POLITICAL CORRUPTION IS THE SINGLE, MOST IMPORTANT
2012 ISSUE
By
Lawrence Sellin
ThePostEmail.com
Elena Kagan served as Solicitor General in the Obama
regime before being appointed to the U.S. Supreme
Court. Documents show that she was actively involved
in writing the legislation and is therefore
compromised as the Supreme Court considers its
constitutionality
(Nov. 17, 2011) — Washington, D.C. is hopelessly
corrupt. None of the critical problems America is
currently facing will be resolved without
effectively addressing the blatant dishonesty and
frequent criminality of politicians and their
wealthy facilitators.
Corruption in Washington, D.C. can assume many
forms.
Financial corruption
Peter Schweizer’s new book “Throw
Them All Out”
reveals a pattern of suspicious stock trading by
members of Congress from both parties based on their
financial disclosure statements and legislative
activities.
In our current
get-rich Congress,
every member of the House and Senate can mix
business with governing by trading stocks and making
land deals while considering major pieces of
legislation.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) – When Visa went public in
March 2008, then-Speaker of the House Pelosi and her
husband bought some of their shares at the opening
IPO price—access that would be virtually impossible
for the average individual investor.
Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) – Baucus played a central
role in forging the health-care-reform bill. As he
was negotiating with pharmaceutical companies and
putting his imprint on the legislation, Baucus was
also buying and selling health-care stocks.
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) – John and Teresa Heinz Kerry
made numerous trades in health-care stocks, buying
almost $750,000 in Teva Pharmaceuticals in November
2009 alone, while Kerry actively pushed Obama-care
as a member of the health-care subcommittee.
Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) – Polis sat on two
committees central to the crafting and language of
Obama’s health-care bill. At the same time, he
invested millions of dollars in stocks and funds
related to health care and pharmaceuticals.
Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL) – After learning in a
September 2008 briefing with Treasury Secretary
Henry Paulson and Fed chairman Ben Bernanke that the
financial markets were in deep trouble, Bachus began
aggressively buying and selling stock options.
Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) – On Dec. 10, 2009,
then-House Minority Leader Boehner bought tens of
thousands of dollars of health-care stocks,
including in health-insurance companies. On Dec. 15,
The Washington Post declared that the “public
option” for health insurance was dead.
Rep. Shelley Capito (R-WV) – After a briefing with
Paulson and Bernanke, Capito sold between $100,000
and $250,000 shares of Citigroup; she and her
husband accrued as much as $50,000 in capital gains
from Citigroup transactions made throughout the
crisis.
Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) – When Hastert was
Speaker of the House, he inserted a $207 million
earmark into a federal highway bill for a parkway
near land he owned in rural Illinois. When he first
went to Congress in 1986, Hastert’s net worth was
less than $300,000. When he retired in 2007, it was
close to $11 million.
Legal corruption
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that
investigates and prosecutes government corruption,
announced that it has obtained three new documents
that provide additional information about Supreme
Court Justice Elena Kagan and the Affordable Care
Act (also known as Obamacare) while she served as
solicitor general.
Justice Kagan has said she was not actively involved
in the Department of Justice (DOJ) discussions
regarding Obamacare. Moreover, the Supreme Court
justice did not recuse herself from the High Court
decision in April 2011 not to “fast-track” for
Supreme Court review Virginia’s lawsuit challenging
Obamacare.
“These new emails are bound to raise additional
questions about whether Justice Kagan ought to
participate in High Court deliberations on Obamacare.
Certainly, if these documents were known at the time
of her confirmation, there may have been quite a
different Senate debate. The Obama Justice
Department dumped these documents just before a
holiday weekend, hoping they would go unnoticed.
This slow-walking of documents out of the Obama
Justice Department is scandalous and makes one
wonder what other information they are sitting on,”
said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
Attorney Leo Donofrio has evidence conclusively
establishing that, during the run-up to the 2008
election, 25 U.S. Supreme Court opinions referencing
Minor v. Happersett (1875), the case which proves
that Obama is an illegal President, were
sabotaged,
then republished at Justia.com, the main resource on
the web for all things related to United States
Supreme Court holdings. According to that report,
Justia.com CEO Tim Stanley was associated with Obama
For America 2008.
Intellectual and Character corruption
Barack Hussein Obama would not today be occupying
the office of President of the United States if
members of Congress had honored their oaths of
office, upheld the Constitution and respected the
rule of law.
Members of Congress are fully aware that Obama is a
Constitutionally illegal President and has committed
felonies both before and after occupying the Oval
Office.
Obama is, according to the
U.S. Constitution
an illegal President, who has committed
felonies
both before and after occupying the Oval Office.
Because exposure of the Obama fraud and criminal
activity would reveal the depth of corruption in the
two-party system, a conspiracy of silence is
maintained and a deliberate misinformation campaign
is conducted by the Republican and Democrat Parties
and their facilitators in the mainstream media to
mislead the American people.
Addressing the corrupt status quo
Admittedly, I am distrustful of politicians and
skeptical regarding the promises they make.
Despite these reservations, Texas Governor Rick
Perry is the only Presidential candidate who has
thus far addressed the corruption issue as a major
part of his campaign platform.
Perry’s proposals include:
Members of Congress are too entrenched in
Washington, out-of-touch, and frankly do little to
actually benefit the American people while they are
in session. Work to establish a part-time, Citizen
Congress, cut congressional pay in half and repeal
the rules that prevent members of Congress from
holding real jobs in their home states and
communities.
Criminalize insider trading by members of Congress.
Congressional office budgets have doubled since
2000. Freeze federal civilian hiring and salaries
until the budget is balanced.
End lifetime appointments of federal judges by
instituting an 18-year term limit.
No more bank bailouts, no earmarks for pet projects
and no spending beyond the country’s means.
The Obama Administration is the most corrupt in U.S.
history only because our elected officials in
Washington, D.C. have aided or abetted it.
“No man who is corrupt, no man who condones
corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by
the community.” – President Theodore Roosevelt
Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is a retired colonel with
29 years of service in the US Army Reserve and a
veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. He receives hate
mail at
lawrence.sellin@gmail.com