Abramoff Reports to Prison; Officials Focus on Reid, Others

Typical, Rep get nailed, Dems got off

Here’s a surprise… Harry Reid is corrupt. Next you are going to tell me that Sen. Byrd is a racist who was part of the KKK (notice the sarcasm). I say get rid of all of the corrupt members of Congress from ALL parties, not just the Republicans. Wake up America, the Republicans are not the only party with corrupt members. The difference is that when a Republican gets caught, they at least do the right thing and resign.

Typical, corrupt Reps trying to drag Dems with them.

It will be interesting to see if the media attacks the dirty dems with the same ferocity as they do dirty republicans. Somehow I doubt they will.

That’s funny. News about Harry Reid’s “interesting” land deal was out there weeks before the election. ABC and others determined that it wasn’t important enough to report on. Now that the election is over, this is becoming news. I’m glad ABC and others have no agenda.

The liberal media completely igneored the $1 million Bribe that Reid took from his land developer friend in Las Vegas which did make the news breiefly before the election but was over shadowed by big gay foley’s e-mails in the libturd news. Now it turns out reid was taking big bribes from Abramoff as well.
Maybe Lincoln Jeffords has room in his freezer for Harry’s cash as well.

boxer and pelosi and/or their family members worked for indian casino in calif.

I could not have said it any better…Ditto

Great reporting Brian Ross. This has been known for a long time, of course you, MSM, only start to promote AFTER the mid-term elections. You hypocrite.

Of course none of this information was known prior to election day? hmmmmm….

Why did you wait until after the election to break this news!?

I find in funny that Brian Ross breaks this story on Reid AFTER the elections…..hmmmmm…..

Of course for every corrupt Democrat taking 100,000 dollars, there are usually ten corrupt Republicans, each taking 1,000,000 dollars.
It is about the average numbers, not about exceptions. On the average, the Democrats are 10 times more ethical than GOP.

yeah, like ney did the right thing?? idiots

Here’s a tip for B.R.: Pelosi has undocumanted workers at her vineyard and non-union workers. Go get ‘em Sherlock.

I demand that ABC gleefully publishes the text messages between these two!

and if Ross and ABC didn’t have this info before the election I am the tooth fairy!

Of course this will not count as part of “the most ethical congress” in history claims by the Dems as they begin to hang themselves. Where was this for the past few weeks/months?? How convenient.

At least Conrad Burns gave the money back. What has Corrupt Politician posterchild Harry Reid done?

Amazing how all that enfo about the corrupt DEMS managed to stay out of the news until AFTER the electon. And the MSM wonders why their numbers are so far BEHIND FOX NEWS. Because you lie and omit and obfuscate and shill for the DEMORATS and you do not even try to hide it anymore. Congratulations. This election cycle proved this once and for all.
ABC,CBS,CNN,NBC,MSNBC I refuse to watch and stopped when CNN felt it okay to show snipers killing American soldiers but wont even call them terrorist. would not want to hurt their little feelings.
GO TO HELL
BEth

Status Quo anyone? If a Republican steps on an ant he is anti-environment, but a Dem must rape and pillage before you hear more than a peap in the media.

I agree, I agree, I agree, however, Republicans have become fat and happy. I gave the NRCC 5k in hopes of them winning. They have gone far away from the days of Gingrich and the “Contract with America”. They re-elected Lott, who is nothing more than a yes/no boy for the Dems. He’s the primary reason Clinton didn’t get removed from office. The Republicans have forgotten their base. America is not to blame for Dems winning. Republicans are.

Reid, Murtha and Pelosi are a part of the “Axis of Corruption.” Oh the so called “investigations” are going to go both ways, Thank God.. Corruption runs deep in both parties; but much deeper in the Dems court.
We were spared Hurricans this year, but the hurricane to destroy America happened during this election. I call it “AMERICA THE STUPID[ful].”

Exactly. In fact they take it one step further and instead of resigning, they slander other officials for completely irrelevant reasons and that are completely uninvolved with the same scenario just to pass the blame. But such is politics. We can only pray for the day when we can vote for a person based on their policy and ability to stay true to their word and not for how well they can pass the blame of their mistakes.

Term Limits anyone? Senators and Representatives are to be Statesmen, not career politicians with their hands in the till.

Harry Reid has dirty hands–and everyone knew it before the election.

Reid, Murtha and Pelosi are a part of the “Axis of Corruption.” Oh the so called “investigations” are going to go both ways, Thank God.. Corruption runs deep in both parties; but much deeper in the Dems court.
We were spared Hurricans this year, but the hurricane to destroy America happened during this election. I call it “AMERICA THE STUPID[ful].”

How could a senator from Nevada have a legitimate interest in casinos?

Let’s see here, Nanci Polosi supports an ethics challanged Murtha for a House leadership spot, Reid, who makes money on land deals and now this. Um, is it no wonder why for the first time in 30 years I chose not to vote? The entire congress is a scam. So sorry to say. I have finally given up. Senators and Reps are only there for themselves.

How about Reid’s bridge to his property in Arizona? How much will he make off of that pork? How many sons of Reid are Lobbyists? Scratch that itch Ross.

Once again, the media should be ashamed of themselves for the way they covered the Abramoff scandal. It denotes arrogance and ignorance to supplant the truth with ones own partisan beliefs.

I agree Bo. Paul is typical of people making ignorant statements without facts to back them up. This article doesn’t even address the millions that Reid made a few years ago in real estate. He didn’t report the cash until he was caught. The media didn’t cover that either.

I am sure we will see Reid resign sometime soon…. won’t we?

Where were you Mr. Ross before the election? Why didn’t you run these stories after the election? Perfect case of a Univ.of Iowa inferiority complex coming through! How come you didn’t tell people before the election about the following:
Foley – Resigned.. for salacious IMs.
It was right he resigned but do a google and see 10,500 results.. yet during the same Mainstream Media bias ing the public about the bad GOP, why not tell people about William Jefferson the Demo who is on tape taking a $100,000 bribe.
Google 805 results.
Or how about Bob Ney GOP RESIGNED
Results 1 – 100 of about 4,400 for Bob Ney. But at the same time, when Ney RESIGNED we still have in office:
Kennedy – drowned girl
Alcee Hastings- impeached Judge for taking Bribes
Murtha – still in office on ABSCAM tapes for bribes.
Franks – having a male prostitution ring running out of his D.C. house still in office.
Studds – now dead but when in office ASSAULTED A 17 YR OLD PAGE and the democrat congress applauded him when he won re-election!
So the point I’m making here is all you’ve done by NOW COMING out with these stories is reinforce my suspicions as well as a lot of other people as evidenced by declining viewer/readers as we are getting our FACTS from less biased sources.
Thanks for putting the integrity and honest of the journalism courses I took at Iowa where we learned “reporters don’t make the news…they report the news” as william Paley said. Please simply tell the truth and not manage the truth.

We’ll just wait a few years and see what the “corruption free” democrats look like. just remember that absolute power corrupts absoloutely

steve: so corruption depends on the amount you recieve…..lol

What’s next? Election fraud? Oh yes, the democrats didn’t lose so there wasn’t any election fraud.

A convicted flon says Reid is corrupt because he took campain contributions from Indian groups. Republicans jump at the bait and howl about ‘liberal media bias’ since it was not reported prior to the elections. How utterly predictable.
Well here’s a news flash: Reid took campaign contributions from Indian groups long before Abramoff was in the picture. He was a ranking member of the Indain Affairs committee for years. It is not unusual or unethical for congressmen to get campaign contributions from groups who are directly impacted by that congressperson’s committee assignments.
What is unethical is a quid pro quo arrangement. And there is no evidence of that at all. THAT is a Republican speciality.

You mean Brian Ross didn’t know anything about this before the election? Mr. “investigative-reporter Ross,” knew nothing about this…? Please,….ABC and all of the other liberal networks had information about Dingy Harry Reid and the other Democratic Senators that will be implicated in the scandal long before now.

How dare they insinuate Harry Reid is corrupt when he took $$$ from Abrahamoff; he was owed that money for the political favors he did for good ole Abe; the letters of solicitation favor for Abe from the Indian Tribes shoul not be held against ever so crooked Harry; he is kind of special don’t you know, after all he is the big kahona of the Dems in the Senate and openly gets out in front of the micriphones and tells us how innocent his taking of the money is. Like the profits from developers he forgot to remember the land sold and still recoreded on his Senate Financial statement as his; then collects over a cool million from the developer years later for his mysterious eeal making…Poooor Harry. Harry, Harry, Harry, it’s your time to do time.

