Robert Menendez, Senator from New Jersey and yet another Democrat, who in the spirit of Ted Kenney, just can't seem to keep his private parts firmly inside his pants, has now come out and made the idiotic claim that source of all his current troubles is not his own inappropriate behavior, but is instead that sinister right-wing conspiracy or what he refers to as, those "right-wing sources." He claims they are falsely claiming that he improperly helped a Florida campaign donor. Menendez, 59, recently pulled out the old race card while speaking to a crowd of 300 folks at a Black History Month celebration at Shiloh Baptist Church in Trenton, and recounted his own struggle against discrimination during a political career that led him to become the first ethnic minority from New Jersey to serve in the U.S. Senate.
"Now we face anonymous, faceless, nameless individuals from right-wing sources seeking to destroy a lifetime of work," said Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants. "And their smears are false. I have worked too hard and too long in the vineyards, too long with my hands, for the harvest to be soured." Well, ya know, if there's anyone anywhere who would know a thing or two about smear tactics that are false, it would be a Democrat, and this Democrat in particular. Because old Bobby, here, has made more than his fair share of what were nothing more than baseless smears throughout the years. Let's face it, it’s not any faceless or nameless accusers who are responsible here, but apparently he doesn't see that he's guilty of anything. Which is typical for Democrats. They're always pure as the wind driven snow.
"Chester the Molester" Menendez was re-elected to a second six-year term this past November, and what he was referring to here are the growing number of media reports that he had done a few favors for Salomon Melgen, a Florida eye doctor who, it just so happens, donated more than $700,000 last year to the senator’s campaign and to other Senate Democrats, at least according to the Washington Post. Man, he must be one Hell of an eye doctor. Bobby back in 2009 and also in 2012 had raised concerns with top officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services about the agency’s finding that the doctor had overbilled the government by nearly $9 million, according to the Post. I guess that then made him able to afford handing over 700 grand to Democrats.
It was back on Jan. 29, that the FBI, along with officials from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) inspector general’s office, raided Melgen’s office in West Palm Beach, Florida. It was all part of a probe into allegations of Medicare fraud, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation who asked not to be identified in discussing the matter. A day after the raid, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group, released a letter it sent in July to the FBI and Justice Department asking them to investigate accusations raised via e-mail by a tipster. The tipster also claimed that little Bobby Menendez had engaged in some rather unsavory sexual activities with underage prostitutes while ‘vacationing’ with Melgen in the Dominican Republic.
Until recently, Menendez hasn’t publicly responded to the allegations beyond a Feb. 8 interview with Univision, a Spanish- language television station. "No one has bought me," he told Univision. "No one. Ever." He called the prostitution allegations false and has denied all wrongdoing. Supposedly his approval rating among voters has fallen to 36 percent, a 15-point drop since January. Which for New Jersey is something that I find pretty amazing. Usually in order for voters of that very blue state to turn on a Democrat it's got to be because of something far more serious than merely having sex with underage girls, hookers or otherwise. Like I've said before, for Democrats such behavior is usually viewed as being a resume enhancer. Hell such behavior worked for Teddy Kennedy for decades!
FBI agents also are looking into Menendez’s role in pushing for enforcement of a port-security contract in the Dominican Republic held by a company in which Melgen is an investor, also according to the Washington Post. Melgen stood to gain a substantial windfall if the contract, which calls for operating X-ray scanners to screen cargo at the country’s ports, was enforced, the Post said. Following the FBI raid, Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson, the top Republican on the chamber’s six-member Ethics Committee, said the panel would review the matter. Menendez said he wrote a $58,500 check last month to reimburse Melgen for two 2010 trips the lawmaker took to the Dominican Republic on Melgen’s private jet once the senator’s staff discovered the trips hadn’t been paid for earlier.
Look, the issue of the Medicare fraud aside, such perverted behavior as cavorting around with underage prostitutes by a sitting U.S. Senator is something that simply should not be tolerated. But such things matter very little to most Democrat voters and are usually overlooked by those who seem to be much more interested in making sure that they're able to continue receiving their government check every month than with the inappropriate behavior of one of their senators. They're only too happy to accept whatever excuses are offered up. After all, we wouldn't want to take the chance of doing anything that might end up jeopardizing the ability of the Democrats to maintain their majority in the Senate, now would we? Hey, it's all about priorities, here. And really, I'm sure those underage girls were willing, right?
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