The Hill newspaper reported yesterday that Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is at the center of an emerging story regarding one of the largest cases of government fraud ever. The Hill reports that the senator was for five years the “top Democrat on the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies (or “Milcon”) sub-committee, where she may have directed more than $1 billion to companies controlled by her husband.”

The Hill also reports that Senator Feinsten “left the subcommittee in late 2005 at about the same time her husband sold his stake in both companies. Their combined net worth increased that year with the sale of the two companies by some 25 percent, to more than $40 million.”

So, in other words, the Senator was able to direct federal money to her husband’s companies so as to capitalize (no pun intended) both on the federal money directed his way and on the resulting sale of those companies, whose value will plummet now that it has been revealed they were receiving money illegally.

So they robbed taxpayers, the people who purchased their companies under false pretenses, and the employees who work for those companies. And yet, I have not seen one major newspaper or network pick this one up.

If it had been a Republican who had done this, headlines would be flashing worldwide. Well, that is why we have the Blogosphere now, isn’t it?

Senator Feinstein is not going to get away with this. Liberals in the mainstream media won’t be able to simply ignore one of the greatest instances of federal corruption in our lifetimes.

When Joe Biden (D-DE) was asked recently of planned Democratic actions if the President should make good on his promise to veto of emergency spending bill which Democrats loaded with pork-barrell spending as well as a timetable for troop withdrawal from Iraq, he replied at one point that “we’re going to shove it down his throat.“

If you would like to see his shameful response for yourself, just click on the image below or go here.

Why should this kind of behavior be acceptable from any elected official? It is not acceptable from an average citizen. As a matter of fact, posting this kind of language on the Internet might just result in a call from the Secret Service… and rightly so!

And this from Democrats who are playing at politics with funding for our troops, holding up the delivery of the bill to the President so that he receives it on the four-year anniversary of his speech declaring the end of major combat operations in Iraq. They are using this as a political stunt, and enjoying themselves while our military scrambles to find the money needed to keep soldiers in the field properly equipped.

Biden is utterly without class and his party has clearly put politics before patriotism on their list of priorities. Very sad.