Hundreds of White House/Abramoff contacts revealed.
By on Sep 28th, 2006 at 7:27 pm
Hundreds of White House/Abramoff contacts revealed.
A draft bipartisan House committee report has found “hundreds of contacts between top White House officials and former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his associates” which “raise serious questions about the legality and actions” of those officials. “Bush administration officials repeatedly intervened on behalf of Abramoff’s clients,” Roll Call reports.
UPDATE: Watch ABC’s report on the new contacts from World News Tonight.
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"485 contacts between White House officials and Abramoff", and R. Clarke couldn't even get a meeting with the Cabinet.
September 28th, 2006 at 7:34 pmGosh, and just a couple months ago they were saying there were "only three or four contacts." It almost makes one think the Whitehouse was lying about its relationship with Abramhoff.
September 28th, 2006 at 7:38 pmI want them out of that house now!! November can't come soon enough!
September 28th, 2006 at 7:39 pmBluedog - there were only three or four contacts...per week!!!
Republicans: The LIE AND DENY Party.
September 28th, 2006 at 7:41 pm... 12 democratic senators voted for torture a short while ago...
i really don't know what to think anymore...
September 28th, 2006 at 7:42 pmthose traitors are not listed as yet...
“We have high standards and expect them to be met,†Dana Perino said.
Bwah ha ha ha ha.
September 28th, 2006 at 7:42 pmThis is another leftist (read terrorist) tactic. those who believe this lie will be imprisoned and tortured.
September 28th, 2006 at 7:50 pmWOO HOO!!! Lobbygate!!!
September 28th, 2006 at 7:53 pmIMPEACH THEM ALL!
September 28th, 2006 at 7:57 pmTrolls in high level meeting..how to spin this one? Waiting!
September 28th, 2006 at 8:00 pmAfter passage of the most draconian police state bill to ever come before congress...
The spin from the right can now consist of the following...
So what!?
September 28th, 2006 at 8:05 pmIt's not true, Bush said the only contact was at a White House JewishN Year's celebration. So this story MUST be a lie or President bush would be a BIG FAT LIAR!
September 28th, 2006 at 8:09 pmSnow at tomorrow's press gaggle:
"It was only a mere 400-something meetings. As we said before the president and Mr. Rove barely knew him
Virtually every day the evidence mounts that the last honest Republican was Dwight D. Eisenhower.
September 28th, 2006 at 8:24 pmOnce again, for our retarded friend. The terrorists are conservative fundametalist Muslims.
They are closer to Bush than they are to us.
September 28th, 2006 at 8:25 pmDoes it feel like we are speeding straight to hell to you guys?
September 28th, 2006 at 8:26 pmI wonder what tomorrow will bring.... more wrongdoing by this administration and people in high places....it's "de rigeur" these days for this country which is slowly flusihing itself down the commode.
September 28th, 2006 at 8:30 pmBush said he hardly knows him. Bush doesn't lie, does he? Neither does Rove. They are good christians.
September 28th, 2006 at 8:30 pmThose "3 or 4" contacts were actually 300 or 400.
These guys aren't politicians--they are common thugs who hijacked the electoral process, assumed the presidency, purposely allowed 9/11 to happen, and made sure there was a war going on so they could grab even more power. These sociopaths torture because they can, and it gives them pleasure. With the suspension of habeus corpus, don't be surprised to see detention centers inside the U.S. if the Republicans win in November. And definitely expect the draft, because they thirst for endless war. Power and wealth at all costs--the mark of brutish, twisted souls.
September 28th, 2006 at 9:11 pm#
… 12 democratic senators voted for torture a short while ago…
i really don’t know what to think anymore…
those traitors are not listed as yet…
Comment by katy — September 28, 2006 @ 7:42 pm
Here's the roll call. My OWN Democratic senator voted AYE for this bill. He's also from a "red state." I've communicated to him in the past that if he was going to vote like a Republican on national defense and "terrorism" issues, which are BAD for America I would never vote for him again. He has a totally CRAZY opponent. His name is Bill Nelson (D) of Florida. His opponent is Katherine Harris. I certainly won't vote for her....but I can't, in all good conscience, vote for him either. Note the ONE Republican that voted NO to this bill. Lincoln Chafee. If he gets reelected, I hope to God he switches to the Dems or declares as an Independent as Jeffords did.
