Political quickhits
The new Abramoff revelations (485 contacts between 2001-2004) are telling, but the juicy details are starting to come out. Pretty telling indications of Tit for Tat. Laura Rozen links to the .pdf of emails and documents.
Politicalwire points out that Bush's "just a comma" comment was code aimed at his non-reality-based community. "The Christian proverb Bush was evidently referring to is "Never put a period where God has put a comma." (God isn't done with Iraq yet.)
Hillary Clinton lights up the Republicans.
Alberto Gonzales greenlights judges against executive powers.
Later: If you're a fan, Tony Snow was beating them off with a stick today, primarily Woodward, but also Abramoff and Iraq.
Politicalwire points out that Bush's "just a comma" comment was code aimed at his non-reality-based community. "The Christian proverb Bush was evidently referring to is "Never put a period where God has put a comma." (God isn't done with Iraq yet.)
Hillary Clinton lights up the Republicans.
Alberto Gonzales greenlights judges against executive powers.
Later: If you're a fan, Tony Snow was beating them off with a stick today, primarily Woodward, but also Abramoff and Iraq.
posted by mikevotes at
1:23 PM
2 Comments:
Quoting Gracie Allen, of all people, with that "comma" remark.
Weird.
How damaging do you think the Abramoff thing is? Can Mehlman go on The Situation Room or MTP now without having to answer questions like "How come you said you didn't know Abramoff when it is clear that you knew him very, very well?"
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Reality-Based Educator, at 2:19 PM
I don't think Abramoff is that damaging as currently constructed for this election.
Everyone who is going to already thinks they're crooked, so unless someone gets indicted, or (please) there's an audio tape, I don't see this playing all that huge.
I do agree that it is yet another uncomfortable question that has to be answered, but frankly, this doesn't seem horribly outside the way Washington works, so I don't expect the Washington media to get all excited about it.
Assuming there's not something solidly damning, or a large cash trandfer somewhere.
Just a guess, but I gotta add, that my sense of what people will get excited about is not very accurate.
I thought torture would've gotten people excited, lies about Iraq, all the rest, so I'm not the best judge.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 4:33 PM
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