Posted on 03/08/2006 1:56:41 PM PST by indcons
"You're really no one in this town unless you haven't met me," Jack Abramoff tells Vanity Fair contributing editor David Margolick. Such lies are not just lies, but dumb to boot-"This is not an age when you can run away from facts. I had to deal with my records, and others will have to deal with theirs."
An insider tells Margolick that Abramoff blames competing Republican lobbyists and Arizona Senator John McCain-with whom Abramoff says he's had a contentious relationship-for his downfall. Abramoff tells Margolick that McCain staffers deliberately humiliated him, doling out embarrassing e-mails to the press.
"Mr. Abramoff flatters himself," Mark Salter, McCain's administrative assistant, tells Margolick. "Senator McCain was unaware of his existence until he read initial press accounts of Abramoff's abuses, and had never laid eyes on him until he appeared before the committee."
Abramoff says, "As best I can remember, when I met with him, he didn't have his eyes shut. I'm surprised that Senator McCain has joined the chorus of amnesiacs."
Abramoff is well aware of his peril: "In a different era I'd be killed on the street or have poison poured into my coffee," he tells Margolick.
Abramoff embarrassingly admits to gaining 50 pounds due to stress and tells Margolick that sending him to prison is "stupid," saying, "Let me teach English, history, music. Or let me sweep floors at the reservation. Instead you'll be paying to feed me to sit in a jail."
"I was a killer. I killed for my clients, and it eventually killed me," Abramoff tells Margolick. "Or I eventually killed me. And there were a lot of other hands on the knife."
(Excerpt) Read more at drudgereport.com ...
ABRAMOFF: 'I WAS A KILLER'
No, but we can stick you in a jail cell with one.
What a drama queen.
Jack was syphoning off some of McCain's Indian money?
He just looks crooked.
He looks like a 50's KGB goon.
Abramoff is well aware of his peril: "In a different era I'd be killed on the street or have poison poured into my coffee," he tells Margolick.
We called that the Clinton Era.
It's the hat. It makes him look like Boris from Rocky & Bullwinkle.
tells Margolick that sending him to prison is "stupid," saying, "Let me teach English, history, music. Or let me sweep floors at the reservation. Instead you'll be paying to feed me to sit in a jail."
“Killer” sounds ready to cry like a bitch.
He probably shouldn't talk like that while the SunCruz stories are still floating around.
-PJ
LMAO...excellent!!!
Good point..there was some actual killing in that case. By one of Abramoff's erstwhile partners.
lol, so true.
I still back Abramoff on this.
He did nothing wrong.
He gave Indian money to both sides, as a lobbyist, to gain their favor in future contracts they might apply for. The money is on record.
That is what lobbyists do.
It seems to me the reason Abramoff was targeted was because he was non-partisan.
You're right...both sides received money from him. This is certainly not a Republican scandal.
Abramoff is bandwagon material.
He's out, and we should all be thankful. Time to move on.
Who ya gonna trust, Jack or Tom?
Abramoff has “admired Tom DeLay and his family from the first meeting with him,” he tells Margolick. “We would sit and talk about the Bible. We would sit and talk about opera. We would sit and talk about golf,” Abramoff recalls. “I mean, we talked about philosophy and politics.”
“The reality is, Jack Abramoff and I were not close personal friends” - Tom Delay
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