Posts Tagged ‘ways-and-means’

Putting socialists with ethics issues in charge of ethics?

March 4th, 2010 | No Comments

Nancy Pelosi bitched for a decade about how unethical the Republicans were.  The Democrats were all puritanical and could do no wrong.  On a weekly basis since Nancy was put in charge of ethics of Congress, we’ve had to deal with one flap after another.  William Jefferson got the ball rolling, and it’s rolled since.  [...]

Nancy Pelosi’s Culture of Corruption: Rangel edition

September 16th, 2008 | No Comments

Charlie Rangel, who everyone has to love, is in a little trouble with the IRS, and possibly the FBI I would imagine.  The FBI just usually sort of comes along with the IRS.  Here’s the abbreviated list of what he’s in some doo-doo over: Rangel’s papers over the past 10 years show no reference to [...]

Nancy Pelosi and the Black Caucus

June 5th, 2007 | 1 Comment

Here’s the scuttle making the rounds right now: Democratic leaders fear that Rep. William J. Jefferson’s indictment yesterday on racketeering and bribery charges, coming exactly one year after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi engineered his ouster from the powerful Ways and Means Committee, could rekindle a smoldering dispute between the speaker and black lawmakers who were [...]