An interesting courtroom spat between frmr gov Ryan and Phill Gramm

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I missed this - but it is a rather interesting read. Seems that the boatloads of GOP scandals are making all sorts of current and past GOPers turn on one another.

http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/13195527.htm

Angry Ryan blasts former political ally over 'prostitution' remark


MIKE ROBINSON

Associated Press


CHICAGO - An angry George Ryan lashed out at former political ally Phil Gramm on Thursday night, saying the former Texas senator had called him a "prostitute" on the witness stand and suggesting that Gramm had been entangled in the Enron Corp. scandal.

"If Sen. Gramm wants to use the word prostitute, perhaps he should look within," Ryan said.

Ryan made the comments after his racketeering trial recessed for the day, where Gramm had been a prosecution witness. Gramm, a former presidential hopeful, testified he never approved thousands of dollars in consulting payments to Ryan's daughters and staff in return for Ryan's endorsement and said his campaign would not have condoned it.

"It's sort of like the difference between love and prostitution," the folksy former Texas senator testified during a hearing with jurors out of the room.

"You don't pay people to like you," Gramm said.

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He (Ryan) also suggested Gramm decided "not to run for re-election to United States Senate following serious allegations of wrongdoing by Sen. Gramm and his wife regarding Enron - perhaps investigators should revisit the Enron matter and the role the Gramms played in the demise of Enron, if any."

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Those upcoming Enron trials are also likely to kick up some dust and get MORE of these GOPers to turn on one another... Then there is Scanlon turning with his ties to uberslimy Abramoff AND ties to underdifferentindictmentalready DeLay... there are the Ohio trials that are inevitable... Oh so many places where the party - not just bushco - is starting to tear apart at the seams.