Clarification/Follow-up by Itsdb on 01/30/06 9:44 am:
tom,

Did you catch Howard the Dean on Fox yesterday?

WALLACE: I just want to ask you about this question of the Democratic involvement. I want to put up something from the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics. This comes directly from their Web page, and it says, "Here is a detailed look at Abramoff's lobbying and political contributions from Abramoff, the tribes that hired him, and SunCruz Casinos, which is a company that Abramoff owned since 1999."

It lists recipients by the amount of money they received. Well, the top two are the Republican campaign committees. The third and fourth biggest recipients were Democratic campaign committees. And if you go down the list, Democrats received more than $1 million from Abramoff-related interests.

DEAN: There's two points to this. First of all, actually, we — the DNC actually got $100,000-some odd. Now, I can assure you Jack Abramoff never directed that money. It is possible that some of Jack Abramoff's clients may have decided on their own to give Democrats money. The key is...

WALLACE: I'm sorry, did you say, I'm sorry. Did you say that you're sure that Abramoff didn't direct them to give that money?

DEAN: No, what I said was that it is possible that some Democrats got money from some of the — yeah. No, what I'm saying is that Abramoff may not have directed some of this money toward the Democrats.

WALLACE: In fact, he did, sir. We've got evidence of that.

DEAN: But the point is that not one Democrat either knew it or acted on it. Nobody got anything out of the Democrats from Jack Abramoff. No Democrat delivered anything, and there's no accusation and no investigation that any Democrat ever delivered anything to Jack Abramoff. And that's not true of the Republicans.

WALLACE: So if we find — and I just want to — we have to wrap this up. But if we find that there were some Democrats who wrote letters on behalf of some of the Indian tribes that Abramoff represented, then what do you say, sir?

DEAN: That's a big problem, and those Democrats are in trouble, and they should be in trouble. And our party, if the American people will put us back in power in 06, we will have on the president's desk things that outlaw all those kinds of behaviors. Right now it's a Republican scandal. Maybe they'll find that some Democrats did something wrong, too. That hasn't been the case yet.

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I almost wet my pants on that exchange. The look on Wallace's face when he interrupted with "I'm sorry, did you say...?" I think Dean gave about nine different answers, three in one breath. No - yeah - no. Then closing with a firm 'maybe.'

Too funny, and too sad.

Steve

Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 01/30/06 9:58 am:
yeah that is funny but I thought the topper this weekend was Cindy Sheehad saying that she wants to challenge Dianne Feinstein for her Cal. Senate seat. The left is feasting on their own ! Now Feinstein is going to have to waste valuable campaign resources to fight off this lunatic . Between George Soros ;Michael Moore ;and Hugo Chavez's petro-bucks I'm sure Sheehad is well funded .

and it's all Chris Matthews fault :

Matthews: "Are you considering running for Congress, Cindy?"

Sheehan: "No, not this time. I'm a one issue person. I know a lot about what's going on in Iraq but I don't know anything about anything else. And I want to focus my energy on bringing the troops home."

Matthews : "Okay. Well, I have to tell you, you sound more informed than most U.S. Congresspeople, so maybe you should run."

Clarification/Follow-up by Itsdb on 01/30/06 11:30 am:
Yeah, can't wait to see the Sheehan/Feinstein campaign :)