October 10, 2005
Greed Cronies Theft Unqualified Appointments
If you have been watching quietly like I have the leftÂ’s smug attitude and utter glee at recent Republican troubles and have been waiting for the other shoe to drop here you go. It seems this story has all the elements of all the stories the left has been shouting about for weeks now all in one place. So have the Democrats become the new party of honesty and good moral judgement?
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Child-welfare advocates on Saturday said they were concerned and angered by newly disclosed allegations that more than $60,000 in Department of Children and Family Services funds ended up in a bank account controlled by a former high-ranking DCFS administrator with close ties to Gov. Rod BlagojevichÂ… Â… "For Illinois' child-welfare advocates, who have fought so long to ensure that money actually gets to the kids and the people who serve them, this is a sad reminder that DCFS is still vulnerable as an agency to hustlers who apparently think they can act with impunity in fleecing the system," said Ronald Davidson, a University of Illinois at Chicago faculty member and a state DCFS consultant since 1994
ILL Republican Newsletter:
GOVERNOR'S CRONY HAUNTS STATE AGENCY. The Department of Children and Family Services is the latest state agency to fall under federal scrutiny as it was revealed this week that a political crony of Governor Blagojevich's, Bamani Obadele, had shifted agency funds into personally controlled bank accounts. The U.S. Attorney's office subpoenaed DCFS documents this week in connection with the scandal and are investigating questionable relationships Obadele had with vendors. DCFS services suffered under the leader ship of Obadele resulting in numerous internal complaints. The unqualified Obadele was appointed to the post at the agency after helping the Governor win Chicago's south side during the 2002 campaign. Unfortunately, the ones who suffered from the crony appointment were the children who needed these services the most.
Uh, guess not huh.
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Actually, I have a better one than that. Two of Charles Schumer's aides on the Democractic Senatorial Campaign Committee fraudulantly obtained the Republican LT. Governor of Maryland's SSN and used it to illegally obtain a credit report. This is a felony, and to make it even worse for the Demos, Schumer has previously come out for severe punishment for people who commit these types of crime.
The silence of the Left is deafening. Haha!
Posted by: jesusland joe at October 11, 2005 10:13 AM (rUyw4)
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I wish I could say I am shocked, or even surprised, but no. There are three kinds of people attracted to government: Idealists, parasites, and thieves, and the first are outnumbered by the second and third by an astronomical margin, and few of any sort are worth the rope it would take to hang them. Our nation will fall one day as surely as Rome fell, and there will be a long period of chaos, anarchy, and tyranny, but with any luck, the governmental classes will all be killed off in the turmoil.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at October 11, 2005 01:08 PM (0yYS2)
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IM Ghengis Khan killed that class first as he regarded them as useless.
Posted by: Howie at October 11, 2005 01:19 PM (D3+20)
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True Howie, and in fact, idealists are usually worse than useless, they're dangerous. I'd trust a known scoundrel over an idealist anyday, because a scoundrel can be bargained with, but an idealist can't.
Take our current situation in the Middle East. It was idealists who proposed creating Israel, and who subsequently supported it. It was idealists who wanted us to save Kuwait from Iraq. All our problems with the ME lie in the fact that idealists have continually steered us on a course that guarantees trouble, regardless of the morality of the situation.
I'm not playing Devil's Advocate here, just pointing out that there are pragmatic courses of action, and idealistic courses of action, and the two rarely lead in the same direction. I'm a pragmatist at heart, though I do admire high-minded idealism on its own merits, but few idealistic people consider the consequences of their actions before they act, whether right or wrong to do so.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at October 11, 2005 04:11 PM (0yYS2)
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SCHOCKING !!!!
Posted by: john Ryan at October 11, 2005 06:18 PM (ads7K)
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Ummmm, john, are you trying to be satirical, or sarcastic or something? You might want to loosen the foil up a bit so the blood can flow.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at October 12, 2005 09:37 AM (0yYS2)
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