From the Detroit Free Press link:

So far, Kilpatrick has refused to step down, saying he is on a divinely inspired mission to help rebuild the city. ...

The City Council, which was kept in the dark about Kilpatrick’s reasons for settling the lawsuit and never saw the confidential side agreement, voted 7-1 last week to pass an advisory resolution calling for the mayor to resign. It also ordered an investigation of the episode and directed its auditor general to look into spending by the mayor’s office and the city Law Department. ...

He has been beset by repeated controversies over extravagant spending with his city-issued credit card, lying publicly about ordering the police department to lease a Lincoln Navigator for his wife and battening down information hatches at City Hall, making it more difficult for reporters and the public to inquire about his activities.

I am so effing tired of learning about how one politician after another has abused his office (yes, it's mostly men) for personal gain, whether it's financial or power. The sense of entitlement that runs rampant with the Kilpatricks, the Spitzers, the Cunninghams, and all the rest is sickening.

Remember when there was this quaint little concept that being elected to office was for "public service"? All I see in these stories is self-service.

Until we as pissed-off Americans push for changes in how every elected office rewards its holder, there will only be more of this. Until the perception that being elected to public office means unlimited opportunities for financial reward, unchecked power, and infinite self-aggrandizement is obliterated by an electorate that has had enough of it to force changes, the Kilpatricks and Spitzers will be able to feel that whatever they want to do to indulge their egos or their pockets is not just a perk but an entitlement of their offices.

Public service, folks. Not self-service.

Corruption in the Democratic party must not be tolerated. I just wish we could eject John Murtha, Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and other fake Dems as fast as we should eject plain old crooks like Kilpatrick and Jefferson.