how about you krause???

Did you write any books?? hmmmmmm

Definately not with the word "Truth" in the subject line. It is almost
alarming that krause makes a post and uses the word "Truth" in the subject
line,,,,


Krause should write a book called "Truth about liars from a liar".

lol,,,, krause,, you're too much









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March 22, 2005
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Masters of Sleaze
By DAVID BROOKS

Down in the depths of the netherworld, where Tammany Hall grafters and
Chicago ward heelers gather amid spittoons and brass railings, a
reverential silence now spreads across the communion. The sleazemasters of
old look back into the land of the mortals and they see greatness in the
form of Jack Abramoff.

Only a genius like Abramoff could make money lobbying against an Indian
tribe's casino and then turn around and make money defending that tribe
against himself. Only a giant like Abramoff would have the guts to use one
tribe's casino money to finance a Focus on the Family crusade against
gambling in order to shut down a rival tribe's casino.

Only an artist like Abramoff could suggest to a tribe that it pay him by
taking out life insurance policies on its eldest members. Then when the
elders dropped off they could funnel the insurance money through a private
school and into his pockets.

This is sleaze of a high order. And yet according to reports in The
Washington Post and elsewhere, Abramoff accomplished it all.

Yet it's important to remember this: A genius like Abramoff doesn't spring
fully formed on his own. Just as Michelangelo emerged in the ferment of
Renaissance Italy, so did Abramoff emerge from his own circle of
creativity and encouragement.

Back in 1995, when Republicans took over Congress, a new cadre of daring
and original thinkers arose. These bold innovators had a key insight: that
you no longer had to choose between being an activist and a lobbyist. You
could be both. You could harness the power of K Street to promote the
goals of Goldwater, Reagan and Gingrich. And best of all, you could get
rich while doing it!

Before long, ringleader Grover Norquist and his buddies were signing
lobbying deals with the Seychelles and the Northern Mariana Islands and
talking up their interests at weekly conservative strategy sessions - what
could be more vital to the future of freedom than the commercial interests
of these two fine locales?

Before long, folks like Norquist and Abramoff were talking up the virtues
of international sons of liberty like Angola's Jonas Savimbi and Congo's
dictator Mobutu Sese Seko - all while receiving compensation from these
upstanding gentlemen, according to The Legal Times. Only a reactionary
could have been so discomfited by Savimbi's little cannibalism problem as
to think this was not a daring contribution to the cause of Reaganism.

Soon the creative revolutionaries were blending the high-toned forms of
the think tank with the low-toned scams of the buckraker. Ed Buckham, Tom
DeLay's former chief of staff, helped run the U.S. Family Network, which
supported the American family by accepting large donations and leasing
skyboxes at the MCI Center, according to Roll Call. Michael Scanlon,
DeLay's former spokesman, organized a think tank called the American
International Center, located in a house in Rehoboth Beach, Del., which
was occupied, according to Andrew Ferguson's devastating compendium in The
Weekly Standard, by a former "lifeguard of the year" and a former yoga
instructor.

Ralph Reed, meanwhile, smashed the tired old categories that used to
separate social conservatives from corporate consultants. Reed signed on
with Channel One, Verizon, Enron and Microsoft to shore up the moral
foundations of our great nation. Reed so strongly opposes gambling as a
matter of principle that he bravely accepted $4 million through Abramoff
from casino-rich Indian tribes to gin up a grass-roots campaign.

As time went by, the spectacular devolution of morals accelerated. Many of
the young innovators were behaving like people who, having read Barry
Goldwater's "Conscience of a Conservative," embraced the conservative part
while discarding the conscience part.

Abramoff's and Scanlon's Indian-gaming scandal will go down as the
movement's crowning achievement, more shameless than anything the others
would do, but still the culmination of the trends building since 1995. It
perfectly embodied their creed and philosophy: "I'd love us to get our
mitts on that moolah!!" as Abramoff wrote to Reed.

They made at least $66 million.

This is a major accomplishment. And remember: Abramoff didn't do it on his
own.

It took a village. The sleazo-cons thought they could take over K Street
to advance their agenda. As it transpired, K Street took over them.