Gale Norton, Bush’s Secretary of the Interior, in the middle. Abramoff on the far right. The other three are some of Abramoff’s Native-American clients (aka one of the groups he would eventually screw over). Very interesting. [ThinkProgress]……

It’s YOUR GUYS who have made this into the game it has become. Absolutely nothing is more viscerally damning than to be caught trying to hide evidence, even if the evidence is completely innocuous. Actually, all the more so if it’s innocuous, because it just REEKS of guilty conscience.

YOUR GUYS are the ones trying to hide these pictures. For people who have nothing to hide, these peope sure seem to spend a stupendous amount of time and effort hiding things.

Oh, you know, because Abramoff was one of the top dogs in the Republican Party leadership, then there must be a whole bunch of photos of him with other top dog Republicans. Ralph Reed? Grover Norquist? Tom Delay? George W. Bush? Dick Cheney? Dennis Hastert? Bill Frist? Alberto Gonzales?

You know. Photos (or what I like to call them, mug shots) of Abramoff with all the other top dog members of the Corruptlican Party.

Oh, how much you want to bet that the Corruptlican leadership is looking for ALL damaging photos linking Abramoff to them.

The Corruptlicans should all be brought up on racketeering charges, because (just like in Abramoff’s courthouse steps photo) they all are looking and acting like a bunch of low-life mobsters.

Yanno what? When they do this:

Why so hostile?

Are you incapable of basic civility?

Ask ‘em if Rover knows they want to give a suicide bomber a hug. Damn, I wish they would. Right before he hit the switch.

You reap what you sow. You are the Christians. Most of us, even the Christians, are also secular humanists, too. You turn the other cheek so we can slap that one, too

Are you incapable of basic civility?

Not with retards like you.

Actually, I know of no developmentally disabled people as disturbed and dense as any of you Bush supporters, and would rather converse with a person with severe Downs syndrome. They are apt to be sharper.

Why so hostile?

Because I am sick of retards like you.

Are you incapable of basic civility?

Not with retards like you.

The thing I love about this lie is how it doesn’t even try to be plausible. The Center for Responsive Politics shows that life-long Republican activist Jack Abramoff donated $0.00 to Democrats. Shocker. After being alerted to the fact that the reference Couric cited plainly disproves her claim, NBC’s Matt Lauer and Tim Russert respond as any responsible media figure would respond – by moving the goalposts:

I honestly don’t think the problem is partisanship. If the problem was partisanship, they could come up with an angle that makes some sort of sense. (It’s not like Democrats haven’t learned a thing or two from Tom DeLay’s success.) I think that the problem is just that Lauer, Couric and Russert can’t, or won’t, understand the not-especially-complex issues at hand. Somehow, however, the concept that “Jack Abramoff has cooties” has managed to penetrate thick crust of hair-spray residue that protects their vestigal brains from potentially-confusing facts. Now – if my theory is correct – these journalists have decided that, in order to protect the public from a potential cooties pandemic, they need to determine who touched Abramoff, and who touched anyone who touched Abramoff, etc. Not being a epidemiologist, I can’t speak learnedly about the vectors of cootie transmission, but I suppose you should be always err on the side of caution when dealing with these sorts of things. Anyway, that’s my best guess. That, or they’re all fucking wankers.

Comment by Jack

He’s interested in your incisive criticism, witticism and bon mots, and grandiose insults, they are a more appropriate response to his grandiose notions and delusions of grandeur. He’s in a fugue state.

So ThinkProgress’s point here is to argue that Norton is innocent? That’s the argument they’re making? HAHA, funny one, SpudgeBoy.