BREAKING on Bradblog. Tom Delay scandal expands to Whitehouse.

[YEM]

Keep your eyes on Bradblog. This might be what some have been talking about.

[WI_DEM]

1. What is Bradblog?

is there a link?

[YEM]

2. www.bradblog.com

[WI_DEM]

5. thanks.

[Pithy Cherub]

3. This National Day of Prayer may be really working out after all!

:wow:

[YEM]

4. Just like you, I hope this is BIG.

Bradblog has been saying they have a HUGE story. They have been saying they want to make sure their facts are right.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

11. Just keep this in mind...

...no matter how huge it is, it will only be truly huge if the mainstream media finds time to cover it between "who did Paula Abdul screw," "Does Paula Abdul have a substance abuse problem," "Runaway bride," "Michael Jackson," and "Laura Bush's saucy stand-up zingers."

IN SHORT:

It's gonna have to be VERY, VERY, VERY "huge" for it to be more than a momentary blip on the radar.

Even if it is, someone will "find" something suspicious in New York, and it will make the front pages.

Look at what the Bush administration has already gotten away with, and what they're GETTING away with while we speak.

Hate to be a Doubting Thomas, but I'll believe this one when I see it.

:toast:

[FreedomAngel82]

22. That is always good

You don't want to get in trouble with the law or anything.

[demnan]

10. Ha-ha!

yeah, me too! And I'm not even a believer!

[Verve]

13. LOL!

The repugs must not be praying as hard as us.:)

[Verve]

14. LOL!

The repugs must not be praying as hard us.

[Larkspur]

39. Thank Goddess!!

[beyurslf]

6. I hope MSM picks it up....

[halobeam]

7. ARE WE THERE YET????

I can't take the waiting anymore... I'm giddy. hehe

[YEM]

8. Here you go....

Bush-Cheney Named as Beneficiaries of Lobbying Firm Largesse in Numbers Far Beyond Anything So Far Tied to Embattled House Majority Leader!!!

[sportndandy]

9. sha-BANG!

[impeachthescoundrel]

12. Thank God

If the media ignores this one, I'll explode. Could someone please clue me in about the consequences of this? Is there an impeachment involved? Disgrace? Imprisonment?

Looks like Abramoff sang like a bird. In my opinion.

Happy day!!!Time to make the popcorn!

[Oreo]

15. Keeping my fingers crossed....

eventually one of these scandals HAS to break through to the sheeple.

http://www.bradblog.com/
Gotta love how he uses the Sludge siren and DEVELOPING!!! BS.

[walldude]

16. I keep thinking that very thing, but nothing sticks to these people

I can't remember how many times in the last 4 years I've said to myself "this is it, this is the story that's going to take them down". I've come to the conclusion that even if Bush got caught naked in the oval office with half a dozen 12 year old boys, it would be ignored in order to bring us the "real news". You know, Paula, Michael, and The Runaway Bride. If by some miracle they do get the administration in the corner, they will just pull out the trump card, probably Osama or another attack on the U.S.

[Oreo]

17. That or...

him jacking a horse

[NewJeffCT]

18. I know how you feel

I joined DU in Sept or Oct of 2003 and it seems like its a daily event where somebody posts, "This is what is finally going to bring Bush down..." and, everybody responding to the OP gets all excited and we work ourselves up into a frenzy.... and then - nothing.

[FreedomAngel82]

27. Yep

That's why I just stay skeptical of stories that will bring them down. :crazy: If they can get away with murdering military and Iraqi's then nothing will bring these assholes down sadly.

[progressoid]

32. I hate to agree with that sentiment

but I feel the same way.

Remember the good old days when a botched breakin would force a prez to resign?

[lildreamer316]

44. The Teflon President/Cowboy n/t

[Oreo]

19. More info posted

BREAKING!!! DELAY FUNDRAISING SCANDAL EXPANDS INTO WHITE HOUSE!!! BIG TIME!!!
Bush-Cheney Named as Beneficiaries of Lobbying Firm Largesse in Numbers Far Beyond Anything So Far Tied to Embattled House Majority Leader!!!



In the first of several reports on an expansion of the widening fundraising morass currently plaguing Republican House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, the Whitehouse itself is now being named as a major beneficiary of Jack Abramoff's lobbying firm in dollar numbers that dwarf anything DeLay has so far been tied to!!!

RAW STORY to carry late afternoon exclusive!

