December, 2014, Part 7, Political Class Insanity: The Hottest U.S. Senator, More Wasteful Pentagon Spending, And More

It’s the beginning of another month which means it is time again to review the latest political class insanity from America’s politicians. Whether it is wasteful spending, inane quotes, faulty government operations, or insulting the American public, there is always new material spewing forth from these people, usually enough to fill up half a dozen or so posts every month. Given what we know today, this month should be no different as the insanity seems to be expanding exponentially from those in office today.

This is our seventh installment this month and we are getting near to the end of the latest insanity from our politicians. A lot of what you will see today comes from events that happened this past summer. It is only now that we have been able to get through the recent insanity that we can now review older, but still crazy, political class insanity. With any luck and no more political shenanigans, we might be able to wrap up this month’s political class insanity with this post (but don’t bet on it.)

1) According to an October, 2014 New York Times article, soon after U.S. military forces defeated the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein, caravans of trucks started to bring pallets of $100 bills to Andrews Air Force base outside of D.C. The money came from accounts of the former Iraqi government and was being sent to Iraq to try and kick start the economy and new Iraqi government that was to replace Hussein.

In total, over an 18 month period, between $12 and $14 billion in cold cash was sent into Iraq and an additional $5 billion was returned to the country by electronic transfer. Where that money ended up and what it was used for then became a mystery.

So much of a mystery that a special inspector general had to be appointed to find out what happened to the cash. Stuart Bowen drew that assignment and while he found that a lot of the money probably was used as intended by the new Iraqi government, billions of it were unaccounted for. Finally, he had a breakthrough and proved that about $1.5 billion of physical U.S. cash had been stored in a bunker in rural Lebanon.

However, given his findings, no one seemed to want to do anything about it. According to the article, the Bush administration showed no interest in tracking it down and retrieving it, the Obama administration followed suit, and the Iraqi government also decided not to take steps to retrieve it. All of these administrations along with the FBI and the CIA refuse to discuss the missing billion dollars plus.

It is not easy to transport, lose, and store $1.5 billion or so. This is not pick pocket money. Yet, despite the large amount of money, nobody in the political class in Washington is interested in getting it back before it can be used for nefarious purposes. $1.5 billion in U.S. cash can buy a lot of terrorists a lot of weapons. But apparently no one in Washington cares. Insane.

2) Washington Democrats, including the President, have often tried to divide the country by claiming that Republicans have declared a “war on women” and Democrats are the only ones helping women in the country. We have previously pointed out how hypocritical this propaganda is since many famous Democratic politicians have been caught cheating on their wives, not something an advocate of women should be doing, lying and cheating on women:

•  Former President Bill Clinton
• Former New York State District Attorney Eliot Spitzer
• Former New Jersey Governor James MacGreevey
• Former U.S. Senator John Edwards who not only cheated on and lied to his wife he did these dastardly acts while she was battling cancer and fighting for her life.

There are many others but you get the idea. To this ignoble list of insulting women, we add a recent quote by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid who publicly declared at a recent campaign fundraiser: “We in the Senate refer to [New York U.S. woman] Senator Gilibrand as the hottest member.” Yes, nothing says you respect women than to refer to them in public as the “hottest.” Such insane hypocrisy.

3) Throughout this week and previously months’ political class insanity posts, we have often pointed out how inept the Pentagon is when it comes to managing taxpayer money. And now thanks to a recent article from Businessweek, that was summarized in the August 8, 2014 issue of The Week magazine, we now know that the average major Pentagon acquisition program comes in at 40% over budget. 

As just one example of how incompetent the Defense Department is at logistics and procurement, Businessweek points out that even when the Defense Department purchases prescription drugs for members of our armed forces, it ends up paying a whopping 60% more than what Medicaid pays for the same drugs.

You really must be incompetent when you are 60% more incompetent than the dysfunctional Medicaid process, a process we have previously reported loses anywhere form $30 to $40 billion a year to fraud and waste. Pathetic disregard for taxpayer wealth and as always, I doubt that anyone who is responsible for this irresponsible spending ever lost their jobs or were otherwise penalized for their ineptness.

