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