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Abramoff scandal is Republican scandal nothing more!

Source: Salon.com News & Politics | War Room:

The Abramoff scandal: It's a Republican thing

We don't often look to the National Review as a place where truth is spoken to power, but NR editor Rich Lowry is out with a column today in which he puts the lie to GOP claims that the Jack Abramoff scandal is somehow an equal-opportunity, bipartisan affair.

"It is true that any Washington influence peddler is going to spread cash and favors as widely as possible, and 210 members of Congress have received Abramoff-connected dollars," Lowry writes. "But this is, in its essence, a Republican scandal, and any attempt to portray it otherwise is a misdirection. Abramoff is a Republican who worked closely with two of the country's most prominent conservative activists, Grover Norquist and Ralph Reed. Top aides to the most important Republican in Congress, Tom DeLay, were party to his sleazy schemes. The only people referred to directly in Abramoff's recent plea agreement are a Republican congressmen and two former Republican congressional aides. The GOP members can make a case that the scandal reflects more the way Washington works than the unique perfidy of their party, but even this is self-defeating, since Republicans run Washington."

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