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America Is Being Run Just Like Baltimore
Frontpage Magazine ^ | June 1, 2015 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 05/31/2015 9:50:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The Congressional Black Caucus is the most ridiculously corrupt part of an already corrupt Congress. A study two years ago found that a third of black congressmen had been named in an ethics probe during their careers. 5 of the 6 members under review by the House Ethics Committee that year were CBCers. In 2009, every single member of Congress under investigation was from the same old gang.

Like the Clinton Foundation, the CBC exists to trade money for influence. The Caucus takes in tens of millions from major corporations and spends it on parties for its members and funnels the rest into fake non-profits. Even the minority scholarships endowed with great ceremony as a way of providing opportunity to their underprivileged constituents have a way of going to their own children and friends.

The Congressional Black Caucus claims that it’s “the conscience of the Congress” when it’s actually the tip of a corrupt urban political machine that keeps black people in chains. Its members are lying idiots whose only response to criticism (including the ethics charges leveled against them) is to shout racism because that is the job they were chosen for by their real backers and masters.

Consider Representative Sheila Jackson Lee; the dumbest member of the CBC notorious for believing that we won the Vietnam War and that our astronauts had planted a flag on Mars.

Back in 2002, Sheila Jackson Lee announced on CNN, “I happen to represent Enron here in Houston.” That was an accurate summary. Her campaign had been funded by Enron. After Enron disappeared, other companies came along eager to funnel money to Sheila Jackson Lee and the CBC.

Attempted major mergers between AT&T and T-Mobile and between Time Warner and Comcast were financed with major donations from the participants to the CBC. CBC members enthusiastically signed on to the AT&T merger claiming that it would help black people.

It wouldn’t have, but it certainly helped CBC members.

Cell phone companies, dirty banks and drug companies all benefit from CBC intervention at the expense of their constituents. Like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, the CBC is an example of the merger between corporate corruption and urban political corruption masquerading as civil rights. That’s why CBC members are not only noted for being ridiculously corrupt, but also for being ridiculously stupid.

In addition to Sheila Jackson Lee, there’s Hank Johnson who claimed that an added Marine presence might cause the island of Guam to tip over, Maxine Waters who accused the CIA of selling crack in black neighborhoods or Frederica Wilson who claimed that the term ‘illegal alien’ is offensive because “To me an alien is somebody who is from another planet”. Much like the brain of the average CBC member.

And who could forget Marcia Fudge’s stirring condemnation of the Tea Party. “These same people believe if you do not work, you are lazy. These same people believe that if your children don’t get a good education, something is wrong with you. These are the craziest people I have seen in my life. Just absolute nuts. They don’t understand that the government’s job is to take care of its people.”

Like Sheila Jackson Lee, their stupidity was not an accident.

The best corrupt politicians are too stupid to understand the consequences and too shameless to care about ethics. CBC members are carefully selected for their worst qualities. They are national examples of the corrupt urban political machine that has crippled black communities around the country.

The next wave of CBC members who sought statewide and national office appeared to be made of better stuff. The wave hit its peak with Obama, who campaigned as a modern non-tribal politician striving for national excellence. Unlike Jesse Jackson, Obama appeared to be a fundamentally different type of urban politician. Their mutual hostility only reinforced that.

But the CBC’s next wave of smooth-talking Ivy League pragmatists who were supposed to save black communities proved to be just as rotten. After all the publicity, Cory Booker not only didn’t turn Newark around, he turned out to be using it as a springboard for higher political office. Once in office, Obama proved to be every bit as tribally racist as any CBC member and twice as corrupt as the worst of them.

As he presides over national race riots that he helped fuel, the whole country is getting a taste of what living under the governance of the urban political machine in the inner city looks like.

In Baltimore, the latest flash point of Obama’s race riots, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, an Oberlin grad and the daughter of an important politician, was supposed to be a step up from the incompetence and corruption of her predecessor who had been convicted of stealing gift cards meant for the poor. Instead she promised that casinos would fix everything and when they didn’t, she went on spending.

Even without the #BlackLivesMatter riots, Baltimore was on the road to financial ruin just like Chicago and Detroit. The urban political machine found the riots convenient because while it destroyed businesses, it let them blame the city’s economic disaster on racism instead of corruption.

State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s already botched prosecution of the police officers is just more political theater to distract the people of the city from what their political establishment has done to them. Like Rawlings-Blake, Mosby and her husband have shown us that the next generation of the political machine is slicker, but no cleaner or more competent than its predecessors.

The Baltimore political establishment panders to criminals because it’s run by criminals. This is a city whose mayor only has her job because her predecessor was convicted and whose NAACP boss tried to claim that her son’s heroin was really insulin which he was using to kill mice in the NAACP offices. Meanwhile Mosby is claiming that someone hacked her Twitter account to favorite racist tweets.