4) Political class insanity and incompetence is not restricted to Washington. A Reason magazine article from the November, 2014 issue reported on what is happening in Colorado as a result of the gun control legislation that state passed last year. Part of that legislation required that all private transfers of weapons go through a background check similar to the kinds of checks that gun stores have to do.

So how is that working out? According to the article, the state expected that there would be about 420,000 background checks as a result of the law in the first two years after enactment. One year after enactment there have been only 13,600 background checks or only about 7% of what the state politicians expected. So either the politicians did a really lousy job of estimating the impacts of their law or citizens of Colorado are simply ignoring a law that many found repugnant to begin with. 

In either case, a lot of legislative time and effort was spent on a law that is having little real world impact, not a surprising outcome when talking about American politicians today.

5) One last piece of insanity for today and it is also a doozy. Nick Gillespie, writing for the Against Cronyism website, cited an Associated Press report back August that stated that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) had actually paid an Amtrak secretary $854,460 over a twenty year period for confidential information on Amtrak train passengers. A secretary, a secretary in a different federal agency, twenty years, over $854,000, unbelievable.

Amtrak’s inspector general FINALLY uncovered the shenanigans after twenty years. Also unbelievable was the fact that the secretary was allowed to retire without any other significant repercussions or punishment. 

Even worse, according to the inspector general’s report and the Associated Press reporting, Amtrak could have lawfully and legally obtained the same information for free over those twenty years through a standing joint drug enforcement law enforcement organization that includes both DEA and Amtrak’s own police force.

Keystone Kops could not be any more screwed up. One agency of the Federal government paying a secretary big bucks in another Federal agency for confidential customer information that they could have obtained for free. Again, you cannot make this stuff up.

Although I promised that this might be the last insanity post for this month, I have to take back that promise. I could not it all into this post. Tomorrow will be the last insanity post for this month, not necessarily because we covered all of the idiocy but because it is too depressing to go beyond tomorrow.

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June, 2013 Political Class Insanity, Part 4: Another ATF Screw Up, Democratic Adultery, Government Spying, And More

Okay, I think this will be the last post on this month’s political class insanity. It has been a bumpy ride as we learned that the ATF has had its storage facility robbed of a quarter ton of explosives, how John McCain would rather work on ESPN issues than real national issues, how the French political class are trying to tax some of its citizens at a tax rate over 100% of their earnings, and various other political class acts of lunacy, waste, and idiocy.

Today should end the insanity for another month or so. Today, we will start out with some insanity courtesy of Reason magazine. Reason is a fabulous monthly magazine that is dedicated to preserving freedom and liberty in this country. In their pursuit of that goal, they come across a lot of political class insanity that is summarized at the beginning of each of their issues. The following insanity comes from their June, 2013 issue:

1) Earlier this year. the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge the Federal government’s ability to put a U.S. citizen under warrantless surveillance, a law suit against a 2008 amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or FISA. That amendment allows the Federal government to intercept communications between someone inside the country and someone outside of the country.

The unbelievable reason why the lawsuit was rejected was apparently not because of the heinous act of the government spying on citizens but the fact that the plaintiffs could not prove they had been spied on and thus, had no standing to challenge the law. They could not prove they had been spied on since the government will not reveal who they are spying on!

According to the ACLU in 2012: “The Justice Department claims the plaintiffs should not be able to sue without first showing they have been actually been monitored under the program - but it also argues that the government should not be required to disclose if plaintiffs have been monitored.”

Well, the political class and the Federal government certainly tied this one up in a neat knot, along with the Supreme Court. We can spy on anyone we want and you cannot sue us because we do not have to tell you that we spied on you. Insanity and a definite threat to freedom from a growing and arrogant Federal bureaucracy.

