Weldon Accuses 95 Percent Of America For FBI Raid

Monday’s FBI raid of Congressman Curt Weldon’s daughter and friend’s houses and offices was met with the usual list of suspects: Democrats, the Liberal Media, etc.

But yesterday Weldon came up with another one: A former FBI agent said someone in opponent Joe Sestak’s campaign knew the raid was going to happen! Because political neophytes usually have inside info with the Bush Justice Department. But that’s not all. KYW 1060 recaps who Weldon has accused so far:

In an interview with the Daily Pennsylvanian this week, Weldon accused former President Bill Clinton, the left wing group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, former CIA official Mary McCarthy and others of involvement in sparking the FBI probe.

Actually missed that one on the DP interview, but, yep, that’s the old Bill Clinton chestnut. Geeze. All he needs to do is all liberal gays and communists and he’ll pretty much have blamed everyone in the whole entire world. For the Bush Justice Department’s investigation of his daughter and his friend.

Let’s just put this really clear: Curt Weldon is a blithering idiot. If you vote for him, so are you.

Weldon Says He Knows Who is Behind FBI Investigation [KYW 1060]
Archives: Curt Weldon

Curt Weldon Drums Up New Conspiracy Theory

Yesterday, the FBI raided the house of Curt Weldon’s daughter — among other places connected to her — as part of an investigation whether Weldon improperly helped steer contracts her way. (Weldon is shown here speaking at the “coronation” of Rev. Sun Myung Moon — which named Moon the God of the Earth or something and which Weldon helped organize — standing next to a photo of himself pinning a medal on Moammar Al Qadhafi. Right.)

The deal involves contracts Weldon’s daughter and Delaware County GOP bigwig Charles Sexton’s company — Solutions Worldwide — received from Itera, a Russian natural gas company. The main deal was a $500k contract Itera awarded the company while Weldon was lobbying Congress on behalf of the company. Dun dun dun.

Of course, Weldon thinks the raid is politically motivated, since the Bush justice department usually raids Republicans right before the election. Weldon said:

“The person who filed the one complaint against me with the Justice Department, Melanie Sloan, was a key staffer for John Conyers, who stands to become the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee assuming the Democrats win control of the Congress. I think it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that this district could swing control of the Congress.”

Right. Except the complain was filed over two years ago. She really couldn’t have known the Justice Department would investigate Weldon two years-plus later, right. Unless Melanie Sloan is some sort of prophet. Perhaps Weldon could worship her along with Rev. Moon.

Weldon inquiry boils as FBI seizes material [Inquirer]
Weldon Calls Investigation ‘Suspicious’ [KYW 1060]
Yesterday: Curt Weldon Never Gave His Daughter Anything
Archives: Curt Weldon

Curt Weldon Never Gave His Daughter Anything

Noted goofy congressman Curt “Gogolyguk” Weldon had had his daughter’s home raided by the FBI this morning, as well as the home of a family friend and four other sites in Philly and Jacksonville.

The congressman is being investigated for possibly improperly helping his daughter’s consulting firm win lobbying contracts. (Uh, this is illegal?) Weldon named his outers to — who else? — black people don’t care about Darfur columnist Steven Morse of the Daily Pennsylvanian. He says that it’s Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, as well as former NSA head Sandy Berger.

Of course, this is the same man who said that Osama Bin Laden had secretly died in Iran, so take this with a grain of salt.

Weldon, for his part, says it’s a politically-motivated attack, and that his daughter is fine on his own:

“I’ve never helped my daughter get anything. My kids are qualified on their own,” Weldon said.

Curt Weldon never helped his daughter get anything? That asshole.

FBI raids home of congressman’s daughter [AP/CNN.com]
Congressman Weldon outs alleged leaker [DP's The Spin]
Archives: Curt Weldon

Weldon To Opponent: ‘Gogolyguk!’

Last Friday, noted conspiracy theorist and congressman Curt Weldon debated his Democratic challenger, Joe Sestak. The democrat, an admiral in the Navy, is a political neophyte, while Curt Weldon knows who really orchestrated 9/11, who killed Osama Bin Laden and how the moon landings were faked.

