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Nope, not a group photo of the Ladies Against Senator Sleaze-Bob Club.

My column below is on the deafening silence of the femmes over Sen. Sleaze-Bob Menendez’s alleged pedo-sex party scandal. Yes, a shredder is now involved. And here’s your hypocrisy flashback video of Menendez railing against foreign sex-trafficking. Menendez denies any wrongdoing, but the FBI raid of his travel companion and owner of the Dominican Republic resort where they partied together seems to be jogging Menendez’s faulty memory quite a bit. Stay tuned.

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Ladies Against Senator Sleaze-Bob
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2012

Conservatives are always told they don’t do enough to reach across the aisle. We’re divisive, obstructionist and hostile to bipartisanship. So in the spirit of unity and comity, I’m announcing the formation of a new social justice group: Ladies Against Senator Sleaze-Bob.

Now all I need are some principled Democratic ladies and liberal media lionesses to step up to the plate with me to protest the vulgar, sexist behavior of Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J.

Surely, Nancy Pelosi, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Cher, Sandra Fluke, Eva Longoria and I can all agree that when a powerful Washington politician abuses his power to victimize young women, we should join hands to demand justice. Right?

Surely, Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, Arianna Huffington, Rachel Maddow, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Lena Dunham, Tina Fey and every card-carrying member of NOW across America are outraged by this Beltway playboy’s tawdry exploitation of underage prostitutes.

And surely, Hillary Clinton, Valerie Jarrett, Stephanie Cutter and Michelle Obama are all sickened by this top Democrat’s profligate election-season jaunts to the Dominican Republic on a shady donor’s private plane.

Oh, wait. What? You haven’t heard about Menendez’s war on women from the left-wing War on Women brigade? Nary a progressive peep? Well, knock me over with a Code Pink feather boa. Not sure how the story could have slipped their news-savvy feminist minds.

The divorced Menendez is in slowly bubbling hot water over a couple of trips he’s taken over the years to the Caribbean for sex parties with young women, reportedly including a 16-year-old minor. The left-leaning watchdog group CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) and the right-leaning publication The Daily Caller were the first to publicize allegations last November that Menendez solicited prostitutes with his creepy donor pal Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen.

On Wednesday night, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General raided Melgen’s home and hauled away more than 30 cardboard boxes. The news jogged Menendez’s memory and — mirabile dictu — the incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee suddenly remembered that he owed nearly $60,000 to Melgen as reimbursement for two private-jet flights taken three years ago.

While Menendez’s office blames a “right-wing blog” for his troubles, CREW released an e-mail yesterday detailing Menendez’s encounters with four Dominican female escorts at an island resort owned by Melgen. One of the women wrote about Menendez’s pervy proclivities: “That senator also likes the youngest and newest girls. … In the beginning he seemed so serious, because he never spoke to anyone, but he is just like the others and has just about the same tastes as the doctor, very refined.

What do you do if the Hollywood stars who supported you no longer want to be associated with the political regime of higher taxes and fewer freedoms … pay or persuade a mega-star to appear in the hopes that this will convince the celebrity worshipers to turn out – if not for you, for the star and a free performance.

But you must keep the event small and exclusive so the weak-minded Hollywood elite think that their attendance is exclusive and reinforces the fact that they are “powers to be reckoned with!”

Unfortunately, for those that have noticed that the emperor has no clothes and is appearing naked in public … this is a collection of court jesters and clowns to entertain the “royals.”

Which brings me to my favorite riddle:

When is a STAR not a STAR?

Answer: When there is a bigger STAR in the room!

WASHINGTON (AP) — Watch out Beyoncé and Katy Perry. There’s another diva set to perform during the inauguration festivities – Lady Gaga.

A person familiar with the inauguration tells The Associated Press that the pop star will perform at Tuesday’s ball for White House staffers. The source spoke on condition of anonymity because that person wasn’t authorized to publicly reveal the information. The staff ball is typically a private affair. During the last inauguration festivities, Jay-Z reportedly performed for that event.

