It's official! The GOP is blaming the Tribes for the Abramoff scandal!!!

[Up2Late]

But didn't we all expect this eventually?

NPR just aired this commentary by one of WH former policy advisers. And before we get a lot of anti-NPR comments about how NPR has "sold out" and other such silliness, please keep in mind, NPR is National PUBLIC Radio, NOT National Democrats only Radio.

Personally, even though hearing this is infuriating, I think it's a very GOOD sign that the GOP is VERY scared and worried about this issue. Doing a commentary for NPR shows they are very desperate to get their dis-info out to even the NPR listeners.

The Trouble with Tribal Money

Listen to this story... by Jan Baran

All Things Considered, January 16, 2006 ·
Commentator Jan Baran is a lawyer and served on the President's
Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform.
He says the Jack Abramoff scandal highlights a problem with the way
Indian tribes lobby in Washington.

[tuvor]

1. So now it's okay to play the blame game. Okayyyyy...

:crazy:

[MidwestTransplant]

2. Bad Indians trick poor unsuspecting white man.

[Up2Late]

15. Exactly, or as they said on The Daily Show a few nights ago...

...so that makes the score:

White People 27,256

Native Americans 1

Oh, there goes the shut out.

[formercia]

21. White man speak with forked tongue.

we have been screwing the Indians for centuries and suddenly the tables are reversed? Nah. I don't buy it. Indians had something of value, in this case casino proceeds. White man figure out scam to con them out of it.
Same old game to me.

[Mountainman]

3. The problem with the tribes is that they trusted a repuke.

Abramoff pays Ralf Reed to lobby against Indian gaming and then he takes money from the tribes to lobby for gaming.

White man speak with forked tongue!

[fishwax]

4. they're definitely worried

and this was bound to happen eventually. :crazy:

[coldiggs]

5. These guys are like escape artist I said last night if one dem goes down

the MSM will make it look like a bipartisn thing.

[applegrove]

6. These are scapegoating christians. Which means - they are not

Christians. Since the main tenant of christianity is that you don't blame anyone for things that go wrong. You blame god. Or you take responsiblity if you did it and ask for forgiveness.

[jarab]

7. And if we're not prepared with a full-scale rebuttal ...

this twisted lie may stick. They've probably been working on this angle for the last month.
I see it coming! The larger picture - Indian tribes, not individual lobbyists, are the problem!

...O...

[creeksneakers2]

8. If the Indians understood that the money they were paying

was for bribes, they should be charged too.

[diamondsndust]

9. you mean they didn't blame Clinton?!?!?!?....... n/t

[LittleClarkie]

10. There go their Native American voters then

I guess they don't need them.

[leesa]

12. They just needed the money. Gambling money is just for the cash. It's

just like the drug running governments do...strictly for cash flow. It's why Abramhoff was so popular, cash flow for all their little 'projects'.

[boobooday]

11. Well of course

And RawStory reports that Bush is frantically trying to round up all the pictures of himself and Jack A-BigRip-Off.

heh heh

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Bush_trying_to_round_up_all_0108.html

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. But it's never the GOP's fault

They're God's chosen.

[NVMojo]

14. If they are blaming tribes, they need to blame the rich white corporations

that built the Indian Gaming industry and bleed most of the profit from it!! Do your homework, America! Most tribes wouldn't even have casinos if it weren't for the rich, mostly white gaming corporations who take their operations into sovereign nation land to reap even more profit ...

this is such incredible bullshit!!

Here's one example of what I am talking about:

snip...

Mr. DeLay's political action committee paid Alexander Strategy more than $300,000 for fund-raising and consulting services from 2000 to 2003, according to the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit group that tracks money in politics. In addition to Mr. Rudy, the firm also employed Karl Gallant, who headed Mr. DeLay's political action committee.

The firm has already been dropped by one client, MGM Mirage, the casino and resort giant, which retained it in 2004, paying about $350,000 to help block a maneuver by an Indian tribe in Michigan.

At the end of last year, MGM ended the relationship. Alan Feldman, a spokesman for MGM, said that the project had ended and that the firm's services were no longer needed. But Mr. Feldman acknowledged that the scrutiny surrounding Alexander Strategy was a concern. "It would be dishonest to say that it didn't come up in discussions," he said.

more...

http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13061

[Up2Late]

16. Absolutely, I'm sure almost everyone here agrees completely with you.

I hope NPR gets flooded with e-mail offers for a rebuttal from some of the Tribal Elders from across the country.

Here's the link to their "Contact Us" page if you know anyone: <http://www.npr.org/contact/>

The Program was:

"All Things Considered"
Monday's show · Jan. 16, 2006

<http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=2>

[tsuki]

17. Next on the blame list: The Christian "religious whackos" that

are so easily stirred up and manipulated. (as per Scanlon's email.)

[auburngrad82]

18. One more time- K Street Project

This GOP project to extort money from lobbyists had nothing to do with Indian tribes. It was about greed and power. And it would be in our interests to shout "K Street Project" far and wide. This is the scandal.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=SUNA,SUNA:2006-02,SUNA:en&q=k+street+project



http://www.cafepress.com/opposingforces

[mod mom]

19. My husband and I were in total disbelief when we heard that story!

Blame the victim!

[Up2Late]

20. I think that's their usual "Plan B" or C or D

If we made a list of all the victims they've blamed over the last 5 years, it would be quite long.