DeLay bristles at Abramoff questions

[Rose Siding]

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) yesterday downplayed a recent article linking him to former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who is being investigated by a federal grand jury and the Senate Indian Affairs Committee.

A National Journal article last Friday said Abramoff listed, among other things, a $4,285 hotel bill for DeLay and his wife, Christine, during a trip to London and Scotland in the spring of 2000 with the DeLays and some of the congressman’s former staff members.
...
Prodded about whose idea the trip had been, DeLay said, “I don’t know whose idea it was. It was five years ago.”

DeLay also dismissed his relationship with Abramoff, who often bragged about his close ties to the majority leader.

“Jack Abramoff is not the only person I talked to in Washington,” DeLay said. He also offered no sympathy for the former lobbyist’s legal woes.

http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/030205/delay.html

[librechik]

1. “Jack Abramoff is not the only person I talked to in Washington,”

start writing those subpoenas!

[John_H]

9. "I also talked to every creepy wingnut activist in America!"

[Sporadicus]

2. That's OK, BugMan

I offer no sympathy for your sorry soon-to-be-former-house majority leader ass or your legal woes either.

[struggle4progress]

3. I love it when the scumbuckets begin to bristle. It makes me think ...

... spring is just around the corner.

<edit: typo>

[girl gone mad]

4. They were best buddies back when the money was rolling in.

This reminds me of when Bush said he had only seen "Kenny Boy" once or twice around town years and years ago.

[Supersedeas]

10. as long as Deeelay's bread is butter--he remains in your good graces

[cosmicdot]

5. downplayed, huh? let me google 'DeLay and Abramoff' ...

to see if there are any hits ...

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-33,GGLD:en&q=DeLay+and+Abramoff

"Oh what a wicked web we weave, when first we practice
to deceive"

DeLay, Abramoff, Robertson, Reed ...

'Abramoff and CNP' gets hits, too
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2004-33%2CGGLD%3Aen&q=abramoff+and+CNP

Jack Abramoff - CNP Member 1984-85, 1988. National Chairman, College of Republicans; Chairman, United Students of America Foundation, 'dedicated to educating students on the need to defund political activism on campus'; president Scorpion Film Productions, Inc.; chairman, Regency Entertainment Group, Ltd.; member, Board of Directors, The Conservative Caucus Research and Education Foundation. Former executive director, Citizens for America, former chairman, College Republican National Committee, and also USA Foundation. Founder and former chairman of The International Freedom Foundation (IFF) which was recently exposed by senior South African military personnel as a cut-out of the South African military and Special Branch. IFF functioned as a propaganda arm for South African STRATCOM directed against the African National Congress and the trade union confederation.

~more~
http://www.seekgod.ca/cnp.a.htm

Abramoff was a 2004 Bu$h Pioneer
http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/ContributorsAndPaybacks/pioneer_profile.cfm?pioneer_ID=834

"Ever since, Abramoff has been DeLay's chief financier, fundraising tactician, and chief manager of DeLay's lucrative and important links to lobbyists such as Enron."
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/3102delay_mannkin.html

Secret Society
By Sarah Posner
AlterNet

Tuesday 01 March 2005

"Just who is the Council for National Policy, and why isn't it paying taxes?"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/030105F.shtml

Group Watch: Council for National Policy
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/groupwatch/cnp.php

~snip~

Anybody who doubts this need only examine the Republicans who held up President Clinton's nominees for so long, such as Tom Delay, who recently said that he believes in a "biblical world view" and that he supported President Clinton's impeachment because Clinton "does not have the right world view."

It is reasonable to assume that Delay -- a member of the Council for National Policy (CNP), a theocratic organization which has as its stated policy "Christian Reconstructionism," the belief that the U.S. Constitution draws its authority from the Bible -- would support only those judicial nominees who share his biblical world view, one in which the Christian God is the one true God, and all you Jews and Muslims and atheists can just get knotted, the Constitution doesn't apply to you.

~snip~

http://www.americanpolitics.com/20020513Livemore.html

~snip~

"It’s quite a sordid tale. A federal criminal investigation has been underway into the activities of GOP lawyer/lobbyist Jack Abramoff and Mike Scanlon, Tom DeLay’s former spokesman and head of two campaign and public relations companies. With their help, Reed went to great strides to keep himself out of the mess, right up until it was clear Reed was collecting quite a bit of money from his work on this. How much money? Today’s Roll Call has some great details.

Ralph Reed, a top campaign adviser to President Bush in the South and a power broker among conservative Christians, received nearly $4 million from a GOP public relations expert under federal investigation over huge lobbying fees paid by American Indian tribes with gambling interests.

Reed was paid more than $3.8 million during a yearlong period in 2001 and 2002 by Michael Scanlon, a former aide to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), according to documents obtained by Roll Call.

~snip~

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/index.php?m=200408

[neverforget]

6. I wonder what level of Hell Delay will go too?

[WhiteTara]

8. Let's just say it has something to do with cockroaches! eom

[LynnTheDem]

7. Arrogant to the end, but you ARE going DOWN, "Toxic" Tom.

DOWN, baby, DOWN.

[gratuitous]

11. "It was five years ago"

And Whitewater was what, 15 years before Clinton even took office? Is there a statute of limitations on corruption, Mr. Delay, or is this just another example of IOKIYAR: It's Okay If You're A Republican?

Golly, you think some enterprising reporter would like to be known as the man or woman who took down The Hammer? Seems like there's a whole closet full of skeletons ready to come rattling out on the Bugman.

[wicket]

12. "I am the Federal Government" - Tom Delay