Source: News from The Associated Press

– steve

by Burt Prelutsky

I don’t like Barack Obama. I don’t like anything about him. I don’t like his arrogance or his air of smug superiority. I don’t like his sense of entitlement. I don’t like his attacking his predecessor or his opponent, both of whom are decent human beings who aren’t carting around baggage that includes the likes of Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright.

Most of all, I am disgusted by the assumption that the only reason anyone would find his person or his politics repulsive is because of his race, whatever that happens to be. I mean when someone is apparently 50% white, 45% Arab and 5% black, just about anyone who disapproves of him could be labeled a racist by somebody.

Obama goes to the U.N., but, even with the Middle East and North Africa in flames, Iran racing towards a nuclear bomb and Europe in a financial meltdown, he is too busy attending fund-raisers to meet with any of the national leaders congregated in Manhattan. But he has time to go on The View and refer to himself — and the reason I don’t make these things up is because I simply lack the comic genius — as “eye candy.”

The thing that astounds me isn’t that I find Obama as obnoxious as I do, but that everyone doesn’t feel the same way about him. I mean he’s no longer a pig in a poke. He’s been in the Oval Office for four years, so he’s had plenty of time to make his mark. After all this time, our economy is as bad as it was when he was elected. In some ways, it’s worse. After all, thanks to all the dollars being printed by the Treasury and all the money we’ve borrowed from China and other creditors, our dollar is worth less than it was and our credit rating is at an all-time low.

I get that he’s supposed to be cool and groovy. That would explain why young people are infatuated with him. Being young typically means you lack wisdom and experience, and will be attracted to fool’s gold. It also figures that people who regard Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, David Letterman and Bill Maher, as cultural icons would respond to Obama’s shallowness. He is, as we well know, the sort of president that a teenager would be if they could elect one of their own.

After all, he’s always ready to party; to surround himself and Michelle with Hollywood celebrities; to run off and play a round of golf; and to go to any lengths to avoid the drudgery of actually getting things done in Washington. How is he any different from the typical teenager who will use any excuse to avoid doing his homework?

So it was that he let Pelosi and Reid handle the details of the trillion dollar stimulus. He let Congress go off the deep end with sequestration, thus gutting the military because he had other, fun, things to do to keep himself occupied. It’s so much easier to blame House Republicans than it is to work with them as his favorite mouthpiece, Bill Clinton, managed to do in the 90s in order to get a few things done.

America seems to produce more celebrities than anywhere other than Great Britain with its royal family and its musical and theatrical performers. Here, movies and televisions produce celebrities by the bushel and it comes as no surprise that some fancy themselves political pundits as well.

The most egregious among them of late is Madonna, possibly the world’s worst role model. At a recent concert in Washington, D.C. she endorsed Obama as a “black Muslim” amidst an expletive-filled burst of inane thoughts regarding the President.

The transcript reads: “Y’all better vote for f–king Obama, OK? For better or for worse, all right? We have a black Muslim in the White House. Now that’s some amazing s–t,” she said. “It means there is hope in this country. And Obama is fighting for gay rights, so support the man, goddamnit.”

I fully expect the Nobel Peace Prize Committee to announce she will be receiving one any day now.

Lady Gaga—Madonna 2.0—has not been given to political pronouncements but remains a permanent embarrassment to all except adolescents.

Roseanne Barr was on with Sean Hannity recently as the candidate for president of the Peace and Freedom Party, a thin stand-in for the Socialist pretenders. She managed to embarrass herself by being unable to answer his question when they required more than five brain cells working in tandem. Like most of her ilk, she thinks that taking all the money away from billionaires will solve the nation’s fiscal woes even if it would only cover a few days of what the government spends to function.

Far be it for me to say celebrities don’t have a right to express themselves on political issues or, as Hollywood does, give gobs of money to Obama and other liberal causes. It is, I’m told, still a free country. Well, at least until Obama’s executive orders kick in and he declares himself president-for-life.

The Huffington Post has a slew of celebrities whose liberal views are published on the site. Alec Baldwin—who has been known to have anger management problems—is a regular contributor as is Marlo Thomas who holds forth on feminist issues. Russell Simmons writes about racial issues.

