* " The campaign finance watchdog Democracy 21, for instance, is calling for inquiries by the House and Senate ethics committees into whether three dozen other members of Congress received contributions in exchange for intervening on behalf of a client of Mr. Abramoff." (link)
umm - thats 7% of congresscritters. so much fun!
* in other news, " No fewer than 171 Members received contributions from Abramoff." (link)
* today i learnt that mark zaid is one of sibel's lawyers. zaid is also the lawyer for that cheesy-looking abledanger guy - tony someone?
* earlier i mentioned Blink escaping into iraq in the dead of night 2 years ago and the stupid "BA pilot story" - i thought that the anniversary would go unmentioned, but atrios did me one better. (link)
* " The Daily Mirror claims to have told 10 Downing Street that it intended to publish the (bomb Aj-Jazz) story, and claims that no one there tried to wave them off. But the next day the government is invoking the O.S.A. If someone close to Blair wanted to stick it to GWB, that would be about the right sequence, wouldn't it? First leak the story, then let it go forward, and then refuse to comment and invoke the O.S.A. so as to (1) appear to be trying to plug the leak, thus pleasing Washington and (2) actually broadcasting to the entire world that the contents of the leak were accurate." (link)
* its amazing that the Anybody But Bush campaign didnt work last eyar - but id have to think ABB would be successful now...
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