Paul, what do you mean the justice system has no Liberal bias. How do you think the democrats were able to pass all of their stuff off on us over the past 6 years!

Umm…okay…help me understand something. Abramoff is a Republican, right? Of course, as a Republican he is going to implicate his fellow Republicans before implicating a Democrat?! You mean to tell me, that if Reid obviously broke the law, it wouldn’t have been dug out by the neo-cons BEFORE the election?! Seriously…this whole Republican-Democrat blind loyalty is getting so old. Do any of you who reply here EVER think an independant thought outside of your party affiliation? Lemmings!

So now the DEMS have Reid – guilty of corrupt land deals, and illegal campaign money. Byrd – ex-KKK. Kennedy – got off for murder. Murtha – Abscam. Bary Franks – Gay protstitution ring in his house. Hillary – Whitewater…and many more. What a leadership group.

All we can hope for is that every one of the politicians that took bribes, including Reid and Murtha, get the same deal Spiro Agnew did, resign immediately or almost certainly go to jail.

Thad Cochrane may be the only honest senator

Funny how the mainstream media thinks this is news AFTER the election, I read about this months ago on the internet and Harry has alot more bones buried in the backyard……

Too bad the US Congress won’t allow recall elections against themselves…and in 2 years the Sheeple will have forgotten this and go along to re-elect them over and over.

Poor bob, he and Paul must be drinking the same kool-aid. Abrhamoff is only the one “chosen” of the corrupt lobbyists in DC. Since he seemed to go where the power is/was, the GOP, that is what the MSM touted. Now that Abrhamoff is starting to talk DNC, known for months, it is only the tip of the lobbyist iceberg. If they choose to clean up the rest of the lobbyists. Otherwise their mission, RNC defeat, has been accomplished.

Wow – fascinating reading these comments. I don’t know if Harry Reid is corrupt or not – if he is, then he should be gone, regardless of his courage in standing up to the bullying Republican majority, but the sore losers in the soon-to-be minority need to get a grip!

Why are we hearing about this now? Why wasn’t this brought out BEFORE the Election?

Steve- propoganda for WHO, exactly? The Democrats? Please. Spare me that “lib’rul bias of the media” myth.
They provide a specific number and a big name for the Dems, but NOT for the Republicans?
You’re right, that’s called GOP propoganda.

Ah ! All the Free Republic crazies have come out of the woodwork !!

You comments section does not consider s.bard@comcast.net becuase of the imbedded period in “s.bard”, even though it is my valid email address. Oh, well…

Harry Reid is a clone of the US Senator from Nevada the Corleone family owned in “The Godfather”.

BLAH! BLAH! BLAH! That’s what all your comments are!

He’s a corrupt, pro-life, political hack. Who says the Republicans aren’t in charge anymore?

Would someone say “NEOCON” already?

You can point fingers all day long but both houses of Congress, are full of corrupt, power hungry individuals from both parties.
We need to toss almost all of them out and start anew.
We also need term limits to avoid life long members of congress using the power for their personal benefit — not ours.

One poster claimed corrupt Republicans in Congress resigned! Below are the top corrupt 5 members of Congress from a list from “Citizens for Ethics”, a non-partisan group currently HAMMERING Speaker-to-be Pelosi for backing Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) for Majority leader.
You decide:
#1 Most corrupt: Senator Conrad Burns ran and lost by a very close margin.
#2 Most Corrupt: Senator Bill Frist had long announced he would not run again
#3 Most Corrupt: Senator Rick Santorum ran and was easily defeated.
#4 Most Corrupt: Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) ran and won.
#5 Most Corrupt: Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA) ran and won.
Link: http://www.beyonddelay.org/

If anything they worded this to make dems look bad. It should have said that several corrupt republicans as well as a smaller number of dems. They went after shock value and almost tried to steer the story away from the fact there were more “seriously corrupt” republicans.

No Rick, I get that just fine. If you’ll read my first post, you’ll see that. And frankly, I’ve been following the Abramoff story ever since it broke months ago (as compared to the Johnny-Come-Latelys here) so I really do “get it”, thanks for the concern.
ALL corrupt members of this debacle called “our representative government” need to be exposed and punished post-haste. ALL of them, D, R, or otherwise.
All I’m looking for from my media is BALANCE. ABC doesn’t provide that, nor does FOX, as shocking as that might be to some here.

Citizens for Ethics non-partison? RUHIGH?

The penalties for members of congress who accept bribes or take kickbacks should be much stiffer–at the very least, mandatory life in prison and seizure of all personal assets. Corruption can lead to the deaths of innocent people, for example if safety regulations are ignored or if people become despondent and commit suicide, such as in the case of the Keating scandal, so one could argue that the death penalty would be a justifiable punishment as well. That is the only way things will ever improve.

Another example of What Rush calls the “DRIVE BY MEDIA”!

Reid says: “a program where the lobbyists paid and the Republican members of Congress played.”
Ever heard of Jack Murtha? He has made his brother rich by getting paid to play. What does Reid think about this? Nothing excpet that Murtha should be one of the Dem leaders now.
Reid and Pelosi and anyone who voted for them are jokes. If you voted democratic this election, I have to congratulate you on being one of the worlds biggest Morons.

How about some presumption of innocence? Oh, forgot, Bush did away with that. Must be guilty.

The quote from the story is an “ever larger number of Republicans” not an EVEN larger number, which implies that its more Republicans, but it doesn’t actually say that it is more Republicans. It could be 1 growing to 2.

we need to drug test all of them,

Seriously though why should we be surprised by the fact that corruption is a bipartisan value !!
Maybe a poli scientist can do some research on the correlation between personal(family) wealth of senators/congresspeople and corruption scandals – i would hypothesize that it would be low -the intuition being that if you are already rich you dont crave the riches of first class travel and golf vacations.
Only when we drain the entire swamp (not the Nancy Pelosi drain the swamp thing!!), and have lots and lots of people like Tester, Webb, Casey, Feingold, the late Wellstone, Pat Murphy, Sestak etc etc will Congress be truly a body of distinguished people.
Until then we will have fake “clean up the sytemers” like McCain, who if the media has forgotten was involved and pleaded guilty to finacial impropreities as one of the Keating five.

Reid took 30K from one of Abramoff’s PACs and wrote 4 letters that are in the best interest of his state. Reid has always opposed indian gaming as he views it to be-rightly- a revenue loss for his state. He letters said nothing more than that. It is connected to Abramoff only because his clients we trying to stop a competing casino from being built. Also, on thing most people forget is that Lobbying plays an important role in educating the decision-makers about the issues.

Steve and those who think that Dems are more ethical please wake up! The difference is that when republicans are caught they are forced to resign and except responsibility. How can anyone honestly listen to the banter from the Dems with regard to new direction and ethics or compare the level of ethical lapses of this Congress and Presidency to the Clinton years? Unless history is re-written the Clinton’s (Bill and Mrs. Bill Clinton) will go down in history as the most ethically challenged politicians to hold office. Has everyone forgotten the check writing scandal of the 90’s? Personally…I’d feel safer hunting with Dick Cheney than I would driving with Ted Kennedy!

Hahahahaha Brian Ross tool for the Dem machine. Sit on the story so we get stuck with crooks for two years. Going to run with this story for 3 months like you did with Trent Lott and Tom DeLay?

Hey Brian, why didn’t you have this story “before” the election?

It is easy to fix. just never vote for anyone holding office. A new rep. or sen. every election will cure the corruption.

Why is everyone being so partisan? Just admit that there is corruption in both parties. It’s just very ignorant to pretend your party is so perfect… besides, it’s not like there is some fundamental difference between the two.

To Bush Supporter,
I like your list. You forgot the
impeached, disbarred, disgraced,
Dem. Pres. Clinton. The media
never, never, puts those words in front of Clinton’s name. He should head any list of scandals with the above descriptive words in front of his name.
Southern Rep.

This was absolutely known before the election and not reported by ABC, CBS or NBC (AP had the first reid land bribery sotry in October). The Republicans have their corrupt mebers, the Democrats, let’s see: Reid, Hillary (I don’t know how those law firm billing records were found in the White House) Clinton; Nancy (Miss I am for the little guy) Pelosi who has non-union employees at her business in Rutherford, California; Murtha, who barely escaped indictment because Tip O’Niel closed down the investigation into ABSCAM. More years of corruption ahead while the militant Islamists are plotting are demise. What a country!

