Scandals Take Toll On Bush's 2nd Term (WaPo)

[Nightwing]

Get your popcorn ready, this is going to be FUN!!
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A series of scandals involving some of the most powerful Republicans in Washington have converged to disrupt President Bush's agenda, distract aides and allies, and exacerbate political problems for an already weakened administration, according to party strategists and White House advisers.

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"The Rove thing has gotten to be enormously distracting," said one outside adviser to the White House. "Knowing the way the White House works, being under subpoena like this, your mind is not on your work, it's on that."

"It looks like a perfect storm," said Joseph E. diGenova, a Republican and former independent counsel, who noted that so many investigations can weigh on an administration. "People have no idea what happens when an investigation gets underway. It's debilitating. It's not just distracting. It's debilitating. It's like getting punched in the stomach."

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"The one that people are most worried about is Abramoff because it seems to have such long tentacles," said former congressman Vin Weber (R-Minn.), a lobbyist with close ties to the White House. "This seems to be something that could spread almost anywhere . . . and that has a lot of people worried."

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/13/AR2005101301955.html?nav=hcmodule

[electropop]

1. Abramoff will tie every top Republican to the Mafia...

...gangland 'hits', dirty money, dirty tricks, dirty Dick.

Abramoff will make Traitorgate look like child's play.

[rodeodance]

2. NyTimes has a headlines about the WH 'Jitters" over the cia leak

.....Jitters at the White House Over the Leak Inquiry
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
These days, the routines are the same for the White House. But everything, in the glare of a criminal investigation, is different.

[electropop]

5. The CIA leak investigation is a disaster, no doubt.

But the Mafia penetration of the Republican party will prove catastrophic as the public becomes aware of it.

[Cassandra]

3. When Clinton was under attack by these jackels...

they weren't worrying about this:
""It looks like a perfect storm," said Joseph E. diGenova, a Republican and former independent counsel, who noted that so many investigations can weigh on an administration. "People have no idea what happens when an investigation gets underway. It's debilitating. It's not just distracting. It's debilitating. It's like getting punched in the stomach.""

What goes around can definitely come around and bite your ass.

[Atman]

4. Hey, there's a way to avoid all that worry...

HOW ABOUT NOT BEING A FUCKING CROOK IN THE FIRST PLACE?!

Ya'gotta ask, was that last million bucks worth all this? Did it make a difference in any of these peckerwood's lifestyles? That is what the dumbasses need to be sitting back and doing...asking themselves "what was it all for?" Think about how cool all that money COULD have been, if only they had been just a wee bit better at being crooked?

This is just personality disorder with them. An addiction to acquiring more CASH and POWER. Having enough money to buy anything or do anything you want isn't enough. They need the POWER to shit on everyone else in the process. It's a sickness. The republican party is a disease.

[cliss]

6. You beat me to it.

Absolutely true: they're addicted to taking more, and more, and more. There's only one thing that will stop them: that last million.

Now ask me if I feel sorry for them.