Did you know Abramoff was on *'s transition team?

[wakemewhenitsover]

Why isn't this reported?

[AIJ Alom]

1. link ! quick !!!! n/t

[XOKCowboy]

Google Abramoff Bush transition team

The internet is a wonderful thing.

Sorry to be sarcastic but...

[waiting for hope]

2. Here's some info....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/05/AR2006010501903_pf.html

This careful judge of what it means to be an "honorable public servant" had reason to prefer the Bush administration's taste in appointees. After the 2000 election, Abramoff was named to the Bush transition team for the Interior Department, which regulates the Indian casinos that paid Abramoff his inflated fees.

[journalist3072]

9. Do you know why I love that article so much?

I love the beginning part when Dionne says how the Republicans were so eager to get Abramoff's money. They took his money. And now they want to disassociate themselves with him.

It almost makes the Republicans looks like prostitutes. Like a prostitute who takes the guy's money after they've hooked up. And then after they've done the do, the woman wants nothing else to do with the guy. Get out my way, and let me move on to the next one.

[waiting for hope]

10. Here's the kicker....

Scott McClellan, the White House press secretary, insisted on Wednesday that Bush does not know Abramoff personally. But the record makes clear that Abramoff was a loyal and serious player in Bush's circles.

I think Bush gave old Jacky a few Blow Jobs......

:spank:

[journalist3072]

12. ROFL!!! Are the Rethugs even capable of telling the truth?

Do they even know the meaning of the word truth?

And these were supposed to be the "adults" who were going to restore honor and dignity to the WH.

[Zen Democrat]

3. Here's one from the WP last week.

"After the 2000 election, Abramoff was named to the Bush transition team for the Interior Department, which regulates the Indian casinos that paid Abramoff his inflated fees."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/05/AR2006010501903.html

[Wilms]

5. Nuff said.

:thumbsup:

[Catherine Vincent]

4. He also contributed to Bush's recount group.

Abramoff is a republican. For some reason, the media reports like he's a bipartisan lobbyist.

[EST]

6. Yes.

[flyarm]

7. YES!..IT HAS BEEN REPORTED!! N/T

[stop the bleeding]

8. Here is all the A'moff news - it is from the DU Research Forum

Abramoff -- His Crimes and Connections to Public Figures...

[OldLeftieLawyer]

11. Abramoff was EVERYWHERE

You watch - the fun hasn't even begun yet.

Fasten your seat belts.

[tyedyeto]

13. From The Texas Observer

Four months after he took the oath of office in 2001, President George W. Bush was the attraction, and the White House the venue, for a fundraiser organized by the alleged perpetrator of the largest billing fraud in the history of corporate lobbying. In May 2001, Jack Abramoff’s lobbying client book was worth $4.1 million in annual billing for the Greenberg Traurig law firm. He was a friend of Bush advisor Karl Rove. He was a Bush “Pioneer,” delivering at least $100,000 in bundled contributions to the 2000 campaign. He had just concluded his work on the Bush Transition Team as an advisor to the Department of the Interior. He had sent his personal assistant Susan Ralston to the White House to work as Rove’s personal assistant. He was a close friend, advisor, and high-dollar fundraiser for the most powerful man in Congress, Tom DeLay. Abramoff was so closely tied to the Bush Administration that he could, and did, charge two of his clients $25,000 for a White House lunch date and a meeting with the President. From the same two clients he took to the White House in May 2001, Abramoff also obtained $2.5 million in contributions for a non-profit foundation he and his wife operated.

http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle_new.asp?ArticleID=13

[upi402]

14. i heard it on Air America

:patriot: