Abramoff's college cronies running SCARED

[donsu]

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=20202

Young Republicans, old crooks
Abramoff scandal spreads like wildfire through ranks of college cronies

Oh what a tangled web these no-longer-young Republicans weave when first they practice to deceive! The plumb line that runs down through the cesspool of the festering Abramoff-DeLay scandal is the conceit that the scions of the Reagan Revolution -- a generation of young Republican activists summoned by God and party -- were morally superior creatures, who had only pure ideological motives for cutting the country's social-safety nets in the name of "small government."

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Now, however, Abramoff has crashed, and he threatens to take down DeLay, who announced last week he will not attempt to regain his GOP leadership post in the House, even as he continues to fight his own indictment in Texas, which an all-Republican appeals court has just refused to dismiss. Meanwhile, two others who came up through the ranks of Republican youthful activism, Edwin A. Buckham and Brent Wilkes, can now be added to the web -- growing with each new indictment and investigative news article -- of DeLay-affiliated lobbyists, politicians and public officials who employed or benefited from a series of what appear to be front groups, slush funds and political money-laundering operations.

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And, as with Enron, where company chief Kenneth "Kenny Boy" Lay was tight with Bush and a key financial supporter of his campaigns, such protests will ring hollow to those paying attention because of the perpetrators' prominent work on the president's campaigns, transition teams, fund raising and even in his administration. Abramoff was a "patron" fund-raiser for the Bush 2004 campaign, and served on the Department of the Interior transition team, while Wilkes served as Bush's California campaign finance co-chair.

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What irony that those once young Republicans, who hectored their elders about being more vigilant in defending the nation's taxpayers and security forces, should now end up accused with deeply betraying both.
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betray

I think this is the first time that word has showed up re: Abramoff and DeLay.

(betraying has come up re: the Indians were betrayed and frauded)

[swhisper1]

1. is there a list of Young repug members now in the admin or working on K st