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To: American Spirit who wrote (285737)	4/27/2006 12:49:11 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1583309

Democratic Carnival of Corruption When was the last time you heard a Democrat use the "Culture of Corruption" line? By now it's obvious that it was cooked up and focus grouped and...backfired: Sen. Debbie Stabenow's campaign has corrected her campaign finance reports to show that some donations from 2002 and 2003 came from an Indian tribe then represented by now-disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, not an individual as she reported at the time. Stabenow's campaign originally reported that $4,000 in donations came from Christopher Petras, who was the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe's legislative director at the time. The donations came during a period in which Stabenow and other Michigan lawmakers sought funding for the tribe and wrote letters to federal regulators on the tribe's behalf. The campaign wrote the Federal Election Commission on April 14 to correct the report to show the donations came from the tribe. Records originally listed Petras as giving Stabenow's campaign $2,000 on March 6, 2002, and an equal amount on June 30, 2003. Copies of the checks showed the first was dated Feb. 20, 2002, and the second June 2, 2003. Stabenow campaign manager Tom Russell said Wednesday the tribe made the contributions and the error was "a glitch in filing the report which was corrected" as soon as it learned of the problem. He said the computer system attached Petras' name to the donations because he was listed as a contact for the tribe. Ah yes, those "glitches" are the problem. When a Republican files incorrectly, it's part of the Culture of Corruption; when a Democrat does it, it's just a simple "glitch" in the system. Remember when they were trying to get DeLay over a golf trip that was filed incorrectly--then about half of the Democrats in congress rushed to "update" all their travel records (including Nancy Pelosi)? Didn't Cynthia McKinney use congressional funds to have Chef (Isaac Hayes) come and sing at an event? But back to the Democrats' political scheming...its interesting how they overplayed their Abramhoff hand, isn't it? In fact, Thomas Lifscom touches on this today: There are two distinct aspects of President George W. Bush's persona. Measured against his immediate predecessor, who obsessively managed his daily standing in popularity polls, President Bush appears indifferent, isolated, surrounded by cronies, and even hapless, mired now in the low thirties in the polls. But when elections loom, when voters pay closer attention, and when popularity really matters, he becomes a shrewd poker player, who has lured his enemies into betting on weak hands. I hope so.