The media firestorm over the taudry sex life of Tiger Woods has been quite the spectacle. I guess covering the taudry sex life of a powerful democrat isn’t as good for ratings. That must be the reason for the relative silence regarding the corrupt sex life of Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont).
At least Tiger used his own money to keep his playmates happy. Politico reported that Baucus gave his mistress a $14,000.o0 raise, but it wasn’t his money to give, it was ours.
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, gave a nearly $14,000 pay raise to a female staffer in 2008, at the time he was becoming romantically involved with her, and later that year took her on a taxpayer-funded trip to Southeast Asia and the Middle East, though foreign policy was not her specialty.
Late last Friday, Baucus acknowledged his relationship with Melodee Hanes, whom he nominated for the job of U.S. attorney in Montana, after it was first reported on the website MainJustice.com. But he said that Hanes withdrew from consideration for the job when the relationship became more serious. The following day, Baucus dismissed calls for an ethics investigation, saying, “I went out of my way to be up and up.”
Since his announcement, more details of the relationship have emerged, raising questions about a workplace romance between a boss and employee that Baucus tried to keep quiet, and apparently contradicting his explanation for why Hanes’s nomination was withdrawn.
Jodi Rave, a former reporter for the Missoulian revealed over the weekend that the paper informed Baucus in March that it was poised to publish a story about Hanes’s relationship with the senator and the fact that he had nominated her for the U.S. attorney job.
The next day, Hanes withdrew from consideration. According to the Missoulian, Baucus’s office never acknowledged a relationship between the two, and the paper did not run a story. …
Of course the senator from Montana claims everything was perfectly innocent. And the media giving him a chance to “do the right thing” and then dropping the story is how the media treats all politicians. Right?
Just another straw on the camel’s back. Baucus is an enemy of the people just like so many in D.C. They are doing a great job of insulating and controlling everything outside of it. I predict a political blood bath of sorts in 2010, but it’s just the beginning. The people are awakening. We are tired of these actions from both sides. It’s sickening and angering.
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