GOP Tries to Outrun Scandal

From the White House to Capitol Hill, prominent Republicans scrambled Wednesday to shed campaign contributions linked to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, as his guilty pleas in fraud and corruption cases opened a painful debate within the party over its leadership and direction.

President Bush, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas and DeLay's temporary successor in that post, Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, joined a lengthening list of politicians whose campaign committees have returned or donated to charities money they received from Abramoff, his associates and his clients.

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Among those calling for change within the Republican Party was Vin Weber, a GOP lobbyist and former House member from Minnesota with close ties to the Bush administration. "If they don't take fairly dramatic action and reclaim the mantle of reform, are going to lose the House," Weber said.

And former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said he thought DeLay was no longer in a position to be House leader. "They have to elect a new majority leader," Gingrich said. "My bet is they will."




http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-abramoff5jan05,0,4906331.story?coll=la-home-headlines

we can run circles around them as they collide, crash, commiserate, and burn, baby burn.

giving the money to charity....it is to laugh...

waiting to see if he was actually going to get caught or could wiggle his way out of it - thereby saving them the embarassment of having his tainted cash.

since 1995 is now touting itself as the party of change . . ."

"oh, its those other republicans, who were never really Republicans anyway. We will get rid of them and clean up Washington, you just watch"

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