Capitol Crimes. I watched this last night. Truly worth seeing.

[Paranoid Pessimist]

Bill Moyers' look at the Tom Delay-Jack Abramoff connection. Shows how our government really works. Amazing that this crooked conduct can be documented and still people aren't ready to tar and feather these self-righteous assholes.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/02/1321259

[Arkansas Granny]

1. While there was nothing in the show that hadn't been reported

before, it did an excellent job of connecting it all and putting all the facts in one place instead of looking at it piecemeal.

[Say_What]

2. Quite right. I saw it too. They connected the dots and followed the $$

very well. Those clips of a young Abramoff at the RNC and then the *movie* he made that was paid for by the apartied government of South Africa were very revealing. Here's a Harper's story from last April that tells about it...

http://www.harpers.org/sb-the-making-of-a-lobbyist.html

[Demeter]

3. Almost 50% there!

This IS encouraging. Still, that's only the top skin layer. And it's not even 2007!