Emails Suggest Mehlman Arranged Fed Funds for Abramoff Contributions...

[bridgit]

'One exchange of e-mails cited in the report suggests that former Abramoff lobbying team member Tony C. Rudy succeeded in getting Mehlman to press reluctant Justice Department appointees to release millions of dollars in congressionally earmarked funds for a new jail for the Mississippi Choctaw tribe, an Abramoff client. Rudy wrote Abramoff in November 2001 e-mails that Mehlman said he would "take care of" the funding holdup at Justice after learning from Rudy that the tribe made large donations to the GOP.' http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001635.php

[Mr Rabble]

1. K&R.

It never ends with these guys.

[bridgit]

3. never, i remember Mehlman crowing how confident he was about...

republicans maintaining power by way of "an appropriate application of funding & resources", it is now clearer what he was talking about perhaps

[INdemo]

6. This administration makes the Nixon gang look like________?

But Comparing Nixon with today's current administration Nixon would have served out his term.

[formercia]

2. Quid pro quo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quid_pro_quo

Quid pro quo (Latin for "something for something"<1>) indicates a more-or-less equal exchange or substitution of goods or services. English speakers often use the term to mean, "a favour for a favour," and the phrases, "what for what" and "tit for tat" have similar meanings. In Portuguese, French and Italian, it means a misunderstanding: taking one thing to mean or be another. In those languages, the (Latin) phrase corresponding to the English usage is do ut des (Latin for "I give, so that you give").

In legal usage, "Quid pro quo" indicates that an item or a favour has been traded in return for something of value, usually when the propriety or equity of the transaction is in question. For example, under the common law, a binding contract must involve consideration: that is, the exchange of something of value for something of similar value. If the exchange appears excessively one sided, the court may question whether a quid pro quo exists and the contract may be voidable.

Another set of examples arises when an exchange is prohibited by public policy. Where prostitution is illegal, it remains common and lawful to use gifts, expensive meals and so on, as means of attracting a sexual partner. The distinction is whether sexual favors are directly conditioned on the gifts and vice-versa. In the absence of such a quid pro quo, there is no prostitution. Similarly, political donors are legally entitled to support candidates that hold positions with which the donors agree, or which will benefit the donors. Such conduct becomes bribery only when there is an identifiable exchange between the contribution and official acts, previous or subsequent, and the term, "quid pro quo" denotes such an exchange. The term may also be used to describe blackmail, where a person offers to refrain from some harmful conduct in return for valuable consideration.

[bridgit]

18. this for THAT...

x(

[formercia]

20. K&R n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

4. I'd LOVE to see Mehlman get busted and have to do time.

That would be worth it all!

[bridgit]

5. he's such a smarmy little toady...

x(

[Hubert Flottz]

7. Maybe do a tour or two in Iraq, instead of going to jail would be

a good reward for the GOPer Hawks and goons.

[bridgit]

10. i like that HF, let these neocon chicken-hawks 'run through the briar...

and run through the bramble' while they try to save their own lives from their own shit they consider civil governance, it'd be a different tune then :patriot:

[mod mom]

8. Me too. There will definitely be more need for prison cells when the Dems

regain control of congress.

[Hubert Flottz]

15. The have got to expect to do the time for their crimes.

It's what they have preached for years.

[Imagevision]

9. One by one, GOP way to much corruption, utterly pathetic!

[bridgit]

11. they are the party of rank corruption, i'd rather slap the hands of a...

guy that chased me round the desk for an hour, than to have to bury a thousand dead sons & daughters of america after moping up their blood by way of such wantonly ignorant, conceited & self-serving ways & means as republicans offer the world routinely but that's just me

[lonestarnot]

12. Corruption and perverts. What a history! GOP. Government of Poop.

[bridgit]

17. sad almost, the GOP base has nothing but a litany of malfeasance from...

which to chose when considering their vote and how to cast it x(

[tanyev]

13. Goodness gracious. How in the world could the chairman

of the Republican National Committee have any influence in our government's Justice Dept.???????


No need to answer--just trying out some wide-eyed naivete.

[bridgit]

16. oh i know, it's ALL like omg...

they wouldn't do that! would they :sarcasm:

[ck4829]

14. K&R

[lonestarnot]

19. kick