YOU are paying off DC sexual harassment suits

Just when you thought there might be some justice in terms of genuine sexual harassment, rape and assault incidents in DC — well, have I got a story for you.

Your American Taxpayer dollars are hard at work.

Against you, not for you.

From TheHill.com:

Congress owes taxpayers answers about its harassment ‘shush’ fund

by Jenny Beth Martin

Since when are members of Congress and their staffs accused of sexual harassment allowed to hush up and pay off their accusers from a secret “shush” fund full of taxpayer dollars? Since 1995, it turns out.

Congress, we all know, chooses to exempt itself from many of the same laws it foists on the rest of us. It’s a grievance I hear regularly during my travels around the country, as grassroots activists complain about this law or that regulation. “If only Congress had to live under the same laws we do, they’d get it, and they’d change it” is a common refrain.

For years, for instance, I’ve been speaking out about the illegal special exemption of Congress from ObamaCare, which allows members and staff to avoid the financial burdens they imposed on us when they passed that terrible law. If only they had to live under the law the same way the rest of us do, without benefit of taxpayer dollars to subsidize their premiums purchased fraudulently on the D.C. small business exchange, they might be more incentivized to repeal that law.

But until recently, I did not know about the “shush fund” of Congress, a fund managed by the “Office of Compliance,” which itself was created following the 1995 enactment of the Congressional Accountability Act (CAA), the first law enacted by the first Republican House in four decades.

Haven’t you ever asked yourself: just why do people spend thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars for a House or Senate seat?

Are they so devoted that they would place themselves into what normally would be considered as absolutely inextricable debt potentially in perpetuity?

The lowliest of Congressmen make $174,000 per year. Leaders make $200,000 per year or more, due to figures not up to date.

Did you ever think quid pro quo? Or ROI? You should have.

“It’s not the money, it’s the power.”
— Frank Underwood

What happened to transparency?

We, the taxpayers who have been paying for more than two decades to quietly settle literally hundreds of sexual harassment claims against members of Congress and their staffs, have a right to know which members and staffers have made use of the hush money over the years. Going forward, taxpayers should have knowledge about how that fund is used.

If Congress wants to get serious about its apparent culture of abuse, it will need to address its cover-up culture. Shush funds may serve the immediate purpose of getting alleged victims to go away, but they do little to stem the tide of sexual harassment. What Congress needs — and American taxpayers deserve — is more transparency.

And also at GatewayPundit.com:

SHOCK: $15 Million in TAXPAYER MONEY Has Been Paid Out to Settle Congressional Sexual Harassment Lawsuits

by Cristina Laila

As previously reported, Congress has a rampant sexual harassment problem. In fact the problem is so bad that female lawmakers and aides keep a ‘creep list’ of men who are notorious for lewd behavior.

As if this couldn’t get any worse, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd Tuesday that taxpayers have paid over $15 million to settle sexual harassment lawsuits against members of Congress!

Further, from ConservativeReview.com:

Levin: GOP leaders must resign over sexual harassment in Congress

by Chris Pandolfo

Tuesday on the radio, LevinTV host Mark Levin discussed the day’s reports and testimonies concerning the subject of sexual harassment in Congress.

He played a clip of Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., who testified there are at least two sitting members of Congress — one Republican, one Democrat —who have engaged in sexual harassment of their own staff members.

Levin wants these sitting Congress members to be identified. He wants names named.

He also wants Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to resign for their failure in leadership — keeping silent on known creeps and a known widespread problem in the institutions they lead.  

Can you imagine, folks, a job where you are treated like a king or a queen, provided with armed protection, chauffeured in cars and SUVs, provided an expense account, shown deference wherever you go and can decide which laws to obey or not because, after all, you make the law? Wouldn’t you like a job like that? One where internal review and investigations into your conduct are mostly toothless?

Wouldn’t you enjoy a job like that?

And finally: just how long must we slit our own wrists for the power mongers in DC before we rise up in righteous umbrage?

BZ 

 

The FIX in Phoenix

Democrat LIES via Bill and Hill and LorettaThe fix is in.

To what am I referencing, you may ask?  Please read this, from ABC15 in Phoenix, which reports:

US Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Bill Clinton meet privately in Phoenix before Benghazi report

by Christopher Sign

PHOENIX – Amid an ongoing investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of email and hours before the public release of the Benghazi report, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch met privately with former President Bill Clinton.

The private meeting took place on the west side of Sky Harbor International Airport on board a parked private plane.

Former President Clinton was visiting the Phoenix area and arrived to Sky Harbor Monday evening to depart.

