4.15.2006

Lawmakers Make Great Prisoners?

Read this and tell me whether you shake your head as much as I did. From AP:

U-S Senator Tom Coburn isn't naming names, but he expects six congressmen and a fellow senator will go to jail.That's because he thinks they'll be facing corruption charges following investigations involving lobbyist Jack Abramoff and others.

Speaking at a town hall meeting in Wagoner last night, Coburn said that "if you've been keeping up with things, you've got a pretty good idea" of who the seven lawmakers are.

The Oklahoma Republican says members of both parties have been involved in questionable dealings.

The remarks were made in relation to his attempts to curb "earmarking," which is the practice of inserting appropriations for specific projects into unrelated bills.
Any idea who he's talking about?

And while I don't and won't dismiss the notion that some Dems are as unclean as Reps in general, almost all the dirty money of Abramoff's went specifically to Republicans. The lobbyist gravy train was specifically managed, increased, and mismanaged under people like DeLay and Santorum. So I don't buy that (m)any Dems are going down for Abramoff.