Dark days for rethugs
Abramoff Probe May Threaten Leading Republicans as It Expands
By Jonathan D. Salant
Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) – The widening investigation of lobbyist Jack Abramoff is moving beyond the confines of tawdry influence-peddling to threaten leading figures in the Republican hierarchy that dominates Washington.
This week’s arrest of David Safavian, the former head of procurement at the Office of Management and Budget, in connection with a land deal involving Abramoff brings the probe to the White House for the first time.
Safavian once worked with Abramoff at one lobbying firm and was a partner of Grover Norquist, a national Republican strategist with close ties to the White House, at another. Safavian traveled to Scotland in 2002 with Abramoff, Representative Robert Ney of Ohio and another top Republican organizer, Ralph Reed, southeast regional head of President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign. </i>
That, and the National Enquirer is standing “150%” behind their story of Bush drinking, saying that a “major newspaper” is going to publish a similar story in a week or so. Bad time to be a right wing nutball, it seems.
Boo f’n hoo.
