Wednesday, January 11, 2006
The Republican Ship Is Sinking
SteveMoyer.us
I suspect for every Republican who is indicted as a result of the Ambramoff scandal that there are 10 more who will get away with it .. unless we throw them all out in November.
If anyone asks me "What about the good Republicans?" I'm going to ask them, "Why are good people standing with crooks, liars and thieves?"
The Republicans have stolen our democracy and I want it back!
The Abramoff Torpedo - from Serge Truffaut - Le Devoir
The Republican Party is at bay. Ever since the powerful lobbyist Jack Abramoff has acknowledged his guilt for fraud, tax evasion, and corruption of elected officials. Washington is obsessed by one question. Who are the dozen elected officials against whom Abramoff has agreed to testify in exchange for a reduction in his sentence?
This scandal - which many describe as the most important in decades - has already garnered one victim. Tom DeLay, ex-leader of the Republicans in Congress.
Ever since the revelation of the mechanism Abramoff employed, congressmen, senators, as well as President Bush himself have knuckled down to giving away to charities sums bearing the crook's fingerprints.
In fact, it has been known for at least two years that Abramoff is dishonest. Six years ago, he joined the law firm of Greenberg, Traurig - the firm that represented Bush during the legal battle that followed the 2000 elections. Then, consequent to an internal investigation, that firm decided to end its association with Abramoff on account of the twisted deeds he made his specialty.
These politicians are now screaming that they didn't know and, in the same breath, making gifts on every side. The attitude that DeLay, Bush, and several others are adopting these days is quite simply immoral. To feign disgust with a man they have long known to be an adept of fraud amounts to taking Americans for imbeciles.
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SteveMoyer.us
I suspect for every Republican who is indicted as a result of the Ambramoff scandal that there are 10 more who will get away with it .. unless we throw them all out in November.
If anyone asks me "What about the good Republicans?" I'm going to ask them, "Why are good people standing with crooks, liars and thieves?"
The Republicans have stolen our democracy and I want it back!
The Abramoff Torpedo - from Serge Truffaut - Le Devoir
The Republican Party is at bay. Ever since the powerful lobbyist Jack Abramoff has acknowledged his guilt for fraud, tax evasion, and corruption of elected officials. Washington is obsessed by one question. Who are the dozen elected officials against whom Abramoff has agreed to testify in exchange for a reduction in his sentence?
This scandal - which many describe as the most important in decades - has already garnered one victim. Tom DeLay, ex-leader of the Republicans in Congress.
Ever since the revelation of the mechanism Abramoff employed, congressmen, senators, as well as President Bush himself have knuckled down to giving away to charities sums bearing the crook's fingerprints.
In fact, it has been known for at least two years that Abramoff is dishonest. Six years ago, he joined the law firm of Greenberg, Traurig - the firm that represented Bush during the legal battle that followed the 2000 elections. Then, consequent to an internal investigation, that firm decided to end its association with Abramoff on account of the twisted deeds he made his specialty.
These politicians are now screaming that they didn't know and, in the same breath, making gifts on every side. The attitude that DeLay, Bush, and several others are adopting these days is quite simply immoral. To feign disgust with a man they have long known to be an adept of fraud amounts to taking Americans for imbeciles.
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