Posted on 01/04/2006 7:05:21 AM PST by LouAvul
Does Bush hear something creeping up on him????
Nancy Pelosi makes me ill. I can't stand to watch her. I really wish someone would find something on her - and soon!
Does simply 'donating' away the bribe money from a scumbag make it all OK? I don't care who it is Republican, Dim, or 'Independent', if you take a bribe, you go down. Now, proving that it was a bribe....that's another story.
I'm afraid this Abramoff thing is just starting. The Dems are going to exploit this to the hilt, I'm sure, in this election year.
The question is: How can the GOP effectively counter the bad publicity that's going to be generated? I'm afraid a few folks are going to have to fall on their swords and withdraw.
There is no difference, and that's what's going to bite the Dems on the behind. DC's in need of a good cleansing, though, so here's to open season on both parties.
"Does simply 'donating' away the bribe money from a scumbag make it all OK?"
Sure. It does if there is no way the person receiving the money could have known that it was donated in exchange for some positive action on some matter.
This is going to lead to a close look at the dates of the donations and any votes or other actions favorable to the donor.
If you have a donation, followed by a vote in favor of whatever the donor was advocating, then it's likely to cause a real problem for the person accepting the donation.
This story is going to have long, long legs in this election year.
To my thinking, they are angling for bigger fish.
Let the scumbags fall where they may. There will be Democrats in the bunch. Just watch.
Soros implicates mostly Dems. Therefore the MSM doesn't cover it.
"To my thinking, they are angling for bigger fish."
No doubt. We'll be hearing more about this in the months to come, probably culminating in some indictments and other ugly things close to the election in November.
It's not going to be pretty, and it may be that some fairly large names take a major hit over this stuff.
For me, it's just another indication of the corruption of the entire lobbying process. I've never liked the influence that lobbyists have on Capitol Hill. Perhaps this will all lead to some rule changes. I hope so.
"Let the scumbags fall where they may. There will be Democrats in the bunch. Just watch."
There will be a few, I'm sure. However, Abramoff's history would seem to indicate that he targeted GOP lawmakers more often than Democrats. We'll see.
The TRUTH about Abramof is that members of both parties took his donations (see for example Dorgan, Byron). This is really going to be a battle of the dinosaur media vs. the new media. The Dino media is already reporting this as being solely a Republican problem. We all know that is completely and totally FALSE. The question is, will Ms. Plastic Face be able to get away with it? Regardless of the questions she is asked, she just spouts the "Culture of Corruption" talking point. The Republicans had better have the "Culture of Hypocrisy" talking point ready to scream from the rooftops.
A whole lot of donating went on. But which "donations" were actually an illegal bribe?
They will try to claim that anyone who received a dollar from this joker is tainted, but if they had no knowledge or malice aforethought, how can they be tainted?
I expect this story will disappear from the headlines when it becomes clear how many democrats are up to their hips in it.
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