Pretzledent Smirko McCokespoon supported some very kkkonservative causes when he was a young college Rethuglian.
Odd that today he is trying to distance himself from a man who is his longtime fellow traveler and one his most ardent supporters.
No, it's not Kenny Boy Lay. I'm talking Jack Abramoff.
Big on money, short on memoryJonathan Chait
Los Angeles Times
December 18, 2005
DURING THE HEIGHT of his power, nobody in Washington had any doubts about super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff's partisan loyalties. Now that Abramoff is being accused of bilking Indian tribes, misappropriating funds, bribing members of Congress and generally being held up as a symbol of Washington corruption, memories on the GOP side are growing hazier.
As President Bush told Fox News last week, "Abramoff — I'm not, frankly, all that familiar with a lot that's going on over at Capitol Hill, but it seems like to me that he was an equal money dispenser, that he was giving money to people in both political parties." Not much of a Republican at all, you see. Really a bipartisan figure. Sort of the David Broder of corruption.
May I refresh the presidential memory?
Abramoff came into politics by way of the campus-based, student-run College Republicans, where he served with future party big shots such as Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist. While running the College Republicans, he said: "It is not our job to seek peaceful coexistence with the left. Our job is to remove them from power permanently."
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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-chait18dec18,0,5592734.column?coll=la-news-comment-opinions Those Bushes sure are loyal. To money. I mean, power.
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