their hat on the "Bush is first President to lose jobs" argument. As a member of The Motley Fool, I don’t know how many times that got repeated. Over and over, it’s the ultimate sign of why Bush could not be re-elected.
Now, we get another "October surprise", Job Growth Soars. 337,000 new jobs in October.
I have been advocating the argument that the demographics of the US are changing and that the Payroll Column BLS uses is not as reflective of the income potential of the US that it used to be. However, the anti-Bush crowd holds on to it as their Holy Grail even if they are not economists. Here’s the latest lowdown on that:
Payroll jobs as of January 2001, 132,388,000.
Payroll jobs as of September 2004, 131,567,000
New Jobs added, 337,000, making
Payroll jobs as of October 2004, 131,904,000
Balance of jobs, -484,000
Needed per month for remainder of term, 242,000
And we’re gearing up for Christmas.
5
Nov
Newsweek has apparently written an excellent article detailing the behind the scenes action of the 2004 Campaign.
I’ve been involved in several campaigns of varying degree of importance, from Congressional races to school boards. The scenarios painted by Newsweek sound exactly the same regardless of the race.
3
Nov
According to the final tally, I see that the Libertarian Party candidate Michael Bednarik got almost as many votes nationwide as Nader. Curious that the media nonetheless covered Nader throughout the race, while ignoring Bednarik (for instance, on the Washington Post web site with the tally, you can link to background stories on Nader, but not Bednarik).
It’s my opinion that a lot was expected of Nader. He got the credit for costing Gore the election in 2000, and had a very respectable vote count. The Libertarians on the other hand have had a long history of accomplishing nothing. The anticipation of Nader spoiling another election I think was the bait. What they didn’t anticipate was the Democrats taking such harsh pre-emptive attacks by blocking Nader on many ballots. This put the media in a jam. Obviously favoring Kerry, they couldn’t fully explore the Nader issue without making Kerry look bad, so they just kept reporting on Nader as if he had some chance. He didn’t. The final result is Nader is now just as effective at getting his cause heard as Bednarik and the Libertarians are. And that’s not much of anything to report about.
3
Nov
A while back, I did a little thing on The Shrum Curse.
It’s still perfect. I can’t help but notice that although Bill Clinton jumped into the fray at the last moment the help bail out John Kerry, he apparently never advised Kerry of the Shrum curse and the fact that the only Democrat to win the Presidency in the last 24 years did not have anything to do with Shrum.
Hillary’s running. Planting Shrum in the Kerry campaign was a shrewd maneuver to assure there would be no Democrat incumbent in 2008. And the amazing thing to me, is Shrum is STILL advising Kerry after his eighth loss.
And concede.
Now, due to lack of sleep, I feel I’ve become psychic. I can read their minds right now. What I am reading is they don’t what to do next.
This race is over. Several things happened that probably scares CNN and CBS a LOT.
#1: Bush won. He wasn’t their chosen candidate.
#2: Bush won by about 4,000,000 in the popular count. He is no longer the Supreme Court appointed representative to the White House, he is the popularly elected President of the United States.
#3: There’s no hint that Bush somehow stole or rigged this election. If anything, the legal posturings of the Kerry camp possibly scared people into voting for Bush.
#4: According to some exit polls, Iraq was not the lightening rod the media played it up to be. A lot more people were apparently concerned with declining moral values in the US than anything else. The flip-flop label stuck, the “wrong war for the wrong reasons at the wrong time” didn’t.
#5: The razor thin popular vote prediction was wrong. This race fell within normal ranges.
#6: Different media called different states at different times. Some still haven’t called obvious results. The longer they wait, the less impact they have. That’s a good thing.
#7: The Big Three ( ABC, CBS, NBC ) were beat to death in this campaign season by non-broadcast channels such as CNN and Fox. Times are changing.
#8: The Big Three ( ABC, CBS, NBC ) had a LOT of their political content debunked by the pajama army. The mystique that main stream media knows things “we” don’t no longer applies.
I’m sure I can, and will, think of more. And, I’ll probably expand on some of those later. But, I don’t want to think too hard today, I’m tired. I sat up till about 3 am waiting for some channel other than Fox to figure out that 140,000 is greater than 135,000. And, there are not enough votes left to alter the candidate results in New Mexico and Iowa.
