Liar
Posted by on September 29, 2006 at 10:53 AM
Ken Mehlman, Chair of the Republican National Committee, to Vanity Fair:
"Abramoff is someone who we don't know a lot about. We know what we read in the paper."
Today's Washington Post:
Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his colleagues billed their clients for more than 400 contacts with White House officials between 2001 and 2004, according to a report released yesterday by the House Government Reform Committee....
The report also cites documents suggesting that former White House political director Ken Mehlman, now chairman of the Republican National Committee, may have helped Abramoff's team get money for a tribal client from the Justice Department. But the committee did not corroborate the claim...
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.
TPM has more:
[This is] by no means the only example of Mehlman's favors.
In 2001, he made sure a State Department official wasn't re-nominated for his post -- the official, Allen Stayman was a long-time foe of Abramoff's.
And according to a report from the Justice Department's Inspector General, Mehlman ordered one of his suboordinates at the White House to keep Abramoff updated on issues related to Guam; Abramoff was keen to see the U.S. Attorney there replaced.
Classic.
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Dean was just on CNN with Heidi somebody. He did a very good job. Hope someone caught it on video for those who missed it.
Posted by sunny on September 29, 2006 at 11:27 AM
Oh he was thanks for the info sunny. And speaking of Dean i read an article yesterday of Hillary slamming him because he wasn't raising funds.
Just remember this Hillary,Dean is no Terry McAuliffe and he's not a DLC'er either. So let the man do what he wants to do by building up the party cause he's not about money,he's about getting the message out.
Posted by ap215 on September 29, 2006 at 12:37 PM
We don't say "nigger", torture people, lie about WMD, take bribes, sell our ports to countries that harbored two of the 9/11 highjackers, hire illegal aliens, or shoot our friends in the face when we've been drinking.
Posted by SandyH on September 29, 2006 at 12:44 PM
And Bush doesn't read the newspapers.
Posted by SandyH on September 29, 2006 at 12:45 PM
..and don't forget: We don't use the covert Domestic Spying Program to spy on our political opponents.
Posted by DTree on September 29, 2006 at 04:27 PM
First of all I know I am preaching to the choir. I am not oblivious to this, admittedly this is intentional.
First of all Bill O'Reilly is an entertainer. He is not a real newsperson. When you only deal in fiction you are an entertainer. Now we all know that entertainers should have no political opinion, or they can have an opinion, it's just invalid, and they must keep their opinion to themselves. I guess under their guidelines he should be classified as a Hollywood liberal? hmmm.
Isn't it interesting that we demonize the party that tried to get Universal Health Care and we lift up the party who shot it down. No health care for all.
Who did this benefit? Corporations who no longer have to entertain the idea of taking care of it's employees. The corporations loyalty extends to: if your here great, if your here sick, fine. If you're not here you are replaced, because you are a dime a dozen. How dare you not show up because you are sick? You can't afford to see the doctor and prevent it? Neither can the employees we can replace you with in India, but they seem to drag their bodies into work for the few sheckles we pay.
Isn't it interesting that we demonized the party who wanted to protect pensions and social security, and we lifted those who said it was fine that corporations could cancel pensions to benefit their own bottom line.
If you have been working for the corporation for 15 years or more you were promised that if you did what you were supposed to, you would have money invested in your name to provide for your retirement. What has happened? We have 70 year old + in the workplace trying to put food on the table because corporations are allowed to rob their retirement. The corporations smugly point out, "If you don't like it we can ship your job to India."
We demonize the party that wanted to raise the minimum wage, and we lift up the party that shot it down.
No living wage that would actually benefit the countries' bottom line. If people have money they spend money and invest money. But that's ok. We just want make sure we have no one who has had consensual sex. When someone had any hint of sex, the country should admonish him and flog him, but when someone flogs the country, he should be adored, applauded and never questioned.
It's interesting that admitted mistakes resulting in death and directly effecting the country are exonerated, while personal mistakes, are unforgivable and deplorable.
It's interesting how people have voted. The have voted against their best interests. The middle class people have voted for people who have done away with the very safety nets put in place to protect them. How surprised they must be when they find out that the no check fees result in overdraft fees because their checks they write, clear faster than their paychecks. The parachute of bankruptcy has been collapsed to encompass only those who are the most wealthy who might lose their companies due to fraud and gouging their fellow man. The reversal of the Whistle blower law protects the corporations from being found out. Was it Enron and the whole Aunt Millie scandal that threw that chestnut into motion? It's interesting that this wonderful party has started writing laws to cover their own ass. What is torture? Ethics committee=poor ethics.
Lipstick on a pig. That's what we have.
Posted by legomyeggo on September 30, 2006 at 09:57 AM
Dean is an exclant Fund Raiser? Look what he raised for his Campaign in 2000?
Posted by freeforall on September 30, 2006 at 07:00 PM
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