Left In Lowell

I haven’t written anything about the Jack Abramoff scandal yet, and such a huge scandal it is fast becoming. Popular dKos diarist Kagro X puts the whole shebang into its proper perspective - it’s starting to look like Abramoff is more like a mafia boss - with crooked ties into half the Republican legislators, front groups, and the Christian Coalition - in order to run an old-fashioned protection racket, only with Abramoff “protecting” clients, like the Indian casinos he’s represented and stolen money from, from government regulation he had a hand in lobbying for in the first place. And then getting a Justice Dept prosecutor demoted when he was about to investigate the allegations.

I predict, when Abramoff goes down, he takes a lot of people, like DeLay, with him. It will be the national equivalent of the current Ohio GOP scandal which is killing the Republican party there. Let’s hope it’s sooner rather then later, because this country can’t afford to be run like a mafia for long.