Via Media Lies comes this tidbit from WaPo. It seems that Jack Abramoff went to the unprecedented step of actually advising his clients where to put campaign contributions. Furthermore, he did so based on those clients best legislative interests!
And they paid this guy? I wonder if they ever bothered to ask if Abramoff was really doing what he is hired to do.
Lobby: a group of people who try actively to influence legislation
According to WaPo, Abramoff advised the Louisiana Coushatta tribe to give campaign contributions to not just five Republicans, but three Democrats as well, including Max Cleland, Jean Carnahan, and Tom Daschle.
If nothing else it rather dismantles the argument that Abramoff's contributions and those of his clients are somehow totally seperated politically, morally, and ethically.
I suppose the next argument will be that the tribes didn't want to give money to Democrats. Abramoff insisted though, on direct orders from Karl Rove, who instinctively knew that Democrats would cliff dive the contribution issue, thus paving the way to use it against the perfectly innocent if overzealous do-gooders, to further his ultimate goal of world domination.
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