Abramoff: "We were a band of killers"

[deminks]

http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/3257.html

The Other Jack Abramoff
By Kim Eisler

(snip)

The week he was on the cover of Time I arranged to meet him in the crowded lobby of the Marriott Wardman Park. Despite his cover-boy status, not a soul recognized him. We sat at a table in the middle of a convention of astronomers and talked about everything that had happened. He was not in denial mode.

“We were a band of killers,” he said of his lobbying practice. “We did a lot of bad things.” He was proud of the fact that if someone got between him and the interests of his clients, he would do everything possible to destroy them.

(snip)

Once when George Clooney criticized him on national television, Jack looked up both himself and his critic online. “Put my name in, and then do the same for Clooney,” Jack wrote me. “I’m at 12M+ and he’s only 9M+. I win.”

(snip)

And President Bush’s claims that he didn’t know or remember Abramoff? “Pretty ridiculous,” Jack said. Later that evening he showed me a stack of photographs of himself with both President Bush and then-speaker Dennis Hastert.

(end snips)

[Guaranteed]

1. I feel sorry for people like this.

But they also make me really angry, because they fuck things up for everyone else.

[tanyev]

2. Oh, they love to think of themselves as dangerous bad boys.

"I want to be invisible. I do guerilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night." --Ralph Reed, The Hill, December 17, 1997.<2>.

Dangerous bad boys who would never dream of joining the military and would probably wet themselves during basic training.

[eleny]

3. Good times

:eyes:

[underpants]

4. Easy there "killer"

No what you and all the Enron boys and Bush and all of them aren't killers or anything like that. You've never killed anyone that is a whole other thing completely so stop with the whiteboy-wannabegangster bit. I saw "Pulp Fiction" and "The Sopranos" too but I didn't take it a sign to sort of live like I was that badassed even though I didn't do anything about it.

You are a putz and a loser.