It's that time of year again. Not just Santa, but for the press, lists, lots of lists, including a clickable one on a think-tank's assessment of who the most corrupt members of Congress were this year.
According to the Daily Caller::
A conservative-leaning watchdog group says House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are the biggest congressional scofflaws of 2018, for their anemic handling of the settlement slush fund that used an unlimited pot of taxpayer money to pay off congressional staff in exchange for signing legal papers barring them from taking public their claims of sexual harassment and other mistreatment by their congressional employers.Yes, agree, that was bad, and why the heck were they protecting the largely Democrats who engaged in this despicable behavior? The only reason why that doesn't quite resonate with a lot of us is because there were so many things guys like Ryan and McConnell did not do – such as get rid of Obamacare, scrap DACA, and build the wall, for starters.
Ryan's out of a job for it, and McConnell's only saving grace has been his stellar performance in rebalancing the court system to reflect the values of the American people. In other words, he got conservative judges through – important, given that the judicial system would otherwise be a liberal monolith tag-teaming with lefty activists.
Good riddance to Ryan.
What does resonate is the kind and quality of corruption that was on display in Congress this year from the list that followed from the think-tank that created the list, known as FACT. Here are the names: ..........To Read More
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