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Presenting 2011's Top 10 Most Corrupt American Politicians

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When it comes to corruption, cronyism and general muppetry in Washington D.C., the only real question is 'where does one start?' Yet one has to start somewhere to conclude with a list of the ten most corrupt and despicable marionettes in D.C. Which is precisely what JudicialWatch has done in its annual compilation of the "Top 10 Most Corrupt Politicians in Washington D.C." for 2011. And confirming what everyone knows, that both the left and right are merely irrelevant names for the same general social affliction, or should we call it by its true name - wealth pillage - the split is even between democrats and republicans. In no particular order, the winners of 2011 are...

  • Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL)
  • Former Senator John Ensign (R-NV)
  • Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL)
  • Rep. Laura Richardson (D-CA)
  • Rep. David Rivera (R-FL)
  • Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)
  • Rep. Don Young (R-AK)

And of course:

  • Attorney General Eric Holder
  • President Barack Obama

While a detailed look is really not necessary as we are quite familiar with everyone on ths list, here it is nonetheless?






































































For more on the list, including the 10 dishonorable mentions, read here.


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Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:27 | 2027520 holdbuysell
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Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:54 | 2027539 TruthInSunshine
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What's old is always new again.

It rhymes right along until the time it repeats, and then the rhyme cycle begins anew.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest -
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men -
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:08 | 2027639 Dr. Gonzo
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Marc Antony?

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:36 | 2027699 TruthInSunshine
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Orange Julius, I think.


But then again, I went to public school in Chuck Schumer's* district.


*Charles Schumer is a U.S. Senator who will say or do anything to protect the financial/Wall Street leg of the Military-Industrial-Wall Street complex that now sucks all U.S. taxpayers dry for the benefit of the greatest vampire known to a very high % of Americans.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:40 | 2027722 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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All politicians are cocksuckers.  ALL.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 00:06 | 2027793 TheSilverJournal
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Bernanke should be on the list, although the central planner of our currency isn't even elected.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 00:14 | 2027812 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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Bernanke is a scientist, you better recognize!

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 00:26 | 2027834 TheSilverJournal
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So you're saying that he really knows how to blow thing up?

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 00:47 | 2027858 flacon
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Pop Quizz: What wing of government is the Department of JUSTICE? 

A. Executive

B. Legislative

C. Judicial


If you answered "A" you are correct and you will be promptly disposed of never to be seen again thanks to NDAA.



Tue, 01/03/2012 - 01:00 | 2027886 YBNguy
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Speaking of Marc Antony, if I can recall correctly he was allowed to give a eulogy for Caeser. During this time he shocked the crowd and the politcal class by tearing off the deceased Caesars robe and point out each stab wound naming the names of the killers. What proceeded (upon the people finding out Caeser bequeathed many of his things to them) was the people taking to the streets and slaying any politican (involved) they could get their hands on. Good times...


And Tyler D, you forgot to mention the poster children of this nonpartisan corruptocratery: Pelosi and Boehner

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 01:59 | 2027959 Max Fischer
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Did anyone watch O'Reilly tonight?  He called RP's position on many issues "simply outlandish" and said he'd NEVER win the nomination.  I know that many Ron Paul supporters LOVE Faux News - especially Glenn Beck when he was still on - so I'm curious what they think of RP being trashed constantly by the network.  Earlier in the day, Eric Bolling (one of the biggest idots at Faux) said that most RP's supporters wouldn't make it to the polls because they're too stoned.  

The Republicans are in such disarray.  *LOL*



Tue, 01/03/2012 - 02:14 | 2027983 Freddie
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Only morons watch TV and even bigger morons like you think there is any difference on TV.  FAIL - moron.

BTW - anything is better than the muslim you voted for.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 03:14 | 2028049 TruthInSunshine
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Any outlet of the MSM is beyond a joke, and this holds true for Newscorp, as well.

Newscorp is just another NWO cheerleader, pushing a different flavor of Kool-Aid, harping on mostly trivial, social wedge issues (Pledge of Allegiance in school, gay marriage, the latest controversial statements of [insert celebrity of choice here], etc.), to try and convince its flock of sheeple followers that it's significantly different than the other flavor of Kool-Aid, whether CNN or CBS.

There is no real reporting of factually truthful information on significant issues in Amerika today.

