Wanted: Face time with President Bush or top adviser Karl Rove. Suggested donation: $100,000. The middleman: lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Blunt e-mails that connect money and access in Washington show that prominent Republican activist Grover Norquist facilitated some administration contacts for Abramoff’s clients while the lobbyist simultaneously solicited those clients for large donations to Norquist’s tax-exempt group.
Those who were solicited or landed administration introductions included foreign figures and American Indian tribes, according to e-mails gathered by Senate investigators and federal prosecutors or obtained independently by The Associated Press.
“Can the tribes contribute $100,000 for the effort to bring state legislatures and those tribal leaders who have passed Bush resolutions to Washington?” Norquist wrote Abramoff in one such e-mail in July 2002.
2006-10-27 14:15:19
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answered by dstr 6
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....the strategy is working for Bush. Their plan is going along smoothly. As they line their pockets with oil money, they rape, sack, and pillage the American system of government. Who in the world looks up to us now? We stand practically alone on the world stage in shame, invading countries, torturing prisoners, illegal interrogation camps, stealing elections, threatening our fellow citizens with treason if they disagree, bullying other countries. When will it end?
2006-10-27 21:31:43
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answered by michaelsan 6
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If you remember mission accomplished.
What we have now is the Army protecting Contractors. That will last as long as the no bid open end contracts.
Go big Red Go
2006-10-27 21:43:17
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answered by Anonymous
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If its not working why are the terrorists upping the insurgency as elections near. If we are creating so many terrorists, wouldn't the terrorists want to keep the Republicans?
2006-10-27 21:22:10
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answered by John 3
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How's John Kerry doing these days?
2006-10-27 21:16:54
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answered by Mom of One in Wisconsin 6
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Civil war.
2006-10-27 21:30:07
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answered by Anonymous
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Lots of armchair commander-in-chiefs out there.
2006-10-27 21:25:06
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answered by Anonymous
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Who says it is working?
2006-10-27 21:17:47
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answered by Anonymous
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