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RIGOP: Whitehouse Allegedly Acted On Secret Information

Posted on November 17, 2011 by The Ocean State Republican

Whitehouse Accused Of Profiting From Secret Congressional Information Shortly Before The ’08 Economic Meltdown

WASHINGTON — Yesterday, it was reported that in 2008 as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke privately warned Congress of a looming economic meltdown, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse allegedly took this sensitive information and made trades on the stock market with it.

As WPRI-TV Providence Reports:

U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is one of several prominent Washington lawmakers mentioned in a new book that accuses them of potentially making investment trades based on information they received as government officials. The book, “Throw Them All Out,” by former Bush administration official Peter Schweizer, alleges that Whitehouse made a flurry of trades in September 2008 as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was warning members of Congress about a possible financial collapse after Lehman Bros. filed for bankruptcy. (Book accusing Congress names Whitehouse, WPRI-TV , 11/15/11)

“It’s shocking that Senator Whitehouse would take sensitive information from Chairman Bernanke and then immediately use that information and adjust his financial portfolio,” said Rhode Island GOP Chairman Ken McKay. “Rhode Islanders deserve to know from Sheldon Whitehouse if he regularly leverages his position to gain inside information to increase his net worth or if he only does it when America’s economy is on the verge of a meltdown.”

Press Release: Rhode Island Republican Party

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Filed Under: Corruption, Lord Sheldon Whitehouse, Press Releases and Republican Party Closed

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: A Liar, An Ignoramous, or Just Stupid?

Posted on December 6, 2009 by The Ocean State Republican

Bush-Hitler-Visual-PromptIt speak volumes about our local media environment that the following audio clip of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) comes to us via an out-of-state website with no connection to Rhode Island. Not a single word has been mentioned about Whitehouse’s downright ignorant remarks in any of our local newspapers or three television stations, or to our knowledge, even on talk radio.

Sen. Whitehouse was apparently opining on an out-of-state radio program about the supposedly shabby treatment that President Obama has received during his first year in office — in direct comparision to the wonderful treatment that former President Bush received — especially by an unidentified “some” who have portrayed President Obama with a “Hitler moustache”.*

This is the verbatim quote:

For example, the president portrayed with a Hitler moustache. I don’t recall for eight years President Bush ever being portrayed with a Hitler moustache. Poor President Obama comes in and within his first months, people are running around America, portraying him with a Hitler moustache, because we want to reform health care.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AlrHbk_EUI[/youtube]

Pray tell, what else has Sen. Whitehouse not seen during the previous 8 years?

* Of course, Lord Wheldon Shitehouse conveniently fails to mention — amongst other things — that the main purveyors of the “Obama as Hitler” photos at various public events, are the supporters of perennial Democratic presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche.

PS A visual prompt has been provided above in order to remind Sen. Whitehouse, who apparently suffers from unidentified case of amnesia, of the results of a simple Google search of the terms “Bush Hitler” or “Bushitler”. There are slightly over a half-million results.

(h/t ParcBench)

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Filed Under: Liberals and Leftists, Lord Sheldon Whitehouse and US Senate Closed