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Ding, dong the witch is dead.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Abramoff_says_he_could_implicate_60_0104.html
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The Bush 'balanced' budget: 1.6 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: 12.5 million FEWER jobs than Clinton and counting
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year old mateless, heirless biological failure
of Afton Oaks Apartment, Baton Rouge, on why
a Neocon chickenhawk like him pussied out of
the Vietnam War.
Contact duke's priest and ask
him why duke loves to play
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http://www.stpatrickbr.org/
Father Gerard "Jerry" Martin
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On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:47:37 -0800, "Yang, AthD (h.c), Kicking AWOL's
Cocaine Snorting *****" <eacmole@/*AWOLBUSH*/mail.com> wrote in
alt.atheism
Ding, dong the witch is dead.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Abramoff_says_he_could_implicate_60_0104.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/01/04/BL2006010400501.html
Jack in the Box
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 4, 2006; 10:33 AM
It's not a happy new year for anyone who had anything to do with Jack
Abramoff.
The plea agreement he struck yesterday means he's now expected to sing
like a canary to minimize his jail time. And that means a number of
members of Congress and some of their top aides should be sweating
bullets. Their onetime ally is now, for prosecutorial purposes, their
enemy.
This is hardly good news for such Republicans as Tom DeLay and Bob Ney,
and Abramoff was a major Bush fundraiser. But he also did business with
a few Democrats such as North Dakota's Byron Dorgan, some of whom have
been rushing to return the campaign cash he gave them.
Back in 2002, before we knew Abramoff was a big-time sleazebag, the New
York Times ran a piece on how he was using his ties to DeLay to become a
$500-an-hour lobbyist, which included this howler:
"Unlike many lobbyists who take almost any client who is willing to pay
their fee, Mr. Abramoff says he represents only those who stand for
conservative principles. They include three Indian tribes with big
casinos and, until recently, the Northern Mariana Islands. 'All of my
political work,' he said, 'is driven by philosophical interests, not by
a desire to gain wealth.' "
Uh, right. The guy loved money, as his piles of e-mails made clear. He
milked his clients, particularly Indian tribes, even as he disparaged
them as "morons" and "troglodytes." Oh, he said yesterday he's sorry.
Prosecutors said they would recommend a 10-year sentence.
The political question is whether l'affaire Abramoff will blossom into a
major "culture of corruption" argument that the Democrats are trying to
pin on the Republicans for this year's campaign season, or whether
people will just assume that corrupt lobbying is a permanent feature of
Beltway life.
One lawmaker who could be helped: John McCain, who held hearings on the
Abramoff scam and is pushing radical (by D.C. standards) restrictions on
lobbyists.
"The corruption inquiry involving Mr. Abramoff, potentially one of the
most explosive in Congressional history, has expanded in recent months
to encompass dozens of political operatives, including former
Congressional aides and lobbyists suspected of arranging bribes in
exchange for legislative work, participants in the case said," the New
York Times reports.
"His testimony, coupled with that of Michael Scanlon, a former Abramoff
business associate who pleaded guilty in November, reaches into the
executive and legislative branches and appears to be drawing an
ever-tighter ring of evidence around the former House Republican
majority leader, Tom DeLay, and other senior Congressional Republicans."
Says the Los Angeles Times : "Abramoff now becomes the chief witness for
the prosecution in its influence-peddling probe of Congress that some
say presages the biggest corruption scandal on Capitol Hill in nearly
three decades. It has already ensnared at least one member of Congress
and two former congressional aides, and could now lead into unknown
territory."
The Wall Street Journal adds: "It remains unclear which lawmakers
prosecutors are looking at, and also how persuasive Mr. Abramoff could
be in helping to make potential cases against any of them stick. A
onetime chairman of College Republicans -- a close ally of such party
luminaries as Tom DeLay, Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist -- Mr. Abramoff
says he has information that could implicate 60 lawmakers."
Salon's Michael Scherer examines the indictment:
"In his plea, Abramoff appeared to tighten the prosecutorial noose
around Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, a one-time friend of Abramoff who has long
since disavowed the relationship. Abramoff detailed the perks he
provided Ney and his staff in exchange for political favors -- the golf
trip to Scotland, the Super Bowl bash in Tampa, the free meals at
Abramoff's Washington restaurant and the sports stadium box seats . . .
"The plea also claims that Abramoff corruptly influenced another unnamed
congressional staffer by paying his wife's nonprofit company $50,000.
The allegation matches press reports of a relationship Abramoff had with
Tony Rudy, another aide to former majority leader DeLay, and Rudy's
wife, Lisa."
As for public opinion, a USA Today/ CNN poll says that "49 percent of
respondents said most members of Congress are corrupt." Most? Wow. It's
not true, in my humble opinion, unless you count the legalized bribery
of the campaign finance system, but speaks volume about public opinion.
