RE: another GOP smuck I hope goes down

Dana Rohrabacher ♥ Jack Abramoff
A front page article in this morning's L.A. Times caught my attention...
Rohrabacher Defends Abramoff, a FriendWhile not excusing any illegalities, the Huntington Beach congressman decries a 'feeding frenzy' around the tainted lobbyist.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher offered a rare defense Monday of longtime friend and lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who pleaded guilty last week to influence peddling charges that have rocked Capitol Hill.
"The last thing I'm going to do is kick a friend when they're down," the nine-term congressman from Huntington Beach told The Times in an interview. He said the two met in the early 1980s, when Rohrabacher was a White House speechwriter and Abramoff was chairman of the College Republicans.
"I'm not excusing anything he did that was wrong or illegal," the congressman said. "It's just a sad commentary on democracy that when someone falls, there's this feeding frenzy and people are abandoned by those they thought were their friends."_______The congressman said he and Abramoff socialized over the years with their families and dined together frequently. Rohrabacher would eat at Abramoff's Washington restaurant, Signatures, or play host to the lobbyist in the congressional dining room. A House exemption allowed him to have the meals without reporting them, he said, because the two were friends before Rohrabacher was elected to Congress.Abramoff also asked Rohrabacher and his wife, Rhonda, to a baby shower for about 15 former staffers and congressional spouses to celebrate the birth of the Rohrabachers' triplets in 2004. The event was casual — between lunch and dinner — and featured only hors d'oeuvres, he said."My friend let us use his place for a baby shower," Rohrabacher said in the interview. "Right now there are people looking with a microscope trying to find any infringement to blow up and make look like a scandal."
Pal, you don't need a microscope. ThinkProgress found this nailed to your freakin' front door.
– Rohrabacher enjoyed free dinners at Signatures, Abramoff’s high-end restaurant, once or twice a month.
– Rohrabacher took one of Abramoff’s “Standard Operating Procedure”-style trips, visiting the Northern Mariana Islands while Abramoff was working to convince Congress keep factories in a U.S. territory free from complying with fair labor laws. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 28, 2005]
– Rohrabacher helped Abramoff score a $60 million loan to buy the SunCruz fleet of casino boats in Florida by allowing the lobbyist to list him as a personal reference. (Abramoff added a faked $23 million wire transfer to Rohrabacher’s reference to close the sale.)
Maybe he can help you finance some content on your pitiful PAC site. Or is that a monument to GOP unfinished business?
The guy is bad news. In all fairness, Rohrabacher has been a champion for NASA and seems to care about the environment (he is an avid surfer). He just seems to have a problem with...humanity. And propriety. And we still wonder if his phones, email and web surfing are being monitored closely if his pals in the White House are serious about tracking terrorists.

RE: Don't feel sad for Good Old Jack!!

RE: Jack Abramoff will get what he deserves!
Jack Abramoff I wasn't shock to hear that he is religious Jew. He was and is the type of Jews for Bush group. They all pretty much make me sick to my stomach. I'm Jewish so I feel I can throw stones at the those who claim they are part of that group. It really scares me about these types. They say they are the more religious Jews that everything they think of is all about Isreal. Believe me I want a strong Isreal but I not willing to sell out this country for Isreal. We need alot of things that Isreal has like NATIONAL HEALTH CARE. It funny we fighting in IRAQ and what kind of health is the U.S. setting up for them but Natioinal Health Program. It not good enough for us? The truth is what hurting the USA industry is National Health Care Program for everybody. But back to old Jack Abramoff who is total slime and totally think he is better than everybody that he came in contact with and was above the law because has or had money and infulence.Well my mother always said "every dog has their day". Old Jack is getting his. I can't stand people like him. I'm glad that it all caught to him. Well enough of me giving my two cents. Unless you all want to hear more? Over and out for the night! Peace.