Political personalities and events have been the life blood of Saturday Night Live for decades, providing oodles of entertainment. I am still convinced that Chevy Chase was personally responsible for the defeat of former President Gerald Ford because of his portrayals of him falling down all the time. In his place we got Jimmy Carter who gives thanks nightly that someone worse than him is in the White House. These days Chevy occasionally erupts with a burst of liberal gibberish that is swiftly forgotten.

We can thank a former SNL comedian, Al Franken, for the passage of Obamacare. Franken, now a U.S. Senator, won by 243 votes out of nearly three million cast and those last votes were found at the bottom of a well or in a decaying tree stump somewhere in Minnesota. His was a critical vote. One of his books was devoted to slandering Rush Limbaugh.

We owe a debt of gratitude to the likes of the late Bob Hope and Johnny Carson, along with Jay Leno and even Jon Stewart for their lampooning of political figures and events.

by Burt Prelutsky

Being as old as I am, I am not the least bit embarrassed by the fact that I am not only unaware of the movies, TV shows and music, that are currently popular, but, aside from a few people named Bieber, Snooki and Kardashian, who somehow snuck through my defenses, I am proud to say I don’t know the names of the current idols.

One thing that I have become aware of is that the female icons of today are not as attractive as they used to be, and I don’t attribute that to my age, but to their lack of faces and figures. For instance, Angelina Jolie has the pencil legs of a 90-year-old and lips that are larger than her arms; Lady Gaga looks like something the cat dragged in; and Sarah Jessica Parker looks like the homely girl that pretty girls hung out with in high school so they’d look even prettier by comparison. When you compare them to the likes of Rhonda Fleming, Rita Hayworth and Doris Day, you’d think you were comparing different species from different planets.

Speaking of things cultural, it has always annoyed me that people are expected to be impressed by certain books, movies and plays, simply because they have been lauded by certain critics and academicians. I’m not suggesting that it isn’t possible to enjoy these works or that those who claim they love them are lying and merely trying to pass themselves off as aesthetically superior to the rest of mankind, although that is certainly a very real possibility. I just want people who share my lack of appreciation for some of these over-hyped creations to know they’re not alone.

On my list are Moby Dick, Walden, Hamlet, Last Year at Marienbad, Triumph of the Will, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, King Lear, Gone With the Wind, Blow-Up, Rules of the Game, Titanic, Dr. Zhivago, The Sun Also Rises, L’Avventura, War and Peace, Strange Interlude, Lawrence of Arabia, and The Great Gatsby.

Understand, I am not trying to convince anyone of anything. But I have read or seen all of them, and my yawns were loud enough to drown out half the dialogue, and I don’t want other people to think that they’re the only ones who wound up in a coma, thanks to these works of art.

One of the nice things about getting old is that you stop worrying about impressing people. If I think of another thing, I’ll let you know.

Speaking of age, I read that some guy in his 70s named Tarnae Watanabe just scaled Mt. Everest after having climbed it 10 years earlier. When asked why he did it, instead of the usual “Because it was there,” I’d like to think he said, “You mean I already climbed it?!

The East and West Wings of the White House are guilty of more cheesy stage-managing than the Emmy, Oscar, and Tony Awards shows combined.

Last week, the glamour queen wore more than $40,000 worth of diamonds while partying with hubby at several high-priced fundraisers in New York. Her bling made international headlines and photos.

To counter the negative diva buzz as most Americans face hard economic times, Mrs Obama somehow managed to turn up at an Alexandria Va. Target (with her “shopping assistant” in tow).

And somehow, coincidence of coincidences, an Associated Press photographer just happened to be there to snap her.

Snortalicious headline: “Michelle Obama shops incognito at Target (Photo).”

Such tools:

AP photographer Charles Dharapak told CBS News he took pictures of the first lady at the Target on Route 1 in Alexandria, Virginia.

The first lady’s office confirmed that the pictures showed Mrs. Obama, though it did not immediately respond when asked if it tipped off Dharapak.

“It is not uncommon for the First Lady to slip out to run an errand, eat at a local restaurant or otherwise enjoy the city outside the White House gates,” said Kristina Schake, communications director for the First Lady.

