BREAKING: DELAY FUNDRAISING SCANDAL EXPANDS : Bradblog

[kansasblue]

www.bradblog.com


says RAWSTORY to carry afternoon exclusive.

[DS1]

1. "DEVELOPING VERY HARD" what kind of stupid phrase is that?

:eyes:

[tanyev]

2. Well it would make sense for any Jeff Gannon developments.

:D

[NewJeffCT]

4. damn - you beat me by a minute!

But, great minds think alike.

[NewJeffCT]

3. maybe it's tied to Gannon/Guckert, too?

just kidding...

[Oreo]

5. He's making fun of Sludge

[pox_americana]

6. A trap, perhaps??

Of the Rovian kind. To save Delay after the leads are shown to be false??

[Daphne08]

10. That was my first thought

since Rove was a student of that worm Donald Segretti (of the Smear Muskie Campaign, and I'm old enough to remember it well) and most recently... of the Smear Dan Rather Campaign.

The student has exceeded all expectations of the master, so one should tread carefully.

[calimary]

27. And if that's not bad enough, rove and junior were both students of Lee

Atwater. Both of them were disciples, learning the dirty tricks of the trade at his knee. The "brains" behind the Willie Horton smear of Dukakis - a smear for which Atwater felt compelled to apologize to Dukakis when the oh-gosh-isn't-he-cute-and-hip-republiCON-because-he-plays-electric-guitar Atwater was on his death bed with brain cancer. They're lice. Just a fucking infestation. Opportunistic infections all.

[Roland99]

7. Maybe it has to do with the Horse industry...it's Derby Week after all!

:rofl:

[catnhatnh]

9. Yep..Jockey George...

...beating his horse into a frenzy...

[rocktivity]

25. Actually, Bush "beat" TWO horses into a frenzy

according to The Daily Show's interpretation of Laura Bush's correspondent's dinner speech.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Roland99]

8. Bush-Cheney Named as Beneficiaries of Lobbying Firm Largesse

BREAKING!!! DELAY FUNDRAISING SCANDAL EXPANDS INTO WHITE HOUSE!!! BIG TIME!!!
Bush-Cheney Named as Beneficiaries of Lobbying Firm Largesse in Numbers Far Beyond Anything So Far Tied to Embattled House Majority Leader!!!





In the first of several reports from RAW STORY on an expansion of the widening fundraising morass currently plaguing Republican House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, the Whitehouse itself is now being named as a major beneficiary of Jack Abramoff's lobbying firm in dollar numbers that dwarf anything DeLay has so far been tied to!!!



RAW STORY to carry late afternoon exclusive!

[Jacobin]

11. Um,....

In case no one has noticed, campaign contributions are not illegal unless the paperwork is not filled out right.

I don't see anything in this 'report' that suggests that the 'largesse' was illegally contributed.

What am I missing other than a 'national enquirer' type headline?

[Roland99]

13. That's what I was thinking, too.

How is this big, bad news?

[catnhatnh]

14. Well there are limits to contributions...

...and furthermore "Chico and the Man' (* and Ch*ney) have spent the last month DISTANCING themselves from Texas Tom & Co..

[Jacobin]

20. Where does it say the limits were violated?

I don't see that.

(I'm amazing myself that i'm 'defending' BushCo...but that's not what I'm doing....I'm asking: where's the fucking beef here?)

[burn the bush]

26. in numbers bigger than anything delay has been tied to would suggest

limits were violated. But they don't say its contributions. Didn't it say beneficiaries. What could that mean? ok I know what it mean, but what in this case does it mean?

[MGKrebs]

17. It doesn't say anything about campaign contributions.

Delay's problems revolve around "gifts" from lobbyists, to him, not a campaign.

[Jacobin]

19. That's my point

The 'article' says 'largesse'.....wtf does that mean?

I'm all for outing anything that they've done illegally, but I'm not seeing it in this thing.

I think we lose credibility when we scream 'fire' where there is none....lord knows there is plenty of criminal activity these bozo's have engaged in,.....i'd like to pursue those things, not some glaring unsubstantiated headline.

[anitar1]

23. Agreed. Seems too tabloid to have these promises.

How about just printing the story?

[warrens]

12. Linking Bush/Cheney to DeLay and Abramoff

This should be interesting.

[Straight Shooter]

15. Grain of salt required here. n/t

[babsbunny]

16. Send this to Keith Olbermann!

WOW!

[Roland99]

18. Why? There's nothing to send, yet.

[babsbunny]

21. Boy, It is a developing story

but promising! I guess we have all been excited for nothing so many times, that we get hateful after a while?

[Roland99]

22. Yeah...but the last couple of BIG NEWS stories have been busts

I guess I've come back down to reality a bit. ;)

[central scrutinizer]

24. Bush, Cheney corrupt?

Who knew? <yawn> Yet another breaking, drip-drip-drip, story that will go exactly nowhere. Nothing can dent the teflon of repugs since that might hurt the profit margins of the MSM.

[Roland99]

28. Blah...this won't even be a blip on the MSM Radar...News Released

EXCLUSIVE: BUSH RECOUNT COMMITTEE STILL OWES MORE THAN $320,000 TO ABRAMOFF'S FORMER FIRM FOR WORK DURING 2000 RECOUNT... 3:45 PM...

[Moderator]

29. locking

Please continue discussion here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1447828