Abramoff Lawyers in Talks With DOJ
It would be oh so sweet if he flipped on all his buddies. Jack Ambramoff might be a king sized scumbag but I’d be willing to let him go scot free if he named names. Provided of couse the first name is DeLay.
What are you thoughts? Agree to let him go if he testifies? Don’t think his testimony would carry weight? Couldn’t care less?
I dunno . . . according to the Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff – Abramoff already has been indicted by three grand juries in three unrelated cases (plus the accusation by Tyco, Inc., that Abramoff accepted $1.7 million to do “grass roots” political organizing against legislation penalizing U.S. corporations registered abroad for tax reasons, and then never did the work – no indictment from that one, yet). Is it possible he could work out a single deal to cover all of them?
Jack can jack off on the twins faces if he will flip–this will be the big enchilada, the pinata grande, the comeuppance of which there can be no upper coming (huh?)
Let’s not leave out the murder–
But while Jack may be low in cash, he is loaded with inventory, (as we count the names of Congressional Repugs)
It will be sweet if it happens, but don’t hold your breath. He’ll cut a deal that still give DeLay wiggle room, and the little worm will slip free. It’s going to take garlic and a stake to put an end to DeLay.
wives of several lobbyists and lawmakers may have had in any influence scheme, a piece of the puzzle that investigators have begun referring to privately as the “wives’ club.”
They better pray that none of them become ex-wives in the meantime…
why would abramamoff hesitate to play his bigest card? What can the bugman do for him now?
No, the sad fact is that all it takes are the piddling few people in his district. If nothing else, let’s hope they wake up and not return him to Congress.
his re-elect poll numbers suck, as I recall.
I hope Abramoff flips and that anyone who has dirty hands pays the price for it.
Too early to go piss on his grave yet, of course.
Please don’t forget that Abramoff gave lots of money to Democrats as well.
That’s fine; the more crooked politicians that go to jail, the better.
How can you say that? Isn’t the new Law Of The Jungle “Party before country in all cases”?
I wonder, over the course of the SDMB, the per-minute utterances of “But Clinton…” or its equivalent.
-Joe
But poll numbers from a mythical challenger tend to change when the challenger actually materializes. It’s a lot closer than you think.
Now, Mr. Moto, don’t try that tired crap. I will give you three to one odds that no democrat does time out of this, vs. years and years of entertaining republican incarceration.
I don’t know who will and who won’t see jail, if anyone. But the fact is politicians of both parties took money from Abramoff.
[From here.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/02/AR2005060202158_pf.html)
Your guys did it too! Your guys did it too!
Is that all you can say?
Nope. This isn’t a defense of any Republican involved in wrongdoing. However, characterizing this as solely a Republican scandal seems premature.
Of course, that won’t stop some people.
Abramoff lobbied any politician that could get him what he wanted, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone that that included Democrats as well. That party isn’t powerless, you know.
If Republicans have to come clean about what actions they undertook in exchange for Abramoff’s money, then Harry Reid, Tom Daschle, Byron Dorgan, Patrick Kennedy and Patty Murray ought to do the same. If their actions are above board, very good. If not, they ought to face some sanction.
The same standard ought to apply right across the board.
You do realize that the paper you cited is notorious for giving a rightwing slant to the news don’t you? On scandal and politics, you may as well quote America’s Newspaper.