Promoted from diaries - Moe Lane

Last week, Missouri’s Democrat Governor Jay Nixon was accused of attempting to buy off his political opponents with the promise of lucrative jobs within his administration. It was a brazen attempt to put a ‘for sale’ sign in the halls of government.

Nixon recognized that one of his legislative priorities was failing, and instead of compromising with the Republican-led legislature, he apparently sent two high-level staffers to the Capitol and to offer freshman representatives government jobs in return for their votes on his bill.

It went down like something out of the Sopranos:

Rep. Anne Zerr, R-St. Charles, and Rep. Chris Molendorp, R-Belton, both said later they were pulled off the floor by Nixon’s deputy chief of staff, Dustin Allison. Zerr and Molendorp, both freshmen, said Allison told them: “The governor likes to reward people who share his views.” Zerr said Allison told her he was “prepared to make a deal right now.”

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Below is a video we’ve all seen: Speaker Pelosi, in February 2007, denying that she or anybody in her office demanded the DOD provide her with a larger plane than the ones already provided to meet her personal-use demands.

“I have never asked for any larger plane….We’ve never asked for a larger plane, this is a myth that they are talking about on the floor,” she said. “No we haven’t asked for any larger plane. …this is not my request, it is a request of the Sergeant-at-Arms…

“We didn’t ask for a larger plane. Period.”

Unfortunately for Speaker Pelosi, her Clinton-esque outright denial of the charge that she demanded the DOD provide her with planes for personal use on the spur of the moment didn’t end the matter altogether. Instead of letting it die, Judicial Watch put in a FOIA request for the email traffic surrounding this issue — and, through that, found that the Speaker was (surprise!) lying.

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Alan Mollohan has been under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a few years. Today it’s reported that his charitable foundation received free rent from a high-tech consortium that he blessed with millions of dollars in earmarks:

The West Virginia High Tech Consortium has provided more than $75,000 in free rent and administrative services to the Robert H. Mollohan Family Charitable Foundation, according to tax records, while receiving millions of dollars worth of earmarks from Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W. Va.), who serves as the family foundation’s secretary.

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The faulty-memoried Blagojevich appointee is rapidly losing support from all quarters, and the rumor mill Democratic PR machine news media is starting to get cranking with reports of Sen. Roland Burris’s (D) imminent resignation.

Personally, my fake money’s on this afternoon. As living proof that there really is no such thing as a clean Chicago Democrat, Burris has become a liability to President Obama (D) — and, as he already cast one of sixty deciding votes for the unread $787,000,000,000.00 “stimulus” bill, he has already served his purpose to Obama’s (and Harry Reid’s) cause, and can now be jettisoned from the bus to his appropriate place beneath its tires.

Updates to come as the story develops.