Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Bush to Give Away (part of) Abramoff Donations

Jack Abramoff raised at least $100,000 for Bush's 2004 re-election effort, earning him the honorary title "pioneer" from the campaign.

Now that Bush has been caught with his paw in the honeypot, pudgy White House spokesfag Scotty McClellan said the Bushies plan to give "part of" the $100,000 to charity.

What's this? Bush gets caught with dirty money and he thinks donating part of it after the fact will somehow exonerate him?

WTF? Can this guy's balls get any larger?


http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010406I.shtml

12 comments:

Lulu Maude said...

Bush's balls? Eeek.

Karen Zipdrive said...

Do turtles have balls? I saw him on TV today and he has this new thing where he scrunches down and pokes out his neck to answer questions, looking like a little snapping turtle.
Not a handsome look for the Nitwit in Chief.

Karen Zipdrive said...

Hmm. Apparently Abramoff was a very busy little beaver when it came to donating to Repugnicans and their causes:

According to campaign donation information gathered by the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics, the following office holders and candidates have received political donations from Abramoff since 2000:

Tom DeLay (R-Texas).
John Ashcroft (R-Mo.).
Frank A. LoBiondo (R-NJ).
Eric Cantor (R-Va.).
Arlen Specter (R-Pa.).
John Ensign (R-Nev.).
Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.).
Charles H. Taylor (R-NC).
Chris Cannon (R-Utah).
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).
Mark Foley (R-Fla.).
Richard Pombo (R-Calif.). Christopher S. "Kit" Bond (R-Mo.). Curt Weldon (R-Pa.).
Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.).
Doug Ose (R-Calif.).
Ernest J. Istook (R-Okla.).
George R. Nethercutt Jr. (R-Wash.).
Jim Bunning (R-Ky.).
Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.).
Tom Feeney (R-Fla.).
Dan Burton (R-Ind.).
Eric Cantor (R-Va.).
Suzanne Terrell (R-La.).
Rob Simmons (R-Conn.).
Charles W. "Chip" Pickering Jr. (R-Miss.).
Connie Morella (R-Md.).
Gordon H. Smith (R-Ore.).
James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.).
James M. Talent (R-Mo.).
John T. Doolittle (R-Calif.).
John Thune (R-SD).
Tim Hutchinson (R-Ark.).
Bob Smith (R-Fla.).
Bob Ney (R-Ohio).
CL. "Butch" Otter (R-Idaho). Carolyn W. Grant (R-NC).
Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.).
Elizabeth Dole (R-NC).
Heather Wilson (R-NM).
J. Randy Forbes (R-Va.).
Jack Kingston (R-Ga.).
James V. Hansen (R-Utah).
John Cornyn (R-Texas).
Kimo Kaloi (R-Hawaii).
Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo.).
Mike Ferguson (R-NJ).
Mike Simpson (R-Idaho).
Ralph Regula (R-Ohio).
Ric Keller (R-Fla.).
Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.).
Ted Stevens (R-Alaska).
Thad Cochran (R-Miss.).
Dave Camp (R-Mich.).
Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.).
Tom Young (R-Ala.).
Bill Janklow (R-SD).
Craig Thomas (R-Wyo.).
Spencer Abraham (R-Mich.).
William L. Gormley (R-NJ).
Bill McCollum (R-Fla.).
Bill Redmond (R-NM).
Bob Riley (R-Ala.).
Claude B. Hutchison Jr. (R-Calif.).
Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.).
Francis E. Flotron (R-Mo.).
George Allen (R-Va.).
Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.).
Walter B. Jones Jr. (R-NC).
Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).
Bob Smith (R-Fla.).
Joe Pitts (R-PA).
Charles H. Taylor (R-NC).
Bob Ehrlich (R-Md.).
Charles R. Gerow (R-Pa.).
Ed Royce (R-Calif.).
Elia Vincent Pirozzi (R-Calif.). Jerry Weller (R-Ill.).
Mark Emerson (R-Utah).
Tom Davis (R-Va.).
Van Hilleary (R-Tenn.).

Also:

Americans for a Republican Majority,
Leadership PAC of Tom DeLay (R-Texas).
Republican Majority Fund, Leadership PAC of Don Nickles (R-Okla.).
Keep Our Majority PAC, Leadership PAC of Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.). Leadership PAC, Leadership PAC of Michael G. Oxley (R-Ohio).
Rely on Your Beliefs, Leadership PAC of Roy Blunt (R-Mo.).
Friends of the Big Sky, Leadership PAC of Conrad Burns (R-Mont.). Senate Victory Fund, Leadership PAC of Thad Cochran (R-Miss.). American Liberty PAC, Leadership PAC of Bob Ney (R-Ohio).
Battle Born PAC, Leadership PAC of John Ensign (R-Nev.).
Fund for a Free Market America, Leadership PAC of Phil Crane (R-Ill.).
Team PAC, Leadership PAC of J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.).
The Republican Party of New Jersey.

Also:
George W. Bush (R). $100,000

The Educated Eclectic said...

Say, where are the democrat recipients that the MSM and Scotty are saying abound in the "list" of friends of Abramoff?????

Karen Zipdrive said...

I've heard of one Democrat mentioned but can't recall the name. Whoever he is, he's as suspicious as the rest for influence peddling as far as I'm concerned, and he should go down with the rest of them if anything shady is proven.
Just being on the same list casts him in a dirty light.

Unknown said...

Bush is only giving back a pittance..the amount donated by Jackie A and his wife personally.

Unknown said...

THe Dem I think you mean is Byron Dorgan D-North Dakota

Karen Zipdrive said...

When Abramhoff squeals I hope he can cite specifically what these crooks did for the money. I want to see the quid pro quo in action.

Lulu Maude said...

Yes! It will be so educational to see How The System Works. And it will be such a dandy new addition to that old civics textbook staple, How a Bill Becomes a Law.

Assholes. Selling their crappy little souls for Super Bowl tickets.

Unknown said...

They keep tossing up the Clinton Impeachment as the most recent use of the I word..how in the hell can you compare lying about a blowjob to lying about WMD's and Plamegate?

I ask you..is that all they got?

Karen Zipdrive said...

That's all they got. Yep.
But then people watch NASCAR and love it, so it's hard to say what might get the lemmings Bush counts on to snap out of their comas.

Kate said...

There is a LONG list of Democratic recipients of this same bribe money. I just saw it a few days ago and about puked.

Looks like he was covering alllll the bases...