Political Deal to Scuttle the Abramoff Investigation

"On Friday, January 27, immediately after Bush announced Noel Hillman the federal Abramoff prosecutor was leaving his position to become a federal judge, I wrote that it was a political deal to stop the Abramoff prosecution. I posted an article on Huffington Post on January 29th."

"It came about this way. The Democrats wanted Magistrate Federal Judge Susan Wingenton to be a federal judge. The Bush Administration said no."

"This year the Bush Administration agreed to give the Democrats who they wanted in exchange for the Democrats agreeing to remove the Abramoff prosecutor. Wingenton got her appointment; the Democrats agreed to the removal of Noel Hillman, and he accepted a judgeship."

(sigh) See? This is why I say the Democrats are as much the problem as the Republicans. They're co-conspirators. If the Dems were truly interested in putting a stop to the nonsense in Washington, they wouldn't have taken this lopsided deal. It can't be that they simply didn't realize that the administration must be growing increasingly nervous about what the investigation might find, and that this was a way to sabotage it. (almost) Nobody's that stupid.

The story isn't that Bush wants to stop the investigation, that's to be expected, but that his make-believe opponents are willfully aiding him in that endeavor.

Of course, it's also clear the Dems don't want the investigation to go too far, since a number of them are sure to be exposed as well.

Subversion of the Republic should be a treasonous offense. We desperately need term limits and campaign reform that removes the need for campaign contributions. Wishful thinking, huh?