Grouped By Vote Position (I've bolded the Dems who voted "Yea." )
YEAs ---65
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Allen (R-VA)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burns (R-MT)
Burr (R-NC)
Carper (D-DE)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Frist (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Santorum (R-PA)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Talent (R-MO)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)
NAYs ---34
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Chafee (R-RI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Obama (D-IL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Wyden (D-OR)
Not Voting - 1
September 28th, 2006 at 9:28 pmSnowe (R-ME)
Where's Exley and G-dawg? Funny how they never show up in the difficult to spin threads.
September 28th, 2006 at 9:28 pmSorry - I missed Stabenow, who also voted in favor of the bill.
September 28th, 2006 at 9:32 pmSorry, but screw watching ABC.
September 28th, 2006 at 9:34 pmGee, over 450 visits to the White House and the press has yet to ask Bush if he ever had sex with that man.
September 28th, 2006 at 9:35 pmI was already going to vote against "Macaca" on the 7th. And come the next Senatorial election I will vote against Warner. Shame on him, staging a fake "rebellion" only to come running as soon as he heard his master's voice.
September 28th, 2006 at 9:55 pmWho really cares anymore. It's clear that the dems certainly don't. We've always know that the Repugs don't.....so why should any of us care at all? Let them have a ball and do what they wish! The sky's the limit!
September 28th, 2006 at 9:57 pm#19 This is a dark day. I used to respect Rockefeller. My senators are damn lucky. Well, one is lucky...Feingold would never vote for this. Kohl, I don't know.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:24 pmWhat the heck happened to those Democrats? Are they afraid that thier opponent in November will beat them up with a Nay vote?
September 28th, 2006 at 10:49 pmDid they not think they could defend a nay vote with principles and ideals?
Between 2001 and 2004. Hmmm.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:56 pmWhen did Jeff Gannon get all those passes into the White house with the sloppy record keeping of his arrivals and departures?
We all know Mehlman is in the closet...
"...$25,000 for meals and drinks with White House officials...
...expensive meals and exclusive tickets... "
Since ABC is being boycotted I don't care if they report the presidents head is on fire. Until I hear it from a credible source I don't believe it.
September 28th, 2006 at 11:11 pmPrinciples and ideals go right out the window in an election year... The only Senator worth hardly anything is Russ Feingold.
http://www.getsomejosh.com
September 28th, 2006 at 11:45 pmI had to do my blog on this.
Remember that Karl Turd Blossom Rove and Casino Jack Abramoff shared Susan Rolston.
She worked for Casino Jack before becoming Turd Blossom's assistant.
And then who knows how many visits were held outside the strict record keeping of the WH. It's been published that they used to meet on street corners if it was nice outside, if not they would meet up at his Signatures resturant.
Casino Jack, Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist have been freinds since college and they have been friends with Rove just as long.
But of course Mad king Boy George didn't know Jack, he said he didn't know Kenny Boy Lay either. Even though he flew on Kenny Boy's corporate jet when he was campaigning back in 2000. Other than that he didn't know him.
So, I'm sure he doesn't know Jack.
http://comlogic.blogspot.com/
September 29th, 2006 at 8:15 amWhy would anyone who knows how government works be upset with the party out ofe power?? If the republicans wanted this torture bill and they got it. Their in power (White House, Senante and House of represenatives). Democrats can only watch and scream. The American people are the real losers here because they beleive the attack Ads that will come out in this election cycle. The idiot, the american people, are to lazy to research for themselves the real truth. Therefore the fall for whatever bull@#$% is fed them from their elected official.
September 29th, 2006 at 11:02 amhghg
September 29th, 2006 at 11:03 am