Abramoff: A 'Republican' Fund Raiser?

Published on January 6, 2006 By Dr Guy In Politics

Over the past several months, we have been regaled by the incompetent mainstream media on how the impending plea bargain by Jack Abramoff was a killer issue for the republicans, since he was a republican fund raiser! Oh the shame! The dirt and scandal! How could those wascally wepublicans get away with this sleaze?

But notice it was only the MSM doing the finger pointing. Strangely, the democrat leadership has been very silent on the whole Abramoff issue! Why? Unlike the lies they spread on Bush, this should be a juicy scandal to exploit! Especially in an election year! And they love anything that even has a whiff of scandal (Bush I to Paris before the 80 election! Reasons for going into Iraq. Ted {hic} Kennedy: Lies, lies, lies).

Well, perhaps the reason they are silent, is like the third Reich at the end of the war, they are too busy burning sensitive documents! yes! For it seems that Abramoff is an equal opportunity fund raiser! 40 of the 45 members of the democrat caucus in the senate have benefited from Abramoff's ill gotten booty (or as hawkeye says, ill booten gotti). And not just chump change either!

One of the best is Harry Reid! The holier than tho caster of aspersions against anyone not a democrat. (who admits he is not the sharpest knife in the drawer!). yea, he seemed to pick up some nice pocket change after canvasing the Bureau of Indian Affairs to allow a Casino, and then pocketed 10 grand from a couple of Abramoff clients ("I never met the man! How did I know where the money came from?")

Ah, so in all honesty, many politicians from both parties reaped rewards from Abramoff, not just republicans. And the democrats want this to quietly go away as much, if not more, than the republicans. But their faithful lap dogs in the MSM, who cant get a story straight or tell the difference between an Internet rumor and actual facts, did not get the memo! So while the MSM is trying to pillory the republicans, the democrats are crossing their fingers and hoping it will go away!

Lap dogs are such great animals! Loving loyal and kind! Everyone should have one, as they look up to their masters as demi-gods! But they are also too stupid to know when the master is trying to shush them!

Oh the irony! We shall see what comes out now that a plea deal has been reached. I wonder if any more of Chuckie Cheeses (sorry, Schumer's) staffers are going to fall on the sword on this one!

Bets anyone?

Comments (Page 1)

Dr Guy

on Jan 06, 2006

Hmm, what is this I see?

Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) Received At Least – $68,941

Larry Kuperman

on Jan 06, 2006

It seems that Daschle should also be numbered among the Democrats that received money from Abramoff. See http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8079308/from/RL.1/ entitled "Democrats also received money from Abramoff."

But the real issue is Abramoff's relationship with Tom DeLay. In 1997, DeLay called Abramoff "one of my closest and dearest friends." Source: http://www.slate.com/id/2116389

Abramoff is supposed to have recently said "DeLay knew everything. He knew all the details." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7446492/site/newsweek

So we will have to see what the fallout is.

Dr Guy

on Jan 06, 2006

So we will have to see what the fallout is.

I dont doubt there are a lot of republicans mixed up with Abramoff as well, after all, the MSM keeps that drum beat up incesantly!

Yet, dont you think it is strange that no democrats are jumping on this bandwagon? A golden opportunity, and they are mum. While silence is not admissable in court, it shouts in the arena of politics.

Deference

on Jan 06, 2006

Yet, dont you think it is strange that no democrats are jumping on this bandwagon?

The majority of the blame will go to Republicans probably because Republican legislators (I think Pres. Bush recently disavowed some $7,000 dollars linked to Abramoff)
received the majority of the comforts but the fact that Democratic legislators also received monies is telling.

Telling us the two party system doesn't work.

COL Gene

on Jan 06, 2006

The two party system does not work when one party controls both the legislative and executive braches and is trying to pack the judicial branch as well. We also need to STOP the big money interests from being able to buy what they want at the expense of the average American.

kingbee

on Jan 06, 2006

while i'm dazzled by the audacity of the spin you're attempting here, ultimately nothing plus nothing equals nothing.

hint: abramoff may have contributed to a lotta people who shoulda been honest or smart enough to have turned him down...but that's hardly the issue is it?

how many democrats benefited from his weekly get-togethers on k street? how many former aides to democrats wound up working for him? how many sweatshop slaves had to abort their children in the mariannas?

oh...and one more question. what was that black hat and trenchcoat all about?

Deference

on Jan 06, 2006

oh...and one more question. what was that black hat and trenchcoat all about?

My thoughts exactly.

stutefish

on Jan 06, 2006

Apparently it's a traditional garb of the Orthodox Jew, a subculture with which Abramoff at least occasionally identifies.

I assume he was trying to signal that he was serious about the trouble he was in, or something.

kingbee

on Jan 07, 2006

Apparently it's a traditional garb of the Orthodox Jew, a subculture with which Abramoff at least occasionally identifies.

i truly had no idea. i thought he was goin for a boris badanov kinda thing.

drmiler

on Jan 07, 2006

hint: abramoff may have contributed to a lotta people who shoulda been honest or smart enough to have turned him down...but that's hardly the issue is it?

No, but it should be!

ParaTed2k

on Jan 07, 2006

This one is a dead give away for anyone who questions which side the incompent "press" is on.

This scandal has both sides of the aisle sweating, and rightly so. It isn't a republican or democrat problem, it is a problem to any individual who accepted money from Abramoff. The "press" tries to lump all democrats and all republican members of congress together, but in reality, each is the voice of their state or district. Each has a primary responsibility to their constituants and a SECONDARY responsibility to their party. If they sold that voice to Abramoff, it was because of the party leadership, it was because of a lack of personal intergrity.

Of course the "press" is going to try to spin this into a "republican" problem. They have made it their job to do all they can to ensure Democrat success. The only problem is, reality keeps getting in their way.

The majority of the "press" wouldn't know unless it was printed at the bottom of a bar glass.

Dr Guy

on Jan 07, 2006

Telling us the two party system doesn't work.

No, telling us they work the same way. I dont doubt the republicans will get the majority of the blame for the simple reason the press wants it that way. But there is a lot of egg to go around on all faces.

Dr Guy

on Jan 07, 2006

The two party system does not work when one party controls both the legislative and executive braches and is trying to pack the judicial branch as well.

Hmmm, you must be talking about the Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter and 2 years of Clinton administration.

Dr Guy

on Jan 07, 2006

while i'm dazzled by the audacity of the spin you're attempting here, ultimately nothing plus nothing equals nothing.

I am not spinning anything, but it is apparent you are. I guess you did not get the DNC memo either. Too bad, I doubt you are important enough to be in the inner circle, just one of their ill informed lap dogs.

Dr Guy

on Jan 07, 2006

oh...and one more question. what was that black hat and trenchcoat all about?

My thoughts exactly.

Since you raised the question (you and kb), why dont you tell us.

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