On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:39:07 -0800, "George Leroy Tyrebiter, Jr."
<tyrebiter@mooresciencehigh.edu> wrote in message
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On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:00:22 -0500, "Rat Senator Russ Slimemold"
<Slimemold@senate.gov> wrote:

Another Liberal wet dream gets shot down in flames again .

I don't have any information to convict John Gotti. But he's still in
prison.

Abramoff may claim he does not have any personal information proving
Delay is a crook.

But Mr Delay has been indicted based on information having nothing to
do with Abramoff, and more information appears every day.

Russian oil magnate gives a million bucks to front organizations
related to DeLay, and then DeLay is on the floor of the house arguing
that we should liberalize the rules for IMF loans to Russia.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Tom Delay suddenly thinks the
commies need a break.

Not all bribes are given directly. It makes them too easy to track.
Sometimes they are given to the target's children or business
associates, with the understanding that "what goes around comes
around." Millions of dollars went from Abramoff's clients to one of
Delay's minions (former chief of staff, Edwin Buckham,) via a front
corporation (the infamous "U.S. Family Network.")

http://tinyurl.com/zqq6o

DeLay aide got thousands from non-profit
The Washington Post
Published March 26, 2006

WASHINGTON -- A top adviser to Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) received
nearly a third of all the money collected by the U.S. Family Network,
a non-profit organization the adviser created to promote a pro-family
agenda in Congress, according to the group's accounting records.

DeLay's former chief of staff, Edwin Buckham, who helped create the
group while still in DeLay's employ, and his wife were the principal
beneficiaries of the group's $3.23 million in revenues, collecting
payments totaling $996,754 during a five-year period ending in 2001,
public and private records show.

The group's revenue was drawn mostly from clients of Republican
lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to its records. An FBI subpoena for
the records appears to indicate the bureau is exploring whether the
payments were linked to favorable legislative treatment of Abramoff's
clients by DeLay's office.

In recent months, Abramoff pleaded guilty to charges of tax fraud and
conspiracy; DeLay has stepped down from his post as House majority
leader; and Buckham has folded his lobbying firm.

Abramoff clearing DeLay
By Robert Novak

Mar 25, 2006


WASHINGTON -- Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff has advised friends that he
has no derogatory information about former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay
and is not implicating him as part of his plea bargain with federal
prosecutors.

Abramoff's guilty plea on fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy charges
requires him to provide evidence about members of Congress. That led to
speculation that this would mean trouble for DeLay, who faces money
laundering and conspiracy charges in Texas.

However, Abramoff has not given a clean bill of health to any other
congressman -- including Rep. Robert Ney, who has stepped down as chairman
of the House Administration Committee. Ney was the only member of Congress
named in court papers connected with Abramoff's guilty plea Jan. 4.

BUSH'S SPRING OFFENSIVE

While President Bush hits the road to build support, his spring offensive
is bringing conservative activists and businessmen into the White House for
briefings in small groups.

"I've been in the White House more in the last two weeks than I was in the
last two years," Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform told this
column. Norquist and conservative theoretician Jeffrey Bell were called into
a meeting on the administration's embattled immigration bill. Also attending
were representatives of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National
Association of Manufacturers and the National Federation of Independent
Business.

Bush has been criticized for being reclusive as he and the Republican Party
tumble in the polls.

KERRY IN '08

Al Gore's withdrawal from consideration for another presidential try in
2008 is viewed by Democratic insiders as strengthening Sen. John Kerry's bid
for a second straight nomination, running to the left of Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton.

Even before Gore's surprising decision, Kerry political operatives were
telling Democrats that the senator was a likely candidate. Kerry's 2004
running mate, John Edwards, is also inclined to run. But his campaign is
menaced by a possible candidacy by Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, who would block
Edwards in the Iowa caucuses.

A footnote: Democratic politicians were surprised by the message from Sen.
Clinton's camp that she henceforth would censor Bill Clinton's comments to
prevent recurrence of their heavily publicized disagreements over Dubai
Ports. While such restraint on the former president was considered
desirable, it was viewed as something that should not be talked about
publicly.

DEMOCRATIC TARGET

Rep. Rahm Emanuel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee (DCCC), has taken the unusual step of targeting his Republican
counterpart, Rep. Tom Reynolds, for defeat in his upstate New York district
this year. There is no record of a House campaign committee chairman ever
being defeated for re-election by the opposition party.

The DCCC claims secret polls showed the supposedly safe Republican district
represented by Reynolds is competitive this year. Reynolds, chairman of the
National Republican Congressional Committee, in 2004 won re-election to a
fourth term with a surprisingly low 56 percent. His Democratic opponent was
retired industrialist Jack Davis, who spent $1,250,000 of his own money in
2004 and is trying again.

In its campaign to seize control of the House, the DCCC is aiming at three
other upstate New York districts to take advantage of the region's low
popularity ratings for President Bush and the Republican Party. The
Democrats have targeted ninth-term Rep. James Walsh and fourth-term Rep.
John Sweeney, plus the seat left vacant by 12-term Rep. Sherwood Boehlert's
retirement.

STUMBLING IN JERSEY

Republican State Sen. Tom Kean Jr., who has lost an early lead in his New
Jersey campaign for the U.S. Senate, is engaged in a backstage power
struggle with the influential, relatively conservative Republican
organizations in Bergen and Passaic counties.

Kean, whose father was a two-term governor, has identified himself with the
pro-choice social liberals in the state party. A key role in his campaign is
being played by former Rep. Bob Franks, considered a moderate during four
terms in Congress.

After starting the campaign ahead of appointed Democratic Sen. Robert
Menendez, Kean has fallen behind by four percentage points according to
surveys last week by the Quinnipiac University poll. Democrats chided Kean
for coming so late to his own Newark fund-raiser Monday that he missed the
principal speech by Vice President ***** Cheney.


Robert Novak is a television personality and columnist. Novak is also
editor of the Evans-Novak Political Report available through a free offer
from Human Events Online.

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