Conrad Burns: Another "Ethical" GOP-on-Everyone Who Sold Taxpayers to Lobbyists

From the AssPress and it's a beaut:

WASHINGTON — Montana Sen. Conrad Burns has retained a lawyer who specializes in white collar crime and congressional investigations, his campaign confirmed Tuesday.

Campaign spokesman Jason Klindt said that Burns has hired Ralph Caccia, a Washington partner with the law firm Powell Goldstein.

Montana Democrats have played up Burns links to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who pleaded guilty as part of a federal corruption investigation earlier this year. Abramoff is cooperating with prosecutors investigating influence-peddling on Capitol Hill.

Burns received about $150,000 in campaign donations from Abramoff and his associates, which he has since donated or returned. In March, Abramoff told Vanity Fair magazine that his lobbying firm got "every appropriation we wanted" from Burns' Senate committee, adding that his staff members were "as close as they could be" with the Montana Republican's staff.

Burns has maintained that he was not influenced by Abramoff and says he has not been contacted by the Justice Department.

Oh, of course, Senator Burns was not influenced. He just happened to want to give Abramoff everthing Abramoff wanted.

And, also of course, Sen. Burns has not been contacted by the Justice Department because Attorney General Al Gonzales is ALSO bought and paid for by lobbyists like Abramoff and is nothing more than a brown-nosing shill for Mr. Bush.