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In reply to the discussion: Inhofe: Clinton showed “forceful attitude” you usually “don’t hear from women" [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)About this time last year:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tom-delay-out-bail-reunites-abramoff-buddy-ralph-reed-faith-and-freedom-rally
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/romney-and-santorum-rally-corrupt-lobbyist-ralph-reed-wisconsin
He got on with World Nut Daily with his pals, and this year he's been talking on Clear Channel:
Casino Jacks New Game
Mariah Blake Mar 20 2013
After more than three years in prison, and an implausible makeover as a truth-telling good-government reformer, Abramoff is still Abramoff.
Billed as an insiders view of Washington, the program focuses on the nexus between lobbying and politics. This episodes main target was Barack Obama. We have a president who came into office pledging to wipe out lobbyists, Abramoff said, before reeling off the ways Obama had fallen short of his promise. Americans are sick of the special interests, he added. Theyre sick of everything I used to be.
Abramoffthe man at the center of a sprawling corruption scandal that led to 21 convictions and tarred large swaths of the Republican establishmentis hardly the first person you might expect to be scoring the presidents ethics, much less on his own radio show. But, then, American life is littered with unlikely redemption stories. Since 2010, when Abramoff was released from prison (where he served three and a half years for fraud, conspiracy, and tax evasion), he has refashioned himself as a reformer, and emerged as one of the most visible faces of the good-government movement. He is a frequent cable-news commentator, with a best-selling book (Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From Americas Most Notorious Lobbyist), the radio program (on XM Satellite Radio), and a pair of reality-TV-show concepts in development.
Abramoff is also tearing up the speakers circuit, where he collects fees as high as $15,000. Harvard Law School has hosted him, as has an FBI training center. The morning after I met him at the Clear Channel studio, I joined Abramoff on a train ride to New Jersey, where he had yet another speaking engagement. As we hurtled past crumbling smokestacks and barren parking lots, he filled me in on his latest project: a proposed law called the American Anti-Corruption Act, put together by a bipartisan team, including former Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter. The law aims to curb the influence of special interests by, among other things, barring lawmakers from taking money from industries or entities they regulate. Abramoff said his role was to push for the toughest possible standards. I was basically the Mikhail Suslov of this effortthe member of the politburo who was the strictest Marxist, he told me, chortling. Its an obscure reference that few of your readers will get...
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/casino-jacks-new-game/309264/
Zombies on parade...
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