If there was, Brian Williams would lead off the 6:30 est NBC News by talking about how much the national debt increased this week/month/year, or how much money we've spent cumulatively in Iraq & Afghanistan over the last decade, whether officially, or more revealing officially + unofficially (those private contractors and 'off record' expenses can be quite pricey), or how U.S. politicians are literally selling out Americans by doing real journalistic work and tracing how much money is being given to prominent and powerful committee members in the House of Representatives and Senate, and who is giving the money, and why.

When was the last time any of us last saw a lead story referencing any of the above matters (which are bankrupting our nation by the day, morally and financially) by Brian Williams or Lester Holt or anyone on CNN or FoxNewsCorp or whatever Lame Ass Stream Media Source on the nightly news in Amerika?

They're more likely to lead with a story about Amanda Knox or some other bullshit that means literally nothing for any of us, especially given what else is happening.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 12:25 | 2028864 bigerny
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Oh but what about the righteous moral outrage about a man with a cigar getting a blowjob??

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 00:39 | 2027853 erg
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How about OBombers science czar, J. P. Holdren advocating the use of sterilants in the drinking water to continue the diminishment of the proles.


Tue, 01/03/2012 - 00:49 | 2027866 flacon
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The only good thing about Holdren is that he actually doesn't deny that there actually IS a "Free Market" - however that's also the bad news...


White House Science Czar Says He Would Use 'Free Market' to 'De-Develop the United States

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 01:01 | 2027887 erg
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Before even viewing; it's hard not to notice the de-development. Akin to Gates on TED saying humans should have a zero carbon footprint. Even my gassy bloated corpse is going to have a carbon footprint.

Or Gates saying that if Grandma dies soon we can hire 6 more teachers.

Or Gates saying that they've merged flu delivery technology with mosquitos.

It's heavy heart shit all this.

The death quotes are without surcease.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 01:15 | 2027906 erg
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Thanks for the link flacon.

"..,this is a stale topic..." We must look forward and not dwell on the past or some such bloviating bullshit.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 03:36 | 2028061 jeff montanye
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like bush's (now obama's) war crimes.  p.s. wish judicial watch had picked a sitting republican instead of the one who'd resigned.  they sound fairly partisan (republican) but i guess that objectivity is too much to hope for.  they are right though; the corruption is fully bipartisan.  ron paul '12.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 05:53 | 2028118 bank guy in Brussels
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Yes, 'Judicial Watch' in the USA, is another fraud, a Republican-siding con job supporting the illusions that America has a two-party system, and they actually prop up the American system of court corruption instead of attacking it.

They are known for almost never helping victims of corrupt judges and courts in the United States, you can see that on internet forums about American corruption. Judicial Watch is flooded with proofs of crimes involving American lawyers and judges, imprisoning and robbing real people, that they totally ignore.

Judicial Watch is another fraudulent, corporate- and oligarch-funded group, they try to get American people to focus hatred against mostly Democrats, and a few non-insider Republicans, tossed in to pretend they are legit.

Their main early focus was messing around in court cases against the Bill Clinton crowd, trying to get Americans to still hate the Clintons continuing into the era when Bush was in office.

To pretend they are doing something, they focus on cases already in the media, and easy targets, especially Democratic politicians, who are not insiders.

In terms of what is going on in America, another worthless, oligarch-backed NGO with corporate funding, part of the great shell 'game' of distracting the sheeple.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 07:58 | 2028169 nmewn
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The list is their choice of top ten corrupt politicians of 2011. Not judges or lawyers or janitors or vegas showgirls...politicians. Are you saying there is no basis in fact?

If so, one would assume the accused or maligned would have lawyers happily preparing civil cases for slander...yes-no?

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 13:29 | 2029189 Boxed Merlot
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The list is their choice of top ten corrupt politicians of 2011...


Exactly.  For the year 2011 Corzine is not a "politician".  Neither are the members of his legal team headed by a former US chief executive currently sleeping with the US secretary of State.  There is still a distinction between (s)elected officials currently occupying positions of public trust and even their chosen minions carying out their benefactors desires.


