"I know nothing! I am Swiss!"
Posted on 01/29/2006 8:14:03 AM PST by Carl/NewsMax
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Sunday that Democrats who took money from Indian tribes represented by Jack Abramoff and who did something on behalf of those tribes have "a big problem."
Dean made the statement apparently unaware that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has reportedly done exactly that.
Under questioning by "Fox News Sunday's" Chris Wallace, Dean claimed that Democrats did no favors for Abramoff's Indian tribe clients:
"Nobody got anything out of the Democrats from Jack Abramoff," the top Democrat insisted. "No Democrat delivered anything and there's no accusation and no investigation that any Democrat ever delivered anything to Jack Abramoff. And that's not true of the Republicans."
But Wallace countered: "So if we find that there were some Democrats who wrote letters on behalf of some of the Indian tribes that Abramoff represented, then what do you say, sir?"
Dean's response: "That's a big problem. And those Democrats are in trouble. And they should be in trouble."
In November 2005 the Associated Press reported that Senate Minority Leader Reid had accepted tens of thousands of dollars from an Abramoff client, the Coushatta Indian tribe, after interceding with Secretary of the Interior Gail Norton over a casino dispute with a rival tribe.
Reid "sent a letter to Norton on March 5, 2002," the AP said. "The next day, the Coushattas issued a $5,000 check to Reid's tax-exempt political group, the Searchlight Leadership Fund. A second tribe represented by Abramoff sent an additional $5,000 to Reid's group. Reid ultimately received more than $66,000 in Abramoff-related donations between 2001 and 2004."
Questioned about the donations in December by "Fox News Sunday's" Wallace, Reid immediately turned testy.
"Don't try to say I received money from Abramoff. I've never met the man, don't know anything," he claimed.
The full exchange between Dean and Wallace went like this:
DEAN: It is possible that some of Jack Abramoff's clients may have decided on their own to give Democrats some money. The key is . . .
WALLACE: I'm sorry. Did you say that you're sure that Abramoff didn't direct them to give that money?
DEAN: No, what I said was that it is possible that some Democrats got money from someone he [represented]. What I'm saying is that Abramoff may not have directed some of this money to Democrats.
WALLACE: In fact, he did. We have evidence of that.
DEAN: But the point is not one Democrat either knew it or acted on it. Nobody got anything out of the Democrats from Jack Abramoff. No Democrat delivered anything and there's no accusation and no investigation that any Democrat ever delivered anything to Jack Abramoff. And that's not true of the Republicans.
WALLACE: So if we find - and we have to wrap this up - so if we find that there were some Democrats who wrote letters on behalf of some of the Indian tribes that Abramoff represented, then what do you say, sir?
DEAN: That's a big problem. And those Democrats are in trouble. And they should be in trouble. [END EXCERPT]
dean is a treasure
the best democrat since i can't even remember
this guy ??
is he on our payroll?
KR - HD: "Howard, every time you see the Queen of Diamonds, you will say something stupid."
Not at all.
#1. Dimes aren't "red"
#2. They got "millions" of dimes...not just one.
Harry Reid is as dirty as the Clintons--probably more so.
He has just avoided the spotlight that the Clinton's sought so strongly.
If you go back further in his list of donations and supporters, I think you will find that he is waaaayyy dirty and it needs to come out.
Pelosi most likely has a similar problem, with all the tribes fighting in California about casinos.
That is why he is such a deal. We earn money off him through counter fund raising with him.
Technically, he can weasle this. Dimes are not red, pennies are. LOL
"I know nothing! I am Swiss!"
The actual exchange was:
Tivo is your friend, journalists, try using it to get your quotes right.Wallace: So if we find ... there were some Democrats who wrote letters on behalf of some of the Indian tribes that Abramoff represented, then what do you say, sir?
Dean: That's a big problem, and those Democrats are in trouble, and they should be in trouble, and if our party -- if the American people will put us in power in '06 -- we will have on the President's desk things that outlaw all those kinds of behaviors.
Especially since he once vowed to never go on Fox News since it was so biased. LOL!
The only thing Jack Abramoff ever gave to the Democrats is this cat... And I'm going to strangle it right now!
Ping!
"Hey Dean! Sort of blows your rant of "NOT ONE RED DIME WENT TO DEMOCRATS," all to hell."
Trick answer: Dimes aren't red! . " See, I run rings 'round you logic'ly!"
Do you mean "dyed in the wool"? Or is that some sort of Fruedian slip? ;-)
Clinton: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewensky"!
The demonRATs are going to wish that hoho dean would get a job, maybe making breakfast sausages with his cousin, jimmy. Dean is the 365 day per year, Christmas gift to the pubbies. He and hildabeast have one common trait, their ratings only go up when they shut up, and neither one can.
Yes, Dean has the dreaded Foot In Mouth Disease of which there is no know cure. Thus, I have put him in my now infamous http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v186/tuvals/bozo.jpg
Hall of Fame. (LMAO)
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