Elliot Spitzer, the former Attorney General of New York, Current Governor of New York and Prostitution Ring Organizer, stated he apologizes for his actions. Interestingly enough, as Attorney General he closed down and prosecuted several high-profile, high end prostitution rings and numerous street level prostitution rings. So, was he just trying to get rid of the competition, apparently so, and yes, there is a lot of income to be made in the prostitution sector, as it is one of the oldest industries known to mankind, but why is the Governor of New York so busy supporting it?

Getting rid of the competition or his political opponents by hook or by crook seems to be a repeating theme in Elliot Spitzer's play book. If you will recall during his run for mayor he had his political opponent tailed by the New York State Police to find something embarrassing, they did, and that ended up in the New York Times a week before the election. Big City Politics as usual and yes you can find it in Illinois or New York. Elliot Spitzer makes Rudy Guiliani look like a Saint and makes President Bill Clinton's famous blow-job look like child's play.

Apparently, high class women in Elliot Spitzer's prostitution ring went for $1,000 to $4,500 per hour, well, that is a lot more than Monica Luewinski's free-bee servicing of the President, just another day at the office. Elliot Spitzer was considered the epitome of the strength of the Democratic Party in the New York and the North East, a shining star of hope to root out our corruption, but now, it shows to what extremes the arrogance of power takes in Big City Politics.

Elliot Spitzer was both friends to Barack Obama and to Hilary Clinton, who he was forced to endorse for President due to the political hierarchy in New York, even though he is much more similar in style, poise, speeches and rhetoric to Barack Obama. Some say Elliot Spitzer's climb in politics was leading to a potential run for the White House after Hilary Clinton's eight years in office and this is why he endorsed her. Who knows, but this is a very sad day for politics and political corruption in America. This is unforgivable, and now many are asking that Elliot Spitzer resign immediately, the rest want to see him do a significant amount of prison time - forthwith!

By: Lance Winslow
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For decades corrupt union bosses, have violated the rights of union members. The number of convictions is shocking.

In those same decades, Democrats have joined right in with this scandalous behavior; fawning and bowing to every union demand in order to keep millions of dollars in donations rolling in, ignoring the corruption of those guilty and the harm to the workers whose dues have been misused.

In recent years, the Office of Labor Management Standards was created. Its role was to protect the dues and rights of union members.

Unions have very light filing requirements. This is amazing considering that as of 2005 they had $22 billion in assets. They only have to file once a year and are able to do so with a free software program. These easy requirements have very little expense and also draw very few audits.

Presumably unions have been so powerful and protected by the Democratic Party, that they have kept themselves relatively free of reporting requirements, despite massive corruption.

Corporations, on the other hand, must file every quarter, must follow standard accounting methods and get a certified independent audit.

Rules on corporations, since Enron, have become so stiff, that major corporations are taking their business to London, which is now predicted to pass the U.S. as the financial capitol of the world, largely as a result of over-regulation.

To Protect Union Dues The Labor Department Creates The OLMS
In the past six years, the Office of Labor Management Standards, or OLMS, has helped secure the convictions of 775 corrupt union officials and court-ordered restitution to union members of over $70 million in dues.

So the actual job of the OLMS is to provide information to union members for what is happening to their money and to punish those who abuse the handling of union dues, either by embezzling or engaging in other schemes, i.e. engaging in any form of abusing the public trust.

Guess what!!! Democrats voted to cut money from the program that does this very modest oversight to protect workers.

This is the party that endlessly and shamelessly throws out the suggestion that they look act in behalf of the working man and working families.

It would be nice if once in a while Democrats backed up those words with actions. Sadly, millions of Americans buy into the hocus pocus of class warfare.

AFTER DECADES DEMOCRATS FIND A GOVERNMENT PROGRAM THEY WANT TO CUT
In the upcoming budget, Democrats are already seeking $23 billion dollars more than President Bush requested. A huge amount of it is for pork/earmarks, after Democrats promised in no uncertain terms to radically change the Washington culture regarding earmarks. They have failed miserably, not only with earmarks; with practically all promises.

This week the ridiculous became the sublime.

One million dollars was allocated for something called the Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure.

In a discussion on the House Floor, the Appropriations leader for the Democrats, who guides such bills, was asked if such a group even existed. He did not know. Unfazed, and with a mere one million dollars at stake, he allowed the vote to proceed.