Now, on the other hand, if one were to begin listing corrupt attorneys, well, Adam would have the easier task in naming all the creatures on the earth, right down to the smallest amoeba.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 19:26 | 2030775 nmewn
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However, the taxpayer is not obligated to hand out salary & pensions to corrupt lawyers for a job well done. But I do get your point ;-)

Somehow we have to put a barrier between current pols & former pols. And stop this formation between industry and the state. The state is there to look after the peoples interest (make sure no harm comes to the people, financial or otherwise) not become allied with industry against the people...through subsidy or law.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 23:36 | 2031554 Lord Koos
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Judicial Watch is a front group for arch-conservative, Clinton-hater billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, who has bankrolled the organization  Between 1997 and 2002 Judicial Watch received $7,069,500 (unadjusted for inflation) in 19 grants from a handful of foundations. The bulk of this funding came from just three foundations – the Sarah Scaife FoundationThe Carthage Foundation, both managed by Richard Mellon Scaife, and the John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.  Scaife is a lighter-weight version of the Koch brothers.

Wed, 01/04/2012 - 06:30 | 2032196 nmewn
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"Judicial Watch is a front group for arch-conservative, Clinton-hater billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife..."

So thats why JW teamed up with the Sierra Club to sue all the way to the SCOTUS to get at the inner workings of the Cheney Energy Task

I guess you just don't like it when your particular ox gets "Gored" ;-)

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 05:39 | 2028116 Magat Guru
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The whole list is suspect, seeing that Richard Mellon Scaife, wingnut philanthropist extraordinaire, is Judicial Watch's main benefactor.

IOW consider the source.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 00:05 | 2027790 francis_sawyer
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"Speak hands for me"

~Publius Servilius Casca Longus

Might be more fitting...


Tue, 01/03/2012 - 09:30 | 2028324 FMR Bankster
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So many scumbags, such a short list. Still, we gotta rank them, it's half the fun.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:37 | 2027715 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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I don't even want to vote for Ron Paul; and I probably won't.  I'll probably get drunk and "forget" to vote.  The only time I have ever voted was for Gore, and I was 18, so don't blame me.  When I figured the shit out it was right before the '04 election, and I cast no ballot.  In '08 I cast no ballot.  Honestly, it feels good not to get taken for a ride. 

And by the way I have heard shit on Al Gore from his Secret Service (he likes Asians).  All politicians are duchebags.  ALL.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:47 | 2027725 Michael
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Maybe this will help CSPAN Callers After Ron Paul Speech in Iowa – Jan 2 2012!

 Just remember, if you don't vote, my vote is worth a bit more.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:55 | 2027773 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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Or maybe DIEBOLD tells you it likes your love handles.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:48 | 2027752 TruthInSunshine
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Just my free opinion, so treat it with the value I've pre-ordained it with, but Ron Paul, if nothing else, scares the establishment.

There's no measure they wouldn't stoop to in order to prevent the core truths he speaks of from becoming even more widely disseminated than they are now.

Ron Paul would be Socrates' choice, I believe, given that he's the person speaking the most (quantity) and highest (quality) truths, on a relative basis.

Aside from that, he's the only candidate who actually has called out the fractional reserve banking scam for the world's greatest economic Ponzi in history that it is, and he's the only candidate to even speak of the grotesque growth and expansion of the now all powerful federal government (trampling on states' RIGHTS and the RIGHTS of individuals), and that alone is sufficient to earn my support (what other choice would I have with the alternatives offered up)?

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:58 | 2027777 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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I think Ron Paul is a standup guy, I just don't like politics.  I have no solution, fyi.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 01:40 | 2027940 CompassionateFascist
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Ron Paul is the only American pol of any significance who isn't a galley slave on the good ship Israel. So Republicrats won't let him get w/in 9 miles of the nomination. If he goes 3rd Party tho, and brings Rand Paul onboard as VP, he can raise holy hell with the System.  

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:45 | 2027738 economics1996
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William Shakespeare made this famous.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 01:15 | 2027905 Blank Reg
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Shakespeare wasn't so great. All he did was string a bunch of old cliches together and call them plays.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 03:11 | 2028046 NidStyles
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How were they cliches then, when people were a bit more concerned about dying from the plague?

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 03:20 | 2028053 Blank Reg
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It's a joke. Shakespears lines BECAME cliches because they were great. Duh.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 04:14 | 2028090 StychoKiller
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Lots of thin skins and thick skulls roaming around here...

