E-mails Pin The Tails On The Jackasses

E-mails detail Abramoff requests, contacts - Yahoo! News:

WASHINGTON - Wanted: Face time with
President Bush or top adviser Karl Rove. Suggested donation: $100,000. The middleman: lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Blunt e-mails that connect money and access in Washington show that prominent Republican activist Grover Norquist facilitated some administration contacts for Abramoff's clients while the lobbyist simultaneously solicited those clients for large donations to Norquist's tax-exempt group.

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Norquist and Abramoff were longtime associates who went back decades to their days in the Young Republicans movement. Norquist founded ATR to advocate lower taxes and less government. He built it into a major force in the Republican Party as the GOP seized control of Congress and the White House.

Abramoff became one of Washington's rainmaker lobbyists before allegations that he defrauded Indian tribes led to his downfall and a prison sentence. He is cooperating with prosecutors.

Kartch said at the time ATR dealt with Abramoff, it had no idea he was engaged in criminality.

The e-mails show Abramoff, on multiple occasions, asked clients for large donations to Norquist's group while Norquist invited them to ATR events that brought them face to face with top administration officials.

I love watching cronies tie themselves into knots trying to excuse their bosses of blatant wrongdoing or idiocy. Looks like we can look forward to lots of episodes of the Save The Bosses' Ass show in the coming months. It's real must-see TV.