Vitter Tries To Bribe Sec. Salazar; Ed Schultz Silent

Self-described “liberal” talk show host Ed Schultz helped engineer Rep. Weiner’s resignation due to Weiener’s sexting habits.  Schultz spent a considerable amount of time wringing his hands as hard as he could in the days following Weiner’s sexting revelation.  My question, as well as that of plenty of other liberals is, “What about Sen. David Vitter, Ed?”  I first wrote about this last week and am following up on the story now that new news has come to light.

What’s happened is this: Sen. David Vitter made a bribery offer to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar (whom I have no love for, as evidenced by my writing history, by the way): Vitter will stop holding up $19,600 of Salazar’s pay raise vote if the Interior Secretary can somehow increase the rate of exploratory drill permits for the Gulf of Mexico.  Money for action = bribe.

This news came out at ~1:30P ET today as CREW filed an official complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee.  Unsurprisingly, I didn’t find any reference to Ed Schultz issuing commentary on the subject yet today.  I don’t expect I’ll find any such reference tomorrow or next week.  Schultz has left Sens. Vitter, Ensign and Coburn untouched during their respective ethics violations and well-documented illegal behavior.

A Democrat sending pictures of his junk?  Schultz feels compelled to hammer home his opinion because TMZ reported on it.

Republicans violating laws and breaking ethics rules?  Schultz ignores them because he thinks he can’t generate ratings if he covers them.

Ed Schultz is an entertainer first and a liberal second (at best).

Corrupt Democrat Found Guilty

And I’m pleased he was found to be so.  Corruption doesn’t care what political party a person belongs to.  This time, it was a corrupt Democrat who got caught.  There were certainly plenty of Republicans who were similarly caught in the past few years.  But the story of William Jefferson is fairly bizarre.

Rep. Jefferson took more than $400,000 in bribes and was seeking millions of dollars more in order to broker business deals in Africa.  The bizarre part?  FBI agents found $90,000 in his Washington home’s freezer.  That’s one way of keeping your cash cold.

Interestingly, the judge in the case allowed Jefferson to remain free on bond, despite possible connections to Africa which could entice him to flee the country.  That would be a big slap in the face of American Justice.