HUGH
corruption scandal
brewing in Pennsylvania.

"HARRISBURG – When you worked for former Rep. Mike Veon, the No. 2 Democrat
in the state House, two things were certain, prosecutors said: You would work
hard on political campaigns while on the government clock; and if you did a
"rock star" job, you would get something extra in your paycheck.

All compliments of the taxpayers, of course.

That illegal culture of underwriting political campaigns with public dollars
was spotlighted yesterday in sweeping indictments of Veon, 10 former and current
legislative aides, and a sitting lawmaker.

The allegations strike at top party staffers in the House, and more charges
are expected, say prosecutors. Court documents suggested that hundreds of
Democratic staffers might have been involved in illegal work.

The 12 are charged, in varying degrees, with theft and conflict of interest
for running a massive political campaign machine out of government offices from
Beaver County, where Veon lived, to the state Capitol.

The conspiracy within the House Democratic caucus, prosecutors say, was
widespread. It ranged from handing out taxpayer-funded bonuses for campaign work
to using state computers and telephones for political and personal purposes.

Read it all. Outta control.
More on here and here.

And speaking of Storm troopers for the left:
Apparently Obama wants to create an army of lackeys, ""[W]e are going to grow our foreign service, open consulates that have been
shuttered and double the size of the Peace Corps by 2011 to renew our
diplomacy," said Obama. "We cannot to continue to rely only on our military in
order to achieve the national security objectives that we have set. We have got
to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as
strong, just as well funded."

(Staggering, read it all at IBA)