When Obama moved into the White House, the corruption of the urban political machine joined him there. His attorney general had been slammed by Congress over Pardongate’s paid pardons for fugitives. Holder set the tone for an administration that casually traded cash for political favors. It lied about the economy and terrorism, and when the lies were exposed, it touched off race riots to distract everyone.

America is now being run just like Baltimore.

Obama’s appointees tend to be deliberately incompetent. Charles Samuels, his new Director of Federal Prisons, thought that a jail cell was six by four feet. But the strategy of deliberate incompetence also serves to insulate against charges of corruption. It’s the CBC strategy of contempt in the White House.

The black community has been used as a shell corporation by the Democratic Party. It’s been hollowed out and corrupt idiots have been elevated to leadership positions to accommodate that purpose.

What it fears most is honest and competent black leadership. When such men and women arise, every effort is made to destroy them. If they cannot be destroyed, they must be deemed outsiders at war with the community. Or as the CBC’s William Clay Jr. called former Republican Congressman Gary Franks, a “Negro Dr. Kevorkian, a pariah, who gleefully assists in suicidal conduct to destroy his own race.”

Meanwhile Clay funneled a quarter of a million dollars to the offices of his sister. It wasn’t his race that Clay was defending, but his right to loot. Clay and his CBC colleagues were the real Dr. Kevorkians.

When men like Ben Carson or Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. stand up to the machine, the machine strikes back because excellence in black leadership is the biggest possible threat to its thievery. The machine seeks to perpetuate the idea that the best black leadership is corrupt and incompetent. It deliberately provokes disgust and then uses that to further isolate the black community behind the wall of its corruption and distrust. If that wall were to ever come down, if it were suddenly clear that there were alternatives to the forty thousand thieves of the machine, the urban political machine would fall apart.

The Democrats and their urban collaborators prefer their corrupt and contemptible regime to that.


TOPICS: Maryland; Issues; Parties; State and Local; U.S. Congress
KEYWORDS: baltimore; blackcaucus; blackkk; blacks; cbc; charlessamuels; congress; corruption; democrats; elijahcummings; greenfield; marilynmosby; maryland; racists; rawlingsblake; sheilajacksonlee
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1 posted on 05/31/2015 9:50:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; RedMDer; trisham

Daniel Greenfield’s column is the best I’ve read in long, long time!


2 posted on 05/31/2015 9:55:55 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! God bless you all.)
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To: onyx

I always enjoy his articles.


3 posted on 05/31/2015 10:01:11 PM PDT by gattaca (Republicans believe every day is July 4, democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan)
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To: onyx

i visited my nephew and niece yesterday. my niece told me about a black girl she works with that thought slavery existed in the 1930s in America.
she has white co workers that believe in white privilege and attack her for calling the Baltimore situation for what it is.
I’m proud of her for not backing down.
this under 34 crowd needs some working on, like I’ve said before.


4 posted on 05/31/2015 10:01:28 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So, our Fathers enslaved black people, reconstruction jettisoned them, depression abPooandoned them, we lost our freedom with Brown 1954, we convinced them to kill their kids, and you expect us to survive as an unjust people?


5 posted on 05/31/2015 10:01:46 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What do you expect with a feckless fool on the hill running it?


6 posted on 05/31/2015 10:03:36 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: gattaca

Yes!


7 posted on 05/31/2015 10:07:54 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! God bless you all.)
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To: dp0622

PC is a term for dishonesty.


8 posted on 05/31/2015 10:09:20 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! God bless you all.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“if it were suddenly clear that there were alternatives to the forty thousand thieves of the machine, the urban political machine would fall apart. The Democrats and their urban collaborators prefer their corrupt and contemptible regime to that.”

Brilliant. Barabbas without teeth or the Lord with power and clarity. Hmm. The Pharisees are always with us and hiding behind a machine of lies.


9 posted on 05/31/2015 11:29:47 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: Falconspeed; 2ndDivisionVet
“if it were suddenly clear that there were alternatives to the forty thousand thieves of the machine, the urban political machine would fall apart. The Democrats and their urban collaborators prefer their corrupt and contemptible regime to that.”

It is the Gerrymandered districts set up to provide safe Black districts that permit this to happen.

If Black candidates actually had to compete for their seats you would not have these idiots in congress.

These Black districts are also why you do not frequently have a Black Senate candidate. Black congressman never gain statewide respect because Black congressmen never rise to prominence in the House.

They don’t rise to prominence in the House for two reason. First because they are all idiots. And second because the Democrat leadership permits them to have their own power structure of the CBC. If a Black caucus member wants to submit a bill they have to go through the CBC first.

10 posted on 05/31/2015 11:47:24 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

the executive branch sure as hell is...


11 posted on 06/01/2015 12:07:18 AM PDT by wardaddy (Game of Thrones rocked tonight.....the White Walkers know Snow stands in the way....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Indeed it is.

