Crooks and Liars has a video of this exchange. It is, well, uh, funny!The following is a rather paraphrased transcript:
NWAnews.com :: Northwest Arkansas' News Source:
Gene Lyons:"Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean shocked poor Wolf Blitzer almost speechless during a recent appearance on CNN's 'The Situation Room.'
'Should Democrats who took money from Jack Abramoff, who has now pleaded guilty to bribery charges... give that money to charity or give it back ?' Blitzer wanted to know.
'There are no Democrats who took money from Jack Abramoff,' Dean answered. 'Not one, not one single Democrat. Every person named in this scandal is a Republican. Every person under investigation is a Republican. Every person indicted is a Republican. This is a Republican finance scandal. There is no evidence that Jack Abramoff ever gave any Democrat any money.... I know the Republican National Committee would like to get the Democrats involved in this. They're scared. They should be scared. They haven't told the truth.'
But, but, but, Blitzer sputtered, what about Sen. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota ? Indeed, Dorgan did accept legal campaign donations from American Indian tribes that Abramoff represented while privately referring to their leaders as 'morons' and 'troglodytes' and swindling them for lobbying services he never performed.
It's for putting things so bluntly that Dean is often derided as a wild man. In this instance, however, he's right. See, Abramoff wasn't just any GOP lobbyist. 'Casino Jack,' as he was widely known, was the king of the K Street lobbyists and the principal financier of the 'Republican revolution' 'an insider's insider"
Link: http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Editorial/142264/
Are there any crooked Democrats? Sure. (In fact, expect one from the Gulf Coast to get indicted any time now.) But the Happy Jack problem is Republican made, Republican bred, and, apparently, Christian blessed. And it'll be a Republican scandal when we are all dead.
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