GOP Achievers Want to Compile $5 Million for Libby Defense

[Judi Lynn]

GOP Achievers Want to Compile $5 Million for Libby Defense
Wednesday, February 22, 2006; Page A13


A Who's Who of Republican heavy hitters and Bush administration supporters are lending their names to help raise $5 million for the defense of Vice President Cheney's former top aide in his criminal trial.

Led by Florida real estate magnate and former ambassador Mel Sembler, the group seeking to help I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby avoid jail time includes 26 notable names, many of whom could also be described as "Friends of George and Dick."

Sembler, a longtime party fundraiser, backed Cheney as a presidential candidate in 1996 until he dropped out of the race, and described himself as vindicated and thrilled when George W. Bush chose Cheney as a running mate in 2000.
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Among Cheney's longtime friends on the committee are former senator Alan K. Simpson (Wyo.); GOP donor Frederic V. Malek of McLean, chairman of Thayer Capital Partners who served in the Nixon White House at the same time as Cheney; and top communications aide Mary Matalin. Former Bush energy secretary Spencer Abraham and former CIA director R. James Woolsey are also lending a hand.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/21/AR2006022101850.html

[peanutbrittle]

1. Mel Sembler !! What a POS

Birds of a feather flock together.

Culture of Corruption

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Maybe this explains the 3 calls in 10 days by republicans to

allow them to award me the so-called "National Business Leadership Award". (You have to pay a few hundred dollars for "processing".) I finally blew my top at the last call yesterday and told them I have no money because my clients have no money due to the Bush economy.

[susu369]

3. Unbelievable - Scooter's good name attacked

from the web site: http://scooterlibby.org

"But Scooter's great service to our country has now been cut short, and his good name attacked."

So, it will take five million to defend him?

[Frank Cannon]

4. Um, but this guy allegedly committed TREASON against the US...

by outing a covert operative whose job was to track WMD movement around the world, resulting in the shutdown of her entire operation and threatening the lives of who-knows-how-many people. And all this in a time of "war".

Why do Republicans hate America so?

[susu369]

5. You have that backwards

It's Scooter's name that was attacked - not a covert operative's. And
"Scooter's great service to our country has now been cut short." - NOT Valerie Plame's.

Got it?



:sarcasm:

[Demeter]

6. It Gives New Meaning to CHUTZPAH

We are going to need a whole new dictionary, and a whole new language, if and when we get BsuhCo out of office and into jail. Nothing to date encompasses the magnitude of excess brought to fruition.