[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Yadda yadda yadda, blah blah blah. 'Abramoff' has become a rallying cry for these idiots in the media.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but....... This guy isn't and never was a bush-aide, was he?

[upchuck]

This guy isn't and never was a bush-aide, was he?

What guy you talking about?

[jveritas]

The guy probably never met President Bush but the defeated and desperate liberal media call him Bush-Aide.

[xcamel]

Nice spin from PMSNBC
//false, but accurate//

[Logical me]

Wow, imagine that. Convicted of lying and obstructing justice. I thought every politician in Washington does this as a matter of routine.

[BurtSB]

Thew guy was a typical mid-level bureaucrat in the interior dept. I filed a complaint about SRN news peddle this lie
on my local station . The management agreed and sent off an email to SRN asking them why they issued that story .Like they did n't know the reason already .

[TexKat]

According to the Washington Post Procurement chief David H. Safavian was the Bush administration's top federal procurement official.

[nonliberal]

lying and obstructing justice

In other words "behaving like a DemocRAT."

[H. Paul Pressler IV]

A DC Jury.

Surprise, Surprise!!

[bvw]

Chump change in comparison to what we got hit up for by Jamie Gorelick and her charmed circle. Jamie -- second at Justice under Janet's skirts, author of The Wall, by which Bin Ladin was hidden from view. Jamie -- at Fannie Mae, while the books were cooked and the big cookies doled out. Jamie, Director of Unitied Technolgies. Jamie, whose presence compromised the whole 911 commission. But Jamie, the thermometer of institutional corruption that makes anything Abramoff did look like a dinner table toothpick next to a sequoia trunk.

[Liberty Valance]

[ccmay]

Not much of an aide. A better term would be "Bush appointee". This is one of the many Presidential nominations that the Senate has to approve, since they are political patronage jobs not covered by the Civil Service rules.

According to the OMB organization chart, he reports to the Deputy Director for Management, who reports to the Director, who theoretically reports to the President-- but in fact deals more with his chief of staff and other "real" Presidential aides, as well as Congressional committees.

The Senate approves 4,000 such jobs each term, the vast majority of which are second and third tier bureaucrats like this man, and most of whom are unknown to the President. Quite possibly he has never met Mr. Bush; in fact, it seems plausible to me that his boss has never met the President.

-ccm