2) Two posts ago we reviewed how the ATF had lost a quarter ton of explosives when robbers broke into the ATF’s supposedly secure bunker in Montana and made off with the explosives. Apparently, the ATF incompetence is not restricted to Montana, according to Reason magazine:

• In 2012, the ATF opened up a dummy retail store in Milwaukee which sold designer clothes, jewelry, and drug paraphernalia.
• The ATF agents hoped to use the store front to buy drugs and weapons from felons and make the appropriate busts.
• According to the primary local newspaper, the sting operation did not result in any major busts of drug dealers or criminal gangs.
• However, merchandise worth $35,000 was stolen from the store despite the fact that ATF agents ran the operation.
• Included in the stolen property was an actual machine gun, a fully automatic M-14 rifle, and an assortment of other guns.
• Although the store operation was shut down, the agents forgot to remove documents on site that contained the names and contact information of undercover agents in the field.
• The agents caused $15,000 in property damage the building that has yet to be paid.
• And worse of all, they ticked off the people living in the surrounding neighborhood who were unaware that criminals and other shady characters were coming into their neighborhood as a result of what turned out to be a useless and dangerous government sting operation gone bad.

The most insane piece of the escapade is that an ATF spokesman insisted that the store operation had made Milwaukee safer. If the ATF thinks that losing a machine gun and other weapons is a safety success despite no major arrests, they must think losing a quarter ton of explosives in Montana was a booming (so to speak) success also.

3) Anne Arundel County in Maryland recently lived through a little local political class insanity itself. Apparent, county executive John Leopold resigned his post after being found guilty of misconduct. No surprise there, just another politician found lacking in integrity.

What was surprising was that after he left office, his replacement discovered more than 500 secret security cameras that had been set up in county office buildings. The 500 cameras were monitored by a single person, a contract employee who reported directly to Leopold, the county executive who was forced to resign.

All of which raises a whole set of interesting questions:

• How was the former county executive able to fund the purchase, installation, and operationalizing for over 500 cameras? Does not look like the county has a good audit process in place.
• What was he looking for and what did he find as a result of the 500 cameras?
• Does he have to tell anyone that he secretly taped them or does he have the same power as the Justice Department who thinks they do not have to tell anyone they secretly monitored them?

Insanity at the local government level.

4) Many times we have reported on how powerful politicians somehow are always able to get sweetheart deals for their friends and relatives, always at the expense of the American taxpayer. Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law’s company got a sweetheart deal from the Federal Department of Energy. Senator Diane Feinstein’s husband got in on the ground floor of California’s effort to build a high speed rail line.

Now along comes a Politico article from May 24, 2013. According to the article, as chairman of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, Buck McKeon has major influence over the Pentagon’s annual spending plan, making him and his committee very powerful entities within the defense industry. No problem so far.

However, the article goes on to point out that a California lobbying company run by the Congressman’s brother and nephews has landed five lobbying clients, according to current filed disclosure forms. Each client lists “defense” as an issue area. A little conflict of interest? Why shouldn’t the Congress have to be removed from this committee and go work on a government area that has nothing to do with defense since his close relatives are heavily involved in the defense industry. The appearance of conflict of interest is just as bad as actual conflict of interest.

But would make Congressman McKeon any different from the dozens, if not hundreds, of recent members of Congress who have made it a point to financially help out friends and relatives, as witnessed by the August 16, 2012 post we wrote last year, based on an investigative report by the Washington Post:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-slime-sleaze-immorality-and_16.html

Disgraceful.

5) A recent special Congressional election in South Carolina resulted in former South Carolina Republican Governor Mark Sanford being elected to fill the vacant House seat. For those of you that do not recall or never knew, Mr. Sanford was caught in an adultery affair while governor, bringing disgrace to himself and his office.

However, he has made a political comeback from this affair with his election to the House Of Representatives, a fact that must have really ticked off Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz who ranted recently about Sanford in an MSNBC interview:

The Republican Party continues to be the party of extremists, it doesn’t send a strong message to women in this country that the Republican party understands that they have gone way off the issues that are important to women when they election a candidate like Mark Sanford after his track record.

