Lowry at the National Review: It's a REPUBLICAN scandal

I found this via the dailykos. Here's the important stuff:

Republicans are looking for "their" John McCain. The popular Arizona maverick is already a Republican, of course. But the GOP needs a McCain in the "Keating Five" sense. Back in 1990, Senate Democrats roped McCain into the scandal over savings and loan kingpin Charles Keating on tenuous grounds, just so not all the senators involved would be Democrats.

The GOP now craves such bipartisan cover in the Jack Abramoff scandal.

Republicans trumpet every Democratic connection to Abramoff in the hope that something resonates. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.), took more than $60,000 from Abramoff clients! North Dakota Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan used Abramoff's skybox! It is true that any Washington influence peddler is going to spread cash and favors as widely as possible, and 210 members of Congress have received Abramoff-connected dollars. But this is, in its essence, a Republican scandal, and any attempt to portray it otherwise is a misdirection. [emphasis added]

Can someone please tell Fred Honsberger? He's been trumpeting (for days) the Republican party line about the "contributions he [Ambramoff] or his clients made to Democrats." [emphasis added]

If someone at the National frickin' Review says that it's misdirection to portray the Abramoff scandal as anything other than a Republican scandal, we can be pretty sure that that's exactly what Freddo's doing.

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