Abramoff

[Patters]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washing...off-bush_x.htm

In President Bush's first 10 months, GOP fundraiser Jack Abramoff and his lobbying team logged nearly 200 contacts with the new administration as they pressed for friendly hires at federal agencies and sought to keep the Northern Mariana Islands exempt from the minimum wage and other laws, records show....

Abramoff, a $100,000-plus fundraiser for Bush, is now under criminal investigation for some of his lobbying work. His firm boasted its lobbying team helped revise a section of the Republican Party's 2000 platform to make it favorable to its island client....

The reception Abramoff's team received from the Bush administration was in stark contrast to the chilly relations of the Clinton years. Abramoff, then at the Preston Gates firm, scored few meetings with Clinton aides and the lobbyist and the islands vehemently opposed White House attempts to extend U.S. labor laws to the territory's clothing factories.

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While politics is dirty business, the evidence really is starting to roll in just how corrupt the Republican Party has become. Is it a result of the one-party government not having the normal checks and balances or is because the Republican philosophy allows corruption to flourish? Wonder where personal responsibility enters into this?

[All_Around_Brown]

Did you also hear he wore a wire at some point in the past year? Thats got to be a little troubling. I'll dig it up when I get a chance. <----mandatory brick-ending post

[Harry Boy]

Originally Posted by Patters

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washing...off-bush_x.htm

In President Bush's first 10 months, GOP fundraiser Jack Abramoff and his lobbying team logged nearly 200 contacts with the new administration as they pressed for friendly hires at federal agencies and sought to keep the Northern Mariana Islands exempt from the minimum wage and other laws, records show....

Abramoff, a $100,000-plus fundraiser for Bush, is now under criminal investigation for some of his lobbying work. His firm boasted its lobbying team helped revise a section of the Republican Party's 2000 platform to make it favorable to its island client....

The reception Abramoff's team received from the Bush administration was in stark contrast to the chilly relations of the Clinton years. Abramoff, then at the Preston Gates firm, scored few meetings with Clinton aides and the lobbyist and the islands vehemently opposed White House attempts to extend U.S. labor laws to the territory's clothing factories.

* * *

While politics is dirty business, the evidence really is starting to roll in just how corrupt the Republican Party has become. Is it a result of the one-party government not having the normal checks and balances or is because the Republican philosophy allows corruption to flourish? Wonder where personal responsibility enters into this?

Gee, I wonder if any Democrats are mixed up in this

[All_Around_Brown]

I'LL BET THE DUMOCRATS AND UNCLE TEDDY DRUNKDRIVING KENNEDY IS UP TO HIS EARS IN DIRTY FILTHY SCUM LIBERAL POO POO MONEY

<----HERES A LIBRAL TAKING DIRTY ABRAMOFF MONEY FROM INDIAN TRIBES AND HIS NAME IS RALPH "JESUS SAVE US FROM THE TROGLODYTE" REED A SWORN MEMEBER OF THE KU KLUX KLAN GRAND WIZARD


[I'm going to join the GOP so I can make meaningless remarks instead of discuss big boy poo poo.]

[Harry Boy]

Originally Posted by All_Around_Brown

I'LL BET THE DUMOCRATS AND UNCLE TEDDY DRUNKDRIVING KENNEDY IS UP TO HIS EARS IN DIRTY FILTHY SCUM LIBERAL POO POO MONEY

<----HERES A LIBRAL TAKING DIRTY ABRAMOFF MONEY FROM INDIAN TRIBES AND HIS NAME IS RALPH "JESUS SAVE US FROM THE TROGLODYTE" REED A SWORN MEMEBER OF THE KU KLUX KLAN GRAND WIZARD


[I'm going to join the GOP so I can make meaningless remarks instead of discuss big boy poo poo.]

YEAH, BUT WHAT ABOUT HEALTH CARE?

this is al gore playing in his cellar

[Harry Boy]

Source:
HarryBoy News Service
Jan 09 2006
America

From the National Republican Senate Committee website: "Dems don't know Jack"

All but 5 of the 44 Dem senators took money from Abramoff.

40 Of The 45 Members Of The Senate Democrat Caucus:

Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) Received At Least – $22,500
Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) Received At Least – $6,500
Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) Received At Least – $1,250
Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) Received At Least – $2,000
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) Received At Least – $20,250
Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) Received At Least – $21,765
Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) Received At Least – $7,500
Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) Received At Least – $12,950
Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) Received At Least – $8,000
Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ) Received At Least – $7,500
Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) Received At Least – $14,792
Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) Received At Least – $79,300
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) Received At Least – $14,000
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Received At Least – $2,000
Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) Received At Least – $1,250
Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) Received At Least – $45,750
Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI) Received At Least – $9,000
Senator Jim Jeffords (I-VT) Received At Least – $2,000
Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) Received At Least – $14,250
Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) Received At Least – $3,300
Senator John Kerry (D-MA) Received At Least – $98,550
Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) Received At Least – $28,000
Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT) Received At Least – $4,000
Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) Received At Least – $6,000
Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) Received At Least – $29,830
Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) Received At Least – $14,891
Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) Received At Least – $10,550
Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) Received At Least – $78,991
Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) Received At Least – $20,168
Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) Received At Least – $5,200
Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) Received At Least – $7,500
Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR) Received At Least – $2,300
Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) Received At Least – $3,500
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) Received At Least – $68,941
Senator John Rockefeller (D-WV) Received At Least – $4,000
Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) Received At Least – $4,500
Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) Received At Least – $4,300
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Received At Least – $29,550
Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) Received At Least – $6,250
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) Received At Least – $6,250

[Patters]

Harry, you're WRONG! The Republicans are lying, and suggesting that any Democrat who took money from Indian tribes took money from Abramoff. I hope you'll join me in being disgusted with the corruption and dishonesty of the Republican leadership.

http://www.canofun.com/blog/videos/2...fDemocrats.asx

[All_Around_Brown]

Originally Posted by Patters

Harry, you're WRONG! The Republicans are lying, and suggesting that any Democrat who took money from Indian tribes took money from Abramoff. I hope you'll join me in being disgusted with the corruption and dishonesty of the Republican leadership.

http://www.canofun.com/blog/videos/2...fDemocrats.asx

Wolf Shill Blitzer couldn't get the answer the RNC was hoping for.. Love that sigh at the end. Poor Wolfie.

[wistahpatsfan]

Stop it!
You both (libs and cons) look like complete idiods defendin your respective parties in this scandal!
Pigs at the same trough - end of story, no one gets hurt...

[scout]

Looks like we're all getting it wrong. Abramoff is really a good guy who has been unjustly criticised, so states a Republican congressman. Maybe this guy's not running for office again.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/....ap/index.html