Harry said:
“We have no idea what Abramoff is telling prosecutors to save his skin, but I do know that these kind of old allegations are completely ridiculous and untrue,” Sen. Reid’s spokesman Jim Manley told ABC News.
Sure they are Harry . . . just like they were for everybody else that’s being tried or is in jail. Give it up Harry, they’re going to nail your tail.

Mob connections – land deals where you make millions for not owning a property – and ties to Abramhoff? CUT HIM LOOSE! Oh yeah I forgot he’s a dem!

William Jefferson Clinton helped educate others that consistent denial of wrongdoing is possible if there is no evidence. Bubba got caught with DNA. Unless “Flashlight” Harry left some DNA on Jack’s money, he’ll keep singing his innocence.

Washington and the media needs to put as much effort into health care and other common man’s issues as they do trying to dreg up nastiness on elected officials and lobbiest. Corruption is never going to go away – that’s just human nature. When offendors are discovered do away with them as was done to Abramhoff, but address real, everyday issues with more manpower!
Attack the issues and leave dirty faces dirty!

have you not heard? Murtha was knee deep in the abscam deal. he was not charged because then-speaker tip o’neil got someone friendly to him placed on the ethics committee.
You doubt this? do a little research.

My, my. Lots of sour grapes among those who lost last week. Sez in the article: the “allegations against Reid and others will not necessarily result in criminal charges.” So the whole thing may be nothing… Oops, then y’all would have to find something else to cry about!

I am a Conservative Republican. I am now shaking my head over our political system . My solution to this crap is to impose term limits to ALL politicians to two terms, and eliminate the current retirement system.
They are all corrupt! All they have to do is spend 10-years in office and they draw $50K-+ per year retirement, and FREE healthcare for themselves’ and family members — at military medical hospitals! Whay is there no outrage over this.
NOBODY should be allowed to spend 10-years in congress, and retirement sould not be paid by taxpayers.
Congressional retirement is the best kept secret in this country. Few American’s know about this system, and it is shamefull!
I am a combat-wounded Vietnam vet. I am very resentful that I have to stand in line BEHIND some Congressman’s 12-year-old daughter to receive treatment.
Also, as a retired military person, I have to pay an annual rete to stay in the medical system — which was promised to me “free” in the recruiter’s office in 1965.
Since then, that has been changed. So here I am — a combat wounded vet that has less priority than a Congressman’s 12-year-old daughter?

So how long until Abramoff is mysteriously found dead in jail. If so, just add him to all of the others that were “mysteriously” found dead that were about to implicate the Clintons and their friends in the Democratic party. Imagine if all of the witnesses were to be alive today that were involved with Whitewater and other Clinton “issues”.

Gee, and to think only Republicans did this.. shocked, SHOCKED I say.

Nice job. Are we going to hear about the thousands of dollars found in the freezer of a democrat?
You guys and gals are no better than the PR wing of the DNC. “fair & balanced”- only on FOX…

“an ever larger number of Republican members of Congress” Read the entire article.
Republicans calling Democrats corrupt. Isn’t that something. It wouldn’t have help you in the election. America was ready for a change. Iraq sunk the Republican ship. Power breeds arrogance.

Did anyone remember about the $90,000 Cold Cash found in a representatives Freezer? Is that going to be prosecuted.
You know, its time for term limits and getting rid of the retirement accounts given to our our so called government employees who are supposed to serve the people.
And then how about a standing policy whereas any government employee is on administrative leave while being investigated. Then let the law proceed.
Time to clean house completely of everyone in our government. Everybody, and sorry to say, event the good ones.

Why this simply can not be true. Senator Reid is a Democrat!

Good luck in ferreting out all of Mr. Reid’s dealings over the years…won’t be easy to crack this machine…..some have reported in the past, ties to the gaming industry…..mafia…..and maybe even the church voting base …..check out land deals in Arizon, Nevada, and Idaho….federal lands…rezoning overnight to make a buck….sons placed in important positions….This investigation could take years and years and years.

Look, here’s the facts. This report says:
“The source said prosecutors do not intend to rely solely on Abramoff’s account of events, and his allegations against Reid and others will not necessarily result in criminal charges. ”
Where is the cause and effect? It’s not news to anyone that lobbying exists. Mr. Reid comes from a state where gaming is king. It should not suprise anyone that he might have more than a passing interest in gaming related issues. Since indian casinos have allowed gambling to spread out from the confines of Nevada, it would stand to reason that Mr. Reid would be lobbied by and and ultimately support some gambling related issues before the congress. That he took money from some of these interests is not a crime. If it is, we should prosecute texans who took money from oil interests, Iowa and Nebraska are the primary recipients of Ethanol, I wonder if any politicians from those states took any contributions from Ethanol producers?
What everyone forgets is this. Mr. Abramoff was the lead enforcer for something called the K Street Project. It was set up by Tom Delay (R) and it’s stated goal was to force lobbying firms to stop doing business with Democrats and only do business with Republicans. The project created a culture where corruption was tolerated and sometimes actively encouraged. Mr. Reid stood outside that circle. If Mr. Abramoff had something to offer the feds on Mr. Reid, he would not be off the big house right now. The most likely outcome of this investigations is the well-timed leak designed to do damage to Mr. Reid but nothing more. Unlike Mr. Reid, there are several Republicans either already in jail or heading there shortly.

The news media isn’t going to do anything to jeopardize its’ cozy relationship with the Dems…and, sadly, as we’ve seen with Sandy Berger, Reid, et al, the Repubs have nobody…not one…zippo…nada…person who will be bold and speak out against anybody on the other side of the aisle. History will show the Repubs are better when they are in the minority. They had no idea what to do when they were in the majority.

Of course the story broke after the election, the man didn’t enter prison until after the election. If his first day in jail was two weeks ago, this would have been news then and if it were three weeks from now, it would break then. I mean, they’re also talking about the Ohio State-Michigan football game now. It’s because the game is this week and not because it’s the MSM’s payoff to those states for going blue in the elections.

Q: Why did abc wait until after the election to break this news?
A: For the same reason they held the foley story until right before the election!

Oh, please, Brian. This is actually laughable. Thank you for this timely report. You are so fearless in your reporting…
lmao!

all the cry babies blaming the media for not disclosing this before the elections should be ashamed of yourselves, the facts that reid was involved with abramoff and in shady land deals were made public by the media before the elections, granted most “drive-by” media outlets kept the noise at a minimum on this, however responsible voters should not rely media marquees to gather information to make informed decisions about candidates, assume responsibility for your actions, do your due diligence and become informed before casting your votes.

I say fire all the corrupt reporters, the idiot news readers and the major media executives who never report anything bad about Dems, and nothing good about Republicans.
They’ve corrupted the news so badly today, you can’t rely on anyone anymore to tell the truth.

Democrats are caught, forgiven and kept in office. Republicans are caught and immediately removed. Guess which receives the most press?

When the issue of who will be elected hangs in the balance, the media tends to close ranks to help the Democrats.
At other times, they try to show they are not biased by “eating their own”.
I sometimes watch NBC nightly news. It is a sure way to find out how the “left” spins the news of the day.

Maybe Brian Ross could get a job at the new english version of AlJazzera. It’s in keeping with his style of journalism.

The Dem have always been more crooked than Rep. President Johnson was the worst of them all and Kennedy was almost as big a crook and a lot worst in other ways and all people remember was Nixon. God help us.

Why would the major networks plot against the Reps? The Reps are the party of tax breaks for the rich, Public Radios funds, and turning FEMA into a joke. Let’s face it New Orleans and the first bombing of Bagdahd were great for the networks. Abramoff’s firm donated more to the Reps than the Dems by more than double. Only makes sense. The Reps were in power. The real crime is your government is for sale, no matter who is in power. Only 39% of the US people vote anyway, so just eat your Hot Pockets, watch TV and do what you are told.

The Roman Empire all over again. Bread and Circuses, fat, dumb and happy electorate. Last one out turn off the lights!

Reid voted against the Abramoff clients he was “paid” to support. Funny how that fact ISN’T in this piece of right wing propaganda since that fact vindicates any contribution. Abramoff paid hundreds of thousands of dollars directly to Republicans while he never paid one Democrat directly.

If Mr. Ross knew about these revelations prior to the election, should he either resign or be fired?
Also, does this news mean Harry Reid will know head up the Ethics Committee, or will that be Ted Kennedy?

