all the above
Doogle
Senator Biden, as the Irish used to say in the Boston state house, where is not liked either(nor is Sen. Chubby Chops), is "aggressively stupid."
I'll second that.
1/08/06
The names of Tom Carper and Joe Biden surfaced last week on lists of federal lawmakers who received money, in one form or another, from ubiquitous super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Abramoff is the center of the largest ever public corruption involving Congress and its staff members.
In brief, Abramoff and his cronies, including his aide, former Rehoboth Beach, Del lifeguard Mike Scanlon, ripped off Indian tribes seeking federal gambling licenses by playing them off each other and charging both sides millions for legal services.
Carper showed up on a list produced by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, which has so far tracked almost $4.5 million in contributions to some 240 lawmakers.
Carper's staff found about $7,000 in campaign money linked to Abramoff, which the senator first thought he'd keep because he's never met Abramoff or his partners. Some of the money came from two lobbyist friends of Carper's back from his House days. The rest came from a couple of Indian tribes Abramoff represented.
Biden's situation is much different, but no less complicated. He received only $1,250, which was a straight-up individual campaign contribution.
The Biden money came from one of 1,500 lawyers -- yes, that's one thousand five hundred, a scary number -- who work at Greenberg Traurig LLP, Abramoff's old law firm. G-T has offices in London, Amsterdam, Atlanta, Brussels, Chicago, New York, Zurich, Los Angeles, and, of course, Wilmington.
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060108/OPINION05/601080323/1106