The era of hope and change is dead....and it only took six months in office to kill it.
Never has an administration taken office with more inflated expectations of turning Washington around. Never have a media-anointed American Idol and his entourage fallen so fast and hard. In her latest investigative tour de force, New York Times bestselling author Michelle Malkin delivers a powerful, damning, and comprehensive indictment of the culture of corruption that surrounds Team Obama's brazen tax evaders, Wall Street cronies, petty crooks, slum lords, and business-as-usual influence peddlers. In Culture of Corruption, Malkin reveals:
* Why nepotism beneficiaries First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are Team Obama's biggest liberal hypocrites--bashing the corporate world and influence-peddling industries from which they and their relatives have benefited mightily
* What secrets the ethics-deficient members of Obama's cabinet--including Hillary Clinton--are trying to hide
* Why the Obama White House has more power-hungry, unaccountable "czars" than any other administration
* How Team Obama's first one hundred days of appointments became a litany of embarrassments as would-be appointee after would-be appointee was exposed as a tax cheat or had to withdraw for other reasons
* How Obama's old ACORN and union cronies have squandered millions of taxpayer dollars and dues money to enrich themselves and expand their power
* How Obama's Wall Street money men and corporate lobbyists are ruining the economy and helping their friendsIn Culture of Corruption, Michelle Malkin lays bare the Obama administration's seamy underside that the liberal media would rather keep hidden.
Author(s): Michelle Malkin
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 396
Tags: Politics;Political Science;Barack Obama;Hussein;Corruption;Ethics
Title Page
Epigraph
Dedication
Foreword
Introduction
* BONUS CHAPTER FOR THE PAPERBACK EDITION *
CHAPTER 1 - ONWS
THE RISE AND FALL OF “ DOLLAR BILL” RICHARDSON
DRIVING TOM DASCHLE
PERFORMANCE CZAR NANCY KILLEFER TAKES A DIVE
BAILING OUT AT TREASURY
EPA DEPUTY NOMINEE JON CANNON’ S ROUGH WATERS
CHARLES FREEMAN: AN UN - INTELLIGENT CHOICE
CHAPTER 2 - BITTER HALF
VALERIE JARRETT: GODMOTHER, CONFIDANTE, SLUMLORD
MRS. O. SCREWS THE POOR
DOCTORING THE BIDDING PROCESS
EARMARKS AND EDIFICE COMPLEX
CORPORATE PERKS FOR ME, BUT NOT FOR THEE
THE OBAMAS AND THE AYERS: VERY FRIENDLY NEIGHBORS
CHAPTER 3 - VETTING THE VEEP
MBNA: MAKING BIDEN’ S NEPOTISM APPARENT
MEET THE RAINMAKERS
THE BIDEN FAMILY AND TRIAL LAWYERS: BFF!
BIDEN’S SLEAZY REZKO CONNECTION
RIDING THE RAILS
CHAPTER 4 - MEET THE MESS
CIA INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR LEON PANETTA: LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND ENTRENCHED
COMMERCE SECRETARY GARY LOCKE: CHINAGATE-TAINTED, INTEREST - CONFLICTED CRONY
HUD’ S NO. 2 MAN RON SIMS: ENEMY OF TRANSPARENCY
ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER: CRIME-CODDLING CORPORATE LAWYER
U.S. TRADE REPRESENTATIVE RON KIRK: TAX CHEAT
HHS SECRETARY KATHLEEN SEBELIUS: THE NOMINEE WHO COULDN’T COUNT
LABOR SECRETARY HILDA SOLIS: SELF-LOBBYING UNION LACKEY
TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY RAY LAHOOD: EARMARK MAN
EPA CHIEF LISA JACKSON: CLEAN AS SHE SAYS, NOT AS SHE CLEANS
CHAPTER 5 - BACKROOM BUDDIES
CAROL BROWNER: ETHICALLY CHALLENGED ENERGY CZAR
ADOLFO CARRIÓN : ETHICALLY STAINED URBAN CZAR
NANCY DEPARLE: HEALTH CZAR WITH DEEP CORPORATE TIES
STEVE “ CHOOCH ” RATTNER: THE AUTO CZAR’S SHADY TINSELTOWN TRADE
TECHNOLOGY CZAR VIVEK KUNDRA: PETTY THIEF, CLUELESS CHIEF
CHAPTER 6 - MONEY MEN
LARRY THE HEDGE FUND MANAGER
TIMMY THE TAX - CHEATING, BAILOUT - BUNGLING BUREAUCRAT
IN CAHOOTS WITH CITICORP
THE SUBPRIME GANG
RAHM - BO THE RICH
LOUIS THE VACUUM CLEANER
GARY THE GOLDMAN SACHS GUY
JIMMY THE MUNI BOND MAN
GEORGE THE GENEROUSLY PAID GENERAL COUNSEL
MARK THE CORPORATE LOBBYIST
CHAPTER 7 - SEIU
THE BLAGO - SEIU - OBAMA CONVERGENCE
LIVING LARGE IN L . A .
A SEA OF PURPLE PAYOFFS
“ THE PERSUASION OF POWER ”
CHAPTER 8 - OBAMACORN
SEE NO EMBEZZLEMENT, HEAR NO EMBEZZLEMENT, SPEAK NO EMBEZZLEMENT
OH, WHAT A TANGLED WEB
TAX EVADERS ‘R’ US
MUSCLE FOR THE MONEY
CHAPTER 9 - THE CLINTONS
LIAR, LIAR, PANTSUIT ON FIRE
TRANSPARENCY AND TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE
COSMIC TIES
ADVENTURES IN KAZAKHSTAN
PAYING AND PLAYING AT HOME
THE BOTTOM OF HILLARY’ S BARREL
EPILOGUE
* AFTERWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION *
Acknowledgements
NOTES
INDEX
Copyright Page
