White House Rushes to Defend Latest Corrupt Appointee: 'We Have No Comment'

Of course they have no comment. They've yet to formulate their spin after letting another corrupt appointee slip through the vaunted vetting process.

I'm sure they'll figure out some way to defend this guy, but for now, they're clamming up.

The White House stayed silent Sunday night on a Daily News investigation into developers' big-money donations to Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión, who is President Obama's new urban policy pointman.

The News' probe of Carrión's cozy ties to developers with major Bronx construction projects provoked outrage from the politician's critics, but didn't stir a peep from the White House.

"We have no comment," White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said.

Carrión resigned Sunday as borough president to become the director of the White House Office on Urban Policy on Monday.

Richard Lipsky, a city planner in the Bronx, said The News exposed Carrión's modus operandi of putting his political coffers before the good of the communBarack Obamaity.

"Carrión's acted in such a perverse manner to really go out of his way to thwart community and small-business concerns," Lipsky charged.

The News revealed a string of construction projects pitched by developers who had donated to Carrión's campaign war chest just weeks before he approved their plans.

Hey, maybe Rush Limbaugh will mention it today and that'll be enough to tell us what a great guy he is. More likely we'll hear the "well, everyone does it" defense.

Former west Bronx Councilman and state Sen. Israel Ruiz defended Carrión as an "honest young man."

"This is nothing new. All the way from the governor on down, everybody deals with these developers to get reelected," Ruiz said. "That's the nature of the beast, unfortunately."

Just an honest mistake, of course.