Pelosi Malfeasance Glossed over by Media

California corruption in the Senate of the United States is like California Sunshine; the sun is always shining in California so one learns to put on a sunscreen. Apparently California corruption is so glaringly obvious in the Senate that apparently the press has learned to put on sunshades in order to avoid reporting it.

The Press has done something like that with California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and California Senator Dianne Feinstein, instead of investigating allegations of California Democratic U.S. legislator corruption the press simple glosses over any possible story as just another Republic attempt to “stir up controversy.”

When is the last time that you read a story regarding Republicans that started off, “Democrats are accusing Republicans of…” like the one by Erica Werner in the Washingtonpost?

Or do you remember reading any day to day accounts in the press of Senator Dianne Feinstein’s multi-million dollar self enrichment conflict of interest when she was chairperson and ranking member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee (MILCON) from 2001 through the end of 2005. Feinstein supervised the appropriation of billions of dollars a year for specific military construction projects.

Two defense contractors whose interests were largely controlled by her husband, financier Richard C. Blum, benefited from decisions made by Feinstein as leader of this powerful subcommittee. Feinstein enriched herself by millions of dollars and at tax payers expense, did you read about any of this?

No you didn’t because MSM doesn’t investigate Democrat corruption it only exposes Republican wrong doing.

Speaking of corruption, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi who engineered the 2006 sweep of Republican Senators and Congressmen based on her mantra “A Culture of Corruption” which was incidentally borrowed from the 1994 Newt Gingrich Contract with America has been caught attempting to enrich herself just like her colleague Senator Dianne Feinstein. Instead of being the new sheriff in town that she promised Pelosi is more like a bandit with a badge. But instead of the press investigating Pelosi and Feinstein they are attempting to provide cover for these Democrats.

Here’s what we know now; in a $15 billion dollar Water Resources Development Act that passed the House in April, House Speaker Pelosi slipped a $25 million dollar measure into the bill that would affect her home, the San Francisco port area about 1 mile away from four rental properties owned by her husband.

Pelosi’s cover story is that she added the $25 million dollar project to the $15 billion dollar bill at the request of the Port of San Francisco.

Is this a baseless attack by Republicans? Or is this Democratic Culture of Corruption that the press won’t investigate?

Pelosi’s promises of cleaning up the culture of corruption in Washington D.C. places her to a higher standard, she above anyone should understand that she couldn’t afford even the appearance of a conflict of interest so early on in her period in office unless of course she feels that she doesn't have to fear that anyone in the media would expose her.
Since Pelosi became speaker in January she has violated the Logan Act with her trip to Syria, forced a Presidential Veto of the War funding bill that she filled with excess domestic spending and troop withdraw timelines and now this $25 million dollar project which she could personally benefit from.

Yet, we get more coverage of the missing Natalie Holloway and the deceased Anna Nicole Smith than we’ve received of Congresswoman Pelosi’s misdeeds on Capitol Hill.

MSM has dropped all pretense regarding objectively and fairness in reporting when you see a headline like, “GOP Criticizes Pelosi’s…” or a story start by saying, “Republicans are accusing…” you pretty much know that the report or the news service is not presented in an objective, fair or responsible matter.

Democrat Culture of Corruption the Re-Mix

Senator Dianne Feinstein

In November 1992, a slow economy and public dissatisfaction with the status quo gave the Democrats the White House for the first time in 12 years. Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton ran as a politically moderate "New Democrat" who was pro-business and pro-death penalty, focusing on the nation's economy ("It's the economy, stupid").

Clinton won 32 states, holding then-President Bush to 37.5 percent of the vote. While the Democrats regained the Oval Office and held Congress, the GOP picked up 10 seats in the House.

In 1994, Republicans, galvanized by Clinton administration missteps (including its ill-fated national health care proposal), [49 years if Democrat Congressional Corruption] ran on the "Contract With America," and took complete control of Congress for the first time since 1955.

Further, the GOP claimed 30 of the nation's 50 governorships, including eight of the 10 biggest electoral states, and drew even with the Democrats in many state legislatures.—Democratic Convention 2000, www.cnn.com

Dianne Feinstein is a Democrat and she is corrupt. She is as corrupt as Liberals believe Halliburton is.

As chairperson and ranking member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee (MILCON) from 2001 through the end of 2005, Feinstein supervised the appropriation of billions of dollars a year for specific military construction projects. Two defense contractors whose interests were largely controlled by her husband, financier Richard C. Blum, benefited from decisions made by Feinstein as leader of this powerful subcommittee. Blum was a majority owner of both URS Corp. and Perini Corp.

In 2006 now Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi read the Republican play book and re-coined the phase a Culture of Corruption and used it back on the Republican majority which had only been in power for 12 years opposed to the previous 49 year Democrat corrupted monopoly in the Congress. Pelosi used the short memory of voters and incompetent Republican politicians to orchestrate a sweep of Congress transferring power and control of the Congress to the Democrat Party. A Party that promised a new and ethical direction.

This is not the first time a Democrat sitting on a powerful appropriations committee has used their sacred trust to enrich themselves. Congressman John Murtha was the ranking Democratic member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and for three years he was the House's top recipient of defense industry cash. Few in Washington are surprised that his lobbyist brother, Robert "Kit" Murtha, was until his retirement this summer an enormously successful "earmark specialist" for the Beltway firm KSA Consulting. In recent years, Kit Murtha brought in a mother lode of earmarks for at least 16 defense manufacturers with business before the Appropriations Committee.

As a member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions to her husband's firms. From 2001 to 2005, URS earned $792 million from military construction and environmental cleanup projects approved by MILCON; Perini earned $759 million from such MILCON projects.
In her annual Public Financial Disclosure Reports, Feinstein records a sizeable family income from large investments in Perini, which is based in Framingham, Mass., and in URS, headquartered in San Francisco. But she has not publicly acknowledged the conflict of interest between her job as a congressional appropriator and her husband's longtime control of Perini and URS--and that omission has called her ethical standards into question.

Since Senator Feinstein’s unethical behavior has been reported by Metro Active she has stepped down from MILCON.

Senator Feinstein has profited at the expense of U.S. soldiers in Iraq at a time when medical care for Iraq war veterans is inadequate. While leading MILCON, Feinstein had ample warning of the medical-care meltdown. But she was not proactive on veteran's affairs.

Feinstein abandoned MILCON as her ethical problems were surfacing in the media, and as it was becoming clear that her subcommittee left grievously wounded veterans to rot while her family was profiting from the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised voters a new direction if Democrats were elected to Congress. From Halliburton to Senator Feinstein’s URS Corp. and Perini Corp now that’s a new direction!
Yeah back to Democrat Corruption!