The Evening Bulletin recaps an important part of the debate (emphasis mine):

Sestak accused Rep. Weldon of cutting federal funding for student loans and not fully funding mandates for the No Child Left Behind law.

Weldon called the charge, “gogolyguk,” noting that he voted to strip federal subsidies to banks and lending institutions.

Curt Weldon is even more amazing than we all originally thought. Gogolyguk! Gogolyguk, indeed.

Weldon, Sestak Debate Shows Stark Contrast [Bulletin]

Leftovers: Eagles 38, Cowboys 24

• So, the big story this afternoon is that… after losing the biggest game of the year so far… Cowboys wide receiver was upset and yelling! No! Never! [NBC 10]

• All the photos you need from yesterday’s Biggest Game To Ever Happen, Ever. [The 700 Level]

• Public service announcement: You have to postmark your voter registration form before tomorrow night. So if you want to choose between Bob Casey and Rick Santorum — oh, am I excited to make that decision! — you better get to a state store, post office or library to get a form. [KYW 1060]

• Why is 10-time Congressman — I like to refer to it as if they were winning something respectable, like a wrestling belt — Curt Weldon having trouble in his re-election big? Gee, I dunno, I wonder what Curt Weldon could have done to make him unpopular. But, y’know, he does have it on good intelligence that Osama is dead, so you’d better vote for him. [Salon]

• Oh, yeah, and there’s a giant hole in Broad Street at Lombard. So, uh, avoid that area.

Blogicized: Not So Slick Rick

• Turns out, Rick Santorum puts his foot in his mouth. A lot. And that’s not even including the whole man on dog situation. [Tom Ferrick's Poliblog]

• Noted conspiracy theorist and congressman Curt Weldon says no to President Bush’s help with his campaign, as he says Bush isn’t doing well in the state. Yeah, and neither is saying you know Osama Bin Laden is dead from a secret source. [Political Wire via MyDD]

• Whee! New SEPTA buses! Possibly! Anybody get a photo? [Frankford Terminal Blog]

Blogicized: Feel The Burn

• Breaking! Breaking! Jane Fonda will be at the Penn bookstore on Thursday. That’s 4/20, too, so there will be probably be about at least 50 totally baked people in the audience. High-larious. [Metroblogging Philadelphia]

• The me-in-cartoon-form revolution continues with love for Jay’s work over at MyDD. Of course, I’m not sure what part “could have been taken from one of our blog posts.” Maybe a commenter joked about Weldon shooting Marty Moss-Coane or something. [MyDD]

• Sad news, as it’s rumored that Don Vito is in the hospital. Vito, of course, was the loveable uncle on the way-better-than-you’d-ever-expect-it-to-be Viva La Bame, which I’d agree was full of all the suburban Philadelphia goodness that I don’t know if you can get anywhere else. [Philebrity]

• Every time you start to dislike the Philadelphia Daily News, you can just look at the cluttered front pages of the New York Post and feel a little better that, at the very worst, at last our city’s tab is designed well. [SteveSilver.net]

• The Phillies departed this town 1-5, but now that they’re returning 5-7 — hey, it’s a little better, okay — after a nice road trip we can all be somewhat excited. Even better, yesterday was the first time in 888 games that a visiting team won 1-0 in homer happy Coors Field. [Beerleaguer]

Leftovers: Money For Nothing

• There are a slew of mayoral candidates are aren’t really “candidates” because they don’t yet want to adhere to the new strict fundraising guidelines: $2,500 for individuals and $10,000 for corporations. Still, since everyone knows they’re running for mayor (or planning to run), a lawsuit has been filed. Surely, this lawsuit will restore honesty and integrity to our political process! Or it will make lawyers some money. One of the two. [Inky]

• There’s a pillowfight in Love Park this Saturday. If you’re interested, get in on this before the city closes down the park, retools it to be unfriendly to pillowfighters and pisses off the huge ESPN Pillowfighting Games that happen to be taking place at the same time, thereby ruining any chances to have them here every year. [Phillyist]

• More children this year are dressing up for Easter. Unfortunately, they’re dressing up in suits and ties for mass, and not in some sort of fun bunny costumes. Alas. [KYW 1060]

• When they finally open slots parlors in Philadelphia — est. date of completion 2034 — who wants to be they’re old Atlantic City knockoffs that can’t accept the new $10 bill? In fact, if you want to bet that they’ll never have that or a similar problem, I’ll take you up on that offer. [AP/6 ABC]

• Finally, yes, that’s me making my debut in cartoon form in this week’s PW. Thanks to supercartoonist Jay Bevenour for realizing that, yes, if Curt Weldon were strangling a bunny and sitting on a puppy, I would be shocked and appalled. [PW]

Curt Weldon, M.D.