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 05:47 | 2028117 knowless
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it almost feels like i'm in the real world.. VIRTUAL REALITY IS THE MATRIX.


sorry, sorry, I just.. don't even know.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:14 | 2027651 Gully Foyle
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The Madwoman of Chaillot

The Ragpicker: Countess if only you knew... Shall we tell her?... Nothing Countess, it's you that are hiding. You see, there was a time when old clothes were as good as new. In fact they were better because when people wore clothes they gave something to them. But that was a long time ago, Countess. Just as, there was a time when... when garbage was a pleasure. Oh, it smelled a little strange or seemed confused, that's because there was everything there. The smell of sardine, of iendine, calone, roses. An amature would leap to the wrong conclusion. But to a professional, it was the smell of life... No Countess, the world has changed. The garbage has changed... People are not the same, Countess. People are different. No one is involved with anyone anymore. There's been an invasion, and infatuation. The world isn't beautiful no longer. The world is not happy... Because you've been dreaming a long time, Countess, and, no one wanted to disturb you. Countess, look, there was a time remember you could walk along the streets of Paris and everybody you met were just like yourself. I mean, oh, a little cleaner maybe or dirty perhaps or angry or smiling. But you knew them. I knew them too. And one day, 20 years ago I saw a face in the crowd. Face without a face; the eyes empty, the expression not human. It was not a human face at all. It saw me staring and when it looked back at me with its gelatin eyes, I shuttered. Because I knew to make room for one of them, one of us must have left the earth. The world is full of faceless people, Countess, and once you stop dreaming, as we all had stopped dreaming, you see them quite clearly. They were here today.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:29 | 2027689 LongBalls
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Tue, 01/03/2012 - 00:01 | 2027782 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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Ron Paul/Elvis Costello 2012

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 00:34 | 2027845 Howard_Beale
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Or from The Borowitz report:

A Letter from Kim Jong-un

To the People of Iowa

PYONGYANG (The Borowitz Report) – The following is a letter from Kim Jong-un, Supreme Leader of North Korea, to the people of Iowa.

Dear Voters of Iowa:







I think when you look at all the facts, voters of Iowa, you’ll realize that Kim Jong-un is the Republican who most deserves your vote.  And if you’re still not convinced, remember this: at least I’m not Mitt Romney.

Peace out yo,

Your Supreme Leader

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 02:12 | 2027981 Freddie
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Elvis Costello is a libtard arsehole who is a gun banner.  I knew him when he was good circa first al-bum.

Odd how lots of lefty multi-millionaire Brit pop stars screw over their bandmates like Elvis, Waters, Weller, Sting, Sylvian, Albarn and one or two other Labour Party f**cks that I am forgetting.  

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:41 | 2027727 economics1996
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Percent of blacks in the Congress and Senate making the top 10 list 13.6%.

Percent of Hispanics making the top 10 list 3.7%.

Percent of whites making the top 10 list 0.6%.


Tue, 01/03/2012 - 05:55 | 2028119 Magat Guru
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See comment above re: R.M. Scaife. No doubt in this corrupt system one has to compromise oneself to reach a position of sufficient prominence to even be a candidate for someone's "top 10" list. That being said, the particular 10 listed here reflect more on Mr Scaife's biases than on any objective metric.

My bias would put more JUDGES on the list as they're expected to be honest, unlike elected pols. Case in point -- how much of Scaife's money would you imagine finds its way to Mrs. Justice Thomas's pockets in furtherance of his agenda, i.e. overturning Obamacare? 

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 02:07 | 2027976 Freddie
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The Senate is even worse.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:29 | 2027526 maxw3st
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I would definitely include Boehner, McConnel, Bachmann, and Kantor on that list.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:02 | 2027626 WonderDawg
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How do you pick the most corrupt out of the gallery of corrupt politicians. It's like trying to pick the ugliest turd in the punchbowl.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:43 | 2027733 I Got Worms
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Well, that's as good a list of snakes as any to start tracking down after the SHTF.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 00:11 | 2027792 Mr Lennon Hendrix
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Zactly.  Any one person that thinks they can change this fascist system is retarded (my apologies to actually retarded people).  These people have retarded their souls some where along the way.  They have sold out.  They do not have others interest in their own.  They are luciferians.  They worship the flame of the beast.  They have no soul, no interest for others' needs.  They are the demons alive, those that walk the earth forever.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 00:32 | 2027843 WonderDawg
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For a perfect example of no soul, look in Michelle Bachmann's eyes next time you see her on TV. Shiny dimes with nothing behind them. Empty. She scares me.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 02:37 | 2028010 akak
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Bachmann Warmonger Overdrive reminds me of that evil doll in the original "Twilight Zone" episode who keeps repeating to the frightened little girl: "Kill them .... Kill them ..... Kill them ....."

