Friends, it looks like we WILL have Jack Abramoff to kick around some more!

Product Description [from Amazon]

The name Jack Abramoff is synonymous with Washington scandal, but the fascinating facts of his case are either largely unknown or wildly misunderstood. His memoir will serve as a corrective -- an engrossing, informative work of political nonfiction that is also a gripping real-life thriller. The biggest surprise twist comes in the form of Abramoff himself, a smart, funny, charming, clear-eyed narrator who confounds every expectation of the media's villainous portrait. He's a perfect bundle of contradictions: an Orthodox Jew and upstanding family man with a staunch moral streak, caught in multiple scandals of bribery and corruption with an undercurrent of murder. Abramoff represented Indian tribes whose lucrative casinos were constantly under threat from proposed changes in law; though he charged the tribes many millions, he saved them billions by ensuring votes to support the livelihoods of their reservations. Much of Jack's share was funneled not into his own coffers, but to charities. Abramoff on the front pages could not be further from the Jack Abramoff who's ready to tell his honest and compelling story.

by Ken

What, you say you're still breathlessly turning pages in Dick Cheney's tome of crap? Well, shake it, friend, because November 14 is closing in on us. That's the date when WND Books dumps this turd on an all-too-deserving public. Learn about Casino Jack's "Staunch moral streak." Hear how he got "caught in multiple scandals," apparently the way you or I might get "caught" in an unexpected thundershower, or "caught" in unexpectedly heavy traffic. Understand how whatever he did, if by chance he happened to do anything (have you already forgotten about that "staunch moral streak"? and he sure didn't fleece those Native American tribes, nossirree!), was done for the benefit of charities.

Well, heck, it's worth a shot on his part, isn't it? I mean, after all, it isn't as if he corrupted the entire Congress -- most of those bozos were precorrupted or ready to take the plunge before our Jack worked his, er, magic on them. Although now we know it was in the interest of saving livelihoods on the reservations. Is it possible that the country has so little memory that he could actually get away with this crock?

Wait, what did I just ask? "Is it possible that the country has so little memory that . . . ?" Sorry, I don't know what I was thinking.

Anyway, here's our WaPo "In the Loop" pal Al Kamen's take:

Large scandal, extra cheese

Former pizza-parlor worker Jack Abramoff has a new dish to serve: He’s hawking a book.

Abramoff, who might as well add the phrase “disgraced superlobbyist” to his legal name, has written a tome that promises to be, according to a publisher’s blurb, a “corrective” account of his much-chronicled scandal, our colleague Emily Heil reports.

Publishing sources say Abramoff had been shopping around a first-person telling of his rise to the top ranks of the Washington influence game — and his epic fall, which included a stint in federal prison for fraud, corruption and conspiracy. After several major houses passed on the project, Abramoff finally found a publisher in WND Books, which turns out a number of fine titles, including “Where’s the Birth Certificate: The Case that Obama Is Ineligible to Be President” and “Climategate: a Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam.”

Well, why not? After all, it seems we’ve heard Abramoff’s story from everyone but the ex-lobbyist himself. The oeuvre, in addition to countless media articles, includes books such as Peter Stone’s “Casino Jack and the United States of Money,” which was turned into a hilarious 2010 movie starring Kevin Spacey in the title role.

But the Abramoff-penned book — “Capitol Punishment” — is said to offer new details to set it apart from the well-trod ground in the existing accounts.“The fascinating facts of his case are either largely unknown or wildly misunderstood,” the blurb on Amazon teases (you can pre-order now, but the publishing date isn’t until Nov. 14).

Abramoff has been keeping a low profile since leaving federal prison in June of last year after serving three and a half years. Post-clink, the once highflying Abramoff lived in a halfway house and worked at a kosher pizza joint in North Baltimore.

We’re guessing he’ll have to ditch the low-key routine once he hits the book-signing circuit.

Oh, I think so, Al. Our Jack'll be on the tube selling books with anyone who'll have him, displaying that "staunch moral streak." Let me know when it's over.

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