Editorial slapdown of Rep. Kilpatrick's "portable loyalties"

[Reality_Check]

From Toledo Blade today [[excerpt followed by link):

A congressman's votes ought not to appear to be for sale. U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Detroit, the mother of the city's disgraced mayor, doesn't appear to understand that.

. . . Ms. Kilpatrick has been accused of portable loyalties before. People who were surprised when Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi turned up in Detroit to campaign for CCK last summer were a little less so when, after the election, Ms. Kilpatrick became the only Michigan congressman not to oppose the Pelosi-engineered coup to oust U.S. Rep. John Dingell, D-Dearborn, from his post as chairman of the powerful Energy and Commerce committee.

Regardless of the merits of that, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick clearly does have a sense of entitlement. . . . Despite the fact that her district is the poorest and physically smallest in the state, she still leased a Cadillac DeVille to tool around in -- at taxpayer expense, naturally.
In an era where the nation is grappling with the worst financial crisis since the 1930s and our leaders are calling for shared sacrifices, Detroiters might ask themselves how much more of this they can stand.

In full here: http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll...ON02/904140348

[East Detroit]

So, is she going to steer universal healthcare appropriations to Covisint or not?

[gnome]

The Toledo Blade did a nice job, but CCK won't care ... they're outsiders.

loved this bit:

What Mr. Moroun does have going for him is deep pockets, and for Congressman Kilpatrick, the issue is clearly the $64,000 question. That's how much money Matty Moroun has given to her campaigns over the last decade, and she is likely to need more next year; she was nearly defeated in the Democratic primary last year by voters who have had it with the Kilpatrick family.

[gravitymachine]

honestly, is anyone suprised by this?

[Bobl]

I like Jack Lessenberry's take on Nancy Pelosi's campaign help for CCK:

""Carolyn Kilpatrick has been a leader, thinking in a visionary way into the future, and not stuck in the past," Pelosi told a gaggle of onlookers at the Grosse Pointe War Memorial. I was impressed. Even a highly experienced pol seldom tells three major lies in 20 words."