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 00:08 | 2027799 knukles
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Well, these folks are the ones and sames tell us they can pick up a turd by its clean end.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:30 | 2027692 sun tzu
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don't forget those crooks pelosi, reid, hoyer, frank, kerry, durbin, waxman

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 01:21 | 2027916 prodigious_idea
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Too partisan for a thumbs up

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:50 | 2027759 economics1996
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I will second Boehner.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 01:45 | 2027946 CompassionateFascist
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All but the 13 Senators who defied ZOG and voted against the IranWar Apropriation bill that took down Posse Comitatus and Habeus Corpus.  

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:29 | 2027529 Gamma735
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This list does not surprise me.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:55 | 2027601 bigdumbnugly
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politician... corrupt...  pfft

maybe a list of the non-corrupt would be more instructive -  and much shorter. 

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:32 | 2027698 JohnG
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Ron and Rand Paul.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:29 | 2027531 ACP
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Tell me something I don't know bitchez!

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:30 | 2027532 brew
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how do you pick the top 10 when they're all criminal psychopaths...

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:47 | 2027574 jcmjr
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These were the 10 most corrupt!!

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:38 | 2027554 geekgrrl
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I think it would be far less work for JW to create a list of un-corrupted politicians.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:39 | 2027558 Joseph Jones
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Other than than, these seem like a nice group of folks.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:39 | 2027559 williambanzai7
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This creates the unfortunate impression that the problem is limited to ten, when the problem has reached epicly ubiquitous proportions.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:47 | 2027578 Monedas
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Epicly Ubiquitous Proportions.....that's a mouthful....even for Barney Frank !

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 00:09 | 2027802 knukles
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Wrong.  Just plain wrong.
But funny.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 02:41 | 2028022 akak
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You have the wrong orifice which Bawney Fwank likes to have, um, filled.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:51 | 2027587 DaveyJones
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sort of like picking the ten ugliest turkey vultures

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 15:44 | 2029950 Cathartes Aura
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yo! tentacle-face!  pot, kettle!!!

lol, jk.

Thu, 01/05/2012 - 19:20 | 2037408 DaveyJones
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Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:10 | 2027642 Ms. Erable
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The more successfully corrupt hacks hide their malfeasance as part of a legislative package (hence, their names not appearing here). These ten aren't bright enough to string together a coherent sentence sans teleprompter (but even with one, Waters would have a difficult time), much less anything that could pass a a bill or ammendment written in U.S. legal English.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:44 | 2027734 Jim in MN
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Well Weiner certainly wasn't hiding his legislative package.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 03:14 | 2028050 Ms. Erable
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True - he did get caught before he could put it in his chosen 'hiding place'.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:18 | 2027657 Gully Foyle
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"when the problem has reached epicly ubiquitous proportions."

No. Access to information has become much more immediate and aggressive. Same old problem at the same old levels, now we know about it before it can be burried.

Did you happen to catch the Starz series BOSS? There is an episode where they need to change the topic from toxic waste to anything else, where they need to survive for four days. Pure genius regarding how distraction is created.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:40 | 2027560 CH1
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Politicians are a corrupt breed... period.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:21 | 2027666 Gully Foyle
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"Politicians are a corrupt breed... period."

About twenty, twentyfive, years ago 60 Minutes did a segment on a newly elected assemblyman. They followed him around and he explained the pressure and economic incentives thrown at him.

Naturally that will never see the light of day again.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:43 | 2027565 Jim in MN
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And for those interested in the Keystone XL pipeline, a fount of bipartisan corruption and bullshit in its own right, please consider the following chart from Natural Resources Canada, in which is revealed that the one thing you ain't gonna git from tar sands is...motor gasoline.  Specifically, the red in the 'very heavy' bar as compared to the other bars.

But the monied ones want it oh so badly.  Bunch of bitumen grit, does no one any Earthly good, but the pigs must be paid!  So let's slurry bitumen grit over a thousand miles just for the Hell of it.  We were going to import similar crap from Venezuela before burn in a coal-fired power plant in Florida!  But even that didn't make any damn sense so it was discontinued.


Thu, 01/05/2012 - 12:43 | 2035785 PrinceDraxx
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Aren't you forgetting a little something? Say, for instance, the mega millions of barrels of Condensate from all those gas wells up there? NGL = Natural Gas Liquids, which will be put in those lines as well as Bitumen.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:43 | 2027566 PicassoInActions
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if we have the list every year..... something seriosly isn't right....