You might remember Curt Weldon from his theory that if the government had listened to him, the terrorist attacks wouldn’t have happened. (Essentially.) He’s also said that Osama Bin Laden is dead. He gets all this through “secret sources.”

Fair enough. He’s a member of the U.S. House, though. Tell me one House member who hasn’t done anything wild and wacky in their careers. The one who hit the cop or the one who just resigned in disgrace? Then again, neither of those House members have — at least not recently — criticized an upcoming election opponent for staying with his daughter while she was in the hospital.

Weldon’s November opponent is Joe Sestak, a native of Springfield, Pa., and a three-star general in the Navy who retired Jan. 1 after 31 years. Of course, when he got back he was only renting a home in Pennsylvania while continuing to have a residence in Virginia.

That might be something to bash, except that Sestak was staying with his daughter. At Children’s National Medical Center. Who was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor last summer and was given three to nine months to live. He kept living there because her condition improved, and she might’ve beaten the cancer.

This is a time when you call your opponent up and tell him you’re thrilled with the news. But, oh, not Curt Weldon:

Weldon attacked Sestak’s decision to continue owning a home in Virginia while only renting in Pennsylvania and questioned why Sestak did not move back to Pennsylvania when he was working at the Pentagon. Weldon commutes from Pennsylvania each day.

Weldon also suggested Sestak should have sent his daughter to a hospital in Philadelphia or Delaware, rather than the Washington hospital. Sestak said that as soon as doctors give his daughter the all-clear, he’ll buy in Pennsylvania.

He told his opponent he should have moved his daughter, who had a malignant brain tumor, to a closer hospital because… you know, it doesn’t even matter why he said it. He told a newspaper — so this wasn’t like an offhand remark, either — that a father should leave his daughter with a malignant brain tumor.

Joe Sendak has, of course, responded, and he does a nice job of it. Although, to be fair, he could have released a video of himself pissing on a photo of Curt Weldon and he’d still be the classier candidate.

Sestak’s battles — naval, familial and political [The Hill]
Joe Sestak’s Daughter Had a Brain Tumor [Eschaton]
March 15: Mr. Perfect he ain’t

Mr. Perfect he ain’t

At this point, everyone pretty much has figured out that the government screwed up regarding 9/11. Whether you blame Bush, Clinton, Congress, the CIA, the FBI, the ATF, the Transportation Department, HUD or that guy who got shot by Dick Cheney, pretty much you realize the government screwed up. (And, even if you’re one of those conpiracy theorists, you still probably blame the U.S. government, just in a sinister way.)

Local Congressman Curt Weldon thinks the government is to blame, but he has a twist on the idea: If the government had listened to Curt Weldon, 9/11 would have been avoided. I mean, we still would have had the day, just no terrorists would have knocked down any buildings.

Weldon has made the charge that a secret government program called “Able Danger” recommended taking out Mohammad Atta and two others before 9/11, but the government failed to act. He’s written a book to this effect.

Of course — whether Weldon was being truthful or not — a bunch of military guys said they never saw Atta’s photo and Weldon himself isn’t sure of it anymore. Hmm.

But, fear not! He’s come up with a way to move the attention from his “Able Danger” allegations to something even better, according to the Inquirer:

Yet even as his story triggers more and more questions, Weldon is making explosive new allegations. He says a high-level source has told him that terrorist leader Osama bin Laden has died in Iran, where he has been in hiding.

Yeah, dude, I dunno about that. You think Osama would pass up getting a look at his niece’s reality show?

Weldon 9/11 tale unravels, but wait [Inky]
Bin Laden’s Singing Niece Gets Reality Show [Billboard]