Dirty Harry Done dirt cheap- culture of corruption- most ethical congress ever- blah blah blah- bet those words gonna haunt the Pelosi pack for years to come- The FBI has announced they might start internal investigations in congress- Hope they got plenty of ink and paper, and a lot of time to spare.

So your contention is that the amount is relevant? (I suppose you’ve never heard the old joke about the prostitute … “only negotiating the price.”)
Are Democrats to be held in higher regard because they sell their integrity for a lower sum??
ANY member of Congress caught accepting bribes for votes should be run out of office immediately.

The Democrats are just as corrupt as the Republicans.

Any member of Congress, Republican, Democrat, white, black, yellow, brown, Catholic, Mulism, Protestant, Christian, Irish-American, African-American, Italian-American, Chinese-American, Indian-American, Japanese-American, rich, poor, smart, dumb, nice, mean, left-handed, right-handed, male, female, bisexual, trisexual, gay, straight, etc, etc. should be booted out of the congress. Our demcractic republic is for the people, by the people and of the people and as soon as any member of Congress loses that concept, it is good bye, sanora, later dude, you are out of here, thanks but no thanks, don’t let the door hit you in the behind, thanks for the memories, etc, etc.

Let’s not forget Harry Reid was bought and paid for early in his career by Howard Hughes….looks like nothing has changed!

Brian Ross and ABC, you still have a few hard core kool aid drinkers in your camp believing in the Dems until the end — but I see the majority of the responders see right through you. It’s not that you are biased, you are as entitled to be as biased as the next channel. It’s that you pretend to be objective main stream voices when we all know you are not. Be as liberal as you find comfortable but be honest about your biases.
I can remember when newspapers were the leading political opinion-makers and they would state their political leanings on their masthead, every day, for all to see.

Awwwww, sounds like a bunch of sour grape republicans in here. Sorry you bunch of cry babies, I don’t this this would have saved you even if it had been released prior to the election. Blame it on YOUR president, Dubya! Get over yourselves already.

Most politicians are low-lifes. At least the dems aren’t so blatantly pro-corp. Check into ALEC. Do I hear sour grapes? bush took us into this god awful mess in Afgan and Iraq. We’ve lost credibility all over the world, and now all of a sudden everyone is plotting against the poor reps. Please…..

Of course for every corrupt Democrat taking 100,000 dollars, there are usually ten corrupt Republicans, each taking 1,000,000 dollars.
So taking 100k is good and 1M is bad? Got news for you, taking $1 is bad. Period. Dems are every bit as unethical as Republicans, its just the liberal media slanting it to the dems favor prior to the election.

Go back to sleep ABC snooze….this is an old story!

Now come on you guys;why was this
information about the Democratic
wrongdoings only just brought to light???Now that they have been
“elected” they come play cover up,
as only they can do,and claim that
the mean Republicans are behind all of the reports of wrongdoing.
Look,for the good of the country,why the hell don’t you all
wise up and lets clean up the
mess,imprison the blaggards,and
elect a new breed of lawmakers.
Term limits must be implemented,
with a two term limit,and House
and Senate elections should be
seperate.
Posted By:Freddie Nov,15 2006

I voted for a Blue Dog and to my great surprise and satisfaction he WON! And three days after the election, I had to read about his man Hoyer having to fend off the Speaker Pelosi-backed, utterly corrupt Murtha. And now I have to read about my Senate Majority leader Reid hip-deep in Abramscam. Enough. Let the new Blue Dogs take over and form a centrist coalition with moderate Republicans.

A radio talkshow host makes a comment about Michael J. Fox and look at the media furor it causes.
Harry Reid and other democrats are possibly corrupt and under investigation? That can wait until after the election.
No media bias. Yeah, right.

Harry Reid’s spokesperson Jim Manley claimed that he had no idea what Abramoff was telling the prosecutors regarding Reid’s alleged involvement in Abramoff’s illegal conduct but what he told told then was “completely ridiculous and untrue”. Say what! I think Reid needs a new spokesperson, perhaps Bill Clinton is available.

Nice how the dems in question weren’t brought up before the election

Why are all of the people sending these emails so mad and frustrated? Remember we are a very educated and intelligent group of voters, who elected these BOZO’s, (both Rep. and Dem.) Lets get over it, the American people do not want a change in Washington, we prove it each and every national election cycle. The old saying ” no news is good news”, what about a new saying ” No government is Good government”
Granddaddy

what’s with all this cry baby Republican whining about corruption and the MSM’s liberal bias?!
How come Fox News (read: Republican Talking Points) hasn’t been all over this BEFORE or after the election.
If Harry Reid is guilty, if Harry Reid has been acting like the holier than thou hypocrites of the Rethuglican Party, then he should suffer the same consequences.
No one should have a problem with that, but in the meantime, let’s see exactly what this frequent visitor to the Bush White House has on Reid and other Dems.
In the meantime, whining is exactly what one expects from the tough guys of the right when stuff happens, and man has stuff happened to the right!

Abramoff is just trying to implicate some Democrats in his scheme to save face. He was, is, and will always be 100% a GOP problem. That’s how the GOP works: corrupt to the core, and who cares about the American people.

The majority of the comments still are not paying attention to the real issue: Mainstream Media bias!
A lot of the comments are showing the hypocrisy of the Dems “culture of corruption” theme which is true but again, MSM has fostered that.
What is needed is to wait until this generation of MSM (I hate to use the term journalists) are retired as well as the college instructor Woodward/Berstein wannabes who couldn’t do so they taught. They taught this generation that the bad guys were the GOP rather than as William paley said in Clooney’s movie of Ed Murrow..”We report the news, not make the news!”
Guys like Ross graduating from “journalism[phew] schools were taught to make their bones by digging up as much dirt on the GOP as it has always been the misconception the GOP is for the rich guy(just an aside.. most GOP don’t think in terms of zero sum but that the pie is constantly getting bigger..WHICH IT IS!) while the poor old labor union, minimum wage Democratic party(not the old party the current CDC party ) continues with the Marxist myths of capitalism bad..socialism good.
The hope is that now with so many more resources other than the 3 networks, the old newspapers, the truth is getting out. Many of you may not be aware of the fundamentals of journalism which are the five Ws and one H :
Who, What, When, Where, Why and How
which most current “journalists” do not adhere to. They would rather add their personal opinion which was taught them by their biased instructors to do as this recent example shows.
A recent fluff head reporter said about the Pelosi/Bush meeting that and I quote exactly..”Mr. Bush said, with Vice President Dick Cheney sitting glumly on a couch to his left.”
This “sitting glumly” what value is added to the piece other than it does show “how” Cheney sat!
But really what was the purpose of adding that phrase? MSM bias!
Anything, anywhere, anytime, anyone that can make President Bush, our country, the GOP look bad.. MSM will report it!
Ignoring the facts that things are going well in Iraq! How many of you know that the average number of US soldiers killed per month in Iraq is 3/4ths the number killed in the military overall? 63 vs 85!

Dems will make a third world country out of the U.S. Such fools and they do not even know it.

LIBERAL will be the destruction of the USA rather it is the destruction. The leftist news day after day after attack the President and now and only now does the fact come out the DEMOCRATS were on Abramoff payroll also. AMERICA stop believing what the leftist and hollywood wants you to believe.This is a real world and it time to wake up to REALITY like IRAN and NORTH KOREA MUST BE STOP TODAY NOT NEXT WEEK

You all need to quit crying. Start to understnd that we live in the best place on earth and that if you truely believe that there is a better system. MOVE

Thanks for finally printing this. I live in Nevada & I know Reid. He lost any respect when he told a group of school children, I repeat school childred, Bus was a loser.
Harry has land deals & donations that need investigating.
Thanks you,
Susan Shea

Okay, I sent an email to this person. But on the off-chance that they provided a false email I also want to address it here…
“Isn’t it OBVIOUS?!? Abramoff was/is/and will ALWAYS be a DEMOCRAT!!!! Don’t you get it? He SET UP the Republicans before the elections for the Dems, and now that his New York ass is behind bars he starts naming the Dems who refuse to save him.
Typical shameless Dem move. Nice job America!
Posted by: eris | Nov 15, 2006 1:51:44 PM”
Okay – It’s one thing to be upset and have opinions on this matter, but it’s another matter entirely to at best spout an unsure conspiracy theory and at worst lie like a man with lipstick on his collar.
Jack Abramoff is an established Republican who votes Republican, donated wholly to Republicans on a personal level and even headed the College Republicans with his partner Grover Norquist. To suggest that he is in any way a Democrat is pure nonsense.
To the rest of you absolutely spitting mad conservatives/Republicans who posted above: Take a deep breath and count to 10. If you find yourself using the Kennedy/Oldsmobile parallel, count to 20 because you really need to take a break.
Right now all this story is about is Reid accepting money from clients of Jack Abramoff. In and of itself there is nothing illegal about this. There are a number of implied dishonest actions, but absolutely nothing concrete. I understand your frustration in the matter but the fact is that it’s just not there. Alternatively, Jack was overtly friendly with Republicans and that’s why they got tagged with this.