But the GOP doesn't win the corruption sweepstakes: "Asked how many
congressional Republicans are corrupt, 19 percent of respondents said
'almost all' and 28 percent said 'many.' The response was similar when
people were asked about corruption among Democrats: 17 percent said
'almost all' and 27 percent said 'many.'"
Raw Story has the back story on the plea of Abramoff associate Michael
Scanlon:
"Scanlon was implicated in the Abramoff scandal by his former
thirtysomething fiancee, Emily J. Miller, whom he met in the late 1990s
while working as communications director for former House Majority
Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX), three former associates who worked with Scanlon
at DeLay's office said. Colleagues say Miller went to the FBI after
Scanlon broke off their engagement and announced his intention to marry
another woman."
Miller is the onetime State Department flack who tried to cut off Tim
Russert's interview with Colin Powell, leaving NBC shooting palm trees
for awhile.
Ankle Biting Pundits has no sympathy for Abramoff:
"I think it is time for conservatives to begin piling on the Abramoff
thing for a couple of reasons. First, liberals are right in this
instance. The fact that this hideous wretch climbed to the heights of
power under GOP leadership in Washington, shoot, with the aid and
comfort of the GOP leadership, is a scandal in and of itself. I was
around in 1994 when we won the House and the Senate for the first time
in forty years. I recall distinctly using the phrase "K Street fat cats"
in mail pieces against Democrat incumbents who, while not breaking any
laws by cozying up to these sleaze ball lobbyists, certainly violated
common decency by allowing them to draft their legislation and fund
their political operations. The GOP of the Abramoff era behaved no
differently, sad to say."
The debate over eavesdropping is becoming a broader argument over
presidential power. Andrew Sullivan connects the dots:
"In my view, this could turn out to be the big question of the new year:
Do we have a president who refuses, in any matter tangentially related
to the war on terror, to obey the law? We know he broke the FISA law and
lied about it. We know he broke U.S. law against torturing detainees,
and lied about it. Now we find that he is declaring himself unbound by
the McCain Amendment. Marty Lederman is on the case. Money quote from
the president's signing statement of the Amendment:
"The executive branch shall construe Title X in Division A of the Act,
relating to detainees, in a manner consistent with the constitutional
authority of the President to supervise the unitary executive branch and
as Commander in Chief and consistent with the constitutional limitations
on the judicial power, which will assist in achieving the shared
objective of the Congress and the President, evidenced in Title X, of
protecting the American people from further terrorist attacks.
"Translation: I will violate this law whenever I feel like it. I hoped
we had put this issue behind us. It appears we haven't."
Bill Kristol lambastes the left:
"No reasonable American, no decent human being, wants to send up a white
flag in the war on terror. But leading spokesmen for American
liberalism-hostile beyond reason to the Bush administration, and ready
to believe the worst about American public servants-seem to have
concluded that the terror threat is mostly imaginary. It is the threat
to civil liberties from George W. Bush that is the real danger. These
liberals recoil unthinkingly from the obvious fact that our national
security requires policies that are a step (but only a careful step)
removed from ACLU dogma."
After quoting deputy intelligence chief Michael Hayden as saying the
administration had gotten information it could not have obtained with
court-approved wiretapping, Kristol notes that the next day, "the
ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee blathered on about
'the Constitution in crisis' and 'impeachable conduct.' Barbara Boxer, a
Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, asserted there was
'no excuse' for the president's actions. The ranking Democrat on that
committee, Joseph Biden, confidently stated that the president's claims
were 'bizarre' and that 'aggrandizement of power' was probably the
primary reason for the president's actions, since 'there was no need to
do any of this.'
"So we are really to believe that President Bush just sat around after
9/11 thinking, 'How can I aggrandize my powers?' Or that Gen.
Hayden--and his hundreds of nonpolitical subordinates--cheerfully agreed
to an obviously crazy, bizarre, and unnecessary project of 'domestic
spying'? This is the fever swamp into which American liberalism is on
the verge of descending."
Kos has infuriated the right with a posting titled "Why Are
Conservatives So Afraid?", ripping "an administration that parlays the
incessant fear of its supporters into increased authoritativeness to the
point where he now resembles the very despot we fought in our war of
independence. And his supporters bellow, as they cower under their beds
.. . .
"These blowhards pretend they are macho even as they piddle on
themselves in abject terror from every 'boo!' that comes out of Osama
Bin Laden's mouth. They like to speak about how tough they are, even
though they send others to fight their battles and couldn't last a day
in places like Iraq, or Sudan, or the El Salvador of my youth, or any
other war-torn nation.
"The breathtaking cowardice of the 101st Fighting Keyboardists knows no
bounds. They hide behind the American flag and our genuinely brave men
and women in uniform."