Sources tell ABC15 Clinton was notified Lynch would be arriving at the airport soon and waited for her arrival.

Let us now do what I call the Logical Extension.  Nothing with regard to American politics occurs in a vacuum.  And Bill Clinton is not only not stupid but he does not operate in a political vacuum.  If there were someone who is cooly, calmly cogitating with regard to politics, it is William Jefferson Clinton.  William Jefferson Clinton exists to fill vacuums.

Translated: Clinton waited for Lynch’s arrival for a very specific reason.  William Jefferson Clinton does not waste time because time is money.  Money.  Because only two items motivate the Clintons:  1) Money, and 2) Power.  Unlike Frank Underwood, the Clinton’s Juggernaut has acquired the point where money and power are roughly equal in their lust.

The meeting was simply coincidental and involved only brusque mandatory pleasantries with regard to grandchildren and such.  Because it was 106-degrees in Phoenix that day and likely 112-degrees on the tarmac.  Because William Jefferson Clinton is customarily motivated by like pleasantries with other Demorats.  When they happen to share private jets at congruent airports.

Despite the fact that William Jefferson Clinton had to deplane his own personal private jet in order to step into the personal private jet of Loretta Elizabeth Lynch.

Yes.  Your tax dollars at work.

Oh wait.  Demorats that William Jefferson Clinton happened to appoint to particular posts.  Oh wait.  Like Loretta Elizabeth Lynch.being nominated In 1999 by William Jefferson Clinton to be US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York?  Yes, like that.

Lynch was arriving in Phoenix for a planned visit as part of her national tour to promote community policing.

ABC15 asked Lynch about the meeting during her news conference at the Phoenix Police Department.

“I did see President Clinton at the Phoenix airport as he was leaving and spoke to myself and my husband on the plane,” said Lynch.

The private meeting comes as Lynch’s office is in charge of the ongoing investigation and potential charges involving Clinton’s email server.

The private meeting also occurred hours before the Benghazi report was released publicly involving Hillary Clinton and President Obama’s administration.

But, wait.

Didn’t press secretary, Josh Earnest, unequivocally state that the investigation of Hillary Clinton would be “free of political influence” and that he would leave it to the attorney general to explain the meeting?

He did.

So what occurred in their thirty-minute very private meeting with no one else around?  Exchanged photos of grandchildren?  Talk about the next season of Game of Thrones?  I suspect not.

I suspect the convo went something like this:

Bill: “You know, Rhett, remember that candy I gave you back in 1999?  I think I could use a little candy in return, but not for me.  For my wife.  Everyone sure loves Hillary.  It would be a shame if she lost the presidency because people thought she was gonna be prosecuted.”

Rhett: “Maybe I can do something about that.”

Bill: “Well Rhett, we sure would be appreciative.  And I bet the Democrats would be appreciative too, her being the first female president and all.  Everybody sure loves Hillary.  And you know, being a Senator has better health benefits, if you’d be interested.”

Never mind about the “optics” of the incident.  The American Media Maggots will do their level best to tamp it down and sweep it under the rug.  Conflict of interest?  Truly, who cares?

What do you think would occur if the roles were reversed?  What if the players involved were all Republicans and this meeting occurred?  The AMM would be on this story for weeks and it would be front page news for that amount of time.

PLUS:

From HotAir.com:

Reporter: FBI ordered ‘no photos, no pictures, no cell phones’ during Clinton/Lynch meeting

by Larry O/Connor

Reporter Christopher Sign of ABC 15 in Phoenix, AZ appeared on The O’Reilly Factor Thursday night to talk about his scoop involving that secret meeting between former President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

“The former president steps into her plane. They then speak for 30 minutes privately. The FBI there on the tarmac instructing everybody around ‘no photos, no pictures, no cell phones.’”

First of all, it isn’t the FBI’s job to tell journalists or private citizens they can’t take photographs of a former president and the Attorney General. What were the agents going to do, arrest people for taking a picture or video?

Also, if there was nothing wrong with the meeting and it was totally innocent, why were federal agents instructed to demand no one take a picture?

PRECISELY.

At the VERY least, Lynch should recuse herself from the matter and appoint a special prosecutor.  At the worst she should be fired and then an investigation opened on her corruption.

After all, I’m sure that Bill and Rhett only talked about their grandkids, right?

I only ask:

Is there one — just one attorney in the DOJ — who is not corrupt?

And can, moreover, take a stand and publicly state that he or she is not broken in the face of rampant agency misconduct and fraudulence?

Right.

I thought not.

BZ