Let the party begin! Rep. Tom Feeney rings the bell opening the American Stock Exchange.
This just in from Vicki Nantz, an independent film maker planning a documentary on Ryan Skipper, whose March murder in Central Florida is being investigated as a hate crime.
I recently wrote U.S. House Representative, Tom Feeney, Republican of Central Florida, and [...]

Another associate of imprisoned former GOP uber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff has been indicted. Italia Federici, who served as the president for an anti-enviroment group, Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy (CREA), has been charged with tax evansion and obstruction of justice.
Federici is charged with failing to pay more than $77,000 in federal income tax and for [...]

The timing of this is interesting, since the capo de capo of the FBI/DoJ, Attorney Gen. Alberto Gonzales, is testifying before Congress today about charges that he and Pres. Bush may have obstructed justice by firing federal prosecutors who were investigating GOP corruption:
The FBI searched the Virginia home of Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.) last Friday [...]

As soon as the Bushies installed themselves in the White House in 2001, the Republican Party set up a second tier of electronic communications out of the political office run by Karl Rove.
While the White House may find it more difficult to claim executive privilege in preventing Congress from reviewing emails on the RNC [...]

Jon provided some background on the highest-ranking former Bushite convicted so far in the Abramoff scandals.
But while Jack is implicating others for doing the crime, it looks like he himself won’t be doing much more time.
I don’t know about you but I must have missed the meeting. Had I been there, I would have voted [...]

Stephen Griles, a former oil company lobbyist who served as second-in-command in the Interior Department during Pres. Bush’s first term, pleaded guilty today to lying to Congress about his relationship with the lobbyist and now convicted felon Jack Abramoff.
In November 2005, Griles told the Senate Indian Affairs Committee that he did not know Abramoff. However, [...]

Appalling pol: It’s a field crowded with celebrity creeps and stellar liars, brazen braggarts and darlings of deceit, but when former Tennessee state Sen. Jeff Miller, R-Cleveland, enters the lobbying biz next year, he should slip right to the top of the heap on an impressively slick slime trail. Miller certainly has what it takes [...]

Never has it been more important for Republicans to vote partisan than this year. In race after race, Candidate A has resigned in shame and been replaced by Candidate B, but Candidate A’s name is still on the ballot.
Democrats tend to actually pay attention when voting so if a ballot read, say, “Mark Foley,” we [...]

Not that kind of green: The Sierra Club, the League of Conservation Voters, and TPMmuckraker.com (LCV) have proof that the more lobbyist greenbacks your man and woman in Washington accept, the more likely they will vote brown.
What’s the connection between a bad environmental voting record and corruption? Follow the money.
Six years into George W. [...]

The Secret Service released logs showing the comings and goings of convicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff and members of his staff at the White House that present a jaw-dropping level of access to the Bush Administration after the 2000 election:
Abramoff was a $100,000 fundraiser for Bush [in 2000] and lobbying records obtained by the AP [...]