You may see a common thread here between these two lifelong criminals that no one in the media or in DC want to acknowledge. These two people have been in DC too long! Once you get there and stay there for as long as these two and many others have you begin to think that the rules aren’t meant for you. You are of the ruling class and that makes you immune to the rules. You can prosecute corporations and corporate officers for stealing from their private employees retirement plans, but you are allowed to steal from Social Security with abandon and not expect to be prosecuted. You are above the law. The little people of America answer to you, not the other way around.
As long as there are lifelong politicians, there will be this type of corruption. Don’t expect it to change until we change the faces we send to DC. Lindsay Graham is an example of those who believes that the people who send them to Washington aren’t smart or elite enough to understand what it takes to run the country. Indeed, they ignore the people who send them there until a short time before elections, and unfortunately in most cases, they don’t have a viable candidate running against them anyway so it isn’t much of a threat.
If you want proof that people are really tired of the idiots we have in Washington, look at what the Dems picked for their opposition to Jim DeMint in this year’s Senate race in South Carolina. Not that very many people would actually be a threat to Senator DeMint anyway since he’s one of the few in DC who actually listen to their constituents outside of election season. Also note that this is DeMint’s first term in the Senate. I certainly hope that he doesn’t go the way of Graham, the OTHER Senator from SC. Graham would feel more at home calling New York or California his home, I think. He’s much too sophisticated to represent South Carolina, you know.
Waters, 71, has been under investigation for a possible conflict of interest involving a bank that was seeking federal aid. Her husband owned stock in the bank and had served on its board.
New York Democrat Rep. Charles Rangel also faces an ethics trial this fall on charges that include failure to disclose assets and income, nonpayment of taxes and doing legislative favors for donors to a college center named after him.
via California Rep. Waters may face fall ethics trial – Yahoo! News.