[Jacobin]

20. Not to burst anyone's bubble................but

If the bribe money was reported in accordance with American Bribery Law with all the right Bribery Oversight Boards forms properly filled out, this is absolutely nothing.


hoping i'm wrong.......

[Oreo]

24. Can you fill us in on the American Bribery Law?

Hope you're wrong too.


I just sent this to Sentaor Dayton:
Yet another scandal the corporate media will ignore.. unless you speak up about it.

http://www.bradblog.com/
BREAKING!!! DELAY FUNDRAISING SCANDAL EXPANDS INTO WHITE HOUSE!!! BIG TIME!!!
Bush-Cheney Named as Beneficiaries of Lobbying Firm Largesse in Numbers Far Beyond Anything So Far Tied to Embattled House Majority Leader!!!

In the first of several reports on an expansion of the widening fundraising morass currently plaguing Republican House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, the Whitehouse itself is now being named as a major beneficiary of Jack Abramoff's lobbying firm in dollar numbers that dwarf anything DeLay has so far been tied to!!!

RAW STORY to carry late afternoon exclusive!

[Jacobin]

26. google FEC

There is lots of statutory and case law on the legalized bribery of american politicians. They are called 'campaign contributions' and 'PAC money' and so forth.

Just because Abramoff's lobbying firm gave a bunch of money to SmirkCo doesn't mean its illegal. If they filled out all the right forms, its legal bribery.

[imax2268]

23. a couple of problems...

the MSM won't pick this up...they would rather focus on Molester Jackson and the runaway bride...

and how will this stick to the white house...since their dirty tactics to get themselves in there...twice...nothing has stuck to them...it all gets swept under the carpet and they move on...

even still...I'm curious to see what comes of this...

[FreedomAngel82]

21. Oh wow!

Big news! I love Bradblog. They do some great work over there. I can't wait!

[WilliamPitt]

25. YO BRAD

Your page has 'Whitehouse' as all one word. Fix that so people won't dismiss your report. That stuff matters.

[lonestarnot]

37. Picky picky picky...

[WilliamPitt]

43. After 500,000 or so published words

I can tell you that each an every one of them that was spelled wrong or otherwise improperly used garnered flocks of emails, each of which snootily corected me while stating that now they take me less seriously.

This is a serious story. Spelling counts.

[lonestarnot]

46. I think corected is spelled corrected LOL...typos count tooooooooo LOL

:( O8)

[Just Me]

47. Deja Vu,...."picky, picky, picky",....

:spank:

[lonestarnot]

48. ROFL

:rofl:

[lonestarnot]

49. Will Pitt yer fulla shit! LOL ROFL

:rofl:

[Nothing Without Hope]

28. Actually, Bradblog is saying the story will be on RAW STORY:

Bradblog:

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001376.htm
In the first of several reports from RAW STORY on an expansion of the widening fundraising morass currently plaguing Republican House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, the Whitehouse itself is now being named as a major beneficiary of Jack Abramoff's lobbying firm in dollar numbers that dwarf anything DeLay has so far been tied to!!!

RAW STORY to carry late afternoon exclusive!

...DEVELOPING VERY HARD!!!...MORE DETAILS SHORTLY!!!...

Meanwhile, the front page of Raw Story still has just the banner heading so far:

http://www.rawstory.com

EXCLUSIVE: This afternoon: Bush ties to Abramoff, firm probed... Developing...

[Oreo]

29. It may be part of this...

http://www.redefeatbush.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=47
Give Back Abramoff's Money
Posted on Wednesday, March 31 @ 08:43:44 EST by SwansonAdmin

Campaign Finance - corruption, reform Following the revelations in the Washington Post of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff's receipt of $10 million in previously undisclosed payments from Michael Scanlon, a former spokesman for House Majority Leader Tom Delay, the Committee to ReDefeat the President called on legislators and PACs that have recently received contributions from Abramoff to give the money back. According to records available from the Center for Responsive Politics, this list includes: George W. Bush, Tom Delay, Johnny Isakson, Eric Cantor, John Ensign, Charles H. Taylor, Arlen Specter, Richard Pombo, Christopher S 'Kit' Bond, Jim Saxton, Tom Feeney, Jim Bunning, Ernest J. Istook, Chuck Grassley, Richard C. Shelby, Chris Cannon, Curt Weldon, Doug Ose, Dana Rohrabacher, George R Nethercutt, Jr., Americans for a Republican Majority, Hawkeye PAC, First Freedoms Fund, Republican Majority Fund, Rich PAC, Keep Our Majority PAC, Leadership PAC 2002, Senate Victory Fund, and Rely on Your Beliefs. Additional contributions from a Pam or Pamela Abramoff, listed sometimes as a homemaker and other times as an employee of Preston Gates & Ellis, have been made to Mark Foley, Eric Cantor, Johnny Isakson, Arlen Specter, and George W. Bush.