I could not agree with her rant more. Lying, adultery, and lack of integrity (not to mention lack of self control) should not qualities we would want in any politician. Including Democrats. You see, Ms. Wassermann-Schultz did not remember the ugly track record of lying and adultery that has been a hallmark of DEMOCRATIC politicians over the past few years:

1. Democratic President Bill Clinton: serial adulterer and liar.
2. Democratic New Jersey Governor Jim MacGreevey: adulterer and liar.
3. Democratic New York Governor Eliot Spitzer: adulterer and liar.
4. Democratic Senator John Edwards: adulterer and liar, with the added bonus of cheating on his wife while she battled cancer.
5. Democratic Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick: Text messaging sex scandal
6. Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner: Twitter sex scandal and liar.
7. Democratic New York Governor David Peterson: adultery.
8. Democratic Congressman David Wu, D: about two years ago he announced his resignation form Congress following allegations he engaged in "aggressive and unwanted sexual behavior" with a young woman. (CBS News, July 26, 2011.)

Going further back in time in the history of Democratic hanky-panky in their hall of shame:

1. Democratic Congressman Gary Condit: adulterer and liar, actions that may or may not have resulted in the death of the young woman involved with Congressman, Chandry Levy.
2. Democratic Senator Gary Hart: adultery affair with Donna Rice.
3. Democratic President John Kennedy: serial adulterer and liar.
4. Democratic Congressman Wilbur Mills: adultery affair with stripper, Fannie Foxx

So Ms. Wasserman-Schultz, I could not agree with you more but it is mostly because of this list of shameful Democratic politicians and the track record of their abuse of woman and their own wives.

That will do it for this month’s political class insanity. I need to go wash off the slime and disgust that the American political class continues to generate and spew on the country and its citizens every month. As always after reviewing their insanity, Step 39 from “Love My Country, Loathe My Government” becomes ever more attractive. Step 39 would impose term limits on all Federal politicians so that they would be “one and done.”

Given the disgraceful behavior of our current set of politicians, how much worse could it get if we just replaced all of the incumbents with new faces with new ideas?

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Not Making Their Parents Proud - Recent Antics Of The American Political Class

Seems like their has been a recent rush of bad behavior from three members of our political/government class, behavior that will definitely place at least one of our politicians in jail, may land another in jail, and has already led to the resignation of a high ranking member of the Obama administration. But before we get into the details of these three folks, let's do a quick review of other politicians that have been caught acting badly the past few years and whose antics have been given renewed press coverage lately, given the recent outbreak of bad politicians acting badly:

1. In 2004, Connecticut Governor, John C. Rowland resigned and served 10 months in prison for accepting gifts from state contractors and lying about it.
2. Also in 2004, married New Jersey Governor James MacGreevey resigned after confessing he had given a sensitive state government, homeland security-like post to his extramarital lover.
3. Ex-Illinois Governor George Ryan, was convicted in 2006 of steering state government contracts to friends and served prison time for his transgressions.
4. George Ryan is upholding a long criminal tradition in the state governor's office since four of the past nine Illinois governors have been sentenced to prison terms for criminal behavior.
5. Married New York Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned in 2008 after confessing to patronizing prostitutes and arranging for them to cross state lines, a criminal violation of the Mann Act.
6. In 2010, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford acknowledged an affair with a woman in Argentina, maintained through his misuse of state government money and resources.
7. Ex-Senator of North Carolina, John Edwards, will face trial in the near future for violating campaign financing laws when he allegedly used campaign funds from his Presidential campaign to support and cover up his extramarital affair, an affair that resulted in a child born out of wedlock, and an affair that was conducted while his wife battled terminal cancer.
8. Senator John Ensign of Nevada confessed to having an extramarital affair with the wife of one of his staff.
9. California  Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was forced to admit to an adulterous affair and the father of a teenage child while in office.
10. President Clinton - too many bad behavior instances to review in this post.

