The first line of defense was a positively Scholastic distinction between money given by Saint Jack himself, and money given by the tribes who were Abramoff's hapless clients. The Kosniks loved this one -- it appealed to their wonkish mastery of technical minutiae. Jack himself -- pay no attention to those tribes behind the curtain -- didn't write any checks to Democrats, so hey, "we" are in the clear. (Incidentally, I love the way Kosniks and other fleas on the donkey carcass refer to the party as "we". Yankees fans do the same thing -- Mr. Steinbrenner's team is always "we". There's a lesson in this.)
Unfortunately, and to the surprise of every three-year-old, it soon became clear that the public was not going to be very interested in this convoluted pettifoggery. Yikes! What do "we" have to fall back on?
Well, gotta hand it to Rahm Emanuel -- even when he's holding a really bad hand, he'll bluff like a sonofabitch:
"He's not an aberration," said Representative Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, head of the House Democratic campaign effort, referring to Mr. Abramoff. "He's a super-sized version of what you get when you put the K Street project on steroids."You heard it here first, folks. Hot-button issue for '06 will be ... the K street project. Dad has just been downsized, Mom is working 25 hours a week at Wal-Mart, they've got no insurance, and their son Joey is starting his third tour in Iraq. But they'll lie awake nights fuming about the K street project.
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The Democrat's Rationalization Festival extends to their propaganda organ, Air America Radio. Pundits there have been chanting "Republican Scandal" day and night since the story broke.
Hilariously, their rationalization for Dem bigwig Harry Reid's $66,000 Abramoff bribe is - get this - 'Reid is from Nevada, a gambling state, so it's okay for him to take the money.'
Jocularity!
Posted by AlanSmithee | January 6, 2006 8:39 AM
Posted on January 6, 2006 08:39
Great post. Very refreshing given all the duplicate content out there. Thanks for doing something original.
Posted by Deepak | June 15, 2011 8:54 AM
Posted on June 15, 2011 08:54
I too agree about taxpayers being entitled to ask for a radical reform of the banking regulation.
Posted by Harshad | June 15, 2011 8:55 AM
Posted on June 15, 2011 08:55
Nice! Thank’s man. It’s a jungle of those books and, you have to know what’s good and not.
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Posted on June 15, 2011 08:57
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Posted by Krunal | June 15, 2011 8:58 AM
Posted on June 15, 2011 08:58