Among those on the right punching back is Ed Morrissey of Captain's
Quarters:
"Markos Moulitsas has lost it -- and the candidates who pay him for his
services might have some explaining to do about their views on national
security in the future . . .
"Kos loves freedom of speech when that speech agrees with him. He loves
civilian control of the military when those civilians belong to MoveOn,
but not when they belong to the Republican Party. In fact, Kos doesn't
like American values at all -- he only uses them when convenient to his
argument, but in fact would rather have a Starship Troopers (the movie)
government made up of military bureaucrats making all of our decisions
for us. He has no respect for those who did go to Iraq to help with
security -- recalling his infamous 'Screw 'em' to the civilians who did
believe in the mission enough to go over and help out, smearing them as
'mercenaries' -- and then calls those who stay home and support the
mission 'cowards'."
How important is Kos? The Washington Monthly's Benjamin Wallace-Wells
says he raised $500,000 for Dems in the last cycle and talks regularly
with Harry Reid and Rahm Emanuel.
If you missed this column by NYT Public Editor Byron Calame , he is
accusing the paper of "stonewalling":
"The New York Times's explanation of its decision to report, after what
it said was a one-year delay, that the National Security Agency is
eavesdropping domestically without court-approved warrants was woefully
inadequate. And I have had unusual difficulty getting a better
explanation for readers, despite the paper's repeated pledges of greater
transparency.
"I e-mailed a list of 28 questions to Bill Keller, the executive editor,
on Dec. 19, three days after the article appeared. He promptly declined
to respond to them. I then sent the same questions to Arthur Sulzberger
Jr., the publisher, who also declined to respond. They held out no hope
for a fuller explanation in the future."
Editor & Publisher chats up Calame:
"He told E&P he could still do his job despite the stonewalling, but
appeared frustrated by it. 'I believe last week's column shows the
public editor can function in the absence of cooperation in some cases,'
he said. 'I am going to keep doing it one day at a time.' "
Glenn Reynolds is unhappy with the paper:
"The Times' behavior on this story, and the Plame story, has undermined
the unwritten "National Security Constitution" regarding leaks and
classified information. Since the Pentagon Papers, at least, the rule
has been that papers could publish classified information in a
whistleblowing mode, but that they would be sensitive to national
security concerns. In return, the federal government would tread lightly
in investigating where the leaks came from. But the politicization of
the coverage, and the outright partisanship of the Times, has put paid
to that arrangement. It's not clear to me that the country is better
served by the new arrangement, but unwritten constitutions require a lot
of self-discipline on the part of the various players, and that sort of
discipline is no longer to be found in America's leadership circles.
"If the Times decided that its job was to tell its readers everything it
knew, when it knew it, then it would have a good argument for publishing
this sort of thing. But since the Times has made clear that it's happy
to keep its readers in the dark when doing so serves its institutional
interests, it doesn't have that defense for publishing stuff that's bad
for national security."
Rand Simberg wonders why Times editors didn't pop the story during the
'04 campaign when they had the chance:
"At first glance, given their partisan behavior in general at least
since the beginning of the Bush administration, one would have thought
that it would be a slam-dunk decision, just as Dan Rather and Mary
Mapes' tilting at the AWOL windmill occurred a few weeks before the
election.
"But perhaps they had the political acumen to realize that it might
backfire on them. Consider--the Democrats were trying (however
pathetically), by nominating an anti-war (and anti-military) protester
who picked up some medals in Vietnam for three months, to indicate that
they were finally serious about national security, an issue that has
dogged them since the era of said protester--1972. Did they really want,
in wartime, to be seen as criticizing the president for intercepting
enemy communications, warrantless or otherwise? Was there someone in
charge then who was prescient as to the potential blowback of this
story, who is no longer?
"If so, he (or, of course, she) has certainly been shown to be right in
retrospect, and if they had pulled this stunt during the campaign, given
his recent surge in approval and the Dems corresponding drop, Bush's
victory margin would likely have been even larger."
Um, what exactly did Bill O'Reilly mean when, in complaining about
unspecified personal attacks by the New York Times, he said the
following?
"If they continue, those people continue to attack people personally, as
Frank Rich does almost every week, and Keller allows it, then we'll just
have to get into their lives . . . And if they want to attack people
personally, Rich in print and Keller allowing it, then we're going to
have to just show everybody about their lives."
Joel Stein says he just keeps on apologizing to Maureen Dowd.
Say it ain't so, Wonkette! The Wall Street Journal's new law blog ,
along with the New York Observer, breaks the story that she's bailing
out of her Web site, to be succeeded by "David Lat, the federal
prosecutor who revealed himself to the New Yorker magazine in November
as the author of the popular 'Underneath Their Robes' judicial blog."
Cox tells The Post's gossips : "What can I say? My [butt] is tired from
all that sitting."
© 2006 Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive
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at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
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