"What the Republicans need is 50 Jack Abramoffs"

[kpete]

Abramoff and His Vanishing Friends

By E. J. Dionne Jr.

Friday, January 6, 2006; Page A19

It almost makes you feel sorry for Jack Abramoff.



Abramoff was always there for his party, with sound bites as well as money. In a May 2, 2001, article in the Hill newspaper (it ran under a wonderful headline: "Lobbyists Approve of Bush's Businesslike Style"), reporter Melanie Fonder noted that "Abramoff said the Bush team's careful and deliberate approach to leadership is the exact opposite of the Clinton team."

She quoted Abramoff directly: "The feeding frenzy which started even before Clinton was inaugurated, and continued to the final pardon, was perhaps best exemplified by the reckless and unprofessional handling of his responsibility to appoint honorable public servants."

This careful judge of what it means to be an "honorable public servant" had reason to prefer the Bush administration's taste in appointees. After the 2000 election, Abramoff was named to the Bush transition team for the Interior Department, which regulates the Indian casinos that paid Abramoff his inflated fees.

"What the Republicans need is 50 Jack Abramoffs," his friend Grover Norquist told National Journal in 1995. "Then this becomes a different town." Norquist got his different town. It's why the place so badly needs cleaning up.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/05/AR2006010501903.html

[stevedeshazer]

1. That's been my sig line for a couple of months now

:)

[niyad]

2. NOTHING could make me feel sorry for that piece of ****

[aquart]

3. How bitter am I

that that greedy, lying sack of shit is Jewish?

So bitter.

[complain jane]

4. And they probably have 50 Jack Abramoffs, too.

Many, I'm sure, that will make Abramoff look like a choir boy.

[Bucky]

6. Stole my thoughts. Yes, he's only the tip of the iceberg

What America needs is 50 Fitzgeralds.

[NanceGreggs]

5. You are SO right ...

... what the Republicans need is 50 Jack Abramoffs.

As it is, they've probably got THOUSANDS of them -- if they ONLY had 50, that would be an improvement ...