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SO WHO?S BEHIND THE DISTRACTIONS? Democrats Under Ethics Cloud Benefit From Distracted Public. F?

By Glenn Reynolds

SO WHO’S BEHIND THE DISTRACTIONS? Democrats Under Ethics Cloud Benefit From Distracted Public.

Feinstein defended herself Wednesday by pointing out that her legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that reportedly awarded her husband’s real estate firm a lucrative contract never was enacted into law.

Another Democrat, Pennsylvania Rep. Jack Murtha, is facing a federal probe for purportedly steering defense appropriations to clients of KSA Consulting, which employed his brother Robert, and the PMA Group, founded by Paul Magliocchetti, a former senior staffer on the Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Defense.

New York Rep. Charlie Rangel is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee in at least four areas, including his reported failure to properly report income taxes on a Caribbean villa in the Dominican Republic; use of four, rent-controlled apartments in Harlem; questions about an offshore firm asking Rangel for special tax exemptions; and whether Rangel improperly used House stationery to solicit donations for a school of public affairs named after him at City College of New York.

Also, reportedly all the Republican scandals of previous years have left the press “desensitized” to all the Democratic scandals coming up now. How convenient.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 23, 2009 (boomark / email).