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 00:11 | 2027805 knukles
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Good catch.


Alone speaks volumes of the human condition to which we have devolved.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:02 | 2027568 GOSPLAN HERO
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Reminder -- this site is probably monitored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Anti-state comments and sedition will not be tolerated.

Incarceration without writ of habeas corpus (being charged) is now the law of the land.





Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:24 | 2027677 Gully Foyle
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There were rumors ZH was a sort of honey trap for those outside looking in. Back when Marla was making fun of the Palestinian flotilla, squirt guns anyone, and one of two attacking Wikileaks. The other being a known BIGOV snitch.

Makes one wonder.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:46 | 2027741 I Got Worms
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No more short rope/tall lamppost comments?

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 00:05 | 2027787 CH1
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They ALL are, mostly by the NSA.

Anti-state comments and sedition will not be tolerated.

Depends upon what kind of response they expect. If they can convince Joe Average that we want to take away his Netflix and Budweiser, the SWAT teams will roll.


Indeed it is.


Yes, but I refuse to self-censor. Fuck them.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 00:23 | 2027829 knukles
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On the other hand, every entity is in need of viable feedback mechanisms, whether they be individuals, businesses or political.  To wit: friend's well meant constrictive comments, product and marketing study groups or voter and opinion pols.
There are numerous purposes, agendas for listening to, researching and sourcing  from and/or monitoring ZH.  For viable information as to thought, trends, insights unavailable elsewhere especially in the MSM.  Where else is one going to source viable minority non-consensus opinions in such an open format?  Kind hard, folks.
It provides a significant wealth of information for which those of differing opinions might find constructive use. 
If suspect other than for such, it probably is useless in and of it's own sake with no redeeming value, merely idlely ignored. 

And as one of my buddies says.  Don't take yourself so seriously... other people don't.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 00:08 | 2027796 A Lunatic
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Thanks for the FUCK OFF!

-a sovereign citizen-

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:45 | 2027569 LookingWithAmazement
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Obama will be re-elected. Four-more-years. I keep repeating it. A country of around 300 million folks cannot deliver a candidate who beats the most impopular, spendthrift, incompetent, most overhyped, corrupt president ever. I think it's time for a BOYCOTT THE US ELECTIONS MOVEMENT. After all, due to a lack of millions/billions and some corrupt friends on Wall Street, Joe and Jane Average have not the slightest change to become president or even a Congress member. But he/she has to suffer all the hardships those corrupt freaks and numbnuts (except the great Ron Paul) cause. So the only solution is to stay at home. Up yours, DC and Wall Street! Anthem for 2012: Fuck the elections!

Spread the word!

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:07 | 2027633 GOSPLAN HERO
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... or hasten the total economic collapse; vote for Obama.

total economic collapse = reset.


Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:26 | 2027679 Gully Foyle
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Sorry, Obama was a bone to Democrats. A placeholder.

Romney is the choisen one, the one to usher in the Apocalypse. Well the controlled collapse and martial law.

Obama will probably head to the UN. It was Clintons job but he just couldn't resist getting caught.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 02:47 | 2028028 akak
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It's the end of the world as we know it

and my hair looks fine ....

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 04:29 | 2028094 NidStyles
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", and I feel fine"

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 14:56 | 2029635 hyper-critical
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This is the most pathetic, un-American comment I've ever seen on this site.

Thu, 01/05/2012 - 13:59 | 2036096 LookingWithAmazement
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Wrong. I support the Americans, warning them for four-more-years of Obama.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:48 | 2027581 Westcoastliberal
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Every member of Congress who voted for the NDAA needs to be impeached/removed at least by the next election cycle, including Obama for signing it into law.  It's a violation of their oath to uphold the Constitution.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:58 | 2027612 xcehn
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Treason deserves a special punishment.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:05 | 2027631 AgShaman
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A list of the members of the Legislative Branch that did not support NDAA 1867 would be useful

Anyone that did not make such a list should be viewed as corrupt....and deserving of the moniker "Traitor"

Thu, 01/05/2012 - 12:32 | 2035664 PrinceDraxx
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This is a link to the information on the ones who did. Bring a lunch, you'll need it before you get finished.


This link is a list of Senate and House of Representatives members who did not support the Patriot Act or NDAA 2012.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:48 | 2027748 I Got Worms
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Isn't there only one punishment for proven treason?

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 13:41 | 2029265 victor82
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"Constitution? We don't need no stinkin' Constitution!"

