TAFT TRIES TO DERAIL COINGATE INVESTIGATION

It's as though Governor Bob Taft and his rogue regime of serial criminals in Ohio is competing for some kind of sleeze award with Congressman "Duke" Cunningham of San Diego. Every time some other horrible shoe drops in the Cunningham case-- today it was revealed that the admitted and convicted criminal in NY, Mr Kontogiannis, (the one who was paying "Duke" hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes for "Duke" to help wrangle a presidential pardon out of George Bush) also kept the boat he "bought" from Cunningham in Cunningham's name while he pumped $100,000 in renovations into it-- the Ohio clowns raise the ante. Well, unless Cunnigham was selling nuclear secrets to bin Laden or the Koreans, something I wouldn't put past him for a second-- the Ohio crew looks like they're headed for the title.

You're gonna probably think I'm making this up but I'm not. In a Keystone Cops-like attempt to deflect an investigation of the most blatant government corruption since Tea Pot Dome in the 1920s, America's most crooked governor, Bob Taft, literally tried to invoke "executive privilege" to keep from turning over the papers that show how he and the crooks around him defrauded the Ohio Workmens' Compensation Fund out of hundreds of millions of dollars. The concept of "executive privilege" isn't part of Ohio law, the Ohio consititution, or Ohio practice. Perhaps Taft is laying the groundwork for a future insanity plea.