Monday, October 16, 2006
if you lie down with the dogs...
From the New York Times:
Many of you may recognize that sublimely Orwellian name, as that 527's now running commercials attacking Joe Donnelly on tax issues (ironically, many of the charges in the commercial are, in fact, dishonest).
So now that Chocola's in trouble and desperate, we get to see who his truest friends are, the ones that come to his aid when in need. And wouldn't ya know, they're also the bosom buddies of indicted Republican House Majority Leader Tom Delay and convicted felon/Enron CEO Ken Lay, the very faces of political and corporate corruption in this most mucky of periods in American political history.
And dare we forget, of course, that this isn't the first time the Count's campaign has relied on shysters to snipe at Joe. Remember those ads by the Economic Freedom Fund? Well...:
Would you trust a man with friends like these?
The group, Americans for Honesty on Issues, is spending more than $1 million on the advertisements, which accuse Democratic candidates of carpetbagging, coddling illegal immigrants, being soft on crime and advocating cutting off money for troops in Iraq.
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The leader of Americans for Honesty on Issues is Sue Walden, a close ally of Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader who left Congress amid questions on ethics and fund-raising. Ms. Walden has also raised money for President Bush and served as an adviser to Kenneth L. Lay, the former chief executive of Enron who died in July.
She referred a call seeking comment to Glenn M. Willard, a lawyer with Patton Boggs in Washington, who drew up the papers establishing the organization. Mr. Willard confirmed that Ms. Walden was the nominal head of the committee, but he declined to identify the group’s donors or say how much it planned to spend."
Many of you may recognize that sublimely Orwellian name, as that 527's now running commercials attacking Joe Donnelly on tax issues (ironically, many of the charges in the commercial are, in fact, dishonest).
So now that Chocola's in trouble and desperate, we get to see who his truest friends are, the ones that come to his aid when in need. And wouldn't ya know, they're also the bosom buddies of indicted Republican House Majority Leader Tom Delay and convicted felon/Enron CEO Ken Lay, the very faces of political and corporate corruption in this most mucky of periods in American political history.
And dare we forget, of course, that this isn't the first time the Count's campaign has relied on shysters to snipe at Joe. Remember those ads by the Economic Freedom Fund? Well...:
Among the most active Republican 527 groups is the Economic Freedom Fund, which was formed this year and received a $5 million contribution from Bob J. Perry, a major Bush donor and an underwriter of the Swift boat veterans group in 2004.
Would you trust a man with friends like these?
