BUSH REFUSES TO EXPLAIN ALL THE COZY LITTLE VISITS ABRAMOFF MADE TO THE WHITE HOUSE

Bush's chief flack, Scotty McClellan (a.k.a. "Mrs. Guckert/Gannon"), admits that confessed Republican briber Jack Abramoff has been spending time in the White House but he absolutely refuses to say who Abramoff was bribing meeting with there. Nor will he come clean with the details about which of his clients or schemes he wanted to talk to Bush and his staff about. He would only admit that Abramoff was in the White House for 2 or 3-- Scotty can't seem to get it (or anything else) straight-- Hanukkah parties and "some" staff meetings. But whether Abramoff was playing spin the bottle with Scotty and Rove or spin the dreidel with Bush and Cheney, the fact stands: one of the biggest bribers in American political history contributed at least $100,000 to Bush (but probably MUCH, MUCH more) and perhaps millions of dollars to Tom DeLay and other corrupt Republican politicians (including all 3 scumbags running to replace the disgraced DeLay as Republican House Majority Leader), and the White House refuses to say what he was doing there and what he was asking for or who he was meeting with. (Bush, in a typically half-assed acknowledgment that he's been caught with his hands in the cookie jar (or coke stash) again, donated $6,000 of the Abramoff loot to a charity.)


NOON UPDATE: HOW MUCH DID ABRAMOFF KICK BACK TO BUSH FOR THE $25,000 LUNCHES ABRAMOFF SET UP FOR BUSH WITH WEALTHY CLIENTS?

Funny; a couple months ago Jack Abramoff was one of the most powerful men in Washington-- even acting as an intermediary between Bush and foreign heads of state, as well as calling the tunes that dozens of Republican congressmen and at least 2 or 3 senators (Conrad Burns and Jim Talent) were dancing to. Now everyone in Washington swears they never met him, wouldn't recognize him if he sat on their heads and took a dump-- which is pretty much what he is doing right now, as a matter of fact. Anyway, one of the crookedest of all the slimy Republican politicians to have taken bribes from Abramoff was none other than incurious George (who claims to have either never have met the man or to have only met him in large gatherings).

According to a very informative story in the TEXAS OBSERVER by Lou Dubose, "The Pimping of the Presidency, Bush Pioneer Abramoff (who had also been appointed to an Interior Department job by Bush; that's the department that looks after the Indian tribes' problems), charged at least two of his clients $25,000 each for meetings he set up between them and Bush. Don't ask me why but for some reason the White House will not say how much of the $25,000 per head fees Abramoff kicked back to Bush and if the bribe money went to Bush personally or was just part of the campaign "contributions" Abramoff-- who Bush never met, probably by next week never even heard of-- kept flowing into BushCheney and GOP coffers.