Jesus loves red states more than blue states– there I said it.

I don’t see why so many people are claiming a hidden agenda or post-election reporting on this particular issue (not MSM in general). The ties between Reid and Abramoff were well known before the election, as detailed by the paragraphs that start, “The Associated Press reported earlier this year…” This isn’t new. Further, the amount of coverage on both this and Reid’s (D) suspicious land deal was comparable to Hastert’s (R)suspicious land deal. MSM tilts left, but I don’t see the bias here.
With regards to corruption, it’s clear both parties are brimming with it. I don’t see much difference at all, although the party in power is obviously more likely to be targeted due to that power, and this is what happened to the Republican’s over the past decade. For all their talk of bipartisanship, I already see Pelosi consolidate power in the speaker and majority leader post at the expense of committee chairs, a la Hastert/Delay. Prepare for governing from the left and a painful two years before the Republican districts the Democrats captured this year vote them out in 2008.
With regards to Republicans nobly resigning when accused of corruption, this is laughable. Delay went so far as to change the rules of the Ethic’s committee to avoid punishment, and Ney could have resigned when this first surfaced instead of claiming innocence and resigning only four days before the election when his defeat was clear (and further harming his party by making a story so close to the election). Corruption is a terrible but human fault that strikes regardless of party. In the majority of cases in both parties, the politicians try to hold on until they can’t win reelection, then they resign.
The one interesting difference that I’d like discussion on if possible is if Democrats are more likely to reelect politicians after the corruption is exposed. I’m inclined to believe they are, but I don’t have good data. I suppose that is the penalty of the professed (but in most cases suspect) moral superiority of parts of the Republican base.
Is relief possible in a two party system?

No surprise here. This is all part of Karl Rove’s master plan to keep a Republican in the White House come 2008.
Funny, though, I don’t recall seeing the emphasis on Mr. Reid and his ilk BEFORE election day.

Nothing could have saved you Republicans from the chopping block..not this, nor any other gimmick. Your party chief and those in the Senate and House blew it. Ya got greedy..took the power for granted and where are we now? Got a shovel? Stop the whinning..and let’s get on with the business of running this country!

There are plenty of members in congress that are corrupt, Republicans and Democrats alike. But, right now the vast majority of corruption belongs to the Republicans in 2 of the 3 federal branches of government, so they are focused upon. The President’s and Vice President’s incompetence and corruption are a major reason why you see congress being “audited” by the media. You Republican fanboys need to relax and read the entire article, as clearly you have not done so.

**Abramoff is just trying to implicate some Democrats in his scheme to save face. He was, is, and will always be 100% a GOP problem.**
Jamie
Dream on.

In true liberal fashion, Reid’s next step will be to claim that the accusations against him are racist or anti-Semetic or some other b.s. Then when there’s irrefutable proof of his involvement, he’ll claim that he was a victim because he had a terrible childhood. Soon thereafer, Michael J. Fox and other celebrities will leap to his side and support him.
How nice it must be to be a liberal when you can never do wrong and never be held accountable for your actions.

This story, like the swiftboating (telling the truth) of one of their own, Murtha, is just cover to say that they aren’t biased the next election cycle when they keep this stories under wraps.

This last House and Senate controlled by the republicans, you must admit, was the MOST CORUPT IN HISTORY. K St Project, redistricting, every bill they passed benefited corporations. The had no shame. I’m a registered Dem; but, if they find Reid, Murtha or any politician dirty, I hope they racked them over the coals. But, damn near any politicain will look dirty if you look hard enough and scrutmize everything. The whole system is corrupt by nature, corporations or any business entity give to politicians in order to get something in return. It’s legalized bribery, I think we all new that. The only answer to stopping corruption is remove ALL CORPERATE MONEY FROM POLITICS.

Call it what you want, but “campaign donations” is nothing more than legalized blackmail. Remember Senators and Congressman (of both parties) as well as future Presidents, when you put you right hand on the Bible and you swear to uphold the Consitution and laws of this great land of ours, think about your future actions. Until America wakes up and demands term limits (no more than two consecutive terms) for both the senate and congress, America will never see an uncorrupt legislative body.

Drain the Swamp!

When are we going to realize that our news media isn’t biased, they are sharks. They are comparable to those scumbag abulance chasing lawyers who make a buck by sensationalizing only part of the facts. The ‘mainstream’ news orgainizations today do nothing but present opinions and half-truths disguised as facts in order to create a so-called story. The more scandalous they can make it sound, the better.
Republicans do not hold a monopoly on being ‘mistreated’ by the media. How quickly we forget the treatment President Clinton received from the media once they had the smell of his blood in the water.
As far as this article and some of the opinions written here go, Red or Blue, a crook is a crook. It’s ignorant to argue “my side has crooks, but your’s has more”.
Quit being party sheep, and think for yourselves!

The timing of this is all suspect. Mr. Ross still hasn’t told us how he got the Foley IM’s and when? Therefore, I am sure he won’t tell us how long he sat on this story.
Mr. Ross, what do you have in store for us in 2008? More IM’s, emails or will you be moving on to work for the DNC?
Thank you for your virtuous journalistic standards of being fair.

These are the foibles of being human. We the PEOPLE have the ability to control and rein in our elected officials by not allowing them to make a career in politics. We thank them for their service, and send them back to the private world. These egocentric mongers become weak with years of service and think they won’t get caught; their vision and judgement becomes clouded. Let them serve a term or two, then send them packing. Quite simple!

Is it true that the official candy bar of the Democratic party is Baby Ruth?

The info about Reid is old news and has been explained over and over again. The Indian tribes who donated money to his campaign have been doing so for years. Actually one tribe, Abramoff linked, gave less to Reid than normal. What a farse by ABC. Get these unnamed sources out in the open and you’d find they are part of the Repub establishment.

The republicans have learned the democrat tricks from the 50-80′s (look at Tom Delay – he outdemocrated the democrats for many years).
I personally wish they would keep up the hardball.

However, it has been nice to not have all the election lawsuits we would have had to endure if the democrats had lost.
Damn that Diebold, they gave the democrats one to buy some leverage for the future.

Why is it that the old media usually appears to “control” both the timing of their reports, and the content of their news reports so as to support liberal agendas and liberal politicans? Just asking the question, thats all.

Democrats are going to fix things in DC. In the next two years, Democrats will focus legislature on minimum wage, late term abortions, gay marriage and giving more rights to terrorists and illegal immigrants – you know, the REALLY, REALLY important stuff.

Rubin
Bush is still in office, cuz he is not saying anything that your buddy clinton and others have said or done for years.
Would love to see that investigation by the guilty.

WHINE, WHINE, SNIFF, SNIFF…threats about not watching ABC etc. Boy, the media must be trembling in their boots. It make make us feel better but boycotting their advertisers is the only way to get their attentioin and make any impact.

I love the second paragraph where a Reid spokesperson says the senator did nothing unethical or illegal.
If memeory serves correctly, he just recently had to amend his ethics reports to include the transfer of property to a business run by a lawyer friend back in 2000, for shares of the business.
As for illegal, wasn’t the contribution from campaign funds to the holiday fund for his servants at Watergate against federal laws. He wound up reimbursing his campaign funds from his own money.
Nothing unethical or illegal, does he have a different set of ethics rules & laws than the rest of us or other elected officials? Can’t wait for the Senate ethics committee & FBI to investigate, I know the news media won’t.

Let’s see, as the prostitutes in Washington fill their prockets (both parties), the following is occuring:
1) Medicare will be financially insolvent in about 15 years
2) Social Security will face massive cash shortages in about 10 years
3) We are stuck in a war costing precious lives and over $10 billion a month
4) Militant Islamists are plotting thie next big terrorist hit on us
5) The border is wide open for millions more to come here
6) China is becoming a huge meancing presence (and we are financing that
7) The national debt is approximately $10 TRILLION dollars
8) We are shipping more high paying jobs out of the country than we are creating
The Murtha’s, Reid’s, Foley’s, Clinton, Jefferson types who can’t keep your pants up or your pockets full enough, keep up your corruption, America is on the decline, the Fall of the Roman Empire, part II. History does repeat itself!

