The Abramoff Files - Scanlon charged, will likely roll over
When Abramoff was first indicted I thought it just another token arrest, a Rovian trick to distract from worse news but it's clear now this case is no planned smokescreen. It's beginning to look like a full fledged conflageration that's liable to the burn the Beltway to the ground. Abramoff's partner in crime, golden boy Michael Scanlon, has just been charged and it appears he's ready to turn star witness for the prosecution.
This is going to be big. There's not a major GOP pocket this pair doesn't have their hand in and one suspects a few Dems may have also succumbed to the charms of the dastardly duo. If this investigation is conducted honestly and fully, we stand a chance on ridding the Beltway of enough corruption to make the government sorta functional again. I feel kind of like I'm in a Disney movie and all my wishes are coming true. Redd has a lot more on this well worth reading.
Meanwhile, my favorite player so far in the unfolding drama is this scandal's obligatory blonde, Italia Federici. Here's a girl looking for a Hollywood contract. The compleat opportunist. Maybe she'll even get to play herself in the made for TV movie.
But I kind of like her spunk. She fronted for a GOP skeptic-based anti-environment agency, took a quarter of a mil in bribes and then skipped out on her appearance before a Senate Select Committee. McCain had to send the marshalls after her and as he said, her testimony was bizarre. One hopes he asked her to define decorum.
Pensito reports, "despite the continental sound of her name, Italia came off in the hearings as a product of American suburbia, an emanation in the same vibe as Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Kellyann Fitzpatrick and the late Barbara Olsen." But here's the delicious part. "She wrote at least one op-ed piece for GOPUSA, the propaganda “news” site that “employed” the Republican prostitute/reporter, Jeff Gannon."
What a story. It's got tabloid TV written all over it. And that's exactly what this story deserves. A 24/7 feeding frenzy would give it the stature it so richly deserves in the public eye.
This is going to be big. There's not a major GOP pocket this pair doesn't have their hand in and one suspects a few Dems may have also succumbed to the charms of the dastardly duo. If this investigation is conducted honestly and fully, we stand a chance on ridding the Beltway of enough corruption to make the government sorta functional again. I feel kind of like I'm in a Disney movie and all my wishes are coming true. Redd has a lot more on this well worth reading.
Meanwhile, my favorite player so far in the unfolding drama is this scandal's obligatory blonde, Italia Federici. Here's a girl looking for a Hollywood contract. The compleat opportunist. Maybe she'll even get to play herself in the made for TV movie.
But I kind of like her spunk. She fronted for a GOP skeptic-based anti-environment agency, took a quarter of a mil in bribes and then skipped out on her appearance before a Senate Select Committee. McCain had to send the marshalls after her and as he said, her testimony was bizarre. One hopes he asked her to define decorum.
Pensito reports, "despite the continental sound of her name, Italia came off in the hearings as a product of American suburbia, an emanation in the same vibe as Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Kellyann Fitzpatrick and the late Barbara Olsen." But here's the delicious part. "She wrote at least one op-ed piece for GOPUSA, the propaganda “news” site that “employed” the Republican prostitute/reporter, Jeff Gannon."
What a story. It's got tabloid TV written all over it. And that's exactly what this story deserves. A 24/7 feeding frenzy would give it the stature it so richly deserves in the public eye.
posted by Libby Spencer at 7:37 PM
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