With the Abramoff scandal prompting Democrats to charge that the Republicans in Washington are mired in a culture of corruption it is perhaps the wisest of the left who remain silent, passively condoning the ultra-partisan activities of their leadership. There are good reasons for many elected officials on the left to choose to remain silent. One of those reasons is that one never knows when something from the past is lurking in wait. One of those elected officials from the Democratic side of the aisle is the junior Senator from New York and former First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

That Clinton is positioning for a run at the White House is a given. Her re-election to the Senate is almost a lock. She has made such an obvious attempt at moving to the center – and in concert with her husband, the ex-president, making statements that track him moving more to the “progressive” left each time he opens his mouth – that it would be surprising if she hasn’t already received a solicitation letter from the Republican National Committee.

Senator Clinton’s position is furthered along by the fact that she has been involved in so many scandals, both legal and political, that any mention of impropriety or misconduct – especially in light of the indictment of Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) and the resignation of Randal “Duke” Cunningham (R-CA) – is viewed with a yawn and a, “So What? That’s politics in Washington, isn’t it?” Hillary Clinton has proven to be her party’s version of “the Teflon politician.”

Certainly each administration has the opportunity, and the discretionary right for that matter, to hire, place and promote those that they deem valuable to any given government entity over which they have administrative authority. Many times these appointments and promotions are executed as “rewards” for hard work during a political campaign or for loyalty. Although such appointments are viewed as lacking ethics and often times scrutinized by the mainstream media it is a reality that only the naïve, those blinded by the purity of their ideology and the politically partisan can deny.

It can be supposed, then, that the eight years of the Clinton Administration allowed for time to effectively create a legion of Clinton appointees who would be placed throughout the various federal government agencies and departments. No doubt many of these appointments were warranted by the merits of the individual. But where the appointee’s job performance would ferret out those appointed without the appropriate job skills, there is no filter, no safeguard to detect those whose appointments were based exclusively on political loyalty, whether to a political party or an individual politician.

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