Biden, Menendez, And Michelle: Birds Of A Bribery Feather Issues & Insights
Just as Democrats were ramping up calls for Menendez to step down over bribery charges filed against him, and as House Republicans started their impeachment inquiry into whether Joe Biden used son Hunter to bribe foreign officials, Obama was reportedly getting paid an obscenely large amount of money for a one-hour talk on diversity.
These are all variations on a theme. Call it bribery, or extortion, or abuse of power, or whatever you want. This is how Democrats get rich these days. They expand the size and power of the federal government, then sell access and favors to the highest bidders.
Think about Michelle s speech for a minute. According to the Daily Mail, she was paid $741,000, which means that by the time she was six minutes into her speech, she d made more money than 50% of households in the United States make in a year.
This reported fee is also more than three times the already criminally large amount she normally gets paid to read words someone else wrote for her.
So, what makes Michelle suddenly three times more valuable? Did she discover a cure for cancer? A limitless, free, source of clean energy? An end to world hunger? Did she unlock the secrets of faster-than-light space travel? Or announce a plan to bring world peace?
Hardly. She is a talentless woman who happens to be married to a former president. The organizers of the event and 5,000 people in attendance most likely have already forgotten whatever it was she said.
The one and only reason she commanded that price is because of the current buzz that she might run for president next year, given that Biden seems unlikely to last until November 2024, let alone January 2029. The organizers of the event were buying political influence, not insights.
H/t Mark Tapscott, Instapundit.
I’m still reeling from the announcement that Sen. Elizabeth Warren now has a net worth of $73 Million. That’s just something I saw on the web, but holy smokes, that’s a lot of paper the accumulate on what, $200K-ish per year. But then, I’m sure she didn’t build that. We all contributed to that, rich and poor, bald and hairy, short and tall. We all pulled together, good soldiers that we are, to hand over our money to that cherished descendant of our oppressed Native American former land owners. Only in America, which should not, however, exist.