Turns out all of these politicians were in one one form or another adulterers, liars, abusers of the power they controlled from their political office, or outright criminals. All of which could not have made their families (or their constituents) very proud.

They also did a horrible job of serving their constituents. If you are wasting time and energy maintaining an adulterous affair, maintaining a series of lies to cover up your bad behavior, abusing your power for your own enrichment, or conducting criminal activities, you cannot be focused on serving the Americans that placed their trust in you when they went to the voting booths.

To this ignoble hall of shame list of past politicians acting badly, three new members are have been recently inducted:

- Ex-Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in jail this past week for his antics while in office, including his desire to sell and profit by his responsibility to name the replacement for President Obama's vacant Illinois Senate seat. During Blagojevich's trials, we learned how he operated, shaking down businesses for campaign donations and other favors in return for favorable state legislative treatment, in addition to trying to auction the vacant Senate seat.

If you can find any positive attribute of Blagojevich's bad behavior, it occurred at his prison sentencing hearing where he at least stood up and took the blame and responsibility for his actions: "I caused it all. I'm not blaming anybody. I was the governor and I should have known better and I am just so incredibly sorry."

But taking responsibility for his criminal and disgraceful actions was not enough for the judge who accurately described the impact of his actions: "The abuse of the office of governor is more damaging than the abuse of any other office, except the President's. Whatever good things you did for people as governor, and you did some, I am more concerned with the occasions when you wanted to use your powers to do things that were only good for yourself"

Well said. Selfish, criminal behavior wiping out whatever good the Governor did elsewhere while serving. As discussed above, how much more good could have Blagojevich done for Illinois citizens if he was not so worried about his personal enrichment and had not spent so much time shaking down innocent Illinois citizens and businesses for campaign donations?

- Our second example does not include an elected official but a high ranking member of President Obama's administration. Top FAA administrator Randy Babbit resigned this week after being arrested for drunk driving when police pulled him over at night for allegedly drunkenly driving on the wrong side of the road in Fairfax City, Virginia. Within days of his arrest, Mr.Babbit had submitted his resignation.

What makes this case of bad behavior so bewildering is a number of conditions:

• Mr. Babbit's boss, Secretary of Transportation Ray Lahood has been very actively fighting the problem of drunk driving on our nation's roads. Thus, the drunk driving issue should not have been an unknown priority of Mr. Babbit's superior.
• According to recent news reports on this incident, Mr. Babbit has had a long career in government transportation efforts, dating back at least to the Clinton administration. The drunk driving issue, either directly or indirectly, was probably part of at least some of those transportation assignments.
• And finally, Mr. Babbit

Bewildering and certainly poor judgement, judgement that only fortunately killed what appears to have been a stellar government career before it killed an unsuspecting traveler. As a mature adult, a professional expert, one would have thought Mr. Babbitt would have used better judgement. But we probably thought the same of Spitzer, MacGreevey, Ryan, Blagojevich, Clinton, Sanford, Ensign, etc. and they all disappointed us also.

But to his credit, at least Mr. Babbit accepted responsibility for his actions when he nobly and promptly submitted his resignation: "I am unwilling to let anything cast a shadow on the outstanding work done 24 hours a day, seven days a week by my colleagues at the FAA. They run the finest and safest aviation system in the world and I am grateful that I had the opportunity to work alongside them."

- And our third candidate today for admission to the political class/government hall of shame, the ex-governor of my former home state of New Jersey, Jon Corzine. Mr. Corzine was chairman of Goldman Sachs before he was forced out of the company and served New Jersey as one of its two Senators in the U.S. Senate. He left the Senate to serve one lack luster term as governor of New Jersey. After his defeat running for a second term, he took over the investment firm of MF Global.

In the past month, MF Global collapsed into bankruptcy, mostly as a result of bad investments in European bonds. Now, companies collapse all the time and go out of business for making bad business decisions so a Wall Street type bankruptcy such as MF Global should come as no surprise.

