While staying away from partisan politics, the man who introduced Visclosky, the Reverend Charles Strietelmeier--pastor of Augustana Lutheran Church in Hobart, Indiana--parroted liberal talking points about the need for infrastructure repairs in the Hoosier State. Yes, I agree, the Cline Avenue Bridge in East Chicago needs to be rebuilt, but as I wrote on Sunday, this is not the Lutheran Church of Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon--maybe for the real Garrison Keillor, however.
Visclosky of course agrees with Strietelmier about those public works projects and calls for "fair taxes," while decrying those corporations who have not paid income taxes recently. Then he turns up the class warfare rhetoric by stating that Chicago and Northwest Indiana first responders are paying more of their income to the federal government as a percentage than 25 hedge fund managers in did 2010."
President Obama's new chief-of-staff is Jack Lew, a former hedge fund executive.
In 2009 Visclosky was named as one of the nation's 15 most corrupt members of Congress by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington because of his ties to a corrupt lobbying organization, the defunct PMA Group.
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