The untold story of the Obama Administration’s widely reported, $335 million discrimination settlement with Countrywide Financial Corporation is that, under a secret Justice Department program, a chunk of the money won’t go to the “victims” but rather leftist groups not connected to the lawsuit.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) will determine which “qualified organizations” get leftover settlement cash and Democrat-tied groups like the scandal-plagued Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and the open-borders National Council of La Raza (NCLR) stand to get large sums based on the hastily arranged deal which got court approval in just a few days.
Tip to Instapundit.
That's on top of this (and even that Constitution "shredder" Bush didn't dare do this), so I guess we know the system is corrupt.
We can't clean up Washington, D.C. All we can do is reduce the scope of its authority to reduce the effects of that corruption.
Even if half the states become corrupt taking on former federal responsibilities (some surely will decide not to waste money on things the federal government thought was good (for them)), we'd still be better off.
