Friday, August 17, 2012
Hey, remember when Nancy Pelosi and a gaggle of
Democratic women vowed to eradicate Washington's culture of corruption?
Tee-hee. Instead of breaking up the Good Ol' Boys Club, Capitol Hill's leading
liberal ladies have established their very own taxpayer-funded Sisterhood of
the Plundering Hacks.
This week, the names of two of Department of Homeland
Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's gal pals surfaced in a mortifying, Animal
House-style scandal. If the allegations of whistleblowers pan out, DHS may soon
be known as DSH: The Department of Sexual Harassment.
According to FoxNews.com's Judson Berger, DHS chief of
staff for Immigration and Customs Enforcement Suzanne Barr put herself on
voluntary leave after details of her lewd behavior were disclosed as part of an
ongoing discrimination and retaliation lawsuit. In "newly emerging
affidavits," Berger reported, "one of the employees claimed that in
October 2009, while in a discussion about Halloween plans, the individual
witnessed Barr turn to a senior ICE employee and say: 'You a sexy (expletive
deleted).'"
Striking a blow for equal opportunity pervs everywhere,
Barr "then looked at his crotch and asked, 'How long is it anyway?'
according to the affidavit."
Barr is accused of numerous other acts intended to
"humiliate and intimidate male employees." Yet another account from
the lawsuit detailed Barr's vulgar text messages to a colleague while on a
boozy trip to Colombia. On the same junket, Barr allegedly offered to perform
oral sex on another DHS employee. Barr, a lawyer who previously served as
Napolitano's director of legislative affairs when the DHS secretary was
governor of Arizona, had no law enforcement experience before ascending the
federal ranks.
A few months after Barr followed Napolitano to DHS in
2009, another crony tagged along. Dora Schriro, who served as director of
Arizona's Department of Corrections under then-Gov. Napolitano, was appointed
by her BFF to head the Detention and Removal Operations office despite zero
experience in that critical homeland security policy area. The suit claims that
Schriro had a "longstanding relationship with (Napolitano)" that
resulted in preferential treatment.
A few plum posts here, a few plum posts there. Pretty
soon, the sleaze piles up.
But DHS has nothing on the public relations slush fund
created by Obamacare -- and forked over to Obama on-air surrogate Kiki McLean.
The longtime Democratic operative and self-described "true D.C.
insider" heads up the global public affairs division at Porter Novelli,
which secured a $20 million contract to peddle Obamacare to the public. The
firm claims it struck gold after a "competitive bidding process." But
members of Congress on both sides of the aisle have called for probes into that
and other shady business-as-usual PR contracts. And HHS, headed by Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius, is dragging its feet on meeting information requests.
Such obstructionism is nothing new to Sebelius, whose
tenure as Kansas governor is still the subject of an ongoing criminal court
case against Planned Parenthood and the Sunflower State's health officials.
Last year, the plaintiffs discovered that health bureaucrats presided over the
"routine" shredding of "documents related to felony charges the
abortion giant faces." Sebelius doggedly fought transparency motions in
the proceedings for years.
Are Obama's female inspectors general watching out for
taxpayers any better than their male counterparts? As the boys in my family
like to say: negatory.
Interior Department acting IG Mary Kendall is
knee-stocking-deep in a conflict-of-interest scandal, which alleges that she
potentially helped White House officials cover up their doctoring of scientific
documents that led to the fraudulent, job-killing drilling moratorium of 2010.
Acting Department of Justice IG Cynthia Schnedar, a
longtime employee and colleague of now-Attorney General Eric Holder, has an
ethics imbroglio all her own. As I reported in June, she worked under Holder in
the 1990s and co-filed several legal briefs with him. Schnedar recklessly
released secret Fast and Furious audiotapes to the U.S. Attorney's Office in
Phoenix before reviewing them. The tapes somehow found their way into the hands
of the local ATF office. Both remain targets of congressional probes.
Over on Capitol Hill, Democratic women are too
preoccupied with their own nest-feathering and backside-covering to police the
Obama administration:
California Democratic Rep. Laura Richardson, a tax dodger
and loan defaulter, received a House ethics wrist slap two weeks ago after
investigators concluded she had "improperly pressured her congressional
staffers to work on her campaign, verbally abused and intimidated them, used
taxpayer-funded resources for personal and political activities, and obstructed
the investigation," as the Los Angeles Times summed it up.
Fellow California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters still
hasn't faced an ethics trial over her meddling in minority-owned OneUnited
Bank. The financial institution, in which her husband had invested, received
$12 million in federal TARP bailout money after Waters' office personally
intervened and lobbied the Treasury Department in 2008.
Nevada Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley faces a formal
House ethics investigation into charges that she abused her position to benefit
her husband's business interests.
And investigative author Peter Schweizer exposed House
Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and her husband's smelly Obamacare insider deals
involving the initial public offering of credit-card company Visa.
Out: Drain the swamp. In: Last one in is a rotten egg.
Kick off your pumps and 3, 2, 1 ... cannonball!
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