In the photographs, the first lady is wearing a Nike baseball cap, sunglasses and a floral-print button-down shirt with a neon v-neck underlay. She is seen holding a pair of Target bags and pushing a shopping cart.

Looks like she left the bling at home.

But her shirt and sunglasses are about as “incognito” as Lady Gaga’s outfit at her younger sister’s graduation:

More on the totally spontaneous visit:

The AP reported that Secret Service agents, dressed casually, arrived at the store 30 minutes before the first lady, who shopped with an assistant. She reportedly spent 30-40 minutes shopping and was only recognized by her cashier.

I bring “shopping assistants” with me when I go to Target, too! My daughter pushes the cart. My son hangs off it.

Celebrity first ladies…they’re just like us!

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Flashback: The Paparazzi President

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Theme music for Mrs. Obama’s next Target visit…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxDlC7YV5is

A few short hours ago, collectivist chameleon OWEbama was braying in an unusual tongue to another “special interest” group. Here the imbecility of ebonics flowed in the lumpy manner that only such gibberish can and OWEbama’s “priority” at that moment was telling the assembled to “stop complainin’” Today, OWEbama somehow found all of those mysterious “g’s” that he lost yesterday as the groups that he is meeting with today only hear that type of bastardized language from the folks who wash their cars and prepare their meals for them.. As well, they probably parked the limousine liberal’s cars and checked their coats for them as they strolled into see Othello..

The so called “priorities” of just a few hours ago, BLACK unemployment, BLACK job creation, have all been filed away until the next black powwow and OWEbama the Bolshevik beggar has taken the Left Coast stage. No more talk of minority “problems”, it’s time to lie to the “rich” who need to “pay their fair share”, right?

At his very first fascist fundraiser, OWEbama charged the assembled asses $35,800.00 per couple, no matter how that couple was comprised, male, female or “other”, for the chance to inhale OWEbama’s progressive perfume. I’ll bet that these enterprising liberal “patriots” didn’t scratch a check of an equal or greater amount to “pay their fair share” of the OBAMA debt and deficits that he has “historically” accrued..

Surrounded by liberal weasels from Micro-lib-soft, Farcebook and even with the “famous” he/she/it lady gaga at one of the collectivist collection plate parties, OWEbama had the chance to “renew the ardor of loyalists who have grown disenchanted with him”. (Fox News: Obama Attacks Republicans On West Coast Tour” 09/26/2011) This was intended to “buck up the faithful”. Yes it was, as long as the “faithful” BUCKED up themselves. If you couldn’t “buck up” to the Democratic degree required, you were left on the outside looking in as ALL Democratic underlings are left to meekly and subserviently do.. I find it humorous when OWEbama asks anyone for cash, since he personally “bucked up” the economy, who has any cash left..

Here was OWEbama surrounded by his “most liberal and deep-pocketed supporters..” They may have “deep pockets” but as liberals they certainly have shallow minds that are easily programmed to process piffle..

Now the OWEbama “attack” has “shifted from focusing on compromise with Republicans” to identifying them as “obstructionists” because they refuse to allow OWEbama the same wide berth that he had and abused when there were not nearly enough Republicans in Washington. This idiotic gamble makes as much sense as 2010’s mid term Democratic debacle of Republicans “turning back the clock” along with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi calling Americans “un-American” and “terrorists” for having the temerity to disagree with the totalitarians of the left.. Where is Rodham and her “right to disagree with government” screed when we need her?

As OWEbama wails and moans and calls the opposition “obstructionists” he is “demanding their help in passing his $447 billion jobs bill”.. The liberals LOVE to name their Bolshevik bills attractive fibs like “jobs” bills or “debt reduction” bills or “stimulus” when in practical application, they are ANYTHING but.. Here we have a liberal “jobs” bill that focuses on unemployment “benefits” and “public works spending”..

For the Christian who has been paying even minimal attention to the state of our union and its current crappy condition, it’s easy to see that our nation is in deep weeds from a God blessed standpoint.

We’re pretty much past the point of no return. If you don’t believe me, read this book. We’re in trouble, folks-and on every front. Our kids will be particularly screwed.