The wacko right is at it again!!The “Duke” in Jail,Ney joining him soon.Libby indicted.Delay indicted.Abramoff,the bag man,went to Jail this morning.These guys were either indicted or convicted.
As to Reid,his land deal was perfectly legal.I hope the other charges are vigorously investigated.
When and if Reid is indicted then we have another story.
With the so called conservatives,mere mention is tantamount to conviction.
Get over it,the American people wanted change.The next two years will uncover a web of corruption unequaled since Teapot Dome.

Wow, there are a lot of angry people posting today! Gee, what could they be so upset about? (hint-Nov 7).
Might it be the so-called “liberal media”?
Talk about a myth that won’t die.
The MSM is a profit-driven corporate entity (think GE) who’ve been sporting kid gloves for the past six years. Now that the Dems are in power (think House Speaker Pelosi) the MSM is sharpening their knives for the kill.
If Reid is guilty, then he should face the music. If he starts to blame the messenger then I guess he learned something useful from Karl Rove after all.

Culture of Corruption. Reid takes a million dollar bribe for a land swap deal other democrats are against, funds a bridge in Laughlin, NC to increase the value of his property on the river there and is now being sold out by Abramoff. Well so much for the Democratic Senate Majority Leader. How bout the House, oh, well we’ve got Murtha aka Mr. Abscam unindicted co-cospirator. Hey, how bout the new committee chairman that Pelosi voted to impeach from the federal bench. Great, she’s really cleaning up Washington. However, I doubt ABC will see any relevance to these items due to the “D” behind their names.

Is this what the Democrats meant when they said during the election that they wanted to end the “culture of corruption” in our nation’s capital? During the election Pelosi said she wanted to “drain the swamp,” now she supports Johnny “Abscam” Murtha for house majority leader. Seems to me that the Democrats are making all the wrong moves before they even get started. What does it tell you about leadership in the Democratic party when the best they have are clowns like, e.g., “Abscam” Murtha, “Impeach Me” Hastings, “Refrigerator” Jefferson, “Casino” Reid, “SF Conservative” Pelosi, “Comb-over” Levin, “Who wants to live in Mississippi” Rangel, and “Squeaky-clean” Bob Menendez. Worse yet, what does it say about all the lemmings out there that keep voting for these knuckle-heads just b/c the main-stream media (e.g., Brian Ross) support the Democratic party? Wake up America, the only solution to our problems is to become more involved in politics, not less. If more people cared (and paid attention), less idiots would hold office.

There is no doubt that Senator Reid is corrupt….. Americans have been betrayed by the media’s narrow focus on corruption only among Republicans…. Subsequently, many deceived voters have elected a majority that will be even more corrupt and power hungry than the Republicans….. There is a desperate need for term limits to minimize the opportunity for corruption. Corruption needs to be stopped on both sides of the aisle.

The saddest part of our present partisan politics is the very institution, the American press, which was delegated unlimited rights of constitutional freedom has chosen sides and could very well be the facilitor in the demise of the very democracy they were to report upon to the electorate.
The management of the press through the Smith act of 1947 and finally defining Un-American activities by individuals who can be subpoened in front of a sanctioned commission (McCarthyism ?- Yeah he had it right) to determine the depth of damage they can and would do to this country (evidence presented) and its constitution is long overdue for the US Media. It isn’t just about Hollywood anymore. This country and it’s democracy, are on the line. In large part because of bias in the US press, left wing moonbat college professors and the resultant biased journalism are all at the forefront of creating that massive damage to this democracy. This isn’t free thinking or elitist process of thought. It’s subversion and those who promote the subversion should be disgraced publicly and even do prison time. It was normal in the 50′s to protect the US from liberals who gave secrets to the soviet union simply to cause the defeat and downfall of America.

ABC/NBC/CBC/CNN/MSNBC and the leading papers have become the PRAVDA wing of the Democrat party. Pure and simple, the new propanganda arm of the DNC. Start the campaign, whenever you see their reporters on TV or in the paper, just go, “Da, Comrade..”

You are the disgrace Brian Ross.
You and your editors. I suppose you call yourself a journalist. Far from it. I used to work in the “industry” of news and people like you are the reason I got out. I could not the stand the stink anymore.
I was not a reporter but a cameraman. And I saw what really went on in the news vans and breakfast meetings with the “talent”. I know what the “reporters” and “field producers” talked about during those long drives to the locations. So it does not surprise me that ABC decided to sit on this story.
It is a sad day when Fox News is considered fair and balanced. But compared to the big 3, I’m sorry to admit they are.
Shame on you Brian Ross. And shame on ABC.

Hey Bob New Hampshire – per your quote
“Democrats are going to fix things in DC. In the next two years, Democrats will focus legislature on minimum wage, late term abortions, gay marriage and giving more rights to terrorists and illegal immigrants – you know, the REALLY, REALLY important stuff.” Maybe if the Repubnants hadn’t focused SO much on these trivial things..Gay marriage, abortion, etc” and tried do actually do something important while in power, they might STILL be in power. They screwed themselves pal.

GOP morons don’t recognize that this is an old story, and that the so-called liberal media has been trying to tar Reid for a non-existent association with Abramoff for more than a year.
The bottom line is that Reid took money from Abramoff’s Indian clients—that’s the whole story.
Reid had accepted their money before, and had a legitimate interest in doing so.
He didn’t go on any junkets, he didn’t propose legislation to protect those involved in sex-slavery (several Republicans includedhere); he didn’t go to Signatures and get free meals; he didn’t get free tickets for sports events from Abramoff.
There’s no story here, and what story there is is quite old.
The only new part is that Abramoff is saying that Reid will go down. Well, Abramoff will undoubtedly try his best to hurt Reid, because Abramoff is a hyperpartisan Republican.
I’m not holding my breath waiting for Reid to resign or be charged.

Be sure your sins will find you out!

I would not willingly hire a Democrat at my business. They are void of logic and morals. Just like the people who are democrats in congress now.

I love it. The subtitle to all these response should be “Angry, White, Probably Rich, Men.”
I would be furious at the state of the American conservative if it wasn’t a pointless excercise of shouting at the wind. The Republicans lost, the people voted, live with it or (to coin a popular conservative phrase) get the hell out. People didn’t vote the Republicans out of office because they’re stupid, misinformed or were led astray. They did it because they are worse off than they were 7 years ago. Or, in the case of younger voters, they saw through the thin veil of deceit.
Look at our country:
We have the first generation of Americans that can expect to do worse than their parents.
We’ve generated the largest deficit in history by spending the greatest amount of money ever and giving the richest people in our country the biggest tax break of all time.
Soon, our war in Iraq will outlast World War II at a monumental cost to the American people both emotionally and financially. How many children have lived w/o a parent now, how many families have a soldier overseas, and how many people’s lives have been affected forever (3,000 dead 20,000+ injured). For what? The opportunity to make Bush’s self-fulfilling prophecy a reality. Now more than ever, Iraq is training ground for terrorists that will soon cause tragedy on U.S. soil.
The last congress didn’t accomplish a thing that I can remember, except for maybe the $230 million bridge to nowhere.
The middle class is shrinking. Quickly.
Social security is disappearing as the baby boomers prepare for retirement. And it will take everything the younger generation has to make sure it lasts long enough for their parents to die.
The news media is almost (including this outlet) entirely corporately owned and constantly cutting newsroom budgets to increase profits. I’d bet most people at the top of these companies partook in the BIG tax cut listed above. Why did the second largest newspaper company in the United States sell last year? They’re shareholders focred them to b/c they only had a 19% profit. Who bought them? Another giant news corporation that sold a bunch of their papers to other big corporations.
The number of Americans without medical insurance is growing.
And the only thing Democrat and Repubican politicians can agree on is that they’re completely opposed to giving any chance to third party candidates.
That’s off the top of my head. But, hey, you’re right – people would either have to be stupid or crazy to want change in America.
Those liberals sure are ruining America! You guys better hurry up get organized so you can ruin it first!

This is simply amazing. It seems like all of Freeperville is here, and the total IQ of the bunch couldn’t top that of a chair.
There is nothing here but rumors about claims from Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who has a vested interest in sliming Reid with vague accusations. Nothing.
Ross quotes Solomon’s AP “work” which has been debunked and debunked again. Is this all that Mark Halperin can muster?
This whole thing is crap, unless something more solid than wild rumors and John Solomon’s Ahab complex can be sourced. I’ll eagerly await additional information.
Prediction: nothing more will be forthcoming, except more wild rumors.

