2005/12/22
By Jonathan D. Salant and Kristin Jensen WASHINGTON, Bloomberg
U.S. President George W. Bush calls indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff "an equal money dispenser" who helped politicians of both parties. Campaign donation records show Republicans were a lot more equal than Democrats.
Between 2001 and 2004, Abramoff gave more than US$127,000 to Republican candidates and committees and nothing to Democrats, federal records show. At the same time, his Indian clients were the only ones among the top 10 tribal donors in the U.S. to donate more money to Republicans than Democrats.
Bush's comment about Abramoff in a Dec. 14 Fox News interview was aimed at countering Democratic accusations that Republicans have brought a "culture of corruption" to Washington. Even so, the numbers show that "Abramoff's big connections were with the Republicans," said Larry Noble, the former top lawyer for the Federal Election Commission, who directs the Washington-based Center for Responsive Politics.
"It is somewhat unusual in that most lobbyists try to work with both Republicans and Democrats, but we're already seeing that Jack Abramoff doesn't seem to be a usual lobbyist," Noble said.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/detail.asp?ID=74016&GRP=DRepukes are trying to get us to believe that Democrats are just as guilty as they are in the Abramoff scandal. As the full text of this article shows, that is a plain lie. Disturbingly, many in the corporate news media are falling for this, and work too hard to find a Democrat to include in articles on the subject, in the interest of being 'fair'
Abramoff is just now entering into a plea agreement, and some speculate that he might start squealing like a pig within the next two weeks or so. Republicans are sweating out this development of what is, in fact, a Republican scandal.