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?