Discussion: House GOP Won't Give Back Cash From Abramoff's Ex-Con Former Business Partner

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Nice work here from Cameron in digging in and not letting go of this story.

Well done!

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What’s that old saying? Finder’s cheater’s?

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Of COURSE, they won’t. That whole ‘ethics, morals and values’ they try to shove down the Dems throats is just so much BS. They just hope you don’t notice.

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After loosing their biggest fund raisers to Dumpster fire, the GOP needs all the money it can get!

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And, don’t forget, Obama and Hillary both took money from Goldman Sachs! The horror, the horror.

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Money, of any kind…tainted,blood,hush,bribe,influence,insider,quid pro quo ,laundered…its all good to these folks.Without it their power is gone and they cant win on good ideas that benefit Americans.

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I can’t imagine why anyone would expect them to. Do you imagine they’re ethically superior to him in any way? He, at least, has paid for his crimes in a modest fashion.

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NRCC Chair Stivers: “Hey, how long would it take to figure out how much it would hurt us to give back donations from crooked businesspeople?”

NRCC Finance Mgr: “Not long. I’d only have to pull a couple dozen donations out of the total.”

NRCC Chair Stivers: "Only a couple dozen? Not bad! Let’s return all of them proactively, then, and make a big stink about some DNCC donor with a DUI or something.

NRCC Finance Mgr: [silent, gets a funny look on her face]

NRCC Chair Stivers: “What?”

NRCC Finance Mgr: “Those are the clean donors”

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The GOP is paid to lie and break the law.

Why should their funding be questioned?

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False equivalency from a GOP supporter?

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Of course they won’t. Why try and fake ethics now.

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Not to sound too much like the Old Geezer, but, “when I was a kid”, Republicans were at least patriots, and had no worse ethics than Democrats. (Well, Chicago Democrats, anyway.)

Them being the Party of Thugs, Lunatics, Grifters, and Sleaze is considered to be fairly recent.

But, many of these krazy killer klowns were alive and active back when. They did not spring full blown from Trump’s head.

It surely cannot be all due to talk radio and Fox News that they have emerged from their slime coated under-cellars? Or can it?

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“We were unaware of his history.
bullshit
We don’t condone his actions in any
way. We believe he’s paid his debt to society and have no plans to
refund at this time,” NRCC communications director Matt Gorman told TPM
in an emailed statement Friday afternoon.
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In the real world that money is as clean and fresh as if it were sprayed with Frebreze aaaaalllll over and as nicely laundered as is possible to be.

This is in your face money laundering with a “waddya gonna do about it?” chaser.

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Now here’s a blast from the past; one of the crooked Abramoff cronies who didn’t get investigated until the Democrats pried the Senate away from the GOP Cocksuckers in 2006 and could launch investigations.

I like how it’s “I don’t know this guy” NOW. But take my word for it, you give money in this quantity to a political party and they will remember your name FOREVER. I gave $15 to the Demiocrats just before Big Bill’s second term in 1996 and I was STILL getting hit up for money in 2006. That was TEN years and only 15 bucks.

The way the GOP Cocksuckers worship money do you expect me to believe they don’t know the name of a guy who gave them 50 large just because he got into trouble 12 years ago? Puh-leeze. I have two legs. Pull the other one.

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"We don’t condone his actions in any way. We believe he’s paid his debt to society and have no plans to refund at this time,”
he continued
“I’m sure everyone wouldn’t mind if they had money stolen from them and we used it ourselves instead of the original thief. The GOP is very familiar with conning people out of their money and this is not an issue that’s worth discussing.”

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Remembering the way TPM covered the Abramoff stuff, I have to think that Josh would have been on every Republican’s shit list. SO yeah BULLSHIT, they are just today’s Republican party

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Give it back?!? That’s the GOP’s base!

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Garrison Keillor’s comment on republicans!
“The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk. Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we’re deaf, dumb and dangerous.”

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Aren’t these the same guys who demanded Democrats give back money from Weinstein?

Fucking hypocrites.

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