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Say cheese!
By Ned | June 9, 2008
The ghost of Jack Abramoff* continues to haunt the corridors of the White House. The Waxmeister, head of the House Oversight Committee, has put out a report conclusively demonstrating the corrupt lobbyist extraordinaire’s involvement in setting White House policy. Among the highlights: “Abramoff was, in essence, human resources manager for the policy arm of the U.S. government on the [Marianaa] islands.”
Also: pics! Not even the desperate de-Facebook tagging of an embarrassed president could keep Waxman off the scent.
And best of all: Abramoff distributes “fruit” to White House staffers. “Fruit” in this case being concert and sports tickets. Abramoff’s logic here being, the more embarrassingly stupid the codeword being used to describe the bribes he handed out to White House staffers, the greater the lengths they would go to in order to cover those bribes up. At least, that’s my theory.
Thank god that this year’s Republican nominee is so incorruptible when it comes to lobbyists.
*Yes, I know he’s not dead. He’s only dead on the inside.
Topics: Congress, Corruption, Elections, The White House |