Political Animal comments on Abramoff

[blueraven95]

I don't know if you guys saw this, but I love this guy! Sorry if this is a dupe.

We’re All Crooks Here
Political Animal by Brian Morton


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Why are Republicans suddenly disparaging all the institutions of which they happen to be in charge? One guy who turned around to the feds and started singing like a bird, some guy named Jack Abramoff. Abramoff is starting to make dear old Richard Nixon look like the late “Clean” Gene McCarthy. He’s the headliner in the rock concert that was former House majority leader Tom DeLay’s “K Street Project.” Abramoff tied together all the money interests—the people who wanted to buy and sell legislation and members of Congress like poker chips—with the lobbyists, who then worked with those said members of Congress and the people in the White House to give away the store.

The reason why the Republicans are crowing that everyone is crooked is so that you’ll agree, put down the newspaper, and go back to hating the Steelers or watching American Idol or whatever it is they think people outside the Beltway do when they’ve written off all politicos as crooks. Nothing to see here folks, move along. If you think that both sides are equally crooked, then you don’t care, and they’ll breathe a big sigh of relief. And then they’ll go back to selling communications law to the phone and cable providers, the wilderness to logging interests, and your credit to the people at MBNA.

The phrase “Abramoff gave money to Democrats as well as Republicans” has been repeated so much in the last three weeks that I’m surprised no one has set it to music. Never mind that it’s not true—Abramoff gave money only to Republicans, George W. Bush and Robert Ehrlich among them. His clients may have given some money to Democrats, but he himself gave money to not one Democrat—not one.

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http://www.citypaper.com/columns/story.asp?id=11383

be sure to read the rest of it!:D

[Cha]

1. Thanks, I like it already!

And I'm so glad George Clooney mentioned this jack off jerk at the Golden Globes because he has tried to help bush and his bushits bring down our Nation.