This is RICH!!

[MadisonProgressive]

Just because Feingold returned $1600 of money from Abramoff assoiates, the freepers are declaring major victory! What a bunch of nimrods!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1553700/posts

OMG: The freepers are also parading this around!

[Flabbergasted]

1. His plea deal was supposed to come out this week...

Has it been released?

[MadisonProgressive]

2. I don't know

[stevedeshazer]

3. Feingold? Plea deal?

Help me out here.

[stray cat]

7. Nope not Feingold - confusing thread

Feingold is giving back campain contributions from the firm Abramoff worked for - he didn't get anything from Abramoff.

The plea deal statement in the thread is refering to Abramoffs deal to rat on the politicians who accepted bribes among other things. (again no Feingold involvement)

[stevedeshazer]

20. thanks, I got lost...much appreciated n/t

[Roland99]

9. Whose? Abramoff's? It's been out for a few days.Was a headline at RawStory

[stray cat]

4. The money was just from the law firm and not even from Abramoff

We are not aware that any donation to our campaign committee is tied to Mr. Abramoff, but because he worked at the law firm during the time we received contributions from others at Greenberg Traurig, we have decided to return those contributions," Aldrich said"

The freepers must be desparate if they are trying to spin this on Feingold.

[Darkhawk32]

5. Abramoff gave NOTHING to Dems directly.

There were two types of indian types Abramoff dealt with...

1) Ones he screwed

2) Ones he took money to bribe congressmen with.


Dems took campaign contributions from #1. Dems usually vote in favor of Indian tribes building casinos anyway, so why bribe them.

Repukes took #2.

[ClassWarrior]

10. Yup. What idiot would steal and launder money to avoid finance laws...

...only to turn around and "spread it around" to both sides?? Jack was a money pipeline for the Party of Nixon. Plain and simple.

NGU.

[ClassWarrior]

6. None of the ILLEGAL donations went to Dems. None.

The Dems took LEGAL donations from Jack's clients - the ones from whom Jack stole megabucks. So they were the victims, not the criminals.

NGU.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

8. Well, at least one part of that assertion is total hooey

Jack Abramoff never gave a single red cent to any democrat. Not a penny. Nothing. Nada. Nihil.

It's a sad, cheesy attempt to wrap Democrats into this qunitessentially Repiglican scandal.

To equate his clients' donations with Abramoff himself is to confess one of the greatest conspiracies in the history of the government of the United States.

[MadisonProgressive]

11. Right, but howdo you like their little 'tell all' chart!?

:rofl:

[eve_was_framed]

12. needs to be dissected and clearly shown where the money's for each

came from precisely, i.e., that it was the tribes or some such and NOT ABshit that gave them money. Expose the lies to that "tell all" chart with the sunshine of truth!

[karynnj]

19. Why is it so different from the other charts

Someone posted a great chart where you could see who got what from who down to which Indian tribe. These numbers are higher so they must have further expanded the definition to include all Indian tribes.

[blm]

13. BS - And the few FOX employees who gave to Gore and Kerry is equal to FOX

network being used 24/7 to promote proBush and proGOP propaganda for the last 10 years?

[greiner3]

14. but wait until the indictments, that will show who got what;

And how much they are going away for. Hell, the freeps need a little something to tide them over for a week or a month. We know our side is pretty much clean on this!

[napi21]

15. The freepers are also missing something else!

The Pubs are in POWER! What idiot would bribe a politician who couldn't do anything for them?

Even the Pub talking heads are saying this!!!

[johnnyrocket]

16. Those freepers are a bunch of criminal assholes.

[droidamus]

17. As usual look deeper than the spin

and you will find the truth. In at least one case, according to Randi Rhodes, this is nothing but spin. In the case of Senator Byron Dorgan she reports that the money he received was from an Indian group that were not even clients of Abramoff at the time of the donation. The group apparently became a client sometime after their contribution. Of course for the Repug spinmeisters this is just a needless detail.

[unblock]

18. a democrat got money from abramoff's 3rd cousin twice removed!!!

holy crap! those democrats really are corrupt!!

i also heard from a good friend who knows someone who used to work for someone really reliable who told my wife that some democrat took money from abramoff's wife's hairdresser's psychic's brother-in-law!!!!

[No Exit]

21. Not one democrat received money from Abramoff.