Yep, from an economic, political, cultural and spiritual perspective, if something is not done to reverse this nation’s course (and muy pronto) then my advice to you is to start taking yoga because one has to be fairly limber, I hear, to kiss one’s own butt good-bye. Oh, and another “suggestion” would be to teach your kids Chinese, TexMex and Farsi because those’ll be the main languages of the conquered on our continent.

If things do not change both dramatically and quickly (and to be specific, amended back to our God-honoring intent and constitutional infrastructure) then this country will cease to be the greatest experiment in self governance this planet has ever seen and will morph into a godless tourist spot driven by socialists wet nursing entitlement freaks. Greece is the word.

No civilization has lasted long when there was:

• This kind of insane debt and spending,
• A bizarre notion of entitlement,
• A death of faith,
• A degeneration of morals,
• A collapse of civility,
• A paralysis of the will,
• A decline in native born population,
• And unopposed foreign invasion.

Google it if you don’t believe me, as the aforementioned is well known 411 regarding formerly great nations that have devolved into tacky travel destinations.

Hey, America: We’re not invincible. I know it looks like it, but believe it or not, there have been powerful civilizations that are now a cartoon of what they used to be, and it would be the height of hubris to think that this party will never end no matter what we do.

So, what’s a Christian to do? Well, there’s a lot the brethren can do, but to keep this column short I’m going to focus on the power of prayer for the USA. And when I say “prayer” I mean praying for our nation like you’d pray if you were wearing Lady Gaga’s meat dress and had to pass through a pride of peckish lions in the Matetsi.
With the Bible as a guide I say we pull out the prayer of Jabez found in 1 Chronicles 4:9-10 and shout it up to heaven for God to rain His favor back down on the States.

Basically, Jabez, whose name means “pain,” didn’t let the bad hand he was dealt keep him from calling out to God for great things. And y’know what, patriots? Neither should we.

Just because we’re in real pain as a nation doesn’t mean we roll up in the fetal position and wet our red, white and blue Pampers. Oh, heck no. Instead, we must go back to our roots, become a vocal and voting threat to all politicians, bolster our commitment to God and country, and pray what old Jabez prayed-namely, to be blessed, to have increased opportunities, to have His hand be with us and to be kept from evil.

I didn’t want to waste any more energy and space than I needed to yesterday on NYT wackadoodle Paul Krugman’s two-minutes-hate blog post about post-9/11 America. But on the morning after, it is worth calling out the smug coward who flung his op-ed crap against the wall and then deliberately turned off his comments section to avoid any heat in the Times’ kitchen.

After ten years, the sum total of Krugman’s 9/11 reflections can be summed up in three words:

BUSH! NEOCONS! SHAME!

He writes:

“Te (sic) atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue.”

Koward Krugman gripes about partisan hijackers, while dashing off his own petty, partisan snipes.

His 181-word turd demonstrates perfectly the leftist approach to combating Islamic jihad:

Cut and run.

My advice to Koward Krugman is that he shouldn’t be complaining about anyone else’s wedges when he’s using a pair taller than Lady Gaga’s to drive Americans apart.

I would also advise him that there are plenty of constructive ways to illuminate bipartisan government failures since 9/11. I’m reprinting my day-after-9/11-anniversary column from eight years ago below to show you how I did it.

Koward Krugman’s problem is that he’s a lazy intellectual slob who hurriedly hits the “publish” button before the sand in his little kitchen egg timer empties. He hurls Molotov cocktails at his political enemies, while hiding behind his hallowed desk at the Fishwrap of Record.

Shame on him. Shame on the New York Times.

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Spitting on their graves
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
9/10/03

Across the nation, public officials will strike somber poses and shed television-friendly tears and bow their blow-dried heads in memory of the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

They’ll hold hands, light candles, and pass around a plateful of platitudes: “Never forget,” they’ll intone. “Let’s roll,” they’ll thunder. “God bless America,” they’ll warble in perfect harmony.

They’ll assure us that they are committed to fighting terror and securing our borders and doing whatever it takes to protect the homeland from another horrific mass murder at the hands of freedom-hating fanatics. And then?