Queen Stephanie writ large.


12 posted on 06/01/2015 1:50:02 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It didn’t take a prophet to know that Obama would turn the country into another successful black run city. That was a given before he took the oath. /sarcasm


13 posted on 06/01/2015 4:00:48 AM PDT by chit*chat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maryland is a S#ithole bump for later..


14 posted on 06/01/2015 4:34:52 AM PDT by indthkr
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To: All
The Congressional Black Caucus is part of an already corrupt US Congress....1/3 of black congressmen were named in ethics probes. the House Ethics Committee had 5 CBC'ers out of 6 members under investigation. In 2009, every single member of Congress under investigation was from the CBC.

These parasitic tax-subsidized "separatist caucuses" on the Hill are nothing more than Ponzis---sucking up tax dollars and extorting other entities.....then funneling the money to enrich themselves.

The CBC uses the Clinton Foundation MO---taking tens of millions from major corporations for one purpose then funneling the rest into parties and fake "non-profits."

Mail fraud could be an issue---soliciting money by mail for one purpose then using it for another purpose is considered mail fraud.

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TAXPAYERS DEMAND LAWS BANNING ELECTED OFFICIALS FROM FORMING NON-PROFITS AND FOUNDATIONS---Obama's still in office and has two Foundations (that we know of)---ready to cash-in like the Clintons.

CONTACT CONGRESS HERE: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

15 posted on 06/01/2015 4:38:25 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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NOTE WELL: CBC'ers each get $10,000 tax-dollars per year (that we know of), earmarked for minority scholarships to underprivileged constituents.

But troubling reports indicate our tax dollars usually finds its way to their own children, friends.....and into their own pockets.

16 posted on 06/01/2015 4:42:07 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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Equally as corrupt---and just as predatory---is the separatist "Congressional Hispanic Caucus." A 2009 Wall Street Journal investigative report on the subprime mortgage borrowing spree that wreaked havoc on the US economy revealed that:

<><> According to the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, financial schemes by low-income housing groups, Hispanic lawmakers on Capitol Hill, included a Congressional Hispanic Caucus housing initiative.

<><> these entities colluded together in fraudulent schemes to increase homeownership among Latinos using falsified applications, and other fraudulent tricks of the trade.

The subprime mortgage bank fraud network was spearheaded by then-Cong Joe Baca (Dem-Calif 43rd), in his powerful position as chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Baca's district ranks No.5 among all US Congressional districts in percentage of home loans tailored to sub-prime borrowers.

Cong Baca used his the legislative power of his office and his leadership position in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to calculatedly launch a housing initiative called "HOGAR"-- Spanish for home. Conspiract and collusion was Hogar's MO... as the Congressuial Hispanic caucus zipped its lips about its role in financing and forwarding the debacle.

The nefarious parasitic La Raza aided and abetted risky federal and private-home loans to latinos over the last decade thanks to the lending industry’s version of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Even more egregious, the America-hating race-based parasite was given tax dollars and Congressionsl earmarks to finance its phone mortgage activities.

Stupid La Raza's "strategic partnerships” with Wachovia and Bank of America forced on banks the fraudulent mortgage-application requirements and documentation standards which resulted in billion dollar bailouts.

These ignorant subprime activities were not simply the mortgage market at work. They were fueled by avarice, greed, stupidity--all enabled by Hispanic Congressmen and other groups which leave a trail at the door of then-Cong Joe Baca (Dem-Cali).

Between 2000 and 2009, Hispanic populations increased; but Hispanic home ownership grew even faster, increasing by 47%, to 6.1 million from 4.1 million, according to the US Census Bureau. Over that same period, homeownership nationally grew by an enemic 8%. In 2005 alone, mortgages to Hispanics jumped by 29%; Latinos with multiple fraudulent identities in low-paying jobs obtained costly non-prime mortgages---soaring to a shocking 169%, (Research provided by Wall Street Journal)

In addition to millions of federal tax dollars, La Raza also collected a $1 million Democratic earmark that funded “community-development” projects for stupid border jumpers. La Raza was supposedly engaged in "mortgage counseling"

(waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)

17 posted on 06/01/2015 5:05:29 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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The “community organizer” certainly has organized a huge bunch of crooks, has he not?


18 posted on 06/01/2015 5:31:38 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The 0bama mindset:

19 posted on 06/01/2015 6:02:40 AM PDT by W. (Animals are much stupider since Noah's Ark, because of inbreeding.--Oglaf)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Congressional Black Caucus ... Its members are lying idiots whose only response to criticism (including the ethics charges leveled against them) is to shout racism because that is the job they were chosen for by their real backers and masters.

Nailed.

20 posted on 06/01/2015 6:58:14 AM PDT by GOPJ (If the MSM stops lying about conservatives, we'll stop telling the truth about them.)
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