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To: SiouxPal who wrote (82910)	10/13/2006 3:26:34 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 361246

"We have a Katrina foreign policy. I mean, how can these guys possibly protect the United States of America from terrorists when they can't even protect us from Congressman Mark Foley? These people are incompetent. I've never seen anything like it." — Senator John Kerry on Bill Maher's show last week

To: SiouxPal who wrote (82910)	10/13/2006 3:30:43 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361246

Forget about the little fish.......... wampum.wabanaki.net ------What a tangled web------ "...At this point, Abramoff is also using his tribal client slush-fund to buy off Congressmen, such as Pombo who could have influence over any pending or future Trust Fund legislation. Abramoff was able to keep the tribal money coming in by asking petty favors from Griles and Norton, when all the while he was forwarding the interests of Republican's real underwriters and policy makers, the oil, gas and mining industries. A revelation that these groups were massively ripping off not only the tribes, but the federal government, could have untold consequences for the Administration and Republicans in general. The thing that's most troubling about all this is that the guilty parties have both a scapegoat (tribal gaming interests) and a smokescreen (casino legislation) to utilize in pursuit of their original goals. By feeding the public indignation over tribal gaming lobbying interests, the GOP knows it can undermine most Congressional support Indians enjoy, even those without gaming properties (including most of the Trust tribes), leading not only to a negative settlement of the Trust issue, but continuing the cover-up of decades of corporate plundering of federal and Indian trust lands." Abramoff and gaming Indians: Just the tip of the iceberg "For a couple of weeks now, I've been writing about what I've come to view as the much bigger scandal involving everyone from Jack Abramoff to Gale Norton to Richard Pombo to Grover Norquist, and generally every major Republican in between. It too has to do with Indians, but not only those with gaming operations. In fact, the real actors in this drama are the poorest of Indians, mostly in the West and Plains. This morning, I tried to summarize the issues in a comment thread at MyDD. It was the first time since starting my research that I've tried to put the "story" down in as few words as possible. Because the fact is, unless people can actually grasp the basics of this scandal, and how it effects not just a few hundred thousand Indians, but everyone in this country, I think it will never make it past a few interested links on Technorati..."