Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies

by Michelle Malkin

"Washington is broken," said Barack Obama while on the campaign trail, and he's busy making it worse. While an adoring media heaps on adulation, Obama has (at an "historic" and "unprecedented" record pace, according to his media sycophants) presided over the appointment of an appalling rogue's gallery of crooks, cronies and tax cheats to the highest levels of our government -- while reneging on promises to make government more transparent and accountable to ordinary Americans. Now at last, in Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies, bestselling author Michelle Malkin tears to shreds the mythical Obama constructed by the liberal media, and tells the full story about how this sinister new administration started out corrupt and is only getting more corrupt.

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Malkin also details Obama's disquieting and borderline unethical connections with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN, which Malkin dubs A Community of Organized Racketeers Nationwide) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). She reveals how massive new federal spending plus tens of thousands of pages of new regulations – along with unprecedented new powers over taxpayers and the economy -- have only given Obama and his henchmen limitless new opportunities for sleaze, favor-trading, deal-cutting, and influence- peddling.

How to judge the much-hyped new President? Judge him by the company he keeps. This startling book proves that rather than clean up the culture of corruption in Washington, the Obama administration has only made sure that the business of Washington is booming – and has demonstrated anew the first and last law of political physics: as government grows, corruption flows. The president's blind faithful on the Left may still cling to the belief that he can work miracles. But no one, not even Barack Obama, can drain a swamp by flooding it. Culture of Corruption is an urgently needed guide to an administration that is certain only to go from bad to worse.

• Obama's team: not the "best of the Washington insiders," as the liberal media styles them, but rather, a dysfunctional and dangerous conglomerate of business-as- usual cronies and hacks

• What the fact that the massive infusion of union dues into his campaign treasury didn't trouble him in the least reveals about Obama's credibility as a reformer

• How, less than three weeks into his first 100 days, Barack Obama left indelible marks on his nascent presidency: the marks of incompetence and hubris

• The record-setting and unprecedented pace of withdrawals and botched appointments -- and how getting through the confirmation process was no guarantee of ethical cleanliness or competence, even as Obama's cheerleaders were glorifying the Greatest Transition in World History

• Inconsistency: how Obama, erstwhile critic of the campaign finance practice known as "bundling," happily accepted more than $200,000 in bundled contributions from billionaire hedge-fund manager James Torrey, more than $100,000 in bundled contributions from billionaire hedge- fund manager Paul Tudor Jones, and more than $50,000 in bundled contributions from billionaire hedge-fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin, chief executive officer of Citadel Investment Group in Chicago

• How Obama broke his transparency pledge with the very first bill he signed into law -- while hostility to transparency is a running thread through Obama's cabinet

• Michelle Obama: Beneath the cultured pearls, sleeveless designer dresses, and false eyelashes applied by her full-time makeup artist, a hardball Chicago politico

• Joe Biden: It's not just that he lies, it's that he lies so well that you think he really believes the stuff he makes up

• Treasury Secretary Geithner: his corruption and epic blundering -- including the notorious incident in which he caused the dollar to decline in international trade by suggesting at a major forum that the United States was "quite open" to a suggestion from Chinese officials to move to a new global currency

• The appalling story of Technology Czar Vivek Kundra, the convicted shoplifter in charge of the entire federal government's information security infrastructure

• Obama's "Porker of the Month" Transportation Secretary, Roy LaHood: an earmark-addicted influence peddler born and raised on the politics of pay-to-play

• SEIU: responsible for installing a cabal of hand-chosen officers who exploited their cash-infused fiefdoms for personal gain and presided over rigged elections -- in the process, becoming all that they had professed to stand against as representatives of the downtrodden worker

• How Obama lied on his "Fight the Smears" campaign website when he claimed that he "never organized with ACORN"

• ACORN: How the profound threat the group poses is not merely ideological or economic -- it's electoral

• ACORN's own internal review of shady money transfers among its web of affiliates: how it underscores concerns that conservatives have long raised about the organization -- and how a few Republican lawmakers have finally begun to grasp the enormity and significance of ACORN's coordinated political corruption

• Liar, liar, pantsuit on fire: how Hillary Clinton has already trampled upon her promise not to let her husband's financial dealings sway her decisions as Secretary of State

• Why, as disastrous Obama appointments continue to increase, liberal Beltway supporters see no reason for concern

• How even a few principled progressives are finally beginning to question the cult of Obama -- even as Obama sycophants in the mainstream media continue to celebrate his "hipness" and "swagga"