Robert Novak, writing in the Chicago Sun-Times, informs us of more stunning chicanery in Congress:
| Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid picked up his ball and went home following his staged all-night session last week, he saved from possible embarrassment one of the least regular members of his Democratic caucus: Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska. Reform Republican Sen. Tom Coburn had ready a defense authorization bill amendment to remove Nelson's earmark funding a Nebraska-based company whose officials include Nelson's son. Such an effort became impossible when Reid pulled down the bill... ...Reid... is working behind the scenes with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to undermine transparency of earmarks and prevent open debate on spending proposals such as Nelson's...  Reid is plotting to strip anti-earmark transparency from the final version of ethics legislation... it would bar earmarks benefitting a senator's family members such as Reid's four lobbyist sons and son-in-law. Nelson's current $7.5 million earmark for software helps 21st Century Systems Inc. (21 CSI), which employs the senator's son, Patrick Nelson, as its marketing director. 21 CSI gets 80 percent of its funds from federal grants, mostly from earmarks... |
I'm certainly glad that Nancy drained the swamp. The problem is, as it drains, we keeps discovering more Democrats like Reid, Nelson, William Jefferson and Allan Mollohan at the bottom of the septic tank.
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