However, it was how it went out of business that has aroused suspicions, questions, and is resulting in criminal investigations and Congressional hearings:

* Given that the Sarbanes -Oxley legislation, that arose after the Enron and Worldcom accounting/financial scandals from a decade or so ago, was supposed to make corporate accounting more stringent and less likely to lead to fraud, how did over a billion dollars worth of MF Global customer investment dollars "disappear?"

Was Corzine and MF Global illegally using their customers' funds not to invest for their customers' benefit but using those funds to cover the loss of MF Global's own investment wealth? As an ex-Senator who actually voted on the Sarbannes-Oxley legislation, he should have no excuse for not understanding the accounting reporting requirements under this law and allegedly stealing a billion dollars of customer funds.

* Given all of the hysterics and labor of passing the Dodd-Frank financial industry reform act, shouldn't Corzine have been aware, as an ex-Senator, that this legislation also probably prohibited a company from co-mingling its funds with the funds of its customers? Given how big MF Global is (it was the eighth largest firm to go belly up in the nation's history) and the political background of Mr. Corzine, ignorance is unlikely a valid excuse. An ex-politician acting badly is probably a better reason for this billion dollar scandal situation.

* Even with the above two pieces of legislation, which failed the industry and American investors again, this bad behavior of allegedly misinvesting over a billion dollars of someone else's money might also just be a basic criminal case of fraud by a high ranking ex-politician.

But the most annoying and despicable part of this sad situation was some of the comments made by Mr.Corzine when he testified this past week in front of Congressional committees investigating this potential fraud. He has invoked the so-called Obama defense, i.e. "it's not my fault." This defense has been used by the President innumerable times to blame the Bush administration, the tsunami in Japan, the Euro crisis, and myriad of other people and situations for the many failures of his administration.

Consider a few of Mr. Corzine's testimony statements as reported by the New York Times and The Associated Press:

• When asked what happened to the $1.2 billion of customer funds his company managed, he replied: "I simply do not know where the money is, or why the accounts have not been reconciled to date." In other words, not my job.
• When asked how this misplacement of $1.2 billion could happen: “I did not, however, generally involve myself in the mechanics of the clearing and settlement of trades, or in the movement of cash and collateral. Nor was I an expert on the complicated rules and regulations governing the various different operating businesses that comprised MF Global. I had little expertise or experience in those operational aspects of the business.” In other words, not my fault, even though I ran the company and I used to run the one of the biggest financial firms (Goldman Sachs) of all times, others handled or mishandled the money, not me.
• When asked who was to blame for the collapse of the eighth largest firm in U.S. history, the Associated Press reported that "Corzine deflected blame for the company’s collapse. He argued that he inherited a firm already doomed by his predecessors’ bad financial decisions." In other words, those that came before me are to blame for what happened (e.g. Obama's constantly blaming of Bush for everything that went wrong during Obama's first three years).

Now, to be fair, Corzine did testify it was his responsibility for what happened to MF Global and the missing customer funds. But as we see from his actual testimony, he was all to anxious to blame others that worked for him or who came before him at MF Global.

So let's review: lying, adultery, felonious acts of crime, blaming others, drunk driving, extortion, misappropriation of customer and taxpayer funds, their parents should be so proud.

We must find a way to reform all of our political processes so that we no longer elect people who end up in the political class hall of shame. We need high integrity people that would actually make their parents proud, and in the process, make the American voter proud. Cleaning up these processes include many, if not all of the following steps that were laid out in "Love My Country, Loathe My Government:

• Reduce the volume and the impact of money from outside, special interest groups who bankroll our politicians. (Step 6)
• Remove politicians from their Congressional posts for non-performance (Sep 34).
• Require all sitting politicians to sign off on a shared  values/integrity pledge every year so they at least have a concept of what good behavior looks like. (Step 38)
• Institute term limits for politicians so that they have a limited time in office, hopefully limiting the time they have for bad behavior and extramarital affairs.(Step 39)

We need more action and less antics from those that sit in our political class.



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