Salon: Republicans gone wild

[PhilipShore]

Salon
Republicans gone wild
Sidney Blumenthal
Jan. 18, 2006

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/01/19/abramoff/index_np.html

"Ethics reform" gestures and suddenly hazy memories can't hide the truth: Abramoff is an integral part of the GOP machine that revved up with the '94 "revolution."

Hardly anyone in the Republican Party, in Congress or at the White House, seems to recall ever having met Jack Abramoff. Collective amnesia has suddenly descended upon the capital. The super-lobbyist, whose plea bargain with prosecutors requires the extensive naming of names of members of Congress, staffers, ex-staffers, lobbyists, friends, colleagues and his own personal assistants, is spending his days racking his memory for details of their relationships that may become the basis for bills of indictment.

Abramoff, who pleaded guilty to fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials, has left a trail of hard evidence in addition to his sworn confessions. At the end of every business day his former assistant wrote a summary of all his contacts and their conversations, e-mailed it to him and carefully saved it; these documents mapping the days and ways of Jack Abramoff are now in the hands of the prosecutors.

[Nothing Without Hope]

1. Oooooh - I surely hope the Bush cabal isn't able to destroy that evidence.

:kick:

[me b zola]

2. Snotty doesn't suffer from amnesia...

...he just refuses to answer questions & places the onus on the press core to prove bush*s connection to Abramoff :wtf:

Hey snotty, I think you'd look lovely in an orange jumpsuit :evilgrin:

[Binka]

3. Snotty Suffers From Constipation Of The Brain

The shit goes in it just never comes out!

[jsmithrn45]

4. The bush cabal

This too will pass, (Abramoff scandel). If bush can get away with murder, bush will never be connected to Abramoff. karl rove (bush's brains) will surely find a way to keep his precious little moron protected from the scandel. :pals:

[TayTay]

5. According to Roll call Abramoff was friendly with Trent Lott too!

And article in the Jan 22, 2001 editon of Capitaol Hil newspaper, Roll Call, had the following outlook piece on Jack Abramoff:

Jack Abramoff

Senior Director of Government Affairs

Greenberg Traurig LLP

Abramoff's decision to move to this Miami-based firm from Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds was big news on K Street earlier this month, since the GOP lobbyist may be worth as much as $8 million in annual client fees to his new firm.

Abramoff is close to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Texas), as well as Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft and Energy Secretary-designate Spence Abraham.

Greenberg Traurig also added Tony Rudy and Michael Scanlon, two former top DeLay aides, giving the firm access to leadership staff on the Hill, in addition to those Congressional aides moving over to the White House.

Abramoff's clients include the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and the Channel One network.

So, who's working on the Abraham-Abramoff connection. (Energy Secretary, hmmmmm, very interesting)

[MiniMe]

6. Abramoff was part of the transition team in 2000

He was the one that "suggested" Gail Norton for DOI position. I don't understand how * can deny knowing him. Why doesn't one of the press corp ask Snotty about this?

[The Whiskey Priest]

7. The Phrase for the YEAR is =====

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION.

[Fovea]

11. Say it with me

'The Republican Culture of Corruption.'

They built it, the profited from it, they built their majority with it, they OWN it.

[Solly Mack]

8. lol so Abramoff kept a little black book

lolololololol every john's nightmare

[glitch]

9. Lol!

thanks for that. :rofl:

[greiner3]

10. And I thought amnesia only happened on soaps! n/t