As the Washington Post wrote on 3/30:

Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff received $10 million in previously undisclosed payments from a public relations executive whom he recommended for work with wealthy Indian tribes that operate casinos, congressional investigators have determined.

Abramoff, one of Washington's best-connected Republican lobbyists, this month was forced out of his firm, Greenberg Traurig, after revelations that he and the executive -- Michael S. Scanlon, a former spokesman for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) -- had persuaded four newly wealthy tribes to pay them fees of more than $45 million over the past three years. That amount rivals spending on public policy by some of the nation's biggest corporate interests.

In a letter sent to Abramoff late yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said investigators on his staff "have recently learned that Michael Scanlon or organizations with which he was in some way associated . . . recently paid you approximately $10 million."

[librechik]

30. good guess--needs to be spread far and wide

:evilgrin:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

45. A whole nest of Vipers

All tied to the same scandal. Bring them down en masse!

:kick:

[alfredo]

31. When it comes out, e-mail the story to all news outlets

If they get 100 copies, maybe they will look further.

[Nothing Without Hope]

33. Raw story site now says story will break there at 3:30 PM ET n/t

[Liberal In Texas]

34. Raw Story just changed that to 3:40 p.m. ET n/t

[0007]

41. Waiting patiently! Or is it ho hum time again?

[Liberal In Texas]

35. Raw Story: EXCLUSIVE........

EXCLUSIVE: BUSH RECOUNT COMMITTEE STILL OWES MORE THAN $320,000 TO ABRAMOFF'S FORMER FIRM FOR WORK DURING 2000 RECOUNT... 3:45 PM...

[understandinglife]

36. "BUSH RECOUNT COMMITTEE STILL OWES MORE THAN $320,000 TO ABRAMOFF'S FORMER

....FIRM FOR WORK DURING 2000 RECOUNT... 3:45 PM..."

Latest headline at Raw Story.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us - STOP THE ATROCITIES; INDICT BU$H AND ALL THE OTHER WAR CRIMINALS, NOW

[DemocracyInaction]

38. Remember: Kenny Boy---"I hardly knew that man"?????

and the country believed him and the country didn't care and the country just shrugs and says "pshaw, all those polticians do it" and probably some trusted underling of the Great Bush fucked up and thus did such a terrible diservice to the great man. Find the fuck up and make him pay but not the great, good man----we feel soooo sorry for the great man and all those bad people around him who do dumb and terrible things. Jesus probably had the same trouble with the disciples. Move on you disgusting liberal jackals always playing politics and tring to discredit the second son of Christ, blah, blah, blah. Need I go on??? You by now should have it all memorized. Wonder what the next great scandle that is NOT going to even be reported will be................ Let's face it, we are stuck with this asshole for 4 more years AND we are never going to turn the country (or even our Dem politicians) against him.

[lala_rawraw]

40. No, keeps your eyes on Raw

That is the story, lol.

[Spazito]

42. The story is up at raw story now

Bush Florida 2000 recount committee still owes lobbyist's former firm $320k


They say a picture is worth a thousand words.

If so, the photograph taken of President George W. Bush and embattled House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was priceless—the windswept DeLay strutting down the tarmac beside the president, two Republican leaders rankled by political setbacks joined at the hip.

There’s a backstory that lurks behind Bush’s decision to stand by DeLay. It involves Greenberg Traurig, the firm that employed the powerful lobbyist who paid for palatial DeLay junkets, and Abramoff staffers, who were footsoldiers in the Florida recount. Greenberg Traurig has yet to receive more than $320,000 in legal fees charged to a Bush committee during the 2000 Florida recount, RAW STORY can confirm.

As a corporation, Greenberg’s unpaid tab represents a massive in-kind campaign contribution, far larger than anything that went unreported by DeLay. But it appears to be legal: corporations are allowed to donate any amount to the nebulous type of committee employed during the recount. It would, however, violate the committee's self-imposed $5,000 contribution limit from individual donors.

more

http://rawstory.com/exclusives/byrne/abramoff_florida_recount_bush_505.htm