Oh Pleeeese!
Everyone here in Nevada knows how crooked Harry Reid is. He puts up this good old Mormon boy image but we all know how tied in he is with all the corruption surrounding gaming.
Jim

Dems are corrupt just come to Chicago, hired trucks scandal throughout city hall, alderman ghost payrolls and in Illinois Governor’s main fund raiser indicted who also had rather nice real estate deals with Barack Obama and undersold a condo to US rep. Luis Gueteriez (sorry about the spelling)Are new state Treasuers family bank gave loans to members of the underworld Yet the dems here in Illinois it was no big deal and to re elect them because the Republicans are causing all the trouble. Illinois a great place to be a corrupt politician Come visit us!

Please . . . calm down. The Republicans lost the election because of their gross incompetence, corruption, and hypocrisy. All MSM outlets are responsible for not reporting over six years worth of Republican lies and deceit. Brian Ross throws you folks a bone and you lose all sense of reality.

Believe me.. the American people are watching for the next two years and..Well,we’ll see in 2008 when Republicans take back the House & Senate AND keep the White House!!! WooHooo!! Dem’s are loosers!

I sincerely hope that the people on the right stop crying about this and that. WE lost, but the real loser’s are all of us,mostly the sheep that were dupped into believing that the war on teror is not in Iraq or that 6.25/hr will change someone’s way of life. Or how about that College Loan interest rate reduction( college was an honor not a right). But for those of you who think you can talk to people who don’t have a soul, stop by and pick up a copy of the Koran. Your going to need it.

It will be a travesty of justice by the media should Mr. Reid is left off the hook of mandatory accountability in this corruption syndrome that has become the congress signature.Then it means Demoncrats are smarter than the Republicans to escape electoral nemesis.

I realize that the factually challenged Republicans cannot grasp this, but Jack Abramoff did not give any money to any Democrats.
None. Zip. Zero. All the Democrats combined. This is not to suggest that there are not Democrats who have dirt under their nails from other sources, but the fact is that Abramoff gave no Democrats any money.

To: new england Patriot Let’see
1, WTC bombed -Clinton
2. 2 Embassy’s bomded-Clinton
3.U.S. Barracks in S.A- Clinton
4.Mogedeshu- Clinton, cut and run against stone throwers.
5.The Cole-Clinton
Today I see a man trying to clean up the mess that was handed to him. To to mention the recession He inheritated. Clinton had two good years with the fake dot.com era. But what happened to all those jobs that were lost after that, Bush got them back to work 4.4 % unemployment. Do you know that 4.4% is about 12mil people, same amount of illegals here. I lived in uncle Ted’s state for 45 yrs, the smell is so much better now that I left 5 yrs ago.

If the Republicans did the right thing and resigned when they were caught, how do you explain John Doolittle? Richard Pombo? Mike DeWine? Conrad Burns? Etc. etc. etc.

The story is old, the allegations have been disproved and ABC is playing kissy face with the GOP. Those of you who waste your time attacking or defending either side of this crap are clearly not fully aware of the atrocities taking place all over the world. Innocent children are dying everywhere and you’re bitching about this garbage. Both Jefferson and Jesus would puke.

WOW! what an interesting day this has been. Everyone pointing their fingers in every direction except towards ourselves. When you have only 23% of the elgible voters even bothering to cast a vote we get what we deserve, and don’t think for a minute that the bums in office don’t know this, and count on it. If “We the People” ever woke up and relized it we could take control of OUR government, but no we are too lazy to exercise our freedom to choose. What needs to happen is that we have a turnout to vote that exceeds even 50% would be enough to send a message – if we wnat term limits then vote those into office that aren’t afraid to limit their stay to 2 terms in either house; if they won’t then get them out. We have the power, but we fail to use it, and for any and all of you in this forum that do not vote – LOG OFF you’ve got nothing to say.

This “story” is almost a year old.
Reid is a Senator for Nevada. Las Vegas is in Nevada. The main source of revenue for Las Vegas is gambling. Anything that would hurt revenue from gambling in Las Vegas would concern a Senator from Nevada. Hence, Reid has always opposed expansion of off-reservation gambling. He DID NOT change his stance.
Most of the contacts between Abramoff operatives and Reid concerned legislation affecting labor in the Marianas Islands. Reid was Majority Whip and would have been contacted as a matter of course because he would know when certain votes were coming up. What Ross’s article DOES NOT point out is that Reid VOTED AGAINST (yes, that’s right, AGAINST) the legislation that Abramoff wanted passed. If Abramoff was bribing Reid, then why did Reid vote against Abramoff’s interests? Dear God, Ross, how could you have forgotten to mention this?
As for Reid’s “land deal”, it is true that he profitted from the sale of land. He did report these profits, in compliance with Senate ethics procedures. Unlike HASTERT, Reid did not take legislative action that made sure that his land would dramatically go up in price.
To those who are so ready to smear Murtha, I have a few words for you:
John McCain. Keating Five. Look it up.
And to those who support Hoyer, you are supporting a man who is afraid to openly oppose this immoral, illegal war that is killing and maiming so many of our fine, dedicated soldiers, bankrupting this country, and doing nothing to combat terrorism. Hoyer also approves of all of the trade agreements that have sent our jobs overseas and have guaranteed that our children will NOT have a bright future.

Dirty Harry gets away with everything. The bought and paid for “news” organizations in LV (Channels 3, 5, 8, and 13)made ZERO mention of Reid’s corrupt land deals or his raiding his campaign funds to pay his part of the Christmas fund at the posh Washington digs he lives in. I mean they said NOTHING! I don’t think there’s a questions whether or not our local media is biased. Obviously they are extremely selective on what they report…they know who pays there salaries. So I think Harry will just slither out of this like the snake he is…It’s good to be a senator…eh Harry? Oh, Brian Ross, way to lose all credibility!

I can’t believe how partisan these comments are. There is no hope for this country if everything has to be framed in Democratic or Republican terms. Us vs Them! Demonizing one oarty or the other! I’m sick of it all. We need a viable third party. Political affiliation should not be your identity. These are just the people that run the government. Don’t we all just want a government that does the best possible job for the most people?

Wow.
For a “liberal media” site there’s sure a lot of right-wing cranks here…
Look, losers, you can’t keep lying. The facts are that this story is over a year old and has been thoroughly debunked. Waited until after the election to release it? Man, you people are idiots.
ABC is about as fair and balanced as Fox, and the mainstream media is utterly controlled by corporate interests. So your “liberal media” whining is pathetic — look at O’Reilly, Limbaugh, Coulter, Malkin, Hannity, Ingraham,… all right-wing nutjobs who get airtime every day preaching their hate and peddling their lies. Where are the liberals? Keith Olbermann? Al Franken? That’s hardly media saturation, is it…
Keep it up. You’ll turn America into a fascist state yet — you have two more years to try.

I feel like such a fool. I voted for Senator Reid when I lived in Nevada and I voted for William Jefferson when I lived in Louisiana…now because of me, we have a man who stashed $97,000 of bribes in his freezer and another who put a deep freeze on a political party with his lies and deception. Is there anyone out there who can actually look me in the eye and tell me that they are honest…and actually BE honest?
Oh foolish, naive me…and to think, I voted for Nancy Pelosi last week.
Make me the first person in your district to change my party affiliation to Republican, Nancy…I am going to the post office right away…I feel violated, bamboozled, misled and now screwed! Let’s see how many of our party will do the honorable thing and resign from office. At least that is what the Republicans did when they were implicated. I would rather have honest people running my country than Republicans, Democrats and Independents…This cheapens America and our Constitution. Also, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and FOX all need to be called out on this as they influenced my vote. All I heard about for the past six years is how the Republicans are bad for this and that…they had me believing it…and I bought it hook, line and sinker…oh silly me! Well, fool me once…shame on you…fool me twice…

Geez , what is this , some kind of conservative cesspool . Anybody who has paid the least attention knows abramoff was a REPUBLICAN operative who with his cronys made it clear ” support republicans ” . The idea that he was giving any more than token funds to democrats is laughable . Now you must excuse me , being on this site makes me want to take a shower .

