January 23, 2006

Bush and Abramoff

TIME.com has a new article on the photos. To be very clear, the initial evidence is of the kind of photo-ops that politicians do very often, and Bush could have done these and not known Abramoff from, well, me.

But I don't think so. Abramoff enjoyed a tremendous amount of access for one big reason. He was a rainmaker--he brought in money. And lots of it.

Anyway, we shall see.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The White House is back to using Jedi mind tricks. "Obi-Wan's McClellan's "press conferences" are increasingly interesting.

Here's a rough paraphrase from CSPAM

"I did answer the question. Yes I did. I did. No, I did. That's not a question. No, your head is a hard candy shell."

"No, you don't need to see the photos of Abramoff and the president. No, you don't. No, we are concerned that evidence of a connection might be used to draw conclusions and could be construed as an actual connection by those in the reality based community. No, you don't need to see his identification. No, the President only didn't go to your bar mitzvah because you didn't invite him."