aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Not one Democrat took Abramoff campaign money
There are no Democrats who took money from Jack Abramoff, not one, not one single Democrat. Every person named in this scandal is a Republican, every person under investigation is a Republican, every person indicted is a Republican.... There is no evidence that Jack Abramoff ever gave any Democrat any money, and we’ve looked through all those FEC reports to make sure that’s true.
Atrios on Deborah Howell in the WaPo:
Ombudsing is hard.
Democrats took no Abramoff campaign money. None.
Taking money from Indian tribes is not in and of itself illegal or unethical. Indian tribe money is not implicitly dirty money.
Taking money from Indian tribes who were bilked and cheated by Abramoff does not mean that you yourself are guilty of bilking or cheating those tribes.
This stuff is not complicated. It’s very simple. People working in Washington for a long time certainly undertand these things. Why they pretend to not understand them is a mystery.
UPDATE: More from Media Matters.