-The Ruling Class

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:52 | 2027589 toadold
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Rowan Atkinson talks to a select group of US legislatures.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:53 | 2027593 bob_dabolina
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Re-elect these incumbents 2012!!!! You deserve them all.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:53 | 2027597 vegas
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How you could leave Bawny Fwank and Chis Dodd off this list is a mystery to me.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:55 | 2027603 Tyler Durden
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They are in the "honorable mention" category. Kinda like Corzine is 'honorable'

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 03:04 | 2028041 akak
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And everyone likes to brag about Obomba being our first "black president" (even though he is only a mulatto), but what about Don Young's honor of being the very first Neanderthal man elected to federal office?

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:59 | 2027780 SK8boarder
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Don't forget Judd Gregg, To me he is the biggest piece of work ever, He now works for CNBC and some Big Bank.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 01:33 | 2027929 SeanJKerrigan
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Some big bank yeah... Come on, you know what bank it is.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:53 | 2027598 alphamapp
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I challege someone with stronger wikitruth abilities than I to add "politician" to the list of species here

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:59 | 2027599 GOSPLAN HERO
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Anti-state comments and seditious comments will not be tolerated.



Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:20 | 2027661 Seize Mars
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Not at all. According to Judge Andrew Napolitano, a law which is unconstitutional isn't a law at all and doesn't need to be enforced. Congress has passed all kinds of unconstitutional laws which states have nullified. It's not a new concept.


Tue, 01/03/2012 - 00:14 | 2027810 CH1
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Maybe so, but the boss thugs don't give a damn... and the cops will mindlessly obey.

Will states really defy DC? If so, I will be impressed.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 00:42 | 2027856 IAmNotMark
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The problem with your opinion is that the friendly eyes staring down at your naked, shivering, disfigured body while you state that you're a citizen and you have rights will twinkle with glee when you quote another 'Constitutional Terrorist' in Judge Napolitano.  They'll get REAL friendly after that!

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:55 | 2027600 francis_sawyer
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Time to put them all on double secret probation...

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:57 | 2027610 bob_dabolina
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It's been one big gay toga party hosted by Barney Frank

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 22:57 | 2027606 ebworthen
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Ah yes...the do nothing politicrats of Warshington D.C.

Are there enough lamposts in the District for the malfeasant? 

Only "We The People" know for sure.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:33 | 2027701 sun tzu
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It would be better if they really did nothing. Instead they are busing fucking the masses in the ass

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:01 | 2027617 zorba THE GREEK
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When I was a young man in the 1960s, even the appearance of impropriety would bring great

public pressure for a politician to resign. Nowadays, even F.B.I. videos of a mayor using drugs while

in a motel room with a prostitute doesn't cause him to lose his job or even stop him from getting

re-elected. The public has come to accept corruption without becoming outraged, a grave error on

their part, as this acceptance has ushered in a level of corruption that is about to topple the

greatest country the earth has ever known. I am reminded of a quote I once saw: "Each country

has the government it deserves." If we have any chance to survive as a free nation, outrage

is the first step.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:48 | 2027753 economics1996
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In the 60s congressmen would brag that they got rid of the drunks and everyone was sober now.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 01:48 | 2027949 Dirt Rat
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"Bitch set me up!"

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 05:59 | 2028121 ebworthen
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Marion Barry, "Pure as the driven snow."

I remember that, and the people of D.C. said they empathized with him because he was like them and their families.


Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:08 | 2027634 Jendrzejczyk
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It's amusing that the corporate mainstream media that is feeding us the propaganda about how great these politicians are,  now are trying to get us to pay for their propaganda through subscriptions.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:07 | 2027636 dick cheneys ghost
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The country is run by sociopaths.....Much as i like Ron Paul, I doubt that even he could clean it up......The system is rotten to the core...



Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:11 | 2027643 Seasmoke
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line them all up......

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:50 | 2027761 SimpleandConfused
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... for re-election?

We should look at the next election results to see if any (except for the resigned senator of course) have suffered any damage from these abuses.  My guess is..... not. 

Sad state of affairs, although a state of affairs no different through the ages it seems.  You would think voters would demand more from their elected reps.  My guess is..... not.

Maybe one day there will be an answer to this criminality in our governement.  But again, my guess is..... not.

Wish it were different but as I have been told; Wish in one hand and shit in the other.  See which one fills up the fastest.

