{"id":968,"date":"2006-01-15T19:57:10","date_gmt":"2006-01-15T19:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:32","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:32","slug":"proving_that_de","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"Proving That De Nile…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…is not just a river in Egypt, here’s lemming-like partisan Duncan Black on Abramoff<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Democrats took no Abramoff campaign money. None.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Taking money from Indian tribes is not in and of itself illegal or unethical. Indian tribe money is not implicitly dirty money.<\/p>\n

\nTaking money from Indian tribes who were bilked and cheated by Abramoff does not mean that you yourself are guilty of bilking or cheating those tribes.<\/p>\n

\nThis stuff is not complicated. It’s very simple. People working in Washington for a long time certainly understand these things. Why they pretend to not understand them is a mystery.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Look. Abramoff was a GOP creature, without any plausible question or exception. He was a part and parcel of the immoral ‘K Street project,’ without question or exception. The GOP legislators, consultants, and staff who dined at his table deserve what they are going to get.<\/p>\n

But if you want to presume that the Republican legislators who got his personal cash were somehow less filthy than the Democratic ones who took his client’s cash, you’re morally blind.<\/p>\n

And if you don’t think that’s how the American people will see it, you’re politically blind as well.<\/p>\n

Then again, I am<\/i> talking about Atrios…<\/p>\n

I can’t figure it out. At what point does actually winning become a goal for these self-professed partisans? What, exactly, is the attraction of the cliff to them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…is not just a river in Egypt, here’s lemming-like partisan Duncan Black on Abramoff: Democrats took no Abramoff campaign money. None. Taking money from Indian tribes is not in and of itself illegal or unethical. Indian tribe money is not implicitly dirty money. Taking money from Indian tribes who were bilked and cheated by Abramoff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}