Democrats passed the earmark by a wide margin.

Turns out it was for one of congress’s famous pork kings, John Murtha of Pennsylvania. Worse, the group receiving the $1 million has given more than $7000 to Murtha over the last 7 years.

So while Democrats are on their usual spending and pork spree and have probably never cut a spending program which goes to their constituents; lo and behold they have now voted to cut one program.

They want to muzzle the one agency that tries to keep unions honest.

The whole matter begs the question:

Whose corruption is most detestable, unions or the Democratic Party?

Below are the number of Unfair Labor Practices filed against just four well known unions from 1998 to 2004.

International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) - 6,909

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) - 3,910

United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) - 2,161

United Steel Workers of America (USWA) - 1,912.

Every voter should be aware of the following site.

Center For Union Facts

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I wish I could go just one day without a prominent liberal throwing a stone from their own glass house. When Hillary Clinton said of the commutation of Scooter Libby’s sentence by President Bush, “What we saw today was elevating cronyism over the rule of law. And what we saw today was further evidence that this administration has no regard whatsoever for what needs to be held sacred,” I had to laugh.

Does the name Billy Dale happen to ring any bells Senatorette Clinton? Remember the man that you and your husband trumped up embezzlement charges on just so you could get him out of the White House Travel Office, a position he held for three decades? And why? To give the position to Harry Thomason; Clinton crony.

Sure, maybe you can claim that you had nothing to do with that. And sure, maybe those fawning over you at your campaign stops might believe that. But the truth is different. When notes by David Watkins were subpoenaed in the case, they read that there were, “periodic reports from Vince Foster that [the] First Lady had inquired about [the] Travel Office and why wasn't action being taken” and that, “they should be fired immediately and out of here by the end of the day.”

Of course that wasn’t the only case during the eight years of the Clinton presidency, but it illustrates the point pretty clearly. Especially considering that Billy Dale was found not guilty in a matter of hours and even eventually reimbursed by Congress for his costs that were accumulated in his defense against of Clinton cronyism.

The Bill Clinton pardon list also contains several instances of people that were pardoned for “obstruction of justice” and “perjury”. So much for things that need “to be held sacred” huh?

I hate to revisit the whole Scooter Libby affair but how can one let this sort of insanity go unanswered especially as Hillary holds hands and shares the stage with former President Clinton? History has got to account for something.

To boot I am still waiting for the “justice” that Scooter Libby “obstructed” and “perjured” himself in the pursuit of hiding to be prosecuted. I’m still waiting for the known leaker, one Richard Armitage, to be hauled up on charges. I am still wondering how, if Armitage was known to be the leaker Libby could have “obstructed” anything.

If there was a crime here why did Fitzgerald not pursue Armitage? For that matter, why aren’t Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and all the other demagogues on the left not out there demanding that Armitage be tried?

The answer? Because there was no crime. No crime means no “obstruction of justice.” No crime also means that the whole charade was nothing more than a perjury trap to get a conviction as close to President Bush as possible.

I hear liberals whine about the “rule of law”. But what does the law say? The law says that the President has the right to reprieve and pardon those convicted of crimes. Its right there in Article II of the Constitution which, I realize, is something most people have never really read. I realize that liberals only want the laws they like enforced and that those change on a day to day, if not an hour by hour basis, but come on.

The power of the pardon is certainly overused and abused by Presidents. Lists of pardons longer than my arm are granted by many presidents and mostly for political reasons and gain. But to say that the rule of law was not obeyed when they are granted is ignorant. The Constitution itself sets itself as the “Supreme Law of the land”.

But every now and again, presidential pardon powers are justified. Like when a man is accused and convicted of a crime in the non-cover-up of a non-crime while the man that actually non-committed the non-crime is never even charged because there was no crime.

That’s when it is justified.

And let’s not forget that thus far all President Bush has done is give Scooter Libby a reprieve from his jail sentence after the judge ordered him to jail while he pushed forward his right to appeal. The conviction, as of right now, still stands pending appeal.

In the end, Libby will serve just as many days in prison as President William Jefferson Clinton did for willful perjury, suborning the perjury of others, “obstructing justice”, attempting to deny an American citizen her constitutionally guaranteed day in court as well as crimes associated with those acts; none.

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