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Wow! What a great piece of gossip! ... I hope the rumors are right! Next, I hope Nancy Pelosi has to resign in disgrace… Great post Rob. I really love this blog! Did you happen to see the post that File It Under had for me?… It was related to one of my Say Anything comments!

Reid’s has been a truly thankless job.  His predecessor was Tom Daschle, a self-righteous little schnauzer of a man who established the precedent of opposing everything and anything suggested by the White House or the GOP in Congress. The voters in his home state said “No!” despite his close ties to the Indian tribes.

Reid’s tenure has been marked as a balancing act between his party’s Dhimmies and DUmmies on the one (Left) hand, and the party’s purported “grown-ups” on the other, and Reid has proven himself largely incapable of keeping up with either group.  He has managed to offend, and apologize, more than any other such leader of his party, all without ever managing to actually lead anyone anywhere.  His public style is a smarmy cross between Brent Musberger and Krusty the Klown.  Thankfully, his arithmetic gifts apparently extend right up to the number “40” but much beyond that point Harry Reid starts to quickly stumble.

If the Democrats were to re-take the Senate (Gawd forbid!), Reid’s role as caretaker-in-chief would be quickly over anyway.  And within 6 months, the fact of his tenure as Senate Minority leader will find its way into the final round of Trivial Pursuit.

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Fact is all of those Indian tribes that gave money to Democrats have always contributed to Democrats. The interesting thing is that they used to give a lot MORE to democrats before Abramoff came on the scene, while their contributions to Republicans increased by 150%.

And it is still true that Abramoff himself only ever gave money to Republicans.

Sorry boys, but the Abramoff story is a purely Republican scandal. Trying to pretend otherwise just digs that hole deeper.

So you’re saying that the Democrats have been on the take forever?

Fact is all of those Indian tribes that gave money to Democrats have always contributed to Democrats. The interesting thing is that they used to give a lot MORE to democrats before Abramoff came on the scene, while their contributions to Republicans increased by 150%.

So the fact that Democrats have been in the pockets of Indian gambling interests longer is supposed to make us feel better?  And of course Democrats are getting less from these interests now.  They’re the minority party, for crying out loud.  It doesn’t do much good to bribe the people who aren’t in power.

And it is still true that Abramoff himself only ever gave money to Republicans.

Of course, Abramoff isn’t in trouble for the personal donations, but rather the donations he directed his clients to make.  Or, at least, he isn’t just in trouble for his personal donations.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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It should be a story by itself, not labeled as a Republican, Democratic, or Independent, or Communist story.  It is a story about influence peddling beginning with gambling and indian tribles.  Take a look at:

http://magyartruth.blogspot.com/2006/01/27-convictions-in-operation-lost-trust.html

No comments yet… The Truth hurts, and cuts through all the platitudes.

A Hermit says, Sorry boys, but the Abramoff story is a purely Republican scandal.

Say it enough times and it will be true.

[...] What is interesting to me is that Reid, along with his colleague and my Senator Byron Dorgan, have done just as much as most of the Republicans who are operating under a cloud of Abramoff-related suspicion.  Both took large amounts of money from the Indian tribes ($60,000 for Reid, $67,000 for Dorgan) and both took favorable political action for those tribes.  Dorgan even went so far as to meet with an Abramoff associate. [...]