Residual Forces

Here’s an interesting developement in the new Democraticly controlled Congress. Sen. Diane Feinstein has been caught with her hand in the taxpayer’s cookie jar. Via Captain Ed.

The new Congress has barely made it past its start before a new face has been put on lobbyist influence. Dianne Feinstein, the senior Senator from California, has resigned her leadership position on a subcommittee which put billions of dollars into her family’s business

Now I thought Democrats were going to clean up the culture of corruption in Washington. And isn’t our own rookie Senator Klobuchar supposed to be some grand stalwart of ethics? I wonder if the two lady Democrats have had a chance to sit and talk about this?

Here’s a dramatazation of how that may have taken place behind the closed doors.

A-Klo: Hey, Diane, so how’s your husband?

DF: Even more loaded!

A-Klo: Jeez, its only 10AM.

DF: Oh, no. I mean we’re even more filthy rich.

A-Klo: I know, you’re a California Democrat, aren’t you all loaded?

DF: Yeah, but I just got his companies another billion dollars in no-bid contracts through my powerful position as a committee chair.

A-Klo: Aren’t we against that sort of thing? I could have sworn that was in the campaign manual Chuck Schumer had sent me last Summer so I knew how to sound just like all you other Democrats.

DF: Oh honey. That was just for the campaign. We had no plans of actually doing any of that stuff.

A-Klo: I didn’t think so. I mean how would Democrats stay in seats for decades if they didn’t dish out the pork for their special interest friends, not to mention funnel a few bucks our own way for a nice nest egg.

DF: I knew you were going to fit right in in Washington.

A-Klo: But I was really hoping to be able to use the line stand by your pork again.

DF: Oh honey, we’ll figure some other way out to blame Republicans for the inherent problems with having membersw of Congress that have been in office longer than most Americans have been alive.

A-Klo: Do you think I’ll be here as long as the other Democrats? I mean I’d love to be doing this for the next 30 years, so I never have to get a real job again.

DF: We’ll get you a nice Committee chair after your reelection, and you’ll be set for life.

A-Klo: I sure hope its on the Ag Committee.

DF: Why?

A-Klo: Just think of the millions of dollars I could funnel to ethanol subsidies so the refineries will line my campaign coffers.

DF: That should be billions.

A-Klo: I just love Washington.

(Sorry, I was up late being yelled at and called names by someone. I need to go have another cup of coffee before I post anything else. )