ABRAMOFF BI-PARTISAN BROUHAHA

The chips are falling where they may, despite frequent

delirious effusions from the moonbat loonies:

Records show not ONE Democrat has been offered or accepted money from him, despite attempts by the GOP to paint this as an issue tainted on both sides of the fence (you'll be hearing that a lot in the coming days)

It’s obvious that both sides had their hands in the cookie jar.

With its customary partisan inaccuracy, the
Washington Post’s resident bolshie, Jonathan Weisman, avers that

All but three of the 24 politicians giving up the funds are Republicans. The three Democrats -- Sens. Max Baucus (Mont.), Richard J. Durbin (Ill.) and Byron L. Dorgan (N.D.) -- have pledged to shed a total of $97,000 in contributions.

Weisman then puts that righteous little Mormon prig Reid in his customary “stuck-on-stupid” mode by quotinga spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) that

Reid has no intention of shedding the $47,000 he has received from Abramoff's lobbying team and tribal clients.

The clueless Reid spokesman demonstrates spectacular syllogistic gymnastics by stating

"Abramoff was a Republican operative, and this is a Republican scandal," said Reid spokesman Jim Manley. "Any effort by Republicans to drag Democrats into this is doomed to failure."

Get that? Reid gets to keep the money. You see, IT’S OKAY FOR A DEM TO KEEP THE MONEY CUZ IT IS A REPUBLICAN SCANDAL.
And you wonder why the Dems are not going to become the majority party for a long time, at least while the clueless Reid is the Senate Minority Leader.

There are more names that the Post, always lenient to the Dem’s peculations, fails to name. Like hard-left Senators Harkin and Stabenow.

Among those named by the NationalRepublicanSenatorialCommittee as the worst examples of "Democrat hypocrisy" for taking money from Abramoff and his associates are: Sen. Byron Dorgan, (D-N.D.) who received at least $79,300; Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), who received at least $45,750; Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who received at least $68,941 and Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), who received at least $6,250.

The vertically-challenged Reid has been named in the press thus:

In a little-noticed story in November, The Associated Press revealed that Reid had accepted tens of thousands of dollars from an Abramoff client, the Coushatta Indian tribe, after interceding with Secretary of the Interior Gail Norton over a casino dispute with a rival tribe.

Reid "sent a letter to Norton on March 5, 2002," reported the AP. "The next day, the Coushattas issued a $5,000 check to Reid's tax-exempt political group, the Searchlight Leadership Fund. A second tribe represented by Abramoff sent an additional $5,000 to Reid's group. Reid ultimately received more than $66,000 in Abramoff-related donations between 2001 and 2004."

And compulsive-cupidity victim Reid answered questions on TV thus:

Questioned about the donations last month by "Fox News Sunday's" Chris Wallace, Reid immediately turned testy.

"Don't try to say I received money from Abramoff. I've never met the man, don't know anything," he insisted.

When Wallace protested: "But you've received money from [one of his Indian tribe clients]," the top Democrat shot back: "Make sure that all your viewers understand - not a penny from Abramoff. I've been on the Indian Affairs Committee my whole time in the Senate."

When the Fox host pressed again on the Abramoff-linked donations, a flustered-sounding Reid continued to stonewall, saying: "I'll repeat, Abramoff gave me no money. His firm gave me no money. He may have worked [at] a firm where people have given me money. But I have – I feel totally at ease that I haven't done anything that is even close to being wrong."

The exempt media employs artful dodgers like Weisman to carry its water for the Dems and just like its exempt from deconstruction fellow traveller the NYT, the Post will not retract its misstatements or omission.

THE POST IN ITS CUSTOMARY PARTISAN-BIASED FASHION FAILS TO POINT OUT THE WAY REID MISUSES AND ABUSES HIS POSITION.

GUESS THE MSM DOUBLE-STANDARD CONTINUES TO APPLY. NO FAULT ON THE LEFT.