You guys are lucky. Compared to our last LIBERAL GOVERNMENT your guys are all saints. A Canadian

This is sloppy journalism, I say as one journalist to another.
Why should I believe your anonymous source? You don’t even tell us why you need to protect the source’s ID, which is a cardinal rule for the very rare times a credible news organizaton might risk its own credibility to use an anonymous source.
Lame.
My assumption is the source is anonymous because he/she doesn’t want to be held accountable for MISinformation, distortions and propaganda. Or maybe it’s because it’s not a privileged, first-hand source to give that information but you want us to believe it is solid, anyway.
The report says the source already predicts all this can’t be developed into charges. Not news, then, if that’s the case.
If this was real journalism, and not just plagiarizing some oppo research company’s press release under a celebrity name, where are the dates? the amounts? the names of intermediaries? attributions to privileged sources? in short, the proofs?
This story makes a conclusion without providing one single verifiable fact or any evidence beyond a nebulous source who won’t go on record.
This isn’t journalism.
My guess is that this means Halperin is back in the saddle, done with his book tour for now.
Right, Brian?

Please. Don’t you think that the idiot savant Rove would have put this out there late October? Abramoff was a repub and instructed his clients to send less or no money to dems, instead redirecting it to repubs.
Reid may be corrupt, but it isn’t from contack with Jack.
Painting this as a conspiracy by a secretly liberal Abramoff and the so called liberal media is just silly. If one media group refused to run it before the election, it could have gone to FNC. Nobody really takes fair and balanced seriously, do they? All Bushco needed to do was hand it to any of the media goons spoiling for a story to put their name on, or failing that, the gossip queen Drudge.

There is all this talk about “Liberal bias” and “Liberal media” has anyone heard of FOX news? Hello, the most conservative station on cable today. There is bias both ways.

Ah, come on, folks, the story was out there. I know I heard it well before the election. So it really isn’t fair to blame the media if you were unaware. As for whether or not Reid is corrupt, we will have to await the results of the investigation. Simply making accusations isn’t enough. Sometimes even compelling evidence on the surface can turn out to mean something altogether different. We’ll have to wait and see.
Don

It’s funny how the republican party sore losers on this board are crying that this should have been put out BEFORE the election! LOL!!!! Do any of you think that this would have changed anything???? LOL!!!The Republican Party was doomed with all the gay sex scandals and the biggest repuke debacle of all … THE IRAQ WAR. LOL!!! Quit whining and suck it up. American rejected the Republican Party because after controlling Congress and the White House Republicans STILL MESSED UP!!!

It is not a Republican problem or a Democrat problem. It is a problem of certain individuals who came to believe that they can get away with such crimes.
Each and every one should be prosecuted when the evidence requires it. Race, sex, color, creed, national origin, or political party are all irrelevant. None of those things are the cause or even the symptoms of these crimes.

Abramoff just made these allegations…the ‘source’ was obviously not ‘friendly’ to dems; if it was known sooner, it would have been made sooner.
If it is true, reid should be made to step down. (yes I’m a democrat)
But to all ridiculous posters speaking on the MSM and dems in partnership, I challenge you two 3 things…
1)Tell me about how Jeff Gannon, the happy gay hooker, was talked about in the press…he was barely touched…yet he had access to the White House? Including spending several nights according to the Secret Services’ records? Was that explored? How does someone gain an a temporary ID under a FAKE name, and allowed within within feet of the President?
2)Chad Castagana…know who that is? The ‘right wing republican nutjob’ who worships Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, and Michelle Malkin, and sent fake anthrax to liberal leaders, and pundits? Why can’t you go to CNN and do a search and find him? How much time is being spent on this? The guy was found by the FBI to have chemicals and instructions on how to make bombs…BIG STORY right? Yea, right.
3)Tommy Tomlinson…know who that is? No? Well, maybe it’s because the MSM ISN’T as in league with the Dems as you say. Maybe you’re all just stupid, and not paying attention…
How about this simple fact:
extremist muslims think that liberalism will be the downfall of society…
and
extremist christians think that liberalism will be the downfall of their society
Or, extremist muslim nutjobs blow themselves up for a cause,
and
christians send their young sons and daughters to blow up the extremist muslims.
Cut and dry.

Nice job. How convienent ABC news and the other big networks are reporting this after the election. For up to date news go to Fox News or World Net Daily.

If you want to better understand Harry Reid, just remember it was cultivated in his hometown of Searchlight, Nevada. In that old gold-mining town, it’s long been rumored that Reid has had a close,uncanny relationship with the local casino owner, called the Nugget, owned by Vera Doing, who racketeers the town as a primary employer, large landowner, and councilmen. Some townspeople even allege that Reid personally intervened when Doing owed an incredible amount of income tax that put her at risk of losing the casino. It’s also rumored that Reid has colluded with large developers from Vegas to rezone federally protected land for the desert tortoise to open the way for development.
Searchlight could become the big Casino town between Vegas and Laughlin but people like Reid and Doing hold a quasi-monopoly, will certainly stifle outside competition, and reap the profits from their positions of power and wealth. So much for American ethics!

Steve, Mayor Daley has been dead for about 50 years. Give it up already. And the ACORN thing was was an aberration that didn’t cause even one fraudulent vote, unlike the millions of fake votes (not even as valid as dead voters)and switcheroos by the hackers hired to fix the electronic vote machines. The distinction is obvious in the reality-based world.
And, SL, you didn’t see this Abramoff/Reid “story” played to your satisfaction elsewhere for good reason:
IT’S NOT NEWS!

There are very few people posting on this story who I would even begin to consider patriotic Americans. Yet, instead of being ashamed of ourselves, of what our media has become, of what our corrupt political parties have done to a system that is supposed to represent and protect all of us, all we have to read here are slimy, smarmy, whiny accusations.
Maybe instead of trying to pass constitutonal amendments against flag burning, this last Congress could have passed a damned amendment banning any member of a political party from holding any public office if corruption was proven.

What we’ld really like to know is how Hillary Clinton raised that 29 million…

We should feel better when Dems occupy the white House. Apparently
the world is safer. Also, if going
after a mad man costs us so many of our soldiers, we better think
twice before doing it again.
Roger Thomas,11/16/06 5:00am

duh, who didnt see this coming. Republicans purposely threw the mid-term elections so they can start the hate-machine for 08.
We are all fools being played by BOTH of these parties…its time American woke up and did something about it….a democratic system dominated by two parties is hardly what our forefathers had in mind.

There’s nothing illegal or unethical about requesting and accepting donations!! That’s how every single politician raises money. Reid represents numerous tribes in Nevada, so it’s no surprise that they would lobby their home state Senator.
WTF, ABC?

Call it what you want, but campaign contributions are nothing more that legalized blackmail. Remember this Senators and Congressmen (of both parties) as well as future Presidents, when you put your hand on the Bible, you swear to uphold the Constitution and laws of this great land. So think hard about your actions and consequences. This country does not have a good reputation around the world and this is just another black eye.
Until America demands term limits for our legislative bodies (no more than two terms) you will not see an uncorrupt legislative body.

Oh No! Not dingy Harry, tell me it ain’t so. :-)

What would Thomas Jefferson,Ben Franklin, and good old Washington do? Time for a true third party!May God help us!!

HARRY REID OWNED STOCK OPTIONS IN HOWARD HUGHES CORPORATIONS AND WAS IN THE NEVADA STATE SENATE WHEN IT BECAME LEGAL FOR CORPORATIONS TO OWN CASINO’S IN THE STATE. BUT, NOTHING ILLEGAL OR UNETHICAL EVER HAPPENED THEN EITHER.

AMERICA IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP! IF YOU ARE FED UP WITH ALL THE CORRUPTION STAND UP AND LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD BEFORE IT IS TO LATE.

Earlier someone commented that Burns gave the money back. That is great did he also take back all of the monies that were alloted to Abramoff’s clients??? I think not. That is like shoplifting, if you put it back should you be able to walk???

Oooh, all you republicans who are upset over loosing the elections, should not be critizing Brian Ross. Go to Fox / Bill O’Reily then you will know what unfair criticism really is. We the dems have been listening to him for a year.

Hey Republicans! Read my lip: You guys are “SORE LOSERS, MAN”! =’)
…and GOODBYE, J.D. HAYWORTH, YOU BLOW-HARD RIGHT-WING BULLY FROM WEST SCOTTSDALE HELL!

Cubby..
“Lobbyist Jack Abramoff paid at least a portion of the expenses for two Democratic members of Congress ”
In case you are internet challenged:
Democrats’ Travel Costs Linked to Lobbyist

***sigh*** how I miss living in California!!!