LEAKED MEMO - Dems will focus on Abramoff as keystone of 2006 efforts

[kpete]

Leaked memo indicates Democrats will focus on Abramoff as keystone of 2006 efforts to retake Congress
John Byrne
Published: January 9, 2006


A memorandum issued Friday by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to Democratic senators indicates that Democrats plan to take an offensive position surrounding Jack Abramoff, a former conservative superlobbyist who is now entangled with several Republican members of Congress in a bribery scandal that threatens to transform Washington.

The memo, leaked to RAW STORY Monday, reveals that Democrats plan to focus on Abramoff as a means to tie Republicans to a "culture of corruption," a longtime Democratic talking point that only now seems to be finding resonance in the mainstream press.

"The Abramoff guilty plea is just the beginning," Reid wrote fellow Democrats. "This scandal will strike at the heart of the Republican political machine that stretches from Congress to K Street, to the White House and back.... It is becoming increasingly clear that Republicans will face serious negative electoral consequences next November."

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Leaked_memo_indicates_Democrats_will_focus_0109.html

[MrModerate]

1. You gotta ask yourself . . .

The "culture of corruption" theme is JUST NOW "finding resonance in the mainstream press"?

Have these guys been paying attention AT ALL for the last 5 years? Or even back to '92 and earlier?

Sheesh!

[Benhurst]

2. I'm shocked, shocked, that the Democrats would use corruption

as an issue against the almost totally-corrupt Republican party.

:rofl:

Give 'em hell, Harry!

[aquart]

3. The MSM needed a leak to figure that out?

Clearly, it's all a Democratic plot to expose decent Republican...okay, I can't even finish that sentence.