Jack Abramoff Makes One Republican Who's Getting 4 More Years
Even if they can't hold on to the White House, Republicans in Washington should take heart that one of their own has just received a brand new four-year term. Jack Abramoff, the power lobbyist who bilked Indian tribes and protected sweatshop lords alongside roach exterminator Tom DeLay, is the proud recipient of a brand new jail sentence for his slimy orchestration of a casino lobbying scandal…
Abramoff is already serving a nearly six-year term on unrelated charges and the new sentence will be served at the same time, meaning he will not spend any extra time behind bars once his original sentence ends in 2012.
But Abramoff will serve at least four more years in prison, even if his lawyers are successful in getting a reduction in his first sentence on charges of fraud in the purchase of a Florida casino cruise line. When his terms expire, he will have spent nearly six years in prison.
Since he won't be leaving jail until Joe Lieberman is the Republican nominee for president, Abramoff ought to put his lobbying skills to use in his new home. To parallel his old life, he could negotiate a Sunday-night pinochle monopoly for his cellblock and pay off the warden with a kickball junket to the exercise yard.
And when he's done with that, he can make up a bed for DeLay.
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Jon,
I am certain the MTV Video Music Awards this year lost more than just me as a viewer. I have waited 2 months for this to come on and they lost me in the first 10 minutes. To have a host who is not from this country making political claims is outrageous during an awards ceremony. I am a military wife and feel like I deserve a certain amount of respect as an American and to have this foreign "host" impose his irrelevant political views by saying things such as "I know America to be a forward thinking country…would you have let that retarded cowboy fellow be president for 8 years?…we were very impressed…it was nice of you to let you have him have a go because in England George Bush would not be trusted with a pair of scissors." And I will leave it at that. A blatant disrespect for our country.
USMC Wife
Katie Manuel
Lexington, KY
why not make Palin's theme song, "I FEEL PRETTY!" NO NEED FOR FOREIGN KNOWLEDGE……..OR ANYTHING ELSE…….WHAT A MESS THIS COUNTRY IS IN………
Too bad there's no sweatshop labor in prisons. It might have been poetic justice.
E-mail records were central to the investigation of Jack Abramoff. Electronic records are profoundly changing our society. They combat all manner of corruption and abuse of authority or privilege. –Ben http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2007/12/people-in-authority-sometimes-abuse.html