Wednesday, January 25, 2006

I know you are but what am I?

From the Daily Muck, we see that Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mon.) is fighting back against those nasty Democrats who are pointing out that he and Abramoff were pretty tight. He has an ad in which he makes some pretty bizarre claims. As Paul Kiel goes on to say:

And here it gets much better, as Burns takes a GOP talking point and spins it into a complete absurdity:

"Plus they're [the Dem attack ads] paid for by the same Democrats who took money from Jack Abramoff's clients."

Those Democrats and their Abramoff money! The attack ads he's refuting were paid for by Montana Democratic Party. The Party received one $5K contribution from the Agua Caliente tribe, an Abramoff client. Burns took $5K from Abramoff and his wife and $5K from Abramoff's gambling boat company SunCruz, as part of the nearly $150K that he received from Abramoff and his tribal clients. I don't think it's in Burns' interest to get into a back and forth on who took Abramoff's money.

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