Thanks to ZH for posting this kind of information.  Didn't see this today on CNBC, Yahoo or Bloomberg.  Imagine that.

I did see on Yahoo that Asian markets are up on Eurozone manufacturing data.  Thank God for that; I can sleep well tonight. 

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:16 | 2027655 Seize Mars
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Regarding Eric Holder:

Don't make any mistake about this. "Operation Fast and Furious," this was a false-flag attack against the Second Amendment. There were foaming at the mouth to be able to show that American guns were causing Mexican violence (like a pencil makes spelling errors).

Eric Holder is a traitor. So is his boss.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:29 | 2027690 Gully Foyle
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Seize Mars

Dude please, it was Iran/Contra except supporting one Mexican cartel over another.

Second ammendment attack may have been a side effect, but not the main part of the plan.

Funny thing is even Sons of Anarchy picked up on the scam.

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 00:40 | 2027854 Reprobate
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Hasenfus, again?

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 01:49 | 2027953 Dirt Rat
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Eric Holder would make the Nixon White House blush.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:19 | 2027659 SAME AS IT EVER WAS

Whats really scary is that the lies, manipulation, and corruption is a global pandemic and getting worse by the day.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:46 | 2027660 laosuwan
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Good to see that ZH is giving some airtime to the corruption and seemingly treasonous actions of Eric Holder.


Washington Post on Holder's refusal to prosecute voter intimidation by Black Panthers

Direct Evidence: HOLDER LIED, Bragged About Project Gunrunner in Mexico in 2009


Attorney General Eric Holder failed to give senators considering his nomination last year at least seven Supreme Court legal briefs he signed while in private practice.

Attorney General Eric Holder admits nine Obama appointees in the Justice Department have represented or advocated for terrorist detainees before joining the Justice Department.



Holder has sued, yet again, another company for lack of sharia compliance

After encouraging felons to vote officials at DOJ say that litigation to enforce MOVE wasn't a priority of the Justice Department


















Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:21 | 2027664 swamp
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Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:21 | 2027668 G_T_A_44
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Can you say....Third world banana republic!

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 04:03 | 2028078 Shineola
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We're no longer a Republic. ........ And we have no bananas.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:22 | 2027669 AUD
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Politics!? Do you know how much it costs to get into politics?

Why it's more than any honest man can afford!

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:33 | 2027687 bob_dabolina
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It costs your moral integrity and human decency on every level; metaphysically and otherwise. Like Rick Santelli said when asked if he would run for office he replied "I don't want to take a shower every hour"

If you are running for political office you have a personality disorder with some form of narcissism almost always being involved.


Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:27 | 2027681 alfred b.
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   Now if you were to start a list of HONEST politicians,  you'd probably not even get  to 10 !!

    Shame, especially on main stream media for letting so much corruption slide without the slightest accountability.



Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:31 | 2027695 nah
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seems like alot

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:31 | 2027696 Kastorsky
Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:34 | 2027704 BroCharlie
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What about Harry and Nancy.  No jobs and all the wealth, COME ON MAN!

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:34 | 2027705 BroCharlie
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Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:36 | 2027710 sun tzu
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The lame stream media is complicit. Remember that when the time comes

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:42 | 2027731 Peter Pan
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One wonders whether any of these people have sold themselves to the Chinese or any other foreign enemy of the USA.

One wonders what it will take for democracy to be cleansed.

One wonders why those politicians NOT on the list are not crying out for punishment.


Tue, 01/03/2012 - 00:07 | 2027797 SK8boarder
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They don'r need to go over seas, They just wait in there office till the phone calls come in, Next thing they know there watching the Knicks with a bunch of chicks..

Thu, 01/05/2012 - 11:41 | 2035488 PrinceDraxx
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Which ones are you talking about? Ron Paul and his son are 2 of maybe 4 or 5 that aren't indictable for something or otherwise unfit to hold the office they have. The Pauls are trying.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:48 | 2027750 monopoly
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Top 10. Got it. Now lets get on with rest of the 535 members of Congress who refuse to talk about pay cuts, benefit and expense reductions and obscene retirement plans.

I would say there might be 10% worth having in DC. We make Libya look honest.

Mon, 01/02/2012 - 23:51 | 2027766 Jim in MN
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--Ambrose Bierce

Tue, 01/03/2012 - 01:53 | 2027955 Dirt Rat
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CYNIC, n. a person who points to the reality others wish to ignore. I love The Devil's Dictionary.