And then, from Washington state to Washington, D.C., they’ll go back to work, roll up their sleeves, and spit on the graves of the 9/11 dead.

Your pious city councilwoman will return to the office to draft a resolution condemning the common-sense detention and deportation of Middle Eastern illegal aliens suspected of terrorism.

Your politically correct police chief will refuse to cooperate with federal authorities in criminal investigations of illegal visa overstayers and border-crossers and ship-jumpers.

Your pandering mayor will stealthily renew his policy of preventing city employees from reporting illegal aliens.

Your indignant local librarian will promote fear-mongering and misinformation about the Patriot Act.

Your regional Chamber of Commerce president will join forces with Canadian and Mexican government representatives to put business interests ahead of border enforcement.

Your tuition-thirsty university president will lobby behind closed doors against federal efforts to track foreign students and ensure that they go home when required. Your vote-hungry governor will encourage document fraud through his support of insecure foreign-issued identification cards and driver’s licenses for “undocumented workers.”

Your race card-fearing congressman will court Arab and Muslim special interest groups and donors who have coddled Islamists on college campuses, in prisons, and in the U.S.

My column today sheds light on the longstanding bromance between Barack Obama and the Teamsters. I especially want you to have all this information handy when Obama complains on Thursday about all the infrastructure that’s still not getting built despite the $230 billion in porkulus money set aside for construction projects.

I’ve been reporting for more than a year about how Big Labor will benefit from Obama’s new government infrastructure bank/public construction slush funds — and how feckless U.S. Chamber of Commerce officials in Washington are going along with the union-exclusive project labor agreements that punish taxpayers, employers, and non-union workers. Pay special attention to those goodies in Obama’s jobs speech. The jackals at Teamsters headquarters in D.C. can’t wait to tear up more of your tax dollars on government projects doled out by the crony-in-chief.

As usual, Jimmy Hoffa Jr.’s Tea Party-bashing is a calculated distraction from his festering ethics problems and internal Teamsters strife. According to the FBI via the Center for Union Facts, four of the last eight Teamsters presidents have been criminally indicted and since FY 2001, racketeering investigations have yielded more than 2,000 indictments and awarded more than $3 billion in fines and restitution. In past union elections, Hoffa’s team was caught laundering union funds for electioneering and for campaign polling on dues-payers’ dime. Hoffa now faces a new challenge to his union presidency from his own far Left flank this fall. Make sure to read about the latest election corruption he’s embroiled in below.

Barry and Jimmy: Birds of a feather.

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How Obama protects the Teamsters
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2011

Barack Obama and Jimmy Hoffa are like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Lady Gaga and hype, the “Jersey Shore” cast and hairspray: inseparable. The president can no more disown the Teamsters Union’s leader than he can disown his own id.

At a Labor Day rally in Detroit on Monday before Obama spoke, Hoffa stoked anti-tea party hostility by urging his minions to “take these son of a b*tches out.” (Botched grammar added that extra boost of street-gang authenticity to the labor lawyer’s threat.) The same civility police on the left who decry any references to crosshairs as incitements to violence are now mute about Hoffa’s brass-knuckle rhetoric. The Chicagoans in the White House refuse to comment.

Those calling on Obama to condemn Hoffa’s uncivil tone are deluding themselves. The 1.4 million-member Teamsters lifted Obama to power with a coveted endorsement and bottomless campaign coffers funded with coerced member dues. Over the past two decades, the union has donated nearly $25 million to Democrats (compared to $1.8 million for Republicans).

What quid pro quo protection has the Teamsters’ money bought? Let us count the ways.

Calling off Teamsters corruption investigations. Back in May 2008, as he jockeyed with rival Hillary Clinton for Big Labor support, Obama promised to end longstanding federal probes into the Teamsters’ mob racket. In 1989, the union was facing federal racketeering charges after Justice Department officials determined it was operating as a “wholly owned subsidiary of organized crime.” The Wall Street Journal reported that Obama phoned several Teamsters heavies to convey his vow to begin dismantling the independent federal watchdog overseeing the Teamsters; an Obama spokesman confirmed it.