Brace Yourself, You're Going to Agree With Patrick Buchanan

Buchanan on the corruption at the World Bank:
He ordered Xavier Coll, bank vice president for human resources, to assign Riza[Wolfitz's girlfriend] to the State Department and raise her salary by some 50 percent, to $193,000 today, tax-free. She would take home more than Condi Rice. Coll was then directed to assure that Riza receive annual pay hikes of 8 percent and be put on a glide path to the highest position of any civil servant at the bank. By 2010, she would be making $245,000, tax-free.

And what has been Wolfowitz's big cause at the bank? Fighting corruption.

According to the Washington Post, Wolfowitz also had super-agent Robert Bennett negotiate a pay raise to $400,000 for him, equal to that of President Bush, only tax-free. He then brought over two Bush aides from the White House and installed them "in senior positions and rewarded them with open-ended contracts and quarter-million-dollar, tax-free salaries, despite their lack of development experience."

As this spilled out into the press, Wolfowitz, by week's end, was barely hanging on to his job. But Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and the West Wing were behind him. In the GOP of Jack Abramoff and Duke Cunningham, this doesn't qualify as sleaze.

Well, let Wolfie stay on as poster boy of Bush ethics, and let the nation decide whether they wish to continue with this crowd in 2008.

But there is a larger issue than the love of Wolfie for Shara. That is the systematic looting of our country by parasites who are paid the world's fattest public salaries, working in Washington, supposedly to alleviate the suffering of the world's poorest people.

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much like on the state level, Bruce Ratner is looting the public coffers under the guise of helping the poor. Haven't people had enough of this? Wolfitz was a key figure in lying us into a war where now hundreds of thousands of people have died, and billions, approaching trillions of the US coffers have been bled, and our country's reputation sank - Bush rewards a known traitor (he was caught wiring classified info to Israel in the 1980s) a high paying ,tax free job at bank allegedly created to help the poor but is nothing but a tool for political agendas. Ratner gets massive tax breaks huge public subsidies that aren't just an aid, but the core of business - who pays for it? You, me, taxpayers...

Where is the diligent press? at the same cocktail parties with the Ratners and Wolfitz's of the world, unfortunately.

Under the guise of a plain talking honest church going cowboy George Bush has become (and I say this as a Republican, though it may be time to leave the party) a far more damaging corrupt president than Bill Clinton, an accomplishment that i have up till now thought impossible.

The problem with his liberal opposition is this: they always try to portray him as stupid, and in doing so, underestimated him. He's quite shrewd, and bloody vicious too. At the same time liberals always thought they had more in common with neoconservatives - after all they were were ivy educated conservatives, from urban backgrounds, and conditioned (by neoconservatives!) to believe that the Buchanans' of the world were ogres with SS uniforms in the closet ready to join the Party at any moment. Strange how things turn out isn't it? Or is it? Neoconservatives were always quite vocal about their use of army to impose ideology on the rest of the world. But the liberal elite, with its sympathy for idealogical engineering, turned a blind eye. All we on the 'old right' said was that US Army should only be used for what the constitution allows - the defense of US borders and upholding the consitution. For our trouble we were called nazis, antisemites, unpatriotic, and everything else under the sun.

In our super touchy, ultra PC world I suppose I should be offended, but let me quote another fine old american "sticks and stone may hurt my bones but names